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• Louisa Barnes Pratt
  ...unt who were members of the Church of England. At age fourteen, Louisa was baptized a member of the Episcopal Church. She then went to live with a sister-in-la ...New York. In 1838, they learned about the Church of Jesus Christ and were baptized. They were persecuted for joining the Church and soon moved to [[Nauvoo, Il
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• Joseph Freeman, Jr: First Black Mormon Priesthood Holder
  ...oliness Church for several generations, and at the age of ten, Freeman was baptized and became a member of the Holiness Church. His childhood dream was to beco ...priesthood, Freeman resigned from his role in the Holiness Church, and was baptized and confirmed a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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• Jacob Spori
  ...urkish. He performed the first baptism in Palestine for the Church when he baptized Johan George Grau on August 29, 1886. Besides serving in Istanbul, he taugh ...acts into French with the help of his sister Anna Clara. His wife had been baptized and in June 1888, he and his wife, three children, and his sister left for
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• Anthon H. Lund
  ...truthfulness of the gospel, he was twelve years old when he decided to be baptized. This was more than three years after having first heard the message of the
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• Howard W. Hunter
  ...ight, his father forbade it. He finally persuaded his father to let him be baptized when he was twelve years old. At fifteen he earned his [[Eagle Scout]]; he
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• Rosetta Pettibone Snow
  ...er the course of the next five years, Oliver, Eliza, and Lorenzo were also baptized. The family contributed their means for the construction of the [[Kirtland
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• Luke S. Johnson
  ...pel. My father was satisfied in regard to the truth of "Mormonism" and was baptized by Joseph Smith, Jun.(sic), in the winter of 1830-31, and furnished him and Luke Johnson was baptized into the church on May 10, 1831 by [[Joseph Smith, Jr.]] By October of 1831
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• Thomas B. Marsh
  Shortly after his arrival, Marsh was baptized by [[David Whitmer]] in Cayuga Lake, and a few months later ordained an [[e ...avid Patten preached at the house of Randolph Alexander, and after meeting baptized him and his wife. Brother T. B. Marsh arrived in Tennessee on his mission t
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• Marriner W. Merrill
  ...1852 at the age of 19. He soon learned that his mother had been secretly baptized around 1936. His father never joined the Church of Jesus Christ. About a y
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• Thomas Cott Griggs
  ...The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] when he was young; he was baptized on May 17, 1856 and he and his mother went to Boston with a group of Latter
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• Gadfield Elm Chapel
  ...ngton was converted and baptized on March 21, 1840, and within a month, he baptized 45 of the United Brethren preachers and 160 members.[https://www.churchofje
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• Ziba Peterson
  ...nds and continue teaching, they taught the gospel in Ohio and Missouri and baptized many.
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• Lorenzo Snow
  ...o continue his education at Kirtland. He joined his sisters there, and was baptized on June 19, 1836.
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• James E. Talmage
  Elder Talmage grew up in Hungerford, England. He was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at age 10 on June 15, ...ccomplished, and soon after my years had filled the allotted number, I was baptized by my father, who was an Elder in the Church. Jeers from schoolmates and sc
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• Erastus Snow
  ...Pennsylvania. He later served a mission to Salem, Massachusetts, where he baptized several converts including Nathaniel Ashby, a man with whom he shared a dup ...nnesota Press, 1957)</ref> While serving as a missionary in Denmark, Snow baptized the first Icelanders to join the church, ordained them to the [[Priesthood]
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• Amanda Player Hall
  ...served a full-time Spanish-speaking mission in New Jersey. Her mother was baptized in 1994.
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• Abel Evans
  He was the second person baptized in Wales. In 1849, he was selected to serve as first counselor in the presi ...e, he found he couldn’t sustain the nonconformists’ arguments. He was baptized that day.[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/263117/?offset=
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• George Manwaring
  ...Utah Territory in 1871. They settled in Springville, Utah. George had been baptized at the age of nine.
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• William W. Phelps
  ...land, Ohio. He and his family gathered to Kirtland in 1831, where he was baptized and ordained an [[elder]] in the Church. By assignment, he established a p ...ing to himself two plural wives without appropriate permission, but was re-baptized two days later. He took part in the [[Mormon Pioneers|Mormon Exodus]] acro
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• Parley P. Pratt
  ...is younger brother [[Orson Pratt]] became interested in the Church and was baptized just a short time later on September 19, 1830. Orson, too, later became an
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