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Baptism in Mormonism

Following baptism, Latter Day Saints receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands of a Melchizedek Priesthood holder.

Clitherall, Minnesota

Clitherall was founded in 1864 by members of the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite), a small Latter Day Saint faction started in 1853 by Alpheus Cutler, a former associate of Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the original Latter Day Saint church in 1830.

Ezra Thayre

However, due to a disagreement about property that arose among Thayre and some of the Latter Day Saints living in Thompson, Ohio, Thayre was not prepared to leave when Marsh was ready.

Millennial Star

The first issue of the Millennial Star was published in Manchester, England in May 1840, with Latter Day Saint Apostle Parley P. Pratt as editor and W. R. Thomas as printer.


see also

Apostle

In the Latter Day Saint tradition, Apostles and prophets are believed to be the foundation of the church, with Jesus Christ himself the chief cornerstone.

Book of Abraham

Latter-day Saint Egyptologist John Gee, however, believes that eyewitness descriptions during Joseph Smith's lifetime described a complete document, free of lacunae.

Budge Hall

It was named after William Budge, a prominent Latter-Day Saint missionary who baptized Karl G. Maeser.

Charles Penrose

Charles W. Penrose (1832–1925), member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint

Charmian Mellars

She is the older sister of fellow New Zealand female professional basketball player and Latter-day Saint Natalie Taylor.

Church of the Firstborn

Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times, a Latter Day Saint sect formed in the 1950s by Joel LeBaron

Don Smith

Don Carlos Smith (1816–1841), leader, missionary, and periodical editor in the early days of the Latter Day Saint movement

Evan Stephens

Several other Latter-day Saint scholars, including George L. Mitton and Rhett S. James, have called Quinn's research on Stephens into question.

Franz M. Johansen

Franz M. Johansen (born 1928 in Huntsville, Utah) is a Latter-day Saint sculptor and an emeritus professor at Brigham Young University (BYU).

Hazen Aldrich

In April or May 1832, Aldrich was taught about the Latter Day Saint movement by missionaries Orson Pratt and Lyman E. Johnson and was baptized in Bath, New Hampshire.

Hugh Brown

Hugh B. Brown (1883–1975), American and Canadian attorney, educator, and Latter-day Saint leader

James Emmett

In 1849, Emmett traveled to Utah Territory, but shortly thereafter he left the Latter Day Saint church and moved to Tuolumne County, California.

James Wallis

James H. Wallis (1861–1940), Latter-day Saint hymnwriter, editor and Patriarch

Joel Johnson

Joel H. Johnson (1802–1883), Latter-day Saint missionary and hymn writer

John Woolley

John W. Woolley (1831–1928), American Latter Day Saint and one of the founders of the Mormon fundamentalism movement

Karen Davidson

Karen Lynn Davidson (born 1943), Latter-day Saint hymnwriter, author and literary critic

Lavina

Lavina Fielding Anderson (born 1944), Latter Day Saint scholar, writer, editor, and feminist

Luke Johnson

Luke S. Johnson (1807–1861), American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement

Matt Brown

Matthew B. Brown (1964–2011), Latter-day Saint writer and historian

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher

Although she has written at times broadly on the history of Latter-day Saint women her main focus has been on Eliza R. Snow and her literary works.

Mel Hamilton

Hamilton and his associates have also been praised by Darius Gray, an African-American Latter-day Saint who went to Wyoming to try to defuse the situation in 1969, for taking a non-violent route in voicing their concerns.

Mormon studies

Brady Udall — Novelist often using Latter Day Saint movement themes

Nathaniel H. Felt

In turn this article is largely the same as Fred E. Woods, "Nathaniel H. Felt: An Essex County Man," in Regional Studies In Latter-day Saint Church History in New England, Donald Q. Cannon, Arnold K. Garr and Bruce A. Van Orden, eds.

Oliver Grainger

:For the nineteenth century Latter Day Saint leader and missionary, see Oliver Granger.

Richard P. Condie

Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History, (Arnold K. Garr, Donald Q. Cannon, Richard O. Cowan, and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Deseret Book Company, Salt Lake City, November 2000) ISBN 1-57345-822-8

Robert Daines

Robert H. Daines (1905-1985), American academic and Latter-day Saint

Robert H. Daines III (born 1934), American academic and Latter-day Saint

Rodney Badger

Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, volume 4, "Original Pioneers of Utah"

Sam Bennett

Samuel C. Bennett (1810–1893), English-born physician and Latter Day Saint leader

Scharff

Gilbert Woodrow Scharffs (born 1930), an American Latter-day Saint religious educator and author

Schettler

Paul Schettler (1827–1884), a Latter-day Saint leader and interpreter

Stanley B. Kimball

He was an expert on eastern European history but also wrote on Latter-day Saint history, specifically his ancestor Heber C. Kimball and the Mormon Trail.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Scotland

Brian Adam — first Latter-day Saint member of the Scottish Parliament, and later became a government minister

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Carolina

In 1897, mobs burned one of South Carolina's first Latter-day Saint meetinghouses in Centerville.

The Spirit of God Like a Fire Is Burning

J. C. Little and G. B. Gardner published an unofficial hymnal 1844 in Bellows Falls, Vermont, which is the first Latter Day Saint hymnal to include any music.