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• Erastus Snow
  ...er-day Saints] from 1849 to 1888. Snow was also a leading figure in Latter-day Saint colonization of Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. ...ost of the time the Church was based in Kirtland on missions, primarily in Pennsylvania. He later served a mission to Salem, Massachusetts, where he baptized sever
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• William Law
  ...tasy. He founded the short-lived True Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which he founded upon the teachings of Joseph Smith prior to 1838. ...siblings to the United States in approximately 1820, settling at first in Pennsylvania but eventually settling in Canada.
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• Eric D. Huntsman: Mormon Scholar
  ...ber of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. ...o receive his master’s and PhD in ancient history from the University of Pennsylvania.
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• Wilford C. Wood
  ...ory of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. For over fifty years he bought land and historical artifacts long before ...ission to the Northern States for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where he developed a deep love for the Prophet Joseph Smith and the [[Book
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• Manhattan New York Temple
  ...ple of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. It is currently closed for renovations. ...attan New York Temple district are encouraged to attend the [[Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple]] or the [[Hartford Connecticut Temple]].
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• Sidney Rigdon
  ...fledgling [http://comeuntochrist.org Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. He eventually became disaffected and left the Church. Sidney Rigdon was born on February 19, 1793, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1817, while caring for his widowed mother, Rigdon joined a church and w
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• Orrin Hatch
  ...senator Orrin Hatch, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Photograph by Music First Coalition. CC License.]] ...ber of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints].
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• Ellis Reynolds Shipp
  ...ber of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. ...ge for board and room. She graduated from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania on March 14, 1878. She later studied further at the University of Michigan.
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• Jon Huntsman, Sr.
  ...x|right|alt=Mormon Businessman and Philantropist Jon M. Huntsman Sr|Latter-day Saint Businessman and Philantropist Jon M. Huntsman Sr]]'''Jon Meade Huntsm ...man grew up in poverty, graduated from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, worked as a staff member in the Richard Nixon administration, and finally
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• A. Milton Musser
  ...ian of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] from 1902 until his death in 1909. He had served for several years as a cl ...ess release defending the faith in response to charges that the Latter-day Saints are a "blood-thirsty people" in newspaper coverage of the trial and executi
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• Emma Hale Smith
  ...ent of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. ...orn on 10 July 1804, the seventh of nine children, and grew up in Harmony, Pennsylvania. She was well-educated and even had an extra year of school outside of the
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• Jack Weyland: Mormon Author
  ...fessor, he is also widely known as a popular fiction writer for Latter-day Saints, particularly for his novel ''Charly'', which was also made into a movie. ...ia for [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], he earned his PhD in physics from [[Brigham Young University]].
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• Lewis D. Edwards
  ...r-day Saints (1985 book)|Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. ...ber of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] in 1878. In Utah, he became a music student of Evan Stephens and conducted
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• Ruth May Fox
  ...ion of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. She was also a writer, poet, and songwriter. ...ving Ruth with Mrs. Saxton and her daughter Clara. They soon joined him in Pennsylvania, and her father married Mrs. Saxton. Ruth worked in a cotton mill to earn m
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• John Whitmer
  ...sh;1878) was an early leader of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. He was one of the [[Eight Witnesses]] of the [[Book of Mormon]]. He was John Whitmer was born on August 27, [[1802]], in York, Pennsylvania to Peter Whitmer, Sr. and Mary Musselman. By the 1820s, the Whitmer family
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• Scott O'Neil
  ...ber of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] in 2016 at the age of 46. His wife, Lisa, and their three daughters were a ...olic and attended both Catholic high school and college. Lisa was a Latter-day Saint and a student at [[Brigham Young University]]. She had internship opp
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• The Miracle of the Book of Mormon
  [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] has translated the Book of Mormon into tens of languages. In 2011, when ...eph Smith’s work on translating the Book of Mormon was done in Harmony, Pennsylvania. The complete span of time between the beginning of the translation effort
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• Bearing a Testimony
  ...ing as a witness for the truth. [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] has established one [[Sacrament Meeting|sacrament meeting]] each month wh Elder Faust explained that the Saints bear testimony that Jesus is the Christ through their example:
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• Susquehanna River
  ...Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] took place (near [[Harmony, Pennsylvania]]).
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• George Ottinger: Mormon Artist
  Ottinger was born in 1833 in Springfield Township, Pennsylvania, and raised in New York City by his uncle. He joined the crew of a whaling ...the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He painted miniatures in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for two years. His next move was to Kentucky where he tinted photographs a
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• Ahmad S. Corbitt
  ...y]] of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] on April 1, 2023. He had been serving as the first counselor in the [[Youn He was born on August 16, 1962, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On his 18th birthday, Ahmad joined the Church, following his mother and so
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• Orson Pratt
  ...]] by [[Sidney Rigdon]] on February 2, 1832. Pratt then served missions to Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connectic ...r the Church there. He returned to Nauvoo in December of 1844 to find the Saints preparing to evacuate the city. He moved his family across the frozen Miss
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• John S. Fullmer
  ...Huntington Mills, Pennsylvania. In 1830, his father moved his family from Pennsylvania to Ohio. Two years later, John relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, to study ...ted to [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] and moved to Nauvoo. John visited his family in Nauvoo and was baptized by
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• Joseph L. Townsend
  ...r-day Saints (1985 book)|Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. He was born on August 9, 1849, in Pennsylvania and was educated in Missouri. He moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, to improve
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• Benjamin T. Mitchell
  ...ert to [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. He assisted in the construction of buildings in Nauvoo, Illinois, and Sal He was born on January 12, 1816, in Munch township, Pennsylvania. His journal details his early life and conversion to the gospel:
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• Luke S. Johnson
  ...r in 1831, he joined [[Sidney Rigdon]] in preaching the gospel in areas of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Their efforts brought about fifty new members into the young chur ...r 25, 1831. With Seymour Brunson and Hazen Aldrich, he served as an Latter-day Saint missionary in Ohio, Virginia, and Kentucky in 1832-33, baptizing more
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• Restoration of All Things
  ...urch—[http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], sometimes inadvertently called the Mormon Church—was once again on the ...www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2004/05/the-dawning-of-a-brighter-day?lang=eng]
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• Creed Haymond
  ...ber of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. ...team in drinking a small amount of wine. Brother Haymond refused. The next day he won both his events, but Cornell University beat his team overall, becau
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• Priesthood Restoration Site
  The '''Priesthood Restoration Site''', located in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, welcomes visitors year-round. [[Joseph Smith|Joseph]] and [[Emma Hale Smit ...aple grove at the Priesthood Restoration Site is the location where Latter-day Saint historians believe the resurrected personage John the Baptist conferr
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• John S. Staley
  ...ted to [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. After joining the Church, Brother Staley was a professor at [[Brigham You ...e that he met Mariellen Stallard, a graduate student who was also a Latter-day Saint, and Mariellen was the first to intorduce Staley to the Church and it
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• Lloyd Newell
  ...rs for [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints].[https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/lloyd-d-newell-music-the Produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and featuring the [[Mormon Tabernacle Choir|Tabernacle Choir at Temple Squa
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• Eliza R. Snow
  ...Called "Zion's Poetess," Eliza is responsible for 10 hymns in the present day LDS hymnal and was one of the most celebrated [[Mormon Women|Mormon women]] ...on April 5, 1835, and moved to Kirtland, Ohio, in December to be with the saints. In Kirtland, Eliza lived with Joseph and [[Emma Hale Smith]] working as t
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• Andy Biggs
  ...ber of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. He is a retired attorney and was licensed to practice law in Arizona, Was ...essful lawsuit that asked the Supreme Court to overturn Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin election results. During the storming of the United States C
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• Melchizedek Priesthood
  <blockquote>Before his [Melchizedek's] day it was called ''the Holy Priesthood, '''after the Order of the Son of God'' ...the town of Harmony, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, on Friday, the 15th day of May, 1829, after which we repaired to the water, even to the Susquehanna
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• Andy Reid
  ...of [http://www.comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] (sometimes casually called the [http://www.mormonreligion.org "Mormon Chur ...d prominent NFL executives crowded into a church meetinghouse in Broomall, Pennsylvania (a suburb of Philadelphia) to attend Garrett's funeral. [http://content.usa
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• Lethe Tatge
  ...ber of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. ...son-White Bureau of Portland, Oregon; the Swarthmore Bureau of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; and the Associated Bureau of Topeka, Kansas. She was a protégé of [[Maud
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• David Evans
  ...rael and Abigail Evans. His early training in life was on the frontiers in Pennsylvania. His rugged character qualified him for the events which were to follow. ...ived until he was baptized into the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]], April 6, 1833. On the 11th of the same month he was ordained a [[Priest]
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• Alice Cooper Mormon?
  ...ates could not be from the same state. Joseph sent Sidney on a mission to Pennsylvania to establish residency there, but shortly thereafter, Joseph was [[Martyrdo ...Ether Moroni Furnier for The Church of Jesus Christ, based in Monongahela, Pennsylvania. Cooper’s grandfather Thurman Sylvester Furnier served as an apostle for
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• Harmony, Pennsylvania
  ...30 was about 340.[https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/place/harmony-township-pennsylvania?highlight=Harmony] Harmony village no longer exists and the spot is now kno ...Harmony.[https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/subsection/historic-sites/pennsylvania/priesthood-restoration-site?lang=eng] '''See [[Priesthood Restoration Site]
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• Jesse Gause
  ...hiladelphia; Belmont County, Ohio; Jefferson County, Ohio; Chester County, Pennsylvania; and back to Delaware. ...d with [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] or when he was baptized is unknown, but he quickly gained the Prophet’s
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• John M. Bernhisel
  ...y]] of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. Bernhisel attended medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania and eventually graduated in 1827. He practiced medicine in several western
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• Jon Huntsman, Jr.
  ...sman Corporation, the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation, and the University of Pennsylvania. He has also served as a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institute, a ...der of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints].
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• The Healing Power of Forgiveness
  ...f [http://churchofjesuschrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. In the beautiful hills of Pennsylvania, a devout group of Christian people live a simple life without automobiles,
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• David Osmond
  ...mazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'' at the Pittsburg CLO in downtown Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, through 7 June 2009. ...sk me all the time, 'How are you doing?' and I tell them, 'It’s the best day of my life, because I’m still here, on this planet, still breathing.' And
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• LeConte Stewart: Mormon Artist
  ...d art by attending the Art Students League in Woodstock, New York, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Chester Springs. ...ls for [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], of which he was a member. Some of these are found in the [[Laie Hawaii Te
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• LDS Church Growth: Temple Districts and Stakes
  Stakes and districts of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can be found in various locations around the world. The function of a distr ...temples.com/statistics/unit/pittsburgh-pennsylvania-west-stake/ Pittsburgh Pennsylvania West Stake] created.
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• Granite Mountain Records Vault
  ...Utah. [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] completed the Granite Mountain Records Vault in 1965 to preserve and prote ...ial or government perpetual storage sites are found in states like Kansas, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and Virginia. A private enterprise using similar tunnels is a Lit
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• William Smith
  ...s]] of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. He was disfellowshipped on May 4, 1839, then restored to the Quorum of th ...Reorganized (RLDS) Church|Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] that was currently being presided over by his nephew, Joseph Smith III.
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• Virginia Cutler
  ...ber of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. ...so attended sessions at Vassar and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. During this period of time, she also fractured her spine in an automobile
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• John the Baptist
  ...seph Smith]] and [[Oliver Cowdery]] in the Susquehanna River near Harmony, Pennsylvania, on May 15, 1829. Latter-day revelation tells us that he was “ordained by an angel,” when he was eig
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