Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Smith's revelations authorized and commanded the organization of the "Church of Christ" in 1830, and in several of the revelations Smith said he received, God referred to the church by that name. [37] Smith taught that this church was a restoration of the primitive Christian church established by Jesus in the 1st century AD.
Peter Whitmer Sr. (April 14, 1773 – August 12, 1854) was an early member of the Latter Day Saint movement, and father of the movement's second founding family. Whitmer was born in Pennsylvania and married Mary Elsa Musselman .
The church was formally organized on April 6, 1830 [citation needed] in the Whitmer family's home. [2] John Whitmer was one of the earliest members and he was ordained an elder of the church on June 9. [1] He moved to the church's new headquarters at Kirtland, Ohio, in December 1830 at the encouragement of Joseph Smith. [3]
The Peter Whitmer log home is a historic site located in Fayette, New York, United States, owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The current house is a replica of the original log cabin and at its original site, and was built in 1980 to mark the sesquicentennial of the founding of the church.
John Whitmer was baptized into the movement as early as June 1829, nearly a year prior to the formal organization of the Church. The Whitmer family and their spouses who were early members included: Hiram Page [4] and his wife Catherine Whitmer Page, Jacob Whitmer and his wife Elizabeth Schott Whitmer, Christian Whitmer and his wife Anne Schott ...
The John Whitmer Historical Association (JWHA) is an independent, nonprofit [1] [3] organization promoting study, research, and publishing about the history and culture of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Location of Kansas City in Missouri. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kansas City, Missouri. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the Jackson County portions of Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Latitude and longitude ...
On April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, and a group of approximately 30 believers met to formally organize the Church of Christ into a legal institution. Traditionally, this is said to have occurred at the home of Peter Whitmer, Sr. in Fayette, New York, but early accounts place it in Manchester.