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Orson Pratt

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Orson Pratt, Sr. (September 19, 1811 – October 3, 1881) was an American mathematician and religious leader who was an original member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles of the Church of the Latter Day Saints. [1]

150 relations: A Believing People, Abraham Hoagland, Adam-ondi-Ahman, Adam–God doctrine, Adamic language, Agricol Lozano, Amasa Lyman, Anointed Quorum, Anti-Mormonism, Apostolic succession (LDS Church), Appleton Milo Harmon, Archaeology and the Book of Mormon, Arthur's Seat, Battle Creek massacre, Black people and Mormonism, Blood atonement, Book of Mormon, Book of Moses, Charles Kingston (Mormon), Chronology of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church), Church Historian and Recorder, City Creek (Utah), Common Council of the Church, Comparison of the Community of Christ and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Criticism of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Curelom and cumom, Dale Morgan, Daniel S. Miles, David John (Mormon), David Whitmer, Deseret alphabet, Doctrine and Covenants, Elias L. T. Harrison, Emma Smith, Erastus Snow, Eyring Science Center, Ezra T. Benson, First Vision, Francis M. Higbee, Golden plates, Green Flake, Hazen Aldrich, Heavenly Mother, Heavenly Mother (Mormonism), History of Joseph Smith by His Mother, History of Salt Lake City, History of The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite), Hugh Findlay, Hylozoism, J. E. Goodson, ..., Jacob Gates, Jesus bloodline, John F. Boynton, John Lothropp, John Lyon (poet), John Philip Newman, Joseph F. Smith, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith presidential campaign, 1844, Journal of Discourses, Junius F. Wells, Kolob, Latter Day Saint polygamy in the late-19th century, Lectures on Faith, Life of Joseph Smith from 1827 to 1830, Life of Joseph Smith from 1839 to 1844, Limited geography model, List of Brigham Young University buildings, List of Brigham Young University residence halls, List of code names in the Doctrine and Covenants, List of emigrants from Upstate New York, List of former or dissident LDS, List of Joseph Smith's wives, List of Latter Day Saint movement topics, List of Latter Day Saint periodicals, List of Latter Day Saints, List of LDS missionary entries by country, List of mathematicians (P), List of people with the most children, List of United States political families (P), List of Zion's Camp participants, Lorenzo Snow, Lorin Farr, Lorus Pratt, Lyman E. Johnson, Mary Ann Frost Stearns Pratt, Mary Isabella Hales Horne, Millennial Star, Miracle of the gulls, Mission (LDS Church), Mormon Doctrine (book), Mormon pioneers, Mormon Reformation, Mormon Trail, Mormonism and history, Mormonism and polygamy, Mormonism and slavery, Mormonism in the 19th century, Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia, Mormons, Mount Pisgah, Iowa, Mountain Meadows Massacre, Multiverse (religion), October 3, Origin of Latter Day Saint polygamy, Orson, Orson Hyde, Orson Pratt Huish, Orson Spencer, Orson, Iowa, Ortho R. Fairbanks, Parley P. Pratt, Pratt, Pratt family, President of the Church (LDS Church), Presiding Bishop (LDS Church), Proposed Book of Mormon geographical setting, Quorum of the Twelve, Rigdonite, Roadometer (odometer), Sampson Avard, Sarah Marinda Bates Pratt, Second Coming (LDS Church), Selected Manifestations, September 19, Shaking the dust from the feet, Signature Books, Succession crisis (Latter Day Saints), T. Edgar Lyon, Temple Lot, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Michigan, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Scotland, The Seer (periodical), Theodemocracy, This is the Place Monument, Thomas B. Marsh, Three Witnesses, Timeline of LGBT Mormon history, University of Nauvoo, University of Utah College of Science, Urim and Thummim (Latter Day Saints), William Clayton (Mormon), William Huntington (Mormon), William Smith (Latter Day Saints), Zerubbabel Snow, 1811, 1840 in Scotland, 1881, 1881 in the United States. Expand index (100 more) »

A Believing People

A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-day Saints, edited by Richard H. Cracroft and Neal E. Lambert, and published in 1974, was "the first significant anthology of the literature of the Latter-day Saints" and began the establishment of the field of Mormon literature as a legitimate discipline, and remains, according to A Motley Vision in 2012, " the only comprehensive Mormon Literature anthology ever published." Cracroft and Lambert released an anthology with a more modern focus, 22 Young Mormon Writers, the following year.

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Abraham Hoagland

Abraham Lucas Hoagland (March 24, 1797 – February 14, 1872) was an early Mormon leader, pioneer, and one of the founders of Royal Oak, Michigan, and Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

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Adam-ondi-Ahman

Adam-ondi-Ahman (sometimes clipped to Diahman) is a historic site in Daviess County, Missouri, about five miles south of Jameson.

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Adam–God doctrine

The Adam–God doctrine (or Adam–God theory) was a theological doctrine taught in mid-19th century Mormonism by church president Brigham Young, and accepted by later presidents John Taylor, and Wilford Woodruff, and by apostles who served under them in the leadership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Adamic language

The Adamic language is, according to Jewish tradition (as recorded in the midrashim) and some Christians, the language spoken by Adam (and possibly Eve) in the Garden of Eden.

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Agricol Lozano

Agricol Lozano Herrera (1927–1999) was a poet, historian, and leader in Mexico.

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Amasa Lyman

Amasa Mason Lyman (March 30, 1813 – February 4, 1877) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and was an apostle.

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Anointed Quorum

The Anointed Quorum, also known as the Quorum of the Anointed, or the Holy Order, was a select body of men and women who Joseph Smith initiated into Mormon temple ordinances at Nauvoo, Illinois, which gave them special standing in the early Latter Day Saint movement.

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Anti-Mormonism

Anti-Mormonism is discrimination, persecution, hostility or prejudice directed against the Latter Day Saint movement, particularly The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Apostolic succession (LDS Church)

Apostolic succession in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is the process of transition to a new church president when the preceding one has died.

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Appleton Milo Harmon

Appleton Milo Harmon (May 29, 1820 – February 27, 1877) was an early member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a leading pioneer of the emigration to Salt Lake City and the settlement of Utah Territory.

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Archaeology and the Book of Mormon

Since the publication of the Book of Mormon in 1830, Mormon archaeologists have attempted to find archaeological evidence to support it.

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Arthur's Seat

Arthur's Seat is the main peak of the group of hills in Edinburgh, Scotland which form most of Holyrood Park, described by Robert Louis Stevenson as "a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design".

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Battle Creek massacre

The first battle between Mormon settlers in Utah and the Timpanogos Indians who lived there occurred at Battle Creek, Utah.

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Black people and Mormonism

Over the past two centuries, the relationship between black people and Mormonism has been tumultuous.

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Blood atonement

In Mormonism, blood atonement is a controversial doctrine that taught that some crimes are so heinous that the atonement of Jesus does not apply.

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Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421.

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Book of Moses

The Book of Moses, dictated by Joseph Smith, is part of the scriptural canon for some in the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Charles Kingston (Mormon)

Charles Kingston (November 9, 1856 – July 20, 1944) was an English Mormon convert and a prominent leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in southwestern Wyoming.

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Chronology of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church)

What follows is a list of events in chronological order that affected the membership of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Church Historian and Recorder

Church Historian and Recorder (usually shortened to Church Historian) is a priesthood calling in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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City Creek (Utah)

City Creek is a small but historically important mountain stream that flows from City Creek Canyon and across part of Salt Lake City, Utah, and into the Jordan River which empties into the Great Salt Lake.

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Common Council of the Church

In the Latter Day Saint movement, the Common Council of the Church is a body of the church that has the power to discipline or remove the President of the Church or one of his counselors in the First Presidency due to misbehavior.

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Comparison of the Community of Christ and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Community of Christ (formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church)) and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) are two denominations that share a common heritage in the Church of Christ founded by Joseph Smith on April 6, 1830.

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Criticism of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) has been the subject of criticism since it was founded by American religious leader Joseph Smith in 1830.

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Curelom and cumom

The curelom and the cumom are "useful" animals mentioned in the Book of Mormon.

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Dale Morgan

Lowell Dale Morgan (December 18, 1914 – March 30, 1971), generally cited as Dale Morgan or Dale L. Morgan, was an American historian, accomplished researcher, biographer, editor, and critic.

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Daniel S. Miles

Daniel Sanborn Miles (July 23, 1772 – October 12, 1845) was an early Mormon leader and member of the Presidency of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

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David John (Mormon)

David John (29 January 1833 – 1908) was a leading figure in Utah at the dawn of the 20th century.

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David Whitmer

David Whitmer (January 7, 1805 – January 25, 1888) was an early adherent of the Latter Day Saint movement who eventually became the most interviewed of the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon's golden plates.

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Deseret alphabet

The Deseret alphabet (Deseret: ๐”๐ฏ๐‘…๐จ๐‘‰๐ฏ๐ป or ๐”๐ฏ๐‘†๐ฒ๐‘‰๐ฏ๐ป) is a phonemic English-language spelling reform developed between 1847 and 1854 by the board of regents of the University of Deseret under the leadership of Brigham Young, the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

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Doctrine and Covenants

The Doctrine and Covenants (sometimes abbreviated and cited as D&C or D. and C.) is a part of the open scriptural canon of several denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Elias L. T. Harrison

Elias Lacy Thomas Harrison (March 27, 1830 in Barking, England – May 22, 1900) was an architect and writer in Salt Lake City, Utah, who became important in the history of Utah and the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Emma Smith

Emma Hale Smith Bidamon (July 10, 1804 – April 30, 1879) was the first wife of Joseph Smith and a leader in the early days of the Latter Day Saint movement, both during Joseph's lifetime and afterward as a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church).

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Erastus Snow

Erastus Snow (November 9, 1818 – May 27, 1888) was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1849 to until his death.

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Eyring Science Center

The Carl F. Eyring Science Center (ESC) is one of the science buildings on the Brigham Young University (BYU) campus in Provo, Utah.

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Ezra T. Benson

Ezra Taft Benson (February 22, 1811 – September 3, 1869) (commonly referred to as Ezra T. Benson to distinguish him from his great-grandson of the same name) was an apostle and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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First Vision

The First Vision (also called the grove experience) refers to a vision that Joseph Smith said he received in the spring of 1820, in a wooded area in Manchester, New York, which his followers call the Sacred Grove.

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Francis M. Higbee

Francis Marion Higbee (born 1820) was an early member of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Golden plates

According to Latter Day Saint belief, the golden plates (also called the gold plates or in some 19th-century literature, the golden bible) are the source from which Joseph Smith said he translated the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the faith.

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Green Flake

"Green" Flake (January 6, 1828 – October 20, 1903) became one of the first African-American members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and was one of the first of three African-Americans to enter the Salt Lake Valley on July 22, 1847.

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Hazen Aldrich

Hazen Aldrich (January 10, 1797 – 1873) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Heavenly Mother

In some religious traditions or movements, Heavenly Mother (also referred to as Mother in Heaven or Sky Mother) is the wife or feminine counterpart of the Sky father or God the Father.

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Heavenly Mother (Mormonism)

In Mormonism, Heavenly Mother or the Mother in Heaven is the mother of human spirits and the wife of God the Father.

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History of Joseph Smith by His Mother

History of Joseph Smith by His Mother is a biography of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, according to his mother, Lucy Mack Smith.

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History of Salt Lake City

Originally, the Salt Lake Valley was inhabited by the Shoshone, Paiute, Goshute and Ute Native American tribes.

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History of The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)

The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite) is part of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Hugh Findlay

Hugh Findlay (June 9, 1822 in Newmilns, Ayrshire, Scotland – March 2, 1900 in Fish Haven, Idaho) was one of the first two Mormon missionaries to enter India and initiated Mormon missionary work in the Shetland Islands.

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Hylozoism

Hylozoism is the philosophical point of view that matter is in some sense alive.

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J. E. Goodson

John Edward Goodson (1808–1892) was a 19th-century North American classical music educator, performer, composer, and conductor.

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Jacob Gates

Jacob Gates (Mar 9, 1811 – April 14, 1892) was an early Mormon leader and member of the First Seven Presidents of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Jesus bloodline

The Jesus bloodline is a hypothetical sequence of lineal descendants of the historical Jesus, often by Mary Magdalene, usually portrayed as his wife.

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John F. Boynton

John Farnham Boynton (September 20, 1811 – October 20, 1890) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an American geologist and inventor.

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John Lothropp

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John Lyon (poet)

John J. Lyon (4 March 1803, Glasgow – 28 November 1889) was a Scottish Latter Day Saint poet and hymn writer.

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John Philip Newman

John Philip Newman (1 September 1826 – 5 July 1899) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1888.

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Joseph F. Smith

Joseph Fielding Smith Sr. (November 13, 1838 – November 19, 1918) was an American religious leader who served as the sixth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Joseph Smith presidential campaign, 1844

Joseph Smith presidential campaign, 1844 was an election campaign by Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith and his vice presidential running mate, LDS First Presidency First Counselor Sidney Rigdon.

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Journal of Discourses

The Journal of Discourses (often abbreviated J.D.) is a 26-volume collection of public sermons by early leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Junius F. Wells

Junius Free Wells (June 1, 1854 – April 15, 1930) was the first head of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association, an organization which is today the Young Men organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Kolob

Kolob is a star or planet described in Mormon scripture.

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Latter Day Saint polygamy in the late-19th century

Possibly as early as the 1830s, followers of the Latter Day Saint movement (also known as Mormonism), were practicing the doctrine of polygamy or "plural marriage".

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Lectures on Faith

"Lectures on Faith" is a set of seven lectures on the doctrine and theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, first published as the doctrine portion of the 1835 edition of the canonical Doctrine and Covenants, but later removed from that work by both major branches of the faith.

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Life of Joseph Smith from 1827 to 1830

The life of Joseph Smith from 1827 to 1830, when he was 22–25 years old, includes some of his life's most significant events, and some of the most important history of the Latter Day Saint movement, the Restorationist religious movement he initiated during this period.

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Life of Joseph Smith from 1839 to 1844

The life of Joseph Smith from 1839 to 1844, when he was 34–38 years old, covers the period of Smith's life when he lived in Nauvoo, an eventful and highly controversial period of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Limited geography model

A limited geography model for the Book of Mormon is one of several theories by Latter Day Saint movement scholars that the book's narrative was a historical record of people in a limited geographical region, rather than of the entire Western Hemisphere as believed by some early Latter Day Saints.

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List of Brigham Young University buildings

This list of Brigham Young University buildings catalogs the current and no-longer-existent structures of Brigham Young University (BYU), a private, coeducational research university owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) located in Provo, Utah, United States.

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List of Brigham Young University residence halls

This is a list of residential buildings at Brigham Young University which includes residential halls, dining facilities, housing area offices, laundry facilities, and other buildings directly connected with the residence halls.

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List of code names in the Doctrine and Covenants

The original 1835 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants, a book of LDS scripture, used code names for certain people and places.

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List of emigrants from Upstate New York

“Go West, young man!” said Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, and many people from Upstate New York have.

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List of former or dissident LDS

This is a list of well-known Mormon dissidents or other LDS Church members who have either been excommunicated or have resigned from the church – as well as of individuals no longer self-identifying as LDS.

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List of Joseph Smith's wives

Joseph Smith (1805–1844), the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, secretly taught and practiced polygamy during his ministry, and married multiple women during his lifetime.

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List of Latter Day Saint movement topics

In an effort to bring together pages on various religions, below is a list of articles that are about or reference Latter Day Saint movement topics.

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List of Latter Day Saint periodicals

This article lists periodicals published primarily about institutions, people, or issues of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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List of Latter Day Saints

This is a list of Latter Day Saints who have attained levels of notability.

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List of LDS missionary entries by country

The following list indicates when missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) first preached in the territory of present-day countries.

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List of mathematicians (P)

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List of people with the most children

This article lists people who are known to have parented the most number of children.

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List of United States political families (P)

The following is an alphabetical list of political families in the United States whose last name begins with P.

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List of Zion's Camp participants

The following individuals participated in Zion's Camp.

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Lorenzo Snow

Lorenzo Snow (April 3, 1814 – October 10, 1901) was an American religious leader who served as the fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1898 to his death.

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Lorin Farr

Lorin Farr (July 25, 1820 – January 12, 1909) was a Mormon pioneer and the first mayor of Ogden, Utah.

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Lorus Pratt

Lorus Bishop Pratt (November 27, 1855, Tooele, Utah – December 29, 1923, Salt Lake City) was an American landscape painter and missionary.

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Lyman E. Johnson

Lyman Eugene Johnson (October 24, 1811 – December 20, 1859) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

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Mary Ann Frost Stearns Pratt

Mary Ann Frost Stearns Pratt (born January 14, 1809, Groton, Vermont; d. August 24, 1891 in Pleasant Grove, Utah Territory) was a wife of Parley P. Pratt who was one of the original twelve apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

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Mary Isabella Hales Horne

Mary Isabella Hales Horne (November 20, 1818 – August 25, 1905) was a prominent leader in many different capacities in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Millennial Star

The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star (usually shortened to Millennial Star) was the longest continuously published periodical of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, being printed in England from 1840 until 1970, when it was replaced by the Church-wide Ensign.

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Miracle of the gulls

The miracle of the gulls is an 1848 event often credited by Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") for saving the Mormon pioneers' second harvest in the Salt Lake Valley.

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Mission (LDS Church)

A mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is a geographical administrative area to which church missionaries are assigned.

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Mormon Doctrine (book)

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Mormon pioneers

The Mormon pioneers were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah.

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Mormon Reformation

The Mormon Reformation was a period of renewed emphasis on spirituality within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Mormon Trail

The Mormon Trail is the 1,300-mile (2,092 km) route that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled from 1846 to 1868.

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Mormonism and history

The Mormon religion is predicated on what are said to be historical events such as the First Vision of Joseph Smith and the historicity of the Book of Mormon, which describes a detailed pre-Columbian history of the Americas.

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Mormonism and polygamy

Polygamy (most often polygyny, called plural marriage by Mormons in the 19th century or the Principle by modern fundamentalist practitioners of polygamy) was practiced by leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) for more than half of the 19th century, and practiced publicly from 1852 to 1890 by between 20 and 30 percent of Latter-day Saint families.

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Mormonism and slavery

The Latter Day Saint movement has had varying and conflicting teachings on slavery.

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Mormonism in the 19th century

This is a chronology of Mormonism.

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Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia

Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia is an encyclopedia designed for a general readership about topics relating to the History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, edited by W. Paul Reeve and Ardis E. Parshall.

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Mormons

Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity, initiated by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s.

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Mount Pisgah, Iowa

Mount Pisgah was a semi-permanent settlement or way station from 1846 to 1852 along the Mormon Trail between Garden Grove and Council Bluffs, in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Mountain Meadows Massacre

The Mountain Meadows Massacre was a series of attacks on the Baker–Fancher emigrant wagon train, at Mountain Meadows in southern Utah.

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Multiverse (religion)

A multiverse is the concept of a plurality of universes.

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October 3

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Origin of Latter Day Saint polygamy

Polygamy, or plural marriage, in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints probably originated with the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, who taught that polygamy was a divine commandment.

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Orson

Orson may refer to.

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Orson Hyde

Orson Hyde (January 8, 1805 – November 28, 1878) was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

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Orson Pratt Huish

Orson Pratt Huish (September 5, 1851 – December 4, 1932) was a Latter Day Saint hymnwriter.

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Orson Spencer

Orson Cornelius Spencer (March 14, 1802 – October 15, 1855) was a prolific writer and prominent member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Orson, Iowa

Orson is an unincorporated community in Harrison County, in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Ortho R. Fairbanks

Ortho R. Fairbanks (April 25, 1925 – June 2, 2015) was one of the many members of the Fairbanks family who have been prominent artists.

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Parley P. Pratt

Parley Parker Pratt Sr. (April 12, 1807 – May 13, 1857) was an early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement whose writings became a significant early nineteenth-century exposition of the Latter Day Saint faith.

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Pratt

Pratt is a surname.

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Pratt family

The Pratt family is made up of the descendants of the Mormon pioneer brothers, Parley Parker Pratt and his brother Orson Pratt, whose father was Jared Pratt (1769–1839).

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President of the Church (LDS Church)

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), the President of the Church is the highest office of the church.

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Presiding Bishop (LDS Church)

The Presiding Bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is a priesthood calling with church-wide authority.

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Proposed Book of Mormon geographical setting

The geographical setting of the Book of Mormon is the set of locations of the events described in the Book of Mormon.

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Quorum of the Twelve

In the Latter Day Saint movement, the Quorum of the Twelve (also known as the Council of the Twelve, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Council of the Twelve Apostles, or the Twelve) is one of the governing bodies or (quorums) of the church hierarchy organized by the movement's founder Joseph Smith, and patterned after the twelve apostles of Christ (see Mark 3).

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Rigdonite

Rigdonite is a name given to members of the Latter Day Saint movement who accept Sidney Rigdon as the successor in the church presidency to movement founder, Joseph Smith.

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Roadometer (odometer)

The roadometer was a 19th-century device like an odometer for measuring mileage, towed by a wagon, invented in 1847 by William Clayton and Orson Pratt, Mormon pioneers.

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Sampson Avard

Sampson Avard (October 23, 1800 – April 15, 1869) was one of the founders and leaders of the Mormon vigilantes known as the Danites, which existed in Missouri during the Missouri Mormon War in 1838.

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Sarah Marinda Bates Pratt

Sarah Marinda Bates Pratt (February 2, 1817 – December 25, 1888) was the first wife of LDS Apostle and polygamist Orson Pratt and later a critic of Mormon polygamy.

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Second Coming (LDS Church)

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe that there will be a Second Coming of Jesus Christ to the earth sometime in the future.

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Selected Manifestations

Selected Manifestations: Being an Unofficial Collection of Temple Dedicatory Prayers, Revelations, Visions, Dreams, Doctrinal Expositions, & Other Inspired Declarations Not Presently Included in the Official Canon of Scriptures Known as the Four Standard Works of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a 413-page book self-published in 1985 by David M. and Vonda S. Reay.

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September 19

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Shaking the dust from the feet

Shaking the dust from the feet was a practice of pious Jews during New Testament times.

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Signature Books

Signature Books is a press specializing in subjects related to Utah, Mormonism, and Western Americana.

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Succession crisis (Latter Day Saints)

The succession crisis in the Latter Day Saint movement occurred after the death of Joseph Smith, the movement's founder, on June 27, 1844.

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T. Edgar Lyon

Thomas Edgar "Ed" Lyon (9 August 1903 – 20 September 1978) was a prominent Latter-day Saint historian and educator.

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Temple Lot

The Temple Lot, located in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, is the first site to be dedicated for the construction of a temple in the Latter Day Saint movement.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), often informally known as the Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian, Christian restorationist church that is considered by its members to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ.

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

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints arrived in Michigan in the 1830s.

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

As of January 1, 2009, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reported 26,536 members in five stakes, 41 congregations (27 wards, 14 branches), one mission, and no temples in Scotland.

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The Seer (periodical)

The Seer was an official periodical of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) which first appeared in 1853 and was published throughout 1854.

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Theodemocracy

Theodemocracy was a theocratic political system that included elements of democracy.

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This is the Place Monument

The This is the Place Monument is a historical monument at the This is the Place Heritage Park, located on the east side of Salt Lake City, Utah, at the mouth of Emigration Canyon.

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Thomas B. Marsh

Thomas Baldwin Marsh (November 1, 1800 – January 1866) was an early leader in the Latter-day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

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Three Witnesses

The Three Witnesses is the collective name for three men connected with the early Latter Day Saint movement who stated that an angel had shown them the golden plates from which Joseph Smith, Jr.

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Timeline of LGBT Mormon history

This is a timeline of LGBT Mormon history consisting of events, publications, and speeches at the intersection of LGBTQ+ individuals, topics around sexual orientation and gender minorities, and the community of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon Church).

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University of Nauvoo

The University of Nauvoo was a short-lived university in Nauvoo, Illinois.

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University of Utah College of Science

The College of Science at the University of Utah is an academic college of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Urim and Thummim (Latter Day Saints)

In the Latter Day Saint movement, the Urim and Thummim (also called Interpreters) usually refers to a set of seer stones bound by silver bows into a set of spectacles, that movement founder Joseph Smith said he found buried in the hill Cumorah with the golden plates.

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William Clayton (Mormon)

William H. Clayton (July 17, 1814 – December 4, 1879) was an early leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints who was a clerk and scribe to the Mormon religious leader Joseph Smith.

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William Huntington (Mormon)

William Huntington (March 28, 1784 – August 19, 1846) was an early leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), most prominently during the time the Mormon pioneers were moving from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City.

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William Smith (Latter Day Saints)

William Smith (also found as William B. Smith) (March 13, 1811 – November 13, 1893) was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and one of the original members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

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Zerubbabel Snow

Zerubbabel Snow (March 29, 1809 – September 27, 1888) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement, a Mormon pioneer, and an Attorney General of the Territory of Utah.

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1811

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1840 in Scotland

Events from the year 1840 in Scotland.

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1881

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1881 in the United States

Events from the year 1881 in the United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Pratt

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