May 15, 1829 – While Joseph Smith, jun., and Oliver Cowdery were engaged in prayer in the woods, near Harmony, John the Baptist descended as a messenger from
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May 15, 1829 – While Joseph Smith, jun., and Oliver Cowdery were engaged in prayer in the woods, near Harmony, John the Baptist descended as a messenger from
April 18, 1830 – Late in April the Prophet Joseph visited Joseph Knight, at Colesville, Broome Co., N. Y., where, under the Prophet’s administration, the first miracle was
April 3, 1814 – Lorenzo Snow was born in Mantua, Portage Co., O. April 7, 1829 – Joseph Smith, jun., resumed the translation of the Book of Mormon,
March 18, 1833 – Sidney Rigdon and Frederick G. Williams were appointed and set apart by President Joseph Smith to be his Counselors in the Presidency of the
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