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A Mormon community named Salem and led by David King Udall was establish just north of the town under the direction of Wilford Woodruff on March 29, 1880 and then moved to higher ground by Erastus Snow on September 19 of the same year.
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Mormon and community
Near Independence, Missouri, it was taken as a sign to push the growing Mormon community out of the area.
Many of the converts came from England and Scandinavia, and were quickly assimilated into the Mormon community.
As Mormons spread out, church leaders created programs that would help preserve the tight-knit community feel of Mormon culture.
His report of the area included a discussion of Mormon religious practices based on Stansbury's interaction with the Mormon community in Great Salt Lake City, which had been established three years earlier in 1847.
Recently the Avenues is becoming known for intimate restaurants and shops opening in old retail space mixed within the community like Hatch Family Chocolates, Avenues Bistro on Third and Jack Mormon Coffee.
The work is not an attack on religion in general, however, as he has a Mormon community take part in the anti-theocratic revolt.
Much of the area was populated by newly immigrated Mormon converts from Scandinavian countries, and because of the growth in this small community they officially created Sevier County in early 1865.
A 1999 Time article described him as a " lapsed Mormon " and described him smoking a pipe, which is frowned upon in the LDS community.
Mormon leader Lyman Wight founds the community of Zodiac.
Settlement of the county was slowed by events prior to and during the Civil War, but the present day unincorporated community of Thompsonville ( 3 miles northwest of Perry on the Delaware River ) was the first established in 1851 by Mormon settlers who initially refused to accompany the main group led by Brigham Young to the Salt Lake Valley.
As a tight-knit Mormon community, St. David managed better than other small towns in Cochise County during the Great Depression.
It was founded by Mormon settlers ( James Pearce ) in January 1878, several months before the neighboring community of Snowflake, Arizona.
There is a significant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints community in Corona with many churches throughout town, due to a fairly large Mormon population in the Riverside-San Bernardino area.
Religion is a very big part in the community, and it is estimated to be about 75 % Mormon.
Industrial development not only enabled some former residents to return to the community but also attracted new permanent residents, bringing more diversity to the town's former character as a Mormon farm village.
While the community is still predominantly Mormon, the Mission San Rafael was established in 1977 a few miles south of Huntington to serve Catholic families in western Emery County.
Brigham Young named the new community Manti, after a city mentioned in the Book of Mormon.
It was originally settled as a Mormon farming community in 1862.
According to KSS's 1837 " Articles of Agreement ", it was intended to serve the banking needs of the growing Mormon community in Kirtland, Ohio.
In any event, whether or not the council's actions were strictly legal, there is general agreement among historians that the press's destruction escalated the continuing conflict between the Mormon community and their critics, leading ultimately to Smith's assassination.
As church president, Taylor oversaw the expansion of the Salt Lake community, the further organization of the church hierarchy, the establishment of Mormon colonies in Wyoming, Colorado and Arizona as well as in the Canadian province of Alberta and the Mexican state of Chihuahua, and the defense of plural marriage against increasing opposition.
" As the sympathetic but non-Mormon historian Jan Shipps has written, " When the first generation of leadership died off, leaving the community to be guided mainly by men who had not known Joseph, the First Vision emerged as a symbol that could keep the slain Mormon leader at center stage.
Though Hofmann's " discoveries " of important Mormon documents often appeared to bolster the Tanners ' own arguments, Jerald had, by early 1984, concluded there was significant doubt as to the Salamander Letter's authenticity, and " to the astonishment of a community of scholars, historians and students, published an attack on the so-called Salamander Letter.
Mormon and named
The Book of Mormon is divided into smaller books, titled after the individuals named as primary authors and, in most versions, divided into chapters and verses.
Their words, written on gold plates, were quoted and abridged by a prophet-historian named Mormon.
Smith published what he said was a translation of these plates in March 1830 as the Book of Mormon, named after Mormon, the ancient prophet-historian who compiled the book, and on April 6, 1830, Smith founded the Church of Christ.
According to the Book of Mormon, a man named Mormon compiled nearly 1000 years of writings as well as chronicled events during his lifetime.
< p > prophet Mormon was not named after his father ; he was named after the land of Mormon.
< p > In light of this understanding, the Book of Mormon is not named for a man.
For example, Joseph Smith named the largest Mormon settlement he founded Nauvoo, which means " to be beautiful " in Hebrew.
Moroni is thought by Latter Day Saints to be the same person as a Book of Mormon prophet-warrior named Moroni, who was the last to write in the golden plates.
According to the Book of Mormon, Moroni was the son of Mormon, the prophet for whom the Book of Mormon is ostensibly named.
He may have been named after Captain Moroni, a much earlier Book of Mormon figure.
The Bryce Canyon area was settled by Mormon pioneers in the 1850s and was named after Ebenezer Bryce, who homesteaded in the area in 1874.
The Great Salt Lake lends its name to Salt Lake City, originally named " Great Salt Lake City " by the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( known as the Mormon or LDS Church ) Brigham Young, who led a group of Mormon pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley southeast of the lake on July 24, 1847.
It was named for Daniel C. Davis, captain in the Mormon Battalion.
It was named for Col. Thomas L. Kane, a friend of the Mormon settlers.
The county was established in 1869, named after Fort Lemhi ( or Limhi ), a remote Mormon missionary settlement from 1855-58 in Bannock and Shoshone territory.
The county was named for Cassia Creek, which in turn was named either for John Cazier, a member of the Mormon Battalion and an emigrant train captain, or for a plant found in the area.
Mormon and led
As a key figure in the Utah War, he led U. S. troops who established a non-Mormon government in the formerly Mormon territory.
Brigham Young took Smith's advice and led his followers, known in modern times as the Mormon pioneers, to Nebraska and then in 1847 to what became the Utah Territory.
After continued difficulties and persecution in Illinois, Young left Nauvoo in 1846 and led his followers, the Mormon pioneers, to the Great Salt Lake Valley.
To prevent war, Brigham Young led the Mormon pioneers ( constituting most of the Latter Day Saints ) to a temporary winter quarters in Nebraska and then eventually ( beginning in 1847 ) to what became the Utah Territory.
" The order led to the founding last Mormon colony settled under the direction of Brigham Young.
The county was one of the principal settings of the 1838 Missouri Mormon War, which led to the expulsion of all Latter-Day Saints from Missouri following the issuance of a so-called " extermination order " by then Governor Lilburn Boggs.
The first settlement in the Bear Lake Valley was Paris, which was settled by Mormon pioneers led by Charles Rich on September 26, 1863.
Daniel Webster Jones led an expedition to found a Mormon settlement in Arizona.
It was founded by a group of Mormon colonists led by Cyrus Joseph Stanford in 1883 who named the town " Marysville.
Founded by Mormon pioneers led by Thomas S. Smart on April 14, 1860 in what was then Washington Territory.
The township was named for James Strang, who led a faction of Mormon settlers to Beaver Island in 1848.
Panguitch was first settled in March 1864, when Jens Nielsen, a Danish convert to the Mormon faith, led a group of pioneers eastward from Parowan and Beaver to the Sevier River.
They had been led to expect to meet the main party on the trail but after going as far as Laramie without a sign of them they went south and wintered at Pueblo, Colorado where they were later joined by the Mormon Battalion sick detachments.
By 1979, with the establishment of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies ( FARMS ) as a California non-profit research institution, an effort led by Robert F. Smith began to take full account of Larson ’ s work and to publish a Critical Text of the Book of Mormon.
It has been speculated that Enoch led Young to instigate the ban against black men holding Mormon priesthood when Enoch L. Lewis married a white Mormon woman, Mary Matilda Webster, in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 18, 1846.
According to the Book of Mormon, " deseret " meant " honeybee " in the language of the Jaredites, a group believed by Mormons to have been led to the Americas during the time of the construction of the Tower of Babel ( see ).
Joseph Smith, Jr. lived in the area and stated he was led by the angel Moroni to his source for the Book of Mormon, the golden plates, near Palmyra, New York.
** Angel Moroni, the angel that Joseph Smith, Jr. claimed visited him on numerous occasions and led him to the golden plates from which he translated the Book of Mormon, said to be the same Moroni portrayed in the book.
This mission was led by Martin Harris, the financier of the Book of Mormon and one of its Three Witnesses.
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