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The first issue of the Times and Seasons was printed in July 1839 and reissued in November of the same year. The paper was devoted to publishing “all general information respecting the church.” (Ebenezer Robinson, “Items of Personal History of the Editor,” Return, May 1890, 257–258; “Prospectus of the Times and Seasons,” Times and Seasons, Nov. 1839, 1:16.)
It is estimated that between 70,000 and 75,000 people immigrated to Utah between 1847 and 1868. Given this, as of 2015 we are lacking about 15,000 pioneers in the database. In other words, about one-fifth of the pioneers who came to Utah still need to be found and added. When the database was first launched, we added all the names from existing ...
In response, Joseph F. Smith, the sixth Mormon prophet (who had six wives himself), issued yet another manifesto, the 1904 ‘Second Manifesto’, condemning polygamy. As late as 1943, Mormon apostle Richard Lyman was caught secretly practicing polygamy. TIMELINE.
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Brigham Young. c. 1870. Brigham Young (June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877) was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847 until his death in 1877. He founded Salt Lake City and he served as the first ...
Richard Hewitt Family tradition tells a story of when Richard Hewitt came home and said he heard some false doctrine being taught, evidently about polygamy. The family was preparing supper but Richard was intent on going to Nauvoo to find out the truth of what he heard. “No, I
He and two other members with him, Joseph Kilting and Richard Hewitt, found construction work available in the Cherokee Nation. They arrived in Tahlequah on July 9, 1847, and began to build houses. They also began to teach others about the LDS Church's faith and doctrine, but antagonism forced Miller to leave in December.
Mormonism and history. Mormon handcart pioneers are memorialized on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. 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. [1]
