Charles C. Rich

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Charles C. Rich
Full name Charles Coulson Rich
Born August 21, 1809(1809-08-21)
Place of birth Campbell County, Kentucky
Died November 17, 1883 (aged 65)
Place of death Paris, Idaho Territory
LDS Church Apostle
Called by Brigham Young
Ordained February 12, 1849 (aged 39)
Reason for ordination Reorganization of First Presidency; excommunication of Lyman Wight[1]
End of term November 17, 1883 (aged 65)
Reason for end of term Death
Reorganization at end of term John W. Taylor ordained

Charles Coulson Rich (August 21, 1809 – November 17, 1883) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and served as an apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

Rich was born in Campbell County, Kentucky to Joseph and Nancy O'Neal Rich. He was baptized into the early Mormon church in 1832. In 1838 he married Sarah D. Pea.

Rich was a leader in Caldwell County, Missouri and fought in the Battle of Crooked River. His log house is the only structure from the Mormon period in 1836-38 in Caldwell County, Missouri to have survived. After the LDS expulsion from Missouri, Rich settled in Nauvoo, Illinois where he was made an original member of the Council of Fifty.

After the death of Joseph Smith, Jr., Rich followed the leadership of Brigham Young and the surviving Quorum of the Twelve Apostles . He and his family migrated to what became Utah with the main body of the church. In October of 1848 Charles C. Rich was made the president of the Salt Lake Stake.[2]

Brigham Young appointed Rich a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on 12 February, 1849.

Rich helped form a Latter-day Saint settlement in San Bernadino, California. However, this settlement attracted many people who wanted to get away from the leaders of the church. The faithful members were called home in 1857 at the time of the Utah War.

In the early 1860s, Rich served as president of the British Mission of the church.

Rich followed the church's principle of plural marriage, taking six wives in all and fathering 56 children. Rich led a party of early Mormons to colonize parts of southeastern Idaho. The communities of Paris and Geneva, Idaho, as well as some other neighboring towns, were under his direction. He died there in 1883 at the age of seventy-five.

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  1. ^ Rich, Lorenzo Snow, Erastus Snow, and Franklin D. Richards were ordained on the same day to fill four vacancies in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
  2. ^ Larson, Andrew Karl. Erastus Snow: The Life of a Missionary and Pioneer for the Early Mormon Church. (Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1971) p. 188
  • The Deseret Morning News: 2005 Church Almanac, Salt Lake City, UT.

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Ezra T. Benson		 Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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