Thompson, Robert B. (Robert Blashel), 1811-1841
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Driffield (East Riding of Yorkshire, England)
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Newspaper editors
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found: [Receips, Aug. 1840, for lands in Missouri given in payment for lands in Lee County, Iowa, and Nauvoo, Ill.], 1840(Robert B. Thompson, signer)
found: Wikipedia, April 15, 2019(Robert B. Thompson; Robert Blashel Thompson; October 1, 1811-August 27, 1841; associate of Joseph Smith, Jr. and an official historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; born in great Driffield, East Riding of Yorshire, England; joined Methodists; emigrated to Upper Canada and settled in Toronto; May, 1836 baptized member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Parley P. Pratt; moved to Kirtland, Ohio; married Mercy Rachel Fielding in Kirtland on June 4, 1837; attempted to settle in Missouri in 1839; participated in the 1838 Mormon War; delivered the funeral oration of Joseph Smith, Sr.; October 1840 succeeded Elias Higbee as official Church Historian; member of the Nauvoo Legion; associate editor of Times and Seasons in Nauvoo, Illinois; died of tuberculosis in Nauvoo in 1841)
found: UPB Files, April 15, 2019(Thompson, Robert B. (Robert Blashel), 1811-1841)
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2019-04-16: new
2019-04-17: revised
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