James Jesse Strang (March 21, 1813 – July 9, 1856) was an American religious leader, politician and self-proclaimed monarch. He served as a member of the...
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"letter of appointment" is a controversial three-page document used by James J. Strang and his adherents to prove that he was the designated successor to...
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List of denominations in the Latter Day Saint movement (section Followers of James J. Strang ("Strangites"))
surviving member of the First Presidency, Sidney Rigdon; the newly baptized James Strang from Wisconsin; and Alpheus Cutler, one of the Council of Fifty. Each...
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite) (section James Strang's appointment letter and the Voree plates)
Voree, Wisconsin, just outside Burlington, and accepts the claims of James Strang as successor to Smith. It had approximately 300 members in 1998. An undated...
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role, the leading contenders being Sidney Rigdon, Brigham Young, and James Strang. The majority of the Latter Day Saint movement elected to follow Young's...
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Record, were a set of three tiny metal plates allegedly discovered by James J. Strang, a leader of the Latter Day Saint movement, in Voree, Wisconsin, United...
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Book of the Law of the Lord (category Works in the style of the King James Version)
movement. It is alleged to be a translation by the Strangite prophet James Strang of the brass Plates of Laban, which were originally acquired by Nephi...
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deciding that God wanted him to bring his flock to Beaver Island. James J. Strang appointed by Joseph Smith Jr. presided over the Church of Jesus Christ...
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many others followed James J. Strang, who argued his own claim using a letter that he said Smith had written and mailed to him. Strang founded the Church...
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"Voree Record") were a set of plates discovered and later translated by James J. Strang in 1845. Alleged to be a forgery. The Plates of Laban were a set of...
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death of Joseph Smith Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. James J. Strang, who had declared himself Smith's successor, established Voree, then...
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Sidney Rigdon and other church leaders, including Brigham Young and James J. Strang, presented themselves as leaders of the movement and established rival...
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surpassed 17 million in 2023. Smaller groups followed Rigdon and James J. Strang, who had based his claim on a letter of appointment ostensibly written...
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of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now Community of Christ), by James J. Strang for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite), and...
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brass plates unearthed by James J. Strang, a would-be successor to Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Strang asserted that this proved...
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the LDS Church acknowledges that the Kinderhook plates were a hoax. James J. Strang, one of many rival claimants to succeed Smith in the 1844 succession...
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Smith family were strained and many of the Smiths chose to recognize James J. Strang as church president. Young and the majority of the Latter Day Saints...
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claimant, James J. Strang of Voree, Wisconsin, who claimed that Smith had sent him a letter designating him as his successor. However, Strang had only...
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incorporated as a village in 1879. In June 1883, Charles J. Strang, the son of Mormon King James J. Strang started the Charlevoix Journal, which would be renamed...
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revelations, and translations printed by James Strang, and published in the Revelations of James J. Strang. An additional work called The Book of the...
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Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Collection Robert Louis Stevenson James J. Strang Monroe, Wakeman, and Holman Collection of the Pequot Library Association...
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revelations, and translations printed by James Strang, and published in the Revelations of James J. Strang. The Word of the Lord and The Word of the...
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Michigan. In each case, the practice was authorized on the basis of what James J. Strang reported as a revelation. The question of whether the Strangite Church...
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite) Organized by: James J. Strang approx. 300 members 1860 Community of Christ (Reorganized Church of...
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Trinidad". For two years he tried but failed to assert his claim. In 1850, James J. Strang, who claimed to be Joseph Smith's successor as leader of the Latter...
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Wisconsin, according to a rather elaborate plan devised by their prophet James J. Strang. Poverty and factional infighting among the Strangites prevented the...
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members of the Smith family who had at times favored the claims of James J. Strang or William Smith, Emma and her children continued to live in Nauvoo...
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in Leatherhead, Walter in Mary Morgan at the Riverside Studios and Alan Strang in Equus on tour. He subsequently joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC)...
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (LDS Church). Followers of James J. Strang use the spelling of the public domain name, "Church of Jesus Christ...
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gutted. James J. Strang, leader of the Strangite faction of Latter Day Saints, accused Young's agents of setting fire to the temple. However, Strang's charges...
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