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Pratt, Parley P. (Parley Parker), 1807-1857


  • [Parley P. Pratt (1807-1857) was an American religious leader and missionary. He served as an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1835 to his death in 1857.]

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  • Fuller Name

    • Parley Parker

  • Variants

    • Pratt, P. P. (Parley Parker), 1807-1857
    • Pratt, Parley Parker, 1807-1857

  • Additional Information

    • Birth Date

        1807-04-12

    • Death Date

        1857-05-13

    • Has Affiliation

        • Affiliation Start: 18300919
        • Organization: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: The Prophet

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: Council of the Utah Legislature

    • Birth Place

        Burlington, N.Y.

    • Associated Locale

        Salt Lake Valley (Utah)

    • Associated Locale

        San Francisco, Calif.

    • Associated Locale

        Valparaiso, Chile

    • Occupation

      author

      poet

      editor

      missionary

      church officer

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  • Earlier Established Forms

    • Pratt, Parley Parker, 1807-1857

  • Sources

    • found: His Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, c1985:CIP t.p. (Parley P. Pratt)
    • found: LC data base, 4-19-85(hdg.: Pratt, Parley Parker, 1807-1857; usage: Parley P. Pratt)
    • found: His The millennium, and other poems, 1840:t.p. (P.P. Pratt, minister of the Gospel)\
    • found: Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 1992:page 1644 (Pratt, Parley P. (Parker); born April 12, 1807, Burlington, New York; assassinated May 13, 1857 near Van Buren, Arkansas; Apostle, February 21, 1835-May 13, 1857) page 1116-1117 (significant LDS missionary, writer, poet of the early years of the LDS Restoration; born April 12, 1807 in Burlington, New York; after marriage in 1827 moved to Amherst township, Lorain, County, Ohio; member of teh Reformed Baptist Society (Campbellite); convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1830 and baptized on September 19, 1830; Left Nauvoo, spent nine months jailed in Richmond, Missouri and Columbia, Missouri; Left Nauvoo, Illinois on August 19, 1839 on mission to British Isles; editor of the Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star; upon return to Nauvoo, called to preside over church in New England and mid-Atlantic states headquartered in New York City; published peridical entitles The Prophet; February 1846 left home in Nauvoo; arrived Salt Lake Valley 1847; 1851 mission to the Pacific with headquarters in San Francisco; sailed to Valparaiso, Chile September 1851; 1856 mission to Eastern states; on returning to the West on May 13, 1857, he was killed by a man twelve miles northeast of Van Buren, Arkansas)
    • found: Marriage & morals in Utah, c2009:t.p. (Parley P. Pratt) p. 1 (address written by Parley P. Pratt, one of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Chaplain to the Council of the Utah Legislature)

  • General Notes

    • [Parley P. Pratt (1807-1857) was an American religious leader and missionary. He served as an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1835 to his death in 1857.]

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  • Change Notes

    • 1985-04-29: new
    • 2013-01-24: revised

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