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Stoddard, Sylvester B.
Biography
7 Feb. 1801–18 Aug. 1867. Tinsmith, shoemaker. Born in Perrysburg, Ontario Co., New York. Son of Sylvester Stoddard. Married first Charity. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, before 8 Sept. 1833. Served mission to Maine, 1833–1836. Received elder’s certificate, 13 Oct. 1836, in Kirtland, Geauga Co., Ohio. Ordained a seventy by Hazen Aldrich, 20 Dec. 1836. Served mission to Ohio, 1837. Stockholder in Kirtland Safety Society. Presided at church conference in West Township, Columbiana Co., Ohio, 16 June 1837. Moved to Missouri, by 1839. Moved to Quincy, Adams Co., Illinois, by May 1839, where he served as counselor in a bishopric. Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois, by Oct. 1841. Ordained a high priest, 3 Oct. 1841, in Nauvoo. Served on Nauvoo high council, 1842. Member of Nauvoo Masonic Lodge. Appointed captain in Nauvoo Legion, 30 July 1842. Served mission to Michigan, 1844. Wife died, 19 Oct. 1844. Married second Almira Knight, 10 Nov. 1844, in Nauvoo. Joined James J. Strang’s Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and served as counselor in Strangite stake presidency in Kirtland. Moved to Hollis, York Co., Maine, by June 1850; to St. Louis, by June 1860; and to Akron, Summit Co., Ohio, by 1867. Died at Akron.
Links
papers
- History, 1838–1856, volume C-1 [2 November 1838–31 July 1842]
- Elders’ Journal, November 1837
- Claim from Sylvester B. Stoddard, 12 February 1842
- Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845
- Deed from Sylvester B. and Charity Cole Stoddard, 11 March 1844
- History Draft [1 January–21 June 1844]
- History Draft [1 March–31 December 1843]
- History, 1838–1856, volume B-1 [1 September 1834–2 November 1838]
- History, 1838–1856, volume C-1 Addenda
- History, 1838–1856, volume E-1 [1 July 1843–30 April 1844]
- Index to Nauvoo City Council Minute Book–A
- Index to Nauvoo City Council Minute Book–B
- Joseph Smith’s Store Daybook A, January–July 1842
- Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 4, 1 March–22 June 1844
- Kirtland Elders’ Certificates
- Kirtland Safety Society Bank Stock Ledger, 18 October 1836–12 June 1837
- Kirtland Safety Society Daybook, circa 4–16 January 1837
- License for Sylvester B. Stoddard, 13 October 1836
- Memorial to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 28 November 1843
- Minutes and Discourse, 1–2 June 1839
- Minutes, 12 February 1842
- Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 1841–1845
- Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, January–November 1842
- Nauvoo Marriage Record, February 1842–January 1846
- Nauvoo Registry of Deeds, Deed Record Book A, 1840–1843
- Notice, circa Late August 1837
- Parley P. Pratt, History of the Late Persecution, 1839
- Pay Order, John C. Bennett to Nauvoo City Treasurer for Sylvester B. Stoddard, 12 February 1842
- Petition from Austin Cowles and Sylvester B. Stoddard, circa 14 May 1842
- Petition from Brigham Young and Others, circa 4 March 1843
- Petition from Sylvester B. Stoddard and Others, 12 May 1842
- Petition from Thomas Grover and Others, 2 May 1842
- Proposed Plan for a Moot Organization and Congress, 6 February 1844
- Recognizance, 18 September 1838 [ State of Missouri v. JS et al. for Riot ]
- Record of the Twelve, 14 February–28 August 1835
- Report from William Clayton, 5 November 1842
- Revised Articles of Agreement for the Kirtland Safety Society, circa March 1837
- Statement of Account from Maid of Iowa, May 1843–May 1844
- The Book of the Law of the Lord, Book A
- Gender
- Male