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2 unusual facts about Sidney Rigdon


Sidney Rigdon

He moved in May to Trumbull County, Ohio, where he jointly preached with Adamson Bentley from July 1819.

From 1824 to 1826, Rigdon worked as a journeyman tanner in Pittsburgh, while preaching Campbell's Restorationism on Sundays in the courthouse.


David Fullmer

Fullmer immediately returned to his home in Nauvoo and attended the general meeting of the Church, at which the claims of Sidney Rigdon to be guardian of the Church were rejected by vote of the conference, and the Twelve Apostles, with Brigham Young presiding, were sustained as the pro temp leaders of the Church.

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.

President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

On the death of Church President Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1844, this position was held by Brigham Young, and he persuaded the Church that Smith's death left him and not Sidney Rigdon, who had been Smith's First Counselor in the First Presidency, as the senior leader.


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