Leonard Rich

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Leonard Rich (1800 – 1868) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and one of the inaugural seven Presidents of the Seventy. Rich was born in Connecticut in 1800 and was a farmer. In 1833, he baptized Truman Angell,[1] architecht of the Salt Lake Temple. In 1834, the high council rebuked him for "breaking the Word of Wisdom and selling revelations at exorbitant prices."[2] That same year he was part of Zion's Camp.

In January 1837, Rich signed the new constitution of the Kirtland Safety Society.[3] On April 6 of that year, he and other presidents of the Seventy who were ordained high priests prior to their call were released. That fall, he dissented from the church[4] and in December the church excommunicated him.[5]

In 1845, Reuben McBride reported that Rich was a leader of rioters who broke into and took possession of the Kirtland Temple.[6]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Angell, Truman O. (1967). in Kate Carter: Our Pioneer Heritage, 10, 196. 
  2. ^ "Minutes of February 12, 1834", in B. H. Roberts: History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News, 2:25-27. 
  3. ^ Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate, 3 (March 1837)
  4. ^ in B. H. Roberts: History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News, 1:405. 
  5. ^ Quinn, D. Michael (1994). Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, 2, Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, 574. 
  6. ^ in B. H. Roberts: History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News, 7:484. “Apostates...have broken into the House of the Lord, and taken possession of it, and are trying to take possession of the church farm.” 
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