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3 unusual facts about Latter Day Saint Movement


Creed

Within the sects of the Latter Day Saint movement, the Articles of Faith are a list composed by Joseph Smith as part of an 1842 letter sent to "Long" John Wentworth, editor of the Chicago Democrat.

Joseph Smith and the criminal justice system

Joseph Smith and the criminal justice system covers the many criminal judicial proceedings of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, who was "subjected to approximately thirty criminal actions".

Solomon Wilbur Denton

Solomon Wilbur Denton (1816-1864) was an early member of the Latter Day Saint movement.


Austin Cowles

Austin Cowles (3 May 1792 – 15 January 1872) was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement, serving on the high council in Nauvoo.

Banking on Heaven

Banking on Heaven focuses on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS Church), a schismatic polygamous sect of the Latter Day Saint movement that (at the time of the creation of the film) existed in Colorado City, Arizona.

Encyclopedia of Mormonism

For example, Jan Shipps wrote on the outsider's interpretation of Mormonism, and Richard P. Howard, historian of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now the Community of Christ), wrote on his branch of the Latter Day Saint movement.

Greencastle, Pennsylvania

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.

J. Reuben Clark Law Society

Named in honor of J. Reuben Clark the former Ambassador to Mexico and Under Secretary of State, the society's membership is primarily Mormon, although there is no requirement that members be a part of the LDS Church.

John S. Fullmer

The Fullmers heard about the Latter Day Saint movement and became members while living in Jefferson Township, Richland County, Ohio.

Josiah Lamborn

Josiah Lamborn (January 31, 1809 – March 31, 1847) was the Attorney General of Illinois from 1840 to 1843 and was the chief prosecuting attorney in the trial of five defendants accused of murdering Latter Day Saint leaders Joseph Smith, Jr. and Hyrum Smith.

Lewis C. Bidamon

In 1847, Bidamon married Emma Smith, the widow of Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement; from this time, Bidamon was the stepfather of Joseph Smith III and the other surviving children of Joseph and Emma Smith.

Ohio State Route 306

The Kirtland Temple, the first temple built by the Latter Day Saint movement (Mormons), is located on Route 306 in central Kirtland.

Pomeroy Tucker

Tucker was employed as a printer for a time by E.B. Grandin, known for publishing the first order of the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the churches of the Latter Day Saint movement.


see also

Don Smith

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

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.

Luke Johnson

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

Mormon studies

Brady Udall — Novelist often using Latter Day Saint movement themes