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Orson was born 19 September 1811 in Hartford, Washington, New York and married first 3 July 1836 in Henderson, Jefferson, New York, Sarah Marinda BATES, the daughter of Cyrus BATES and Lydia HARRINGTON. She was born 5 February 1817; in Henderson, Jefferson New York and died 25 December 1888 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
He married second 1844 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, Charlatte BISHOP, the daughter of John Fitch BISHOP and Lucy GOFF. She was born 19 March 1823 in Crown Point, Essex, New York and died.
He married third 27 March 1845 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, Mary Ann MERRILL the daughter of Valentine MERRILL and Lidia SISSON. She was born 2 June 1819 in Southold, Suffolk, Long Island, New York and died 12 December 1903 in Provo, Utah, Utah.
He married fourth 17 January 1846 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, Louisa CHANDLER the daughter of Asa CHANDLER and Sarah BARRETT. She was born 12 March 1823 in Stoddard, Cheshire, New Hampshire and died June 1846 in Mt. Pisga, Pottawattamie, Iowa.
He married fifth 13 January 1846, in Mauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, Adelia Ann BISHOP the daughter of John Fitch BISHOP and Lucy GOFF. She was born 5 November 1826 in Crown Point, Essex, New York and died 29 December 1913 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
He married sixth 19 February 1852 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Marion ROSS the daughter of Robert ROSS and Margaret McBAIN. She was born 9 June 1829 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland and died 19 July 1901 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
He married seventh 21 June 1853 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, Sarah Louisa LEWIS the daughter of Thomas LEWIS and Louisa BAYNAM. She was born 7 July 1831 in Old Randor, Hereford, England and died 27 September 1855 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
He married eighth 14 December 1855 in Fillmore, Millard, Utah, Juliaet Ann PHELPS the daughter of Alvah PHELPS and Margaret ROBISON. She was born 19 April 1839 in York, Stuben, Indiana and died 12 March 1919 in Provo, Utah, Utah.
He married nineth 24 July 1857 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, Eliza CROOKS the daughter of Samuel CROOKS and Jane HARAH. She was born July 1829 in Blasslough, Monghan, Ireland and died 9 January 1869 in Pine Canyon, Tooele, Utah.
He married tenth 28 December 1868 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Margaret GRAHAM the daughter of William GRAHAM and Jane ROSS. She was born 20 January 1852 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland and died 31 March 1907 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Orson died 3 October 1881 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
In an 1852 sermon, Parley Pratt's brother and fellow apostle, Orson Pratt, became the first church official to publicly proclaim and defend polygamy as a direct revelation from God.
In 1890, Mormon President Wilford Woodruff issued "The Manifesto," in which he declared the church no longer taught or permitted plural marriages.
Nonetheless, the law of polygamy -- Smith's revelation that God authorized polygamy -- remains in Article 132 of the church's Doctrine and Covenants. In addition, Mormon widowers who remarry today believe they will live in eternity with their multiple wives.
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PRATT, Orson, Mormon leader, was born in Hartford, N.Y., Sept. 19, 1811; son of Jared and Charity (Dickinson) Pratt; grandson of Obadiah and Jemima (Tolls) Pratt, and a descendant of Lieut. William Pratt, the immigrant. He was liberally educated; joined the Mormon church, Sept. 19, 1830; was ordained elder by Joseph Smith in the same month, and high priest in 1832. He traveled in the United States, Canada and Great Britain, and was chosen one of the twelve apostles of the church in 1835, being tenth in order of the quorum. He was married, July 4, 1836, to Sarah Marinda, daughter of Cyrus Bates of Henderson, N.Y. He preceded the main body of pioneers into Salt Lake Valley in 1847, and was president of all the churches of the Latter-day Saints in Great Britain and the adjacent countries, 1848-50, the number of church members being increased from 18,000 to 36,000 during his administration. He edited The Millenial Star [p.396] at Manchester, Eng.; returned to Utah in 1851, and was a representative in the territorial legislature for several years, serving repeatedly as speaker. While on a mission to Washington, D.C., in 1852-53 he edited and published eighteen issues of a monthly entitled The Seer. He was president of the churches in the United States and in the British Province east of the Rocky Mountains. In 1854 he published his discovery of the law of planetary rotation, namely, that the cubic roots of the densities of planets vary as the square roots of their periods of rotation. He went on an unsuccessful mission to Austria in 1865; was appointed professor of mathematics in Deseret university, Utah, in 1869, and church historian and general church recorder in 1874. He held a notable discussion on polygamy with Dr. John P. Newman in 1870. He is the author of: The Prophetic Almanac (1845); Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon (6 parts); Series of Pamphlets on Mormonism, with Two Discussions (1851); Patriarchal Order, or Plurality of Wives (1853); Cubic and Biquadratic Equations (1866); Key to the Universe (1879); The Great First Cause; The Absurdities of Immaterialism, and many religious pamphlets. He left in MS. Lectures on Astronomy and Differential Calculus, and at the time of his death was engaged in a work entitled A New System of the Universe. He died in Salt Lake city, Utah, Oct. 3, 1881.
CHILDREN of Orson PRATT and Sarah Marinda BATES:
1. 1. ORSON b: 11 Jul 1837; Kirtland, Geauga, Ohio.
md: 1 Oct 1856; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
Susan Lizette SNOW
d: 6 Dec 1903; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
2. 2. LYDIA b: 17 Dec 1828; St. Louis, St. Louis. Missouri.
d: 18 Aug 1830; Montrose, , Iowa.
3. 3. CELESTIA LARISSA b: 10 May 1842; Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois.
md: 3 Jan 1858; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
James Albert Peter TYLER
d: 6 Jan 1905; , , .
4. 4. SARAH MALINDA b: 27 Oct 1844; Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois.
d: 26 Jul 1845; Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois.
6. 5. VANSON b: 23 Jan 1846; Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois.
d: 22 Jul 1847; Winter Quarters, Pottawatame, Iowa.
7. 6. LARON b: 10 Jul 1847; Florence, Douglas, Iowa.
md: 27 Jun 1869; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
Ethelwynne Clarissa BROWN
d: 21 Aug 1908; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
9. 7. MARLON b: 13 Oct 1848; Liverpool, Lancashire, England.
d: 15 Sep 1849; Liverpool, Lancashire, England.
10. 8. MARINTHA ALTHERA b: 21 Dec 1849; Liverpool, Lancashire, England.
d: 24 Mar 1851; At Sea.
13. 9. HARMEL b: 21 Aug 1851; On Platt River, East of Fort Laramie, Wyoming.
md: Abt 1875; , ,
Mary _______
d: 20 Nov 1907; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
16. 10. ARTHUR b: 12 Mar 1853; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
md: 25 Dec 1872; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
Agnes Ellen CAINE
d: 20 Mar 1919; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
22. 11. HERMA ETHNA b: 16 May 1856; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
d: 26 Dec 1977; , , .
24. 12. LIOLA MENELLA b: 22 Oct 1858; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
d: 21 Sep 1860; , , .
CHILDREN of Orson PRATT and Charlatte BISHOP:
0. NONE KNOWN b: ; , , .
CHILDREN of Orson PRATT and Mary Ann MERRILL:
5. 1. MILANDO MERRILL b: 30 Sep 1845; Harris Grove, Pottawattamie, Iowa.
8. 2. MILANDO MERRILL b: 30 Sep 1848; Harris Grove, Pottawattamie, Iowa.
md: ; , , .
Elizabeth RICH
d: 7 Nov 1930; , , .
12. 3. VIANNA b: 13 Mar 1851; Harris Grove, Pottawattamie, Iowa.
md: 30 Oct 1870; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
Joseph Underwood ELDREDGE
d: 8 Apr 1936; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
15. 4. ORADINE MERRILL b: 5 Mar 1853; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
md: ; , , .
Samuel Heber KIMBALL
d: 6 Aug 1872; , , .
19. 5. LATHILLA MERRILL b: 19 Jul 1855; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
md: 30 Oct 1870; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
Joseph KIMBALL
d: 4 Nov 1940; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
29. 6. VALTON MERRILL b: 23 May 1860; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
md: ; , , .
Zina Estelle JENKINS
d: 16 Sep 1940; , , .
CHILDREN of Orson PRATT and Louisa CHANDLER:
0. NONE KNOWN b: ; , , .
CHILDREN of Orson PRATT and Adelia Ann BISHOP:
8. 1. LUCY ADELIA BISHOP b: 13 Sep 1847; Florence, Douglas, Nebraska.
md: Mar 1865; Tooele, Tooele, Utah.
Ashton NEBEKER
d: 19 Nov 1916; Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah.
11. 2. ALZENA BISHOP ELZINA b: 26 Feb 1851; Harris Grove, Pottawattamie, Iowa.
md: ; , , .
Francis Marion BISHOP
d: 16 May 1902; , , .
17. 3. LORUM BISHOP b: 18 Dec 1853; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
md: 17 May 1876; , , .
Frances Lane THEOBALD
d: 7 Oct 1835; Fredonia, Coconnino, Arizona.
20. 4. LORUS BISHOP b: 27 Nov 1855; Tooele, Tooele, Utah.
md: 27 Nov 1879; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
Harriett Elzina WHEELER
d: 30 Dec 1923; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
25. 5. ELTHA BISHOP b: 12 Dec 1858; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
md: ; , , .
John EDWARDS
d: 16 May 1968; , , .
34. 6. OTHENA BISHOP b: 31 Oct 1863; Tooele, Tooele, Utah.
md: 25 Nov 1880; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
John Askie SILVER
d: 7 Jan 1936; Bountiful, Davis, Utah.
CHILDREN of Orson PRATT and Marion ROSS:
14. 1. MARION AGNES ROSS b: 16 Feb 1853; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
d: 17 Oct 1853; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, utah.
21. 2. LARINDA MARISSA ROSS b: 15 Dec 1855; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
md: ; , , .
Willard Erastus WEIHE
d: 21 Jan 1918; , , .
27. 3. MILSON ROSS b: 4 Nov 1859; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
md: 14 Mar 1888; Logan, Cache, Utah.
Jemina G. Vincent KILGOUR
md: 29 Mar 1894; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
Mary Francis Tuttle KIMBALL
d: 22 Jan 1936; Provo, Utah, Utah.
31. 4. IRINTHA b: 5 Jul 1862; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
md: 12 Jan 1882; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
James Henry DOUGLAS
d: 2 Aug 1941; Ogden, Weber, Utah.
41. 5. RAY ROSS b: 14 Feb 1871; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
md: ; , , .
Mulvina Hannah MacLEOD
d: 21 Feb 1945; , , .
44. 6. RUBY ROSS b: 20 Feb 1874; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
md: 24 May 1894; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
Alvin Augustus BEESLEY
d: 22 Apr 1946; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
CHILDREN of Orson PRATT and Sarah Louisa LEWIS:
18. 1. WILLOW LEWIS b: 8 Sep 1854; Willow Springs, , Wyoming.
d: 27 Oct 1854; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
CHILDREN of Orson PRATT and Juliaet Ann PHELPS:
26. 1. ALVA PHELPS b: 31 Jan 1859; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
d: 18 Feb 1906; , , .
30. 2. CLEMERIA PHELPS b: 29 Jan 1861; Pine Canyon, Tooele, Utah.
d: 19 Mar 1941; , , .
33. 3. OTHERUS PHELPS b: 26 Oct 1863; Fillmore, Millard, Utah.
d: 28 Jul 1946; , , .
36. 4. MARGARET PHELPS b: 5 Oct 1868; Fillmore, Millard, Utah.
d: 25 Aug 1851; , , .
42. 5. RELLA PHELPS b: 16 Jan 1872; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
d: 19 Jul 1954; , , .
46. 6. NEVA PHELPS b: 27 Jul 1874; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
d: 15 Mar 1957; , , .
47. 7. JULIUS PHELPS b: 12 May 1877; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
d: 11 Apr 1947; , , .
CHILDREN of Orson PRATT and Eliza CROOKS:
23. 1. LEVIUS CROOKS b: 9 Apr 1858; Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah.
d: 7 Jun 1862; Tooele, Tooele, Utah.
28. 2. DORA CROOKS b: 23 Mar 1860; Pine Canyon, Tooele, Utah.
md: 14 May 1878; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
Willard SNOW
d: 25 Apr 1939; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
32. 3. JARED CROOKS b: 15 Jul 1862; Tooele, Tooele, Utah.
d: 11 Mar 1877; , , .
35. 4. ONTHEW CROOKS b: 30 Dec 1864; Tooele, Tooele, Utah.
d: 30 Dec 1864; Tooele, Tooele, Utah.
39. 5. SAMUEL CROOKS b: 21 Nov 1868; Tooele, Tooele, Utah.
d: 5 Oct 1888; , , .
CHILDREN of Orson PRATT and Margaret GRAHAM:
40. 1. ORLON GRAHAM b: 14 Sep 1869; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
md: ; , , .
Amy WILLIAMSON
d: Oct 1932; , , .
43. 2. PEARL GRAHAM b: 2 May 1872; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
md: 21 Dec 1893; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
James Samuel MORGAN
d: 5 Dec 1954; Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho.
45. 3. ROYAL GRAHAM b: 3 Jun 1874; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
d: 17 Dec 1917; , , .
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