The main body of the church moved first to Kirtland, Ohio in the early 1830s, then to Missouri in 1838, where the 1838 Mormon War with other Missouri settlers ensued, culminating in adherents being expelled from the state under Missouri Executive Order 44 signed by the governor of Missouri.

Near Independence, Missouri, it was taken as a sign to push the growing Mormon community out of the area.

During the fall of 1838, tensions escalated into the 1838 Mormon War with the old Missouri settlers.

Other Mormon groups include those that are not headquartered in Utah or Missouri and do not practice polygamy, such as The Church of Jesus Christ ( Bickertonite ) and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( Strangite ).

The terms " Utah Mormon " and " Missouri Mormon " can be problematic if interpreted to mean more than the location of the various groups ' headquarters.

The majority of members of " Utah Mormon " groups and " Missouri Mormon " groups no longer live in either of these U. S. states.

In 1839, Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement visited Van Buren to plead for the U. S. to help roughly 20, 000 Mormon settlers of Independence, Missouri, who were forced from the state during the 1838 Mormon War there.

Mormons believe the people of the Book of Mormon lived in the western hemisphere, that Christ appeared in the western hemisphere after his death and resurrection, that the true faith was restored in upstate New York by Joseph Smith, that the Garden of Eden was located in North America, and that the New Jerusalem would be built in Missouri.

Following persecution and mob action in Missouri, Illinois, and other states, and the martyrdom of their prophet Joseph Smith in 1844, Mormon leader Brigham Young was chosen by the leaders of the Latter Day Saints ( LDS ) church to lead the LDS settlers west.

In 1846 the Mormons, expelled from Nauvoo, Illinois, traversed Iowa ( on part of the Mormon Trail ) and settled temporarily in significant numbers on the Missouri River in Iowa and the future state of Nebraska at their Winter Quarters near the future city of Omaha, Nebraska.

1852 ) and other Missouri River towns became major supply points and " jumping off places " for travelers on the Mormon, California, Oregon and other trails west.

Learning that Jackson County Missouri was Zion meant much to Joseph Smith and the members of the Mormon Church.

By mid-1839, following the Missouri Mormon War, Mormons were driven from the state altogether, not to return to Jackson County or Missouri in significant numbers until 1867.

This was to be the first skirmish in the Mormon War, in which Missouri evicted the Mormons after arresting Joseph Smith and other leaders of the church.

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.

In these early days, the colonists here and elsewhere in the Missouri religious groups were fundamentalists.

Lawrence was targeted due to the town's long support of abolition and its reputation as a center for Redlegs and Jayhawkers, which were free-state militia and vigilante groups known for attacking and destroying farms and plantations in Missouri ’ s pro-slavery western counties.

There are three major groups of French dialects that emerged in what is now the United States: Louisiana French, Missouri French, and New England French ( essentially a variant of Canadian French ).

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They were most numerous in border areas, including southern parts of Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana ( in Missouri, comparable groups were avowed Confederates ).

He gave speeches to local NAACP chapters and church groups for donations, telling them " I am ready, willing and able to enroll in the law department at the University of Missouri in September, and I have the fullest intention of doing so ," but still had to borrow money from his brother George for everyday expenses.

The land controlled by the allied Illinois groups extended north from modern Arkansas, through Eastern Missouri and most of Illinois, and west into Iowa, where Des Moines was named after the Moingwena.

Some of DFA's most notable groups include East Bay for Democracy, Democracy for New Jersey, Philly For Change, DFA Columbia ( Missouri ), and Democracy For New York City.

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Other Shawnee groups rejected this treaty and migrated to Missouri, where they settled near Cape Girardeau.

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Formed from the ashes of two disbanded rival groups that had played the same southern circuit, The Allman Joys ( based in Florida ) and the Men-its ( based in Alabama ), the group was booked in early 1967 into a month-long engagement in St. Louis, Missouri, where they met members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, whose manager, Bill McEuen, arranged for them a contract with Liberty Records.

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Other groups in the building include the Missouri Department of Conservation and Older Adults Services and Information Systems ( OASIS ).

These groups had discrete histories and spoke different dialects ; they came together only after settling on the Missouri River.

* August 12 – The two groups rejoin on the Missouri River in present-day North Dakota.

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The Northfield churches include the following: Alliance, Congregational-Baptist, Episcopal, Lutheran ( Norwegian, Danish, Missouri Synod, and Bethel ), Methodist, Moravian, Pentecostal, and Roman Catholic.

Causes include controversy over admitting Missouri as a slave state in 1820, the acquisition of Texas as a slave state in 1845 and the status of slavery in western territories won as a result of the Mexican – American War and the resulting Compromise of 1850.

U. S. states where he has been honored include Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, and New York.

:* St. Louis has annual festivals in both the Soulard neighborhood and the former French village of Carondelet, Missouri which include reenactments of the beheading of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, as well as reconstructed French fur trading posts.

But research into paleontological, archaeological and historical specimens of red wolves by Ronald Nowak expanded their known range to include land south of the Saint Lawrence River in Canada, along the eastern seaboard, and west to Missouri and mid-Illinois, terminating in the southern latitudes of Central Texas.

Other major U. S. cities with celebrations include Miami, Florida, Tampa, Florida, St. Louis, Missouri, Pensacola, Florida, San Diego, Galveston, Texas and Orlando, Florida.

Cities in the United States possessing side-by-side water towers labeled HOT and COLD include Granger, Iowa, Canton, Kansas, and St. James, Missouri ( Eveleth, Minnesota at one time had two such towers, but no longer does ).

Surrounding features include the Continental Divide, Mount Helena City Park, Spring Meadow Lake State Park, Lake Helena, Helena National Forest, the Big Belt Mountains, the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness, Sleeping Giant Wilderness Study Area, Bob Marshall Wilderness, Scapegoat Wilderness, the Missouri River, Canyon Ferry Lake, Holter Lake, Hauser Lake, and the Elkhorn Mountains.

* Notable recent graduates of the college include: former Missouri Senator Jim Talent, Nevada Senator Chic Hecht, and former Nebraska Congressman Hal Daub ; George Zimmer, founder of Men's Wearhouse ; Avram Glazer, chairman of Manchester United ; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Ken Cooper and Hank Klibanoff ; Jon Feltheimer, CEO of Lionsgate films ; actors Peter Sarsgaard ( Boys Don't Cry, An Education, Flight Plan ) and Harold Ramis ( Ghostbusters, Caddyshack ); U. S. Ambassador Sam Fox ; baseball player Dal Maxvill ; and science-show host Deanne Bell ( Design Squad ).

* Earlier graduates include J. C. R. Licklider, pioneer in artificial intelligence ; Charles Nagel, founder of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce ; Julian Hill, co-inventor of nylon ; Clyde Cowan, co-discoverer of the neutrino ; James R. Thompson, Governor of Illinois ; David R. Francis, Governor of Missouri ; William H. Webster, former Director of the FBI ; Edward Singleton Holden, President of the University of California ; Nathan O. Hatch, president of Wake Forest University ; Thomas Lamb Eliot, President of Reed College ; and Abram L. Sachar, founding President of Brandeis University.

These include Pike County, Illinois and Pike County, Missouri, Vermilion County, Illinois and Vermillion County, Indiana, Sabine County, Texas and Sabine Parish, Louisiana ; Bristol County, Massachusetts and Bristol County, Rhode Island ; Kent County, Maryland and Kent County, Delaware ; and Union County, Arkansas and Union Parish, Louisiana.

SDSU's athletic conference affiliations include The Summit League for most sports, the Missouri Valley Football Conference ( Division I FCS ), the Western Wrestling Conference and Varsity Equestrian.

Other towns no longer in existence include Emmonsburg which was located west of Linton, in Beaver Bay, on the Missouri River.

Crawford County is a county located in the U. S. state of Missouri and determined by the U. S. Census Bureau to include the mean center of U. S. population in 1990.

Major rivers include the Teton River, Marias River, Missouri River and the Arrow River.

Some of the Greek organizations that partake in these tournaments include: Alpha Xi Delta of Cornell University, Tau Kappa Epsilon of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Sigma Nu at Villanova, Kappa Delta at Ball State University and Alpha Chi Omega at Missouri State University.

States the real-world Interstate 70 passes through include Utah, Colorado, Kansas ( Smallville's usual post-Crisis location ), Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland ( cited in some pre-Crisis references as Smallville's location ).

The Midwest is sometimes divided into two regions: the East North Central States, the Great Lakes States, which include Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin ( states that come in contact with a Great Lake ); and the West North Central States, the Great Plains States, which include Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, and South Dakota ( states that are located within the Great Plains region of the country ).

Missouri has elements of three dialects, specifically: Northern Midland, in the extreme northern part of the state ; Southern Midland, in the majority of the state, with a distinctive variation in St. Louis and the surrounding area ; and Southern, in the southwestern and southeastern parts of the state, with a bulge extending north in the central part, to include approximately the southern one-third.

Modern railroads in the city include the Arkansas and Missouri Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad.

The major geographic features in Larkin Township include the Buffalo Ridge, the drainage divide between the Mississippi River and Missouri River systems.