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Far West March 14, 1838 – Headquarters of the Church was established in Far West, Mo. March 17 1842 – Joseph Smith organized the Female Relief Society of

March 6, 1840 – Joseph attended a meeting of the High Council of Iowa held at the home of Elijah Fordham in Montrose.  He told them that it

February 26, 1834 – The Prophet Joseph Smith and several other elders leave Kirtland, Ohio, on short-term missions to northeastern Ohio, Pennsylvania, and western New York to recruit

February 19, 1793 – Sidney Rigdon is born in St. Clair, Pennsylvania. February 22, 1811 – Ezra T. Benson, the great-grandfather of President Ezra Taft Benson, was born

February 1828 – Martin Harris visited Joseph Smith, jun., at Harmony, Pa., and took some of the characters, which had been transcribed, and the translation of them, to

January 29, 1839 – The Elders met at Far West to complete measures for the removal of the poor from Missouri, and pledged themselves to assist each other