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Letter from Orson Hyde, 28 September 1840

 
Burlington co. N. J. Sept. 28, 1840.
Dear Brethren.
I left Elder

An administrative and ecclesiastical office not associated with age. The Book of Mormon explained that elders ordained priests and teachers and administered “the flesh and blood of Christ unto the church.” The articles and covenants of the church directed...

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 [John E.] Page

25 Feb. 1799–14 Oct. 1867. Born at Trenton, Oneida Co., New York. Son of Ebenezer Page and Rachel Hill. Married first Betsey Thompson, 1831, in Huron Co., Ohio. Baptized into LDS church by Emer Harris, 18 Aug. 1833, at Brownhelm, Lorain Co., Ohio. Ordained...

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 at Cin cinnati

Area settled largely by emigrants from New England and New Jersey, by 1788. Village founded and surveyed adjacent to site of Fort Washington, 1789. First seat of legislature of Northwest Territory, 1790. Incorporated as city, 1819. Developed rapidly as shipping...

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 the latter part of August, and  came on up the Ohio river as far as  Wellsburgh, Va. I stopped with fa ther James, who received and enter tained me with great kindness and  hospitality. He and his daughter, a  very fine amiable young lady, were  keeping house together; and very pleas antly situated on the delightful banks  of the beautiful Ohio. Here I preach ed twice and baptized

An ordinance in which an individual is immersed in water for the remission of sins. The Book of Mormon explained that those with necessary authority were to baptize individuals who had repented of their sins. Baptized individuals also received the gift of...

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 three persons.— Had a very pleasant visit with a broth er of Elder S[idney] Rigdon

19 Feb. 1793–14 July 1876. Tanner, farmer, minister. Born at St. Clair, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. Son of William Rigdon and Nancy Gallaher. Joined United Baptists, ca. 1818. Preached at Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, and vicinity, 1819–1821. Married Phebe...

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’s; came on by  stage and Steam Boats to Pittsburgh

Also spelled Pittsbourg, Pittsbourgh, and Pittsburg. Major industrial port city in southwestern Pennsylvania. Near location where Monongahela and Allegheny rivers converge to form Ohio River. French established Fort DuQuesne, 1754. British captured fort, ...

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:  from thence took the canal to Leech burgh, where I stopped and preached  to a small number of saints, raised up  by the instrumentality of father Nick erson—all in good spirits. As I left  this place, about 9 o’clock in the morn ing, the most remarkable phenomenon  occured in the heavens that I ever wit nessed. There appeared two bright  and luminous bodies, one on the north,  and the other on the south side of the  sun: in length about ten yards, in clining to a circle resembling a Rain bow, about fifty yards distant from the  sun; apparently east of the sun, about  twenty-five yards, was a body of light  as briliant, almost, as the sun itself;  and on the west, a great distance from  the sun, appeared a white simi-circle  passing half way round the horizon,  and another crossing it at right angles,  exhibiting a scenery of the sublimest  kind. It was a great wonder to the  passengers on board the boat. Put this  with the fact that the Jews are gather

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Letter from Orson Hyde, 28 September 1840
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