Orson Pratt Sr. (September 19, 1811 – October 3, 1881) was an American religious leader and mathematician who was an original member of the Quorum of...
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The Pratt family is made up of the descendants of the Mormon pioneer brothers, Parley Parker Pratt and his brother Orson Pratt, whose father was Jared...
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P. Pratt Parley P. Pratt (1807–1857), Latter Day Saint writer, brother of Orson Pratt Percy Pratt (1874–1961), New Zealand cricketer Peter Pratt (1923–1995)...
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Sarah Marinda Bates Pratt (February 2, 1817 – December 25, 1888) was the first wife of LDS Apostle and polygamist Orson Pratt and later a critic of Mormon...
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Orson Pratt Huish (September 5, 1851 – December 4, 1932) was a Latter Day Saint hymnwriter. He wrote the words and music to "Come Unto Jesus", as well...
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1835 Orson Hyde, David W. Patten, Luke S. Johnson, William E. McLellin, John F. Boynton, and William Smith ordained. 21 February 1835 Parley P. Pratt ordained...
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Three Nephites (section Orson Pratt's speculation)
these occasions because of the powers Christ had endowed them with. Orson Pratt, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the church, drew attention...
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The Orson Pratt House is a historic house in St. George, Utah. It was built in 1862, before Utah became a state, for Orson Pratt, a mathematician and an...
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younger brother, Orson Pratt, to Mormonism and baptized him on September 19, 1830. Arriving in Fayette, New York, in October 1830, Pratt met Joseph Smith...
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Smith's death, many early converts, including apostles Brigham Young, Orson Pratt, and Lyman E. Johnson, said that Smith was teaching plural marriage as...
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Scotland (section Orson Pratt's missionary efforts)
two young men from Leith. Orson Pratt arrived in Scotland on 8 May 1840 to supervise the missionaries. At the time of Pratt's arrival, there were 80 Latter-day...
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Many Mormons and some breakoff groups, the most notable being apostle Orson Pratt, rejected the doctrine in favor of more traditional understanding of...
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and defended in 1852 by a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Orson Pratt, at the request of Brigham Young, then president of the church. Throughout...
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spring of 1832, Lyman met two traveling Latter Day Saint missionaries, Orson Pratt and Lyman E. Johnson. Lyman was baptized a member of the Church of Christ...
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Christ of Latter-day Saints Orson Pratt Huish (1851–1932), Latter-day Saint hymn writer Orson, the hero of Valentine and Orson, a medieval romance, from...
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was dedicated in 1840 "for the preaching of the gospel". The apostle, Orson Pratt, arrived in Scotland in early 1850 and climbed the hill to pray to God...
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1880, after which Francis M. Lyman and John Henry Smith were ordained. Orson Pratt died in 1881, and the Quorum of the Twelve did not have twelve members...
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practice and this teaching was widely accepted by the late 1850s. Apostle Orson Pratt taught in an official church periodical that "We have now clearly shown...
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Orson Hyde (January 8, 1805 – November 28, 1878) was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement and a member of the first Quorum of the Twelve Apostles...
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"Manuscript History of the Church" (1839); the first published account is Orson Pratt, An Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions and of the Late...
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Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations and was published by Orson Pratt in Liverpool in 1853. Shortly following the death of Joseph Smith in...
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Latter-day Saints' (LDS Church) 1852 edition numbered the paragraphs. Orson Pratt, an apostle of the denomination, divided the text into shorter chapters...
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Christensen, he fathered 46 children with six out of his eight wives. 45 Orson Pratt Orson Pratt (Sr.), polymath, and an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of...
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creatures. Pratt ended her marriage to husband Orson Pratt in 1868 because of his "obsession with marrying younger women" (at age 57, Orson Pratt married...
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as the "Valley of God, where Adam dwelt" (by Latter Day Saint apostle Orson Pratt), "the valley of God in which Adam blessed his children" (by John Corrill)...
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apostle. This adjustment by Young changed the seniority of apostles Orson Hyde and Orson Pratt, due to brief interruptions in their respective service with the...
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Mastodons, mammoths, or gomphotheres. Early Latter-day Saint apostle Orson Pratt might have identified cureloms as mammoths, though the context is unclear...
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III: 344–353. Pratt, Orson (1859), "Evidences of the Bible and Book of Mormon Compared", Journal of Discourses, VII: 22–38. Pratt, Orson (1877), "King...
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Pratt, Orson (1853), "Celestial Marriage", The Seer, 1 (1-12 ed.), Washington D.C.: Orson Pratt. A multi-part series of articles in which Orson Pratt...
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of The Backslider Arthur Pratt, tenth child of LDS Apostle Orson Pratt and Sarah Pratt, deputy U.S. marshal Sarah M. Pratt, critic of plural marriage...
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