" LDS Church apostle Gordon B. Hinckley noted that the " more good " translation is incorrect but added that " Mormon means ' more good '" is a positive motto for members of the LDS Church.

* March 12 – Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle ( d. 1896 )

* July 19 – Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle ( b. 1859 )

He sees people flee from Europe to settle in America ; that the Bible ( a record from the Jews ) would travel among the people ; that the people settling in America would drive the indigenous people out of the land ; that the settlers would overpower Europe ; the discovery and translation of the Book of Mormon ; and that the apostle John the Revelator would write concerning the final days.

Early Mormon apostle Orson Pratt might have identified cureloms as mammoths, though the context is unclear as to whether he is talking about Cureloms and Mammoths or Cureloms as Mammoths.

* Moses Thatcher, Mormon apostle

The town was named after David W. Patten, an early Mormon apostle that was killed in 1838 in Missouri.

However, when Mormon apostle Wilford Woodruff spoke to a small congregation in the Iona area on June 17, 1884, he said:

The town received its name from Mormon apostle Lorenzo Snow.

The town's Mormon bishops sometimes found themselves in the center of bitter disputes with leaders of other communities, much to the dismay of local apostle and stake president Orson Hyde, who was assigned to arbitrate disputes and settle contentions.

* Orson Hyde, Mormon apostle

Heber City was founded by English emigrants who were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the late 1850s, and is named after the Mormon apostle Heber C. Kimball.

In August 1857, Mormon apostle George A. Smith, of Parowan, set out on a tour of southern Utah, instructing the settlers to stockpile grain.

* John W. Taylor ( Mormon ), apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

His election sparked a bitter four-year battle in the Senate on whether Smoot was eligible or should be allowed to serve, due to his position as a Mormon apostle.

His maternal grandfather was Helaman Pratt ( 1846 – 1909 ), who presided over the Mormon mission in Mexico City before moving to the Mexican state of Chihuahua and who was the son of original Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt ( 1807 – 1857 ).

In an effort to clear his debts, he attempted to broker a sale of the " McLellin collection ”— a supposedly extensive group of documents written by William E. M ' Lellin, an early Mormon apostle who eventually broke with the LDS church.

Woodruff spent years as an apostle evading territorial marshals on the Mormon " underground ," escaping prosecution for polygamy, and was unable even to publicly attend his first wife's funeral.

The term " Mormon fundamentalist " appears to have been coined in the 1940s by LDS Church apostle Mark E. Petersen to refer to groups who had left the LDS Church.

The AUB emerged when their leader, Joseph W. Musser, ordained Rulon C. Allred as an apostle and counselor, which led to a split between Mormon fundamentalists in Salt Lake City and those in Short Creek, Arizona.

Bruce R. McConkie famous Latter-day Saint scholar and an apostle wrote in his work Mormon Doctrine regarding the subject.

As an apostle, Taylor had made considerable efforts to assist the Mormon settlers in Canada.

He was the judge who presided over the evidentiary hearing against Parley P. Pratt, the famous Mormon apostle, on 12 May 1857, and acquitted him.

The Gila Trail going along the Gila River in Arizona, across the Colorado River and then across the Sonora Desert in California was scouted by Stephen Kearny's troops and later by Captain Philip St. George Cooke's Mormon Battalion in 1846 who were the first to take a wagon the whole way.

The city was founded in 1847 by Brigham Young, Isaac Morley, George Washington Bradley and several other Mormon followers, who extensively irrigated and cultivated the arid valley.

Its county seat and largest city is Nephi .. Nephi, Utah was founded by George Washington Bradley Mormon pioneer in 1851.

Its county seat is Manti and its largest city is Ephraim .. Manti, Utah was founded by Mormon pioneers George Washington Bradley and Isaac Morley.

Mormon leaders sent him to what was then called " Amity " because he had been a Sherrif in St. George Utah before and there were a lot of lawless gangs in the area.

" George Crosby's own 18 year old son was killed by a shovel over his head in a scirmish with another Mormon boy, while building the ditch.

It was settled by Mormon pioneer George Washington Bradley in 1851, and is the principal city in Juab Valley, an agricultural area.

" By 1939, even George D. Pyper, an LDS Sunday School superintendent and manager of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, found it " surprising that none of the first song writers wrote intimately of the first vision.

They married in 1895 in Mexico and lived in Colonia Dublán in Galeana in the state of Chihuahua ( one of the Mormon colonies in Mexico ), where George was born on July 8, 1907.

* Colonel George A. Custer, a frustrated Yankee cavalryman, serves on the Great Plains and helps put down the Mormon rebellion in Utah.

" Salt Lake County District Attorney's investigator Michael George believed that after Hofmann had successfully forged the Blessing, his ultimate goal was to create the lost 116 pages of the Book of Mormon, which he could have filled with inconsistencies and errors, sell them " to the church to be hidden away and then — as he had done often with embarrassing documents "— make " sure its contents were made public.

In addition to documents from Mormon history, Hofmann also forged and sold signatures of many famous non-Mormons, including George Washington, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Daniel Boone, John Brown, Andrew Jackson, Mark Twain, Nathan Hale, John Hancock, Francis Scott Key, Abraham Lincoln, John Milton, Paul Revere, Myles Standish, and Button Gwinnett, whose signature was the rarest, and therefore the most valuable, of any signer of the Declaration of Independence.

The Mormon Battalion, mostly marching on foot under Lt. Col. Philip St. George Cooke, was directed to follow Kearny with wagons to blaze a new southern wagon route to California.

These included the early church's Presiding Patriarch and Apostle William Smith ( Joseph's only surviving brother ); Book of Mormon witness Martin Harris ( who left and later rejoined the LDS Church in Utah ); Nauvoo Stake President William Marks ; second Bishop of the Church and church trustee-in-trust George Miller, Apostle John E. Page ; former Apostle William M ' Lellin ; and many others.

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This precipitated another schism which led to the foundation of the Church of Jesus Christ, the Bride, the Lamb's Wife by George M. Hinkle, who had been the Mormon commander of the Caldwell County militia.

The book's four main characters are ecologically-minded misfits — " Seldom Seen " Smith, a Jack Mormon river guide ; Doc Sarvis, an odd but wealthy and wise surgeon ; Bonnie Abbzug, his young sexualized female assistant ; and a rather eccentric Green Beret Vietnam veteran, George Hayduke.

Book of Mormon witnesses John and David Whitmer, Martin Harris and Hiram Page, Apostles John E. Page, William E. M ' Lellin, and William Smith, Smith's sisters, Nauvoo Stake President William Marks, Bishop George Miller, and Joseph Smith's mother, Lucy Mack Smith, with others, accepted Strang at first.

Roberts hoped that the church would publish his most elaborate theological treatise " The Truth, The Way, The Life ", but his attempt to use contemporary scientific theory to bolster Mormon doctrine led, in 1930, to a conflict with Mormon Apostle Joseph Fielding Smith, who had been influenced by the writings of young earth creationist George McCready Price.

Supporting the star leads, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, Affleck played Virgil Malloy, one of the pair of Mormon brothers hired to drive the getaway vehicle.

These southern explorations eventually led to Mormon settlements in St. George, Utah, Las Vegas and San Bernardino, California, as well as communities in southern Arizona.

George McCune, a Mormon real estate developer, developed the area, giving streets names including Wasach and Boise, and named the area Mar Vista.