James Strang and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( Strangite ) were also in the area.

In addition to serving as president of his church, Strang also served as the self-proclaimed king of a now-defunct ecclesiastical monarchy he established on Beaver Island, Michigan, and also served 1 terms in the Michigan House of Representatives prior to his murder in 1856 at the hands of two disgruntled followers.

Strang also served at various times as a postmaster, schoolteacher, temperance lecturer, newspaper correspondent, and lawyer.

Strang was also elected an associate engraver of the Royal Academy when that degree was revived in 1906.

Although dealing with controverted matters and colored by Strang's indignation at the outrages he and his people had to endure, the pamphlet is a responsible source on the events of which it treats, and is also interesting for the considerable measure of learning it reveals in Strang ".

The Strangites also hold as scripture several prophecies, visions, revelations, and translations printed by James Strang, and published in the " Revelations of James J. Strang ".

James Strang, who claimed to be Joseph Smith's designated successor, also unearthed what he said were ancient metal plates and translated them using seer stones.

Strang also claimed to have translated the " Plates of Laban " described in the Book of Mormon.

Strang also authored The Diamond, an attack on the claims of Sidney Rigdon and Brigham Young, and The Prophetic Controversy, ostensibly for Mrs. Martha Coray, co-author with Lucy Mack Smith of The History of Joseph Smith by His Mother.

Strang also mandated conservation of land and resources, requiring the building of parks and retention of large forests in his kingdom.

" Strang also sported a breastplate and carried a wooden scepter.

It also contains various other revelations and teachings unique to Strang.

** The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( Strangite ), similarly asserts that the finding and translation of the Plates of Laban, also known as the Brass Plates, into the Book of the Law of the Lord and Voree plates by James Strang, One Mighty and Strong, establishes the existence of God.

Craignairn, in Burns Road, was also designed in the Arts and Crafts style by Howard Joseland for Walter Strang.

It also contains other revelations and teachings unique to Strang.

Following Smith's assassination, Harris accepted James J. Strang as a new prophet, and Strang also claimed to have been divinely led to an ancient record engraved upon metal plates.

The Voree Plates, also called The Record of Rajah Manchou of Vorito, or the Voree Record, were a set of three tiny metal plates allegedly discovered by Latter Day Saint leader James J. Strang in 1845 in Voree, near Burlington, Wisconsin.

M ' Lellin was also briefly associated with the movement led by James J. Strang, but more closely associated in the last two decades of his life with the movement led by Granville Hedrick.

" Mrs. Emma Smith recollects well of her husband receiving a letter from Mr. Strang, and holding a council on the subject, and names Hyrum Smith, Willard Richards and John P. Green as present at that council, and also that a letter was sent to Mr. Strang in answer, but of the import of the answer she was not informed.

Strang also claimed to have received an angelic appointment at a time coincident with Smith's death, and, like Smith, claimed the ability to translate ancient documents on metal plates into modern English.

In February 2011, Hinn was sued by the Christian publishing house Strang Communications, which claimed that a relationship with White did occur and that Hinn had violated the morality clause of his contract with the company.

It was the office held by Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the movement, and the office assumed by many of Smith's claimed successors, such as Brigham Young, Joseph Smith III, Sidney Rigdon, and James Strang.

Contrary to popular misconception, Strang never claimed to be king over Beaver Island, or any other geographical entity.

The constitution of this kingdom was contained within the Book of the Law of the Lord, which Strang claimed to have translated from the Plates of Laban mentioned in The Book of Mormon.

Strang's Book of the Law of the Lord is accepted as scripture in its expanded 1856 form ; it is believed to be the same Book of the Law of the Lord mentioned in the Bible, and Strang claimed to have translated it from the Plates of Laban mentioned in the Book of Mormon.

Strang claimed that the earthly Christ was in essence " adopted " as God's son at birth, and fully revealed as such during the Transfiguration.

Rigdon, Young and Marks were later joined by a fourth claimant, James J. Strang of Voree, Wisconsin, who claimed that Smith had sent him a letter designating him as his successor.

Other notable minor factions of the Latter Day Saint movement include: the Church of Christ ( Temple Lot ), which owns the Temple Lot in Independence, Missouri ; the Church of Jesus Christ ( Cutlerite ), founded by a member of Joseph Smith's Council of Fifty ; the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( Strangite ), founded by James J. Strang in 1844 ; the Church of Jesus Christ ( Bickertonite ), founded by a follower of Sidney Rigdon in the early 1860's ( and now the third-largest Latter Day Saint denomination ); the Church of Christ with the Elijah Message, founded in the 1940's by a man who claimed to be receiving revelations from John the Baptist ; and the Restoration Branches, which broke with the Community of Christ in 1984 when that church began ordaining women.

While serving as Prophet, Seer and Revelator of his church — which he claimed to be the sole legitimate continuation of the Church of Christ founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1830 — Strang reigned for six years as the crowned " king " of an ecclesiastical monarchy that he established on Beaver Island in the US state of Michigan.

One former Strangite claimed that Strang's law partner conspired with Strang to fabricate his Letter of Appointment and the Voree Plates, though no proof of this was ever produced.

Like Joseph Smith, James Strang reported numerous visions, unearthed and translated allegedly ancient metal plates using the Urim and Thummim, and claimed to have restored long-lost spiritual knowledge to humankind.

Strang claimed that the earthly Christ was in essence " adopted " as God's son at birth, and fully revealed as such during the Transfiguration.

Strang claimed that he was to occupy the office of king described in the Book of the Law of the Lord.

Strang never claimed to be the king of Beaver Island itself, nor of any other geographical entity.

Strang claimed to have translated them using the Urim and Thummim, which was used by Joseph Smith to translate The Book of Mormon.

Seven witnesses testified to having seen and handled the plates that Strang claimed to possess.

Strang claimed that the earthly Christ was in essence " adopted " as God's son at birth, and fully revealed as such during the Transfiguration.

Seven witnesses testified to having seen and handled the plates Strang claimed to possess.

After the death of Joseph Smith in 1844, several rival leaders claimed to be Smith's successor, including Brigham Young, Sidney Rigdon, and James J. Strang.

William Strang, 1st Baron Strang, British representative at the EAC, claimed as follows:

Membership in the school is not generally extended to Schoenberg's many pupils in the United States from 1933, such as John Cage, Leon Kirchner and Gerald Strang, nor to many other composers who, at a greater remove, wrote compositions evocative of the Second Viennese style, such as the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.

The Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway ( later, the Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway ) built a line in 1913 that joined the Katy system at Strang, Oklahoma.

Strang is located at ( 40. 414114 ,-97. 587435 ).

Strang is located at ( 36. 411225 ,-95. 133075 ).

In 1845, following the succession crisis in the Latter Day Saint movement, Sidney Rigdon ( one of the three main contenders along with James Strang and Brigham Young for leadership of the Latter Day Saints following the death of Joseph Smith, Jr .) took his followers to Pennsylvania and formed a Rigdonite Mormon settlement at Greencastle.

The University College of London's Slade School of Fine Art houses a collection of handmade Christmas Cards from alumni such as Paula Rego and Richard Hamilton and are displayed at events over the Christmas season, when members of the public can make their own Christmas cards in the Strang Print Room.

He was born at Dumbarton, the son of Peter Strang, builder, and educated at the Dumbarton Academy.

Strang produced a number of paintings, portraits, nude figures in landscapes, and groups of peasant families, which were exhibited at the Royal Academy, The International Society, and several German exhibitions.

Don Brothers, Buist & Company Ltd, as the firm was known from 1904, built another works in Forfar, at Strang Street, in 1929.

Although he was a relatively recent convert at the time of Smith's death, James Strang posed a formidible — and initially quite successful — challenge to the claims of Young and Rigdon.

In the face of protracted Mormon anguish at the death of Joseph Smith, Strang insisted that there still was, indeed, a Mormon seer who communed with God and conversed with angels.

Violently opposed to the practice at first, Strang reversed course in 1849 to become one of its strongest advocates.

After Strang won a debate at a conference in Norway, Illinois, he converted the entire branch.

Musing at length on the nature of sin and evil, Strang wrote that of all things that God could give to man, He could never give him experience.

Strang ordained at least two African Americans to the eldership during his lifetime.

Unlike other members of the Smith family who had at times favored the claims of James J. Strang and / or William Smith, Emma and her children continued to live as unaffiliated Latter Day Saints.

Strangites were beaten by ruffians at the post office, while Strang once fired a cannon at an unruly group of drunken fishermen who had threatened to drive his people from the island.

On June 16, 1856, the US naval gunboat entered the harbor at St. James and invited Strang aboard.