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Relief Society
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The Relief Society is a philanthropic and educational womens organization and an official auxiliary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was founded in 1842 in Nauvoo, Illinois, United States, the Relief Society is often referred to by the church and others as one of the oldest and largest womens organizations in the world. The motto of the Relief Society, taken from 1 Corinthians 13,8, is Charity never faileth, Relief Society accomplishes these purposes through Sunday gospel instruction, other Relief Society meetings, visiting teaching, and welfare and compassionate service. In the spring of 1842 Sarah Granger Kimball and her seamstress, Margaret A. Cook and they determined to invite their neighbors to assist by creating a Ladies Society. Kimball asked Eliza R. Snow to write a constitution and by-laws for the organization for submission to President of the Church Joseph Smith for review, after reviewing the documents, Smith called them the best he had ever seen but said, this is not what you want. Tell the sisters their offering is accepted of the Lord, I will organize the women under the priesthood after a pattern of the priesthood. Twenty women gathered on Thursday, March 17,1842 in the meeting room over Smiths Red Brick Store in Nauvoo. Smith, John Taylor, and Willard Richards sat on the platform at the end of the room with the women facing them. The Spirit of God Like a Fire Is Burning was sung, Smith also proposed that the women elect a presiding officer who would choose two counselors to assist her. Emma Hale Smith was elected unanimously as president and she chose Sarah M. Cleveland and Elizabeth Ann Whitney as her two counselors. John Taylor was appointed to ordain the women and he did so and it was proposed that the organization go by the name Benevolent Society and with no opposition the vote carried. However, Emma Smith made a point of objection, after discussion, it was unanimously agreed that the fledgling organization be named The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo. Joseph Smith then offered five dollars in gold to commence the funds of the Society, Eliza R. Snow was unanimously elected as secretary of the Society with Phebe M. Wheeler as Assistant Secretary and Elvira A. Coles as Treasurer. Emma Smith remarked that each member should be ambitious to do good and seek out, several female members then made donations to the Society. The men returned, and Taylor and Richards also made donations, after singing Come Let Us Rejoice, the meeting was adjourned to meet on the following Thursday at 10 oclock. Taylor then gave a closing prayer, E feel convinced that with their concentrated efforts, the condition of the suffering poor, of the stranger and the fatherless will be ameliorated. The new organization was popular and grew so rapidly that finding a place for such a large group proved difficult. Under Emma Smiths direction, the Society was divided for the purpose of meeting according to each of the four municipal wards
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Lorenzo Snow
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Lorenzo Snow was an American religious leader who served as the fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1898 to his death. Snow was the last president of the LDS Church in the nineteenth century, Lorenzo had siblings Leonora Abigail Snow, Eliza R. Snow, Percy Amanda Snow, Melissa Snow, Lucius Augustus Snow, and Samuel Pearce Snow. Despite the labor required on the farm, the Snow family valued learning, Snow received his final year of education at Oberlin College, which was founded by two Presbyterian ministers. Snow later made his living as a teacher when not engaged in church service. In 1831, Joseph Smith, the Latter Day Saint prophet, took up residence in Hiram, Ohio, the Snow family was Baptist, but soon took a strong interest in the new religious movement. Snow recorded that he heard the Book of Mormon being read aloud in his home in Mantua, by 1835, Snows mother and his older sister Eliza, had joined the Latter Day Saint church. Eliza soon moved to the headquarters in Kirtland, Ohio. She, in her biography of Snow, claims to have fostered his interest in Mormonism while he was at Oberlin, Eliza invited Snow to visit her and attend a school of Hebrew newly established by the church. During his visit there, in June 1836, Snow was baptized by John F. Boynton, while living in Kirtland in 1837, Snow was called to serve a short mission in Ohio, traveling without purse or scrip. He recorded that relying on the kindness of others for his meals and lodging was difficult for him, when he returned to Kirtland in 1838, Snow found Smiths followers in turmoil over the failure of the Kirtland Safety Society. Snow and the members of his family chose to move to Missouri in the summer of 1838. Snow became seriously ill with a fever, and was nursed for several weeks by his sister Eliza, on his recovery, Snow left for a second mission to Illinois and Kentucky in the fall of 1838. He served there through February 1839, when he learned that the Latter Day Saints had been expelled from their settlements in Missouri and he traveled home by way of his former mission area in Ohio. He was again ill and was cared for by members of the church. He remained in Ohio, preaching and working with church members until the fall of 1839, during the school year of 1839–40, Snow taught in Shalersville, Ohio. He sent money to his family, which had by then settled in Nauvoo, Illinois, shortly after he arrived in Nauvoo, Snow was asked to serve a mission in England. After an unpleasant sea voyage from New York City, Snow met with some of the members of the Quorum of the Twelve who had opened the British Mission in 1839, including Brigham Young, Heber C. Snow worked briefly in the Manchester area, and had success in Birmingham, Snow was assigned to preside over church members in London
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Zina D. H. Young
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She practiced polyandry as the wife of Joseph Smith, and later Brigham Young, each of whom she married while she was still married to her first husband, Henry Jacobs. Zina Huntington was born in Watertown, New York, the child of William. Her fathers family was descended from Puritan Simon Huntington, who died at sea in 1633 on the voyage to America. Her father was a veteran of the War of 1812, her grandfather a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and his brother, Samuel Huntington and she was taught household skills, such as spinning, soap making, and weaving, and received a basic education. She developed musical talent by learning to play the cello, in 1835, when Zina was fourteen, her family was contacted by Hyrum Smith and David Whitmer, missionaries of the Church of the Latter Day Saints. With the exception of her oldest brother, the family joined the church. Zina was baptized by Smith on August 1,1835, after receiving advice from Joseph Smith, Sr. Zinas father sold their property and relocated to the churchs headquarters in Kirtland, Ohio. Zina was a member of the Kirtland Temple Choir, nineteen months later, the family moved again to Far West, Missouri. They arrived in Far West at a time of violence between Missouri residents and the newly arrived Mormons, after Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs issued the Extermination Order, Zinas father helped coordinate the evacuation of church members to Illinois. In 1839, when Zina was only eighteen years old, there was an epidemic in Nauvoo, Illinois, Zina. Her mother died, but Zina recovered after receiving care in the home of Joseph, Zina was noted among the new converts of the church for her somewhat remarkable spiritual gifts. Not long after the arrived in Kirtland she exhibited the gift of tongues and of the interpretation of tongues. She also later exhibited the gifts of prophesy and healing, wells later wrote of her, in all spiritual labors and manifestations, she was greatly gifted, and no woman in Israel was more inspirational in prayer. Her whole life was one of untiring devotion to her Heavenly Father, Zina recorded in her autobiography that when she was eighteen she was courted by Henry Bailey Jacobs. During this time, Joseph Smith, also taught her about marriage in private conversations. Zina declined the proposals out of her respect for Emma Smith and for traditional Christian monogamy, on March 7,1841, she married Jacobs, believing she had thus avoided future proposals from Smith. Nauvoo mayor John C. Bennett conducted the ceremony and her journal from the day of the wedding reads, I was Married to Mr. Henry Bailey Jacobs. He had been a missionary preaching the Gospel for some time and his Father Henry Jacobs was one of the first elders in the Church, faithful and true until the last
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Emmeline B. Wells
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Emmeline Blanche Woodward Harris Whitney Wells was an American journalist, editor, poet, womens rights advocate and diarist. She served as the fifth Relief Society General President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1910 until her death, Emmeline Blanche Woodward was born in on February 29,1828 in Petersham, Massachusetts. She was the child of David and Deiadama Hare Woodward. Her father died when Emmeline was four years old and she would later claim that her widowed mother inspired her to be womans rights advocate. As a child, she wrote poems and stories which she shared with her friends and she often enjoyed being in nature. Woodward was very intelligent and began studying in school until she enrolled in the New Salem Academy. She graduated from the Academy at the age of fourteen and she taught school briefly before her first marriage at the age of fifteen. Woodward joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on March 1,1842 and she married 16-year-old James Harris, also a new member of the church, on July 19,1843. In 1844, the couple, his parents, and other Latter Day Saints from their region migrated to the headquarters of the church, Nauvoo. After the death of their infant son, Eugene Henri, Harris left Nauvoo looking for work, the young Emmeline Harris returned to teaching. Through his children attending her school, Harris met and later married Newel K. Whitney, Emmeline Whitney left Nauvoo in 1846, and traveled to Utah Territory with the extended Whitney family in 1848. At this time, she began maintaining a personal journal, Wells would continue writing in her diaries until 1920, shortly before her death. On the first page of volume 1, dated Friday, February 27,1846, she recorded and she remained primarily responsible for supporting herself and her children for the rest of her life. Emmeline Whitney approached Daniel H. Wells, a friend of her late husband, in 1852, she became his seventh wife, bearing him three daughters. Their early marriage was distant, as Daniel Wells was heavily involved in civic, however, later in their lives, the couple became fond and loving companions. Wells was the editor of Utahs Womans Exponent, a periodical established in 1872 for Mormon women. Wells was a contributor to the magazine from its inception, Wells became the associate editor in 1875 when Cornelia H. Horne ended her term as business manager. Wells was the editor from 1877 until the publication ceased in 1914, as editor she wrote all the editorials, many of the articles and most biographical sketches contained in the publication
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Elizabeth Ann Whitney
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Elizabeth Ann Smith Whitney was an early Latter Day Saint leader, and wife to Newel K. Whitney, another early Latter Day Saint leader. She went by her name, Ann. Elizabeth Ann Smith was born in Derby, Connecticut to Gibson Smith and she was the couples oldest child. Her parents werent members of any church, although they were Christian, as a child, she was taught dancing. She left her parents at about age 18 and moved to Kirtland, Ohio with her aunt Sarah Smith, when she was 20 she met her future husband, Newel K. Whitney. The couple was married on October 20,1822 and they quickly accumulated wealth and status in their community. They had eleven children together and adopted several homeless children, in Kirtland, Ann and her husband joined the Disciples of Christ, called the Campbellites at the time, led in the area by Sidney Rigdon. This group denied it had power to give the gift of the Holy Spirit and this, along with vague answers to Whitneys questions, caused her and her husband couple to pray for direction. In response to prayer, the couple claimed to have seen a vision. Sidney Rigdon converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in 1830, Whitney heard of his conversion and of the missionaries who were in the area. She went home after hearing them speak to share with her husband that she felt it was the right church and she and her husband chose to be baptized in November 1830. Joseph and Emma Smith arrived at Newel K. Whitneys store in Kirtland in December 1830, Joseph said, I am Joseph the Prophet, you have prayed me here, now what do you want of me. Joseph then stayed in their home, while there, he received revelations that are recorded in Doctrine and Covenants. Whitney and her husband hosted a three-day feast for the poor in January 1836 and they lost some of their wealth when the Kirtland Safety Society Banking Company collapsed and people began persecuting members of the church. Whitney and her family traveled with the members of the church and they left Kirtland to move to Far West, Missouri in the fall of 1838 due to persecution. However, when they reached St. Louis, they were informed that Latter-day Saints were being kicked out of Missouri and they settled in Carrollton, Illinois during the winter of 1839–1839. They then moved to Quincy, Illinois during the next winter, by the spring of 1840, they had reached Nauvoo, Illinois, then called Commerce. When the family reached Nauvoo, most of them were sick, the couple received their endowments were sealed in the Nauvoo Temple by Joseph Smith
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Ida Smoot Dusenberry
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Ida Maline Smoot Dusenberry was a Utah educator and a leader in the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ida Smoot was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, to Abraham O. Smoot and she was the sister of Reed Smoot and Brigham Smoot. Dusenberry attended Brigham Young Academy in Provo beginning at age five, while in school she married George A. Dusenberry and became the mother of two children. She lost her mother, father, and husband during the three years. Dusenberry was trained as a teacher at Chauncy Hall School in Boston from 1898-1899. Upon her return to Provo, she became the principal of the Kindergarten Normal Training school, in 1910 she spent three years in graduate school at Columbia University and during that time continued to speak at many national conferences. She also received a bachelor of degree from Brigham Young University in 1906. In 1921, Dusenberry became an assistant professor of psychology at BYU and she worked as a faculty member at BYU until retiring in 1943. In 1901, Dusenberry became a member of the presidency of the Relief Society. Dusenberry served in capacity until Smiths death in 1910, when the presidency was dissolved. Dusenberry remained a member of the Relief Society general board until 1921 and she died in Provo, Utah and was then buried there as well. Latter-day Saints Biographical Encyclopedia 2,169,4, 183–84, ida Smoot Dusenberry Papers, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University. Ida Smoot Dusenberry at Find a Grave
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Shinnston, West Virginia
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Shinnston is a city and former coal town in Harrison County, West Virginia, United States, along the West Fork River. In 1778 Levi Shinn constructed his log home along what is now Route 19, the roots of Shinnston date back to 1778, when Levi Shinn constructed his log home. The log house, located along Route 19, is the oldest standing structure in North Central West Virginia and it is maintained by the Shinnston Historical Association, which opens the home for tours by the general public. In 1815, the town was out with three streets, running parallel with the river, and with four crossing streets running at right angles to them. The town was incorporated in 1852 as Shinns Town by an act of the Virginia legislature, Solomon S. Fleming was elected as the first mayor. A new charter was secured in 1877 and the name was changed to Shinnston. In 1915, Shinnstons charter provided for a Mayor-Council form of government and this model remained in place for over 70 years and in 1998, the citizens voted to revise the charter to adopt a City Manager-Council form of local government. That model was implemented on July 1,1998 and remains in place today, Shinnston has enjoyed a history of active commerce, with its beginnings built around both grain mills and saw mills. In its early years, the saw the development of a tannery, wagon makers, an undertaker, mercantile interests, a pottery. The railroad came to the area in 1890, and the first bank opened in 1899, from 1906 to 1947 a trolley operated in the area, offering another form of transportation. As is true for much of West Virginia, energy has been a component in our citys history. By the early 1900s oil wells and gas wells joined coal as major economic forces, energy generation continues to be a major source of jobs and economic activity today, as evidenced by the existing mines as well as the nearby Harrison Power Station. Shinnston has also enjoyed a diverse culture of many faiths and denominations, the first church was organized in 1786 and held meetings and services in several homes until the construction of the first church building in 1835. Today, the churches work together, having formed a Council of Churches offering shared services with members of several faiths. By 1813, the first school was organized with classes taught in a log cabin. In 1860 a larger building was constructed for use as a town hall and this turned into the first public school in 1865. The first grade school was established in 1895 and Shinnston High School was added in 1907, in 1978, Shinnston and Lumberport High Schools were combined to form Lincoln High School. Over the years these schools have produced many distinguished alumni who have gone on the fame in the fields of athletics, business, literature, art
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Virginia
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Virginia is a state located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, as well as in the historic Southeast. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, the capital of the Commonwealth is Richmond, Virginia Beach is the most populous city, and Fairfax County is the most populous political subdivision. The Commonwealths estimated population as of 2014 is over 8.3 million, the areas history begins with several indigenous groups, including the Powhatan. In 1607 the London Company established the Colony of Virginia as the first permanent New World English colony, slave labor and the land acquired from displaced Native American tribes each played a significant role in the colonys early politics and plantation economy. Although the Commonwealth was under one-party rule for nearly a century following Reconstruction, the Virginia General Assembly is the oldest continuous law-making body in the New World. The state government was ranked most effective by the Pew Center on the States in both 2005 and 2008 and it is unique in how it treats cities and counties equally, manages local roads, and prohibits its governors from serving consecutive terms. Virginias economy changed from agricultural to industrial during the 1960s and 1970s. Virginia has an area of 42,774.2 square miles, including 3,180.13 square miles of water. Virginias boundary with Maryland and Washington, D. C. extends to the mark of the south shore of the Potomac River. The southern border is defined as the 36° 30′ parallel north, the border with Tennessee was not settled until 1893, when their dispute was brought to the U. S. Supreme Court. The Chesapeake Bay separates the portion of the Commonwealth from the two-county peninsula of Virginias Eastern Shore. The bay was formed from the river valleys of the Susquehanna River. Many of Virginias rivers flow into the Chesapeake Bay, including the Potomac, Rappahannock, York, and James, the Tidewater is a coastal plain between the Atlantic coast and the fall line. It includes the Eastern Shore and major estuaries of Chesapeake Bay, the Piedmont is a series of sedimentary and igneous rock-based foothills east of the mountains which were formed in the Mesozoic era. The region, known for its clay soil, includes the Southwest Mountains around Charlottesville. The Blue Ridge Mountains are a province of the Appalachian Mountains with the highest points in the state. The Ridge and Valley region is west of the mountains and includes the Great Appalachian Valley, the region is carbonate rock based and includes Massanutten Mountain. The Cumberland Plateau and the Cumberland Mountains are in the southwest corner of Virginia, in this region, rivers flow northwest, with a dendritic drainage system, into the Ohio River basin
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Salt Lake City
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Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U. S. state of Utah. With an estimated population of 190,884 in 2014, the city lies at the core of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, Salt Lake City is further situated within a larger metropolis known as the Salt Lake City-Ogden-Provo Combined Statistical Area. This region is a corridor of contiguous urban and suburban development stretched along an approximately 120-mile segment of the Wasatch Front and it is one of only two major urban areas in the Great Basin. The city was founded in 1847 by Brigham Young, Isaac Morley, George Washington Bradley and numerous other Mormon followers, who extensively irrigated and cultivated the arid valley. Due to its proximity to the Great Salt Lake, the city was originally named Great Salt Lake City—the word great was dropped from the name in 1868 by the 17th Utah Territorial Legislature. Today, however, less than half the population of Salt Lake City proper are members of the LDS Church. It was traversed by the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway, in 1913, Salt Lake City has since developed a strong outdoor recreation tourist industry based primarily on skiing, and hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics. It is the banking center of the United States. Before Mormon settlement, the Shoshone, Ute, and Paiute had dwelt in the Salt Lake Valley for thousands of years. The land was treated by the United States as public domain, the first U. S. explorer in the Salt Lake area is believed to be Jim Bridger in 1825, although others had been in Utah earlier, some as far north as the nearby Utah Valley. Frémont surveyed the Great Salt Lake and the Salt Lake Valley in 1843 and 1845, the Donner Party, a group of ill-fated pioneers, had traveled through the Great Salt Lake Valley in August 1846. The first permanent settlements in the date to the arrival of the Latter-day Saints on July 24,1847. Upon arrival at the Salt Lake Valley, president of the church Brigham Young is recorded as stating, This is the right place, Brigham Young claimed to have seen the area in a vision prior to the wagon trains arrival. They found the broad valley empty of any human settlement, four days after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, Brigham Young designated the building site for the Salt Lake Temple, which would eventually become a famous Mormon and Salt Lake City landmark. The Salt Lake Temple, constructed on the block that would later be called Temple Square, construction started in 1853, and the temple was dedicated on 6 April 1893. The temple has become an icon for the city and serves as its centerpiece, in fact, the southeast corner of Temple Square is the initial point of reference for the Salt Lake Meridian, and for all addresses in the Salt Lake Valley. The Mormon pioneers organized a new state called Deseret and petitioned for its recognition in 1849, the United States Congress rebuffed the settlers in 1850 and established the Utah Territory, vastly reducing its size, and designated Fillmore as its capital city. Great Salt Lake City replaced Fillmore as the capital in 1858
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Salt Lake City Cemetery
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The Salt Lake City Cemetery is in The Avenues neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah. Approximately 120,000 persons are buried in the cemetery, many religious leaders and politicians, particularly many leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints lie in the cemetery. It encompasses over 250 acres and contains 9 1⁄2 miles of roads and it is the largest city-operated cemetery in the United States. The first burial occurred on September 27,1847, when George Wallace buried his child, the burial was two months after the Mormon pioneers had settled the Salt Lake Valley. In 1849, George Wallace, Daniel H. Wells, in 1851, Salt Lake City was incorporated and the 20 acres officially became the Salt Lake City Cemetery with George Wallace as its first sexton. The cemetery contains one British Commonwealth war grave, of a Canadian Army soldier of World War I, vandals have repeatedly damaged a controversial headstone in the cemetery whose claims are contrary to those of the LDS Church. List of people buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery Arave, Lynn, S. L
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