Mormon Church History

Mormon History, 1845

Lyman E Johnson: Nauvoo Mormons physically attacked Lyman E Johnson when he assisted in the arrest of a Mormon 1845

[source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 6, Biographical Sketches of General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]

Mormon History, 1845

Josiah Butterfield: Baptized again into LDS church 1845

[source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 6, Biographical Sketches of General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]

Mormon History, 1845

Jedediah M Grant: Church tithing agent 1845

[source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 6, Biographical Sketches of General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]

Mormon History, 1845

Henry Harriman: Mason , Nauvoo lodge 1845

[source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 6, Biographical Sketches of General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]

Mormon History, 1845

Brigham Young: Unsuccessful candidate for Hancock Co. coroner 1845

[source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 6, Biographical Sketches of General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]

Mormon History, 1845

[John Humphrey] Noyes organized his church as the Putney [Vermont] Corporation or Association of Perfectionists. They began to practice "complex marriage," along with Noyes' "male continence" form of birth control. "Alas for human paradoxes," continues Dr. Blake, what was emancipation from sin for the perfectionists seemed only indulgence in sin to their unbelieving neighbors! ... At the invitation of . . . Central New York perfectionists, the Putney group found a new home on a beautiful tract near Oneida in Madison County, New York. . . . the Oneida Community practiced what Noyes called "Bible Communism." . . . "the leader believed, the perfectionists were returning to the social practices of the primitive apostolic church." "The members abstained from intoxicants, tobacco, profanity, and obscenity; even meat, coffee, and tea were regarded as luxuries only occasionally to be served to vary the ordinary diet of vegetables and fruits."

[source: Grunder, Rick, Mormon Parallels: A Bibliographic Source]

Mormon History, 1845

(Willard Richards) Willard Richards was toasted by W. W. Phelps as "Keeper of Rolls"â€"not a pun on his nearly-three-hundred-pound physique. Richards had been appointed Church historian and general clerk in 1842 and had served as Joseph Smith's private secretary, recorder of the Nauvoo City Council and clerk of the municipal court, and recorder of the Council of Fifty.

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Mormon History, 1845

(Sidney Rigdon) The next thirty-two years of his life were erratic and pathetic. With great enthusiasm and a significant following, he organized a new Church of Christ in Pittsburgh in April, . But the death of his daughter Eliza shortly thereafter seems to have affected his emotional balance. Prophesying that Cincinnati would soon be destroyed by an earthquake, and New Orleans and London "sink to the bottom of the sea," Rigdon proclaimed that he would soon "sit on the throne of England and lead 'little Vic' [Queen Victoria] by the nose." 1845

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Mormon History, 1845

(Porter Rockwell) Fifteen months after Joseph and Hyrum were murdered, Rockwell was watering his horse on the outskirts of Nauvoo when Sheriff Jacob Bakenstos rode his lathered horse onto the scene. Hot on his trail was a group of Carthage Greys, a paramilitary group responsible for Joseph Smith's security in the Carthage Jail. Bakenstos ordered Rockwell and another man to protect him "in the name of the State of Illinois, County of Hancock." Rockwell took aim at the lead rider's belt buckle and fired. Franklin A. Worrell "jumped four feet in the air and rolled away from his horse dead." He was the first of forty to one hundred men reportedly killed by Orrin Porter Rockwell throughout his life.

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Mormon History, 1845

(John M. Bernhisel) When he was forty-four, Bernhisel was sealed to ten deceased female friends and relatives by Joseph Smith, but he did not enter into a temporal marriage until , when he married Julia Ann Haight Van Orden, a forty-year-old widow with six children. 1845

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Mormon History, 1845

(John M. Bernhisel) Emma Smith offered to let Bernhisel read the manuscript of the Bible revision Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon had prepared in 1830-1833. He borrowed the manuscript for three months, copying the manuscript markings into his own Bible, which he later presented to Brigham Young.

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Mormon History, 1845

(Emmeline B. Wells) She became Bishop Newel K. Whitney's second wife. He was fifty, she sixteen; they had two children before he died in 1850.

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Mormon History, 1845

(Eliza R. Snow) Called as Nauvoo Temple recorder by Brigham Young. In Salt Lake she directed the women's section of the Endowment House on Temple Square.

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Mormon History, 1845

(Brigham Young) The "Lion of the Lord"â€"so named by toastmaster W. W. Phelps in â€"was imposing in every dimension. He stood 5'10" tall, weighed 188-200 pounds, and boasted a 44-inch chest. 1845

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Mormon History, 1845

(Brigham Young) He also wore false teeth. "One morning he was cleaning his artificial dentures at the family wash bench just outside a back door [of the Erastus Snow home in Saint George, Utah] when little Flora caught sight of him at this very private chore. Quickly he plopped his teeth into his mouth when he beheld her staring at him in open-mouthed, wide-eyed fascination. She bounced up and down with excitement, shrilly crying 'Oh, Brother Brigham, show me your teeth; show me your teeth, Brother Brigham!' The Lion of the Lord, touched by childhood's whims, kindly obliged." He was not always the confident preacher moderns tend to envision. Even in his later years, he approached the public forum with uneasiness. "Although I have been a public speaker for thirty-seven years," he once said, "it is seldom that I rise before a congregation without feeling a child-like timidity; if I live to the age of Methusaleh I do not know that I shall outgrow it." Visitors to Salt Lake City
often commented on his language: "He says 'leetie', 'beyene' and 'disremember.' An irrepressible conflict between his nominatives and verbs now and then crops out in expressions like 'they '" was. "When he speaks," reported one contemporary, "the words seem to be calmly weighed by the brain, clipped by the teeth, and finally squeezed through the left half of the almost locked up lips." His sermons were usually practicalâ€"filled with hints on stock raising, fence building, tales of sufferings of Saints, advice to the lovelorn. He admonished the breathing of fresh mountain air, the use of homemade cloth, the eating of thick-crusted bread.

[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, 1845

(Brigham Young) "I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they are led by Him. I am fearful they settle down in a state of blind self-security, trusting their eternal destiny in the hands of their leaders with a reckless confidence that in itself would thwart the purposes of God in their salvation, and weaken that influence they could give to their leaders, did they know for themselves, by the revelations of Jesus, that they are led in the right way. Let every man and woman know, by the whispering of the Spirit of God to themselves, whether their leaders are walking in the path the Lord dictates, or not."
A journalist described Brigham Young as "a self-reliant and strong-willed man â€¦ one born to be master of himself and many others." But his children remember him as an "easy touch." He himself declared, "I do not rule my family with an iron hand, as many do, but in kindness and with p
leasant words; and if soft words would teach them, they would know as much as any family on this earth."

[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]