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• J. Reuben Clark
  ...west of Salt Lake City). Clark was mostly tutored by his mother during his young years. He had not been able to attend high school, but by 1898, after four .... Reuben Clark Law Society and the J. Reuben Clark Law School at [[Brigham Young University]] were named in his honor. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Reub
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• George D. Watt
  ...of baptism and was baptized in the [[Ribble Valley|River Ribble]] by Heber C. Kimball on July 30, 1837. ...ry and became a reporter for the Deseret News and as a clerk for [[Brigham Young]]. Using his skill as a stenographer, he recorded the sermons of Church lea
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• John A. Widtsoe
  ...ohn, died in February 1878. This left his mother Anna as a widow with two young sons to take care of: Widtsoe, who was then five, and his little brother Os ...Agricultural College. He married Leah Dunford, a granddaughter of Brigham Young. She held a degree in home economics and the two of them worked together i
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• James C. Fletcher
  After graduating from high school in New York City, he studied at [[Brigham Young University]] for two years and then earned a bachelor’s degree in physics The man was Fletcher’s father.[https://www.lds.org/ensign/1984/04/james-c-fletcher-knowledge-lights-the-way?lang=eng] Fletcher became a consultant to
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• Joseph Fielding
  Fielding served as a missionary to England with [[Heber C. Kimball]], [[Orson Hyde]], and other missionaries. He later served as pres ...correctly that he was going to lose his flock, James visited Apostle Heber C. Kimball, the mission leader, the night before, forbidding him from doing s
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• Thomas B. Marsh
  As a young man, Marsh developed a pattern of traveling and working for various employe ...y the presidency of the Missouri Stake, consisting of [[David Whitmer]], [[William W. Phelps]] and [[John Whitmer]]. These men were authorized to purchase lan
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• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Michigan
  ...be legitimate, for a time, was Joseph’s mother Lucy Mack Smith. Brigham Young ignored James J. Strang and his letter. James J. Strang was shot by dissid ...Mormon gospel in Michigan. He had been called as a missionary by Brigham Young. Palmer focused on Mecosta County, Isabella County, and Montcalm County. <
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• Mormon Should Mean "More Good"
  ...the last days, even The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” (D&C 115:4.) :Father calls me William,
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• Robert C. Gay
  Gay was born on September 1, 1951, in Los Angeles, California, to Frank William “Bill” Gay and Mary Elizabeth Thain Gay. His father oversaw several ent ...d as an advisor and on the board of trustees for the Forever [[Steve Young|Young Foundation]]. He has also served as an advisory board member of Ascent (a h
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• Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort
  Not long after the Saints’ arrival in the Salt Lake Valley, [[Brigham Young]] began sending groups of settlers to establish communities beyond Salt Lak ...men were called on a mission to settle Las Vegas. Brigham Young selected William Bringhurst to serve as the president of the mission.
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• Jeff Zentner: Mormon Author
  ...ok. The novel has been honored with numerous awards, including the William C. Morris Award, the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award, the International Literac ...ung Adult Debut Award and winner of the 2016 Association of Mormon Letters Young Adult Novel Award. Zentner is a member of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Ch
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• Constitution of the United States
  ...ly or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.” <ref>Quoted in William O. Nelson, ''The Charter of Liberty'', Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 19 :First from [[Brigham Young]], second president of the Church: “Will the Constitution be destroyed? N
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• Joseph Smith, Jr.
  ...re many such accounts. Or as [[Richard E. Turley, Jr.|Richard Turley]] and William Slaughter explain in their 2011 ''How We Got the Book of Mormon'' (publishe *[[John W. Welch]], [[Donald W. Parry]], and [[Daniel Peterson|Daniel C. Peterson]], eds., [https://publications.mi.byu.edu/book/echoes-and-evidenc
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• Responses to Proposition 8
  ...ivity is anathema to our country, our morality, and the debauchery of our young people. ...ocese of Sacramento.) The following statement was released today by Bishop William Weigand, head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento and former Bishop
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• Warren Jeffs
  ...a usurpation in a conversation to his brother, and declared that "Brother William E. Jessop has been the prophet since [my] Father's passing", though Jeffs' ...as accused of arranging the marriages between his adult male followers and young girls.
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• T. B. H. Stenhouse
  ...ith the president, Lincoln told Stenhouse, “You go back and tell Brigham Young that if he will let me alone, I will let him alone.”[https://www.churchof ...d Fanny’s eldest daughter had become a polygamous wife of one of Brigham Young’s sons. He and Fanny left [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus
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• 1844
  * June 7 - [[William Law]] publishes the first and only edition of the [[Nauvoo Expositor]]. ...of Joseph Smith]] which is later cannonized as [[Doctrine and Covenants|D&C]] 135.
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• Warren Parrish
  ...ster to [[David W. Patten]] sometime in 1822. He was baptized by [[Brigham Young]] in Jefferson County, New York, in May 1833. ...ith]] from 1835 to 1837. In the fall of 1835, he and [[Oliver Cowdery]], [[William W. Phelps]], and [[Frederick Granger Williams|Frederick G. Williams]] attem
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• Antelope Island
  John C. Fremont named the island in 1845. He had mapped the topography of the Grea ...55, others cared for the ranch and the cattle, including Bryant Stringham, William Ashby, and Ebenezer Farnes. The Church also cared for horses and a sheep he
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• Gilbert Belnap
  ...hip indenture entered into on 13 January 1832, as an apprentice to William C. Moore for 9 years 240 days, to learn the trade of wheelwright and wagon ma ...rs. Incensed at this injustice committed by his brother, Gilbert, still a young teenager, determined to make his own way in the world.
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