by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Dec 3, 2012 | Early History
After polygamy was outlawed many Mormon men, unwilling to abandon their wives and children as ordered, fled to Mexico. Nine colonies were eventually settled. (Two remain today.) When the Mexican Revolution began, their peaceful lives were disrupted. Officially, they...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Oct 24, 2012 | Early History
Sam Brannon was, for a time, a Mormon best known for causing a great deal of trouble within the Mormon community. He joined the church at age fourteen when his sister, with whom he lived joined the church and moved to Kirtland, Ohio where the Mormons were gathered. He...
by Keith L. Brown | Jun 13, 2012 | Early History
By Ashley Helen Schlie, an 88-year-old woman, and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the “Mormon Church” by friends of other faiths), had a rare book, worth $100,000, stolen from her bookshop in Mesa, Arizona, this last month....
by dwhite | Jun 13, 2011 | Early History
After the martyrdom of Joseph Smith in 1844, enemies of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the Mormon Church) hoped and really thought the Church would dissolve with the death of the Mormon prophet. However, the faithful Saints persevered...
by | Sep 26, 2009 | Early History
Sustained as president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on October 17, 1901, Joseph F. Smith began the transition into the twentieth century. Progress was continuing for Utah and for the Church, and the Church made a huge step in missionary work when...
by | Sep 25, 2009 | Early History
Lorenzo Snow became president of the Church in 1898. Before his death, President Wilford Woodruff made it known to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles that in the future, the Lord wanted the new prophet to be sustained quickly, rather than waiting several years, which...
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