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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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movement, first introduced polygamy privately in the 1830s. Later, in 1852, Orson Pratt,, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, publicly announced and...
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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Some other early Latter Day Saint leaders, including Brigham Young, Orson Pratt, and Elizabeth Ann Whitney, claimed to have received several words in...
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The Seer (periodical) (redirect from The Seer (Pratt))
1852 conference, LDS Church president Brigham Young dispatched apostle Orson Pratt to Washington, D.C., where he was asked to publish an apologetic magazine...
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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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