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- U.S. Mormon leader and founder of Salt Lake City in Utah, Brigham Young. Forced to flee anti-Mormon hostility in New York, Ohio and Missouri, in 1839 Smith and other church members arrived in Nauvoo, Illinois, on the banks of the Mississippi River.
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The Mormons were attacked by mobs, and an extermination order was issued by Governor Boggs. The Mormons angered people by speaking out against slavery and in favour of Native American rights. 1839
The Latter Day Saint movement is a religious movement within Christianity that arose during the Second Great Awakening in the early 19th century and that led to the set of doctrines, practices, and cultures called Mormonism, and to the existence of numerous Latter Day Saint churches.
In 1839, a beleaguered, exiled group known as the Church of Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ—also known as the Mormons—crossed the Missouri border into Jackson County, Illinois.
"These were Mormons, famishing, in Lee county, Iowa, in the fourth week of the month of September, in the year of our Lord 1846. . . . "They were, all told, not more than six hundred and forty persons who were thus lying on the river flats.
The story of James Palmer was characteristic of those of thousands of British citizens who joined the Church of Jesus. Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Victorian Era. Recruited. largely from among the working classes, many of these Mormon.
After being expelled from Missouri by the Extermination Order, members the Mormon Church found refuge in the city of Quincy, Illinois, and surrounding areas in January of 1839. The kind people there helped the Mormons until they could find a place of their own to settle.
The earliest Mormon images of Zion envisioned a community designed by God through a prophet around temples; a place of peace and righteousness founded on loving coopera- tion, economic equality without poverty, and self-sufficiency; a refuge from the evils and
