| Early convert, perennial
high
council member, Cutlerite, RLDS. |
| Born |
July 1, 1800 in Paris,
Oneida county, New York |
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| Died |
July 17, 1861 in Mills
county, Iowa |
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| Father |
Isaac Beebe Sr. |
"Old
Fox," 162. |
| Mother |
Olive Soule |
FamilySearch
Ancestral File |
| Ordinations |
Elder by June 3, 1832
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Minutes
of June 3, 1831 |
| Events |
November 19, 1823 marries
Submit Rockwell Starr in Chardon, Geauga county, Ohio. They have seven children. |
FamilySearch
Ancestral File |
| Jackson
county |
January 23, 1832 attends
conference in Jackson county. |
Minutes
of Januay 23, 1832 |
| High
Priesthood conference |
June 3, 1832 attends
conference where the first ordinations to the High Priesthood are performed,
but is not listed among those ordained. At this conference: exorcisms, Lyman
Wight's vision of Jesus Christ, ordinations of counselors for Bishop Partridge. |
Minutes
of June 3, 1831 |
| Presides
over branch |
September 11, 1833 appointed
to preside over Branch 10 in Zion. |
Minutes
of September 11, 1833 |
| High
council in Clay county |
July 3, 1834 named to
high council in Clay county. One of the twelve prominent church leaders
in Missouri to sign the July 1834 Appeal. |
Council
of July 3, 1834 |
| High
council in Far West |
April 7, 1837 listed
as a member of the high council in Far West for the first time. No record
of his calling, but he is listed as a counselor in subsequent meetings except
December 23, 1837, when his name does not appear on a complete roster of
twelve counselors. Calvin's name next appears, as a counselor, in the minutes
of the February 24, 1848 meeting. But his name does not appear on the full
rosters of the March 10, 15, 17, 24, and April 12 meetings. It is difficult
to know was a regular member of the council and who was a substitute—or
if, during this period, the distinction mattered. |
Minutes of
April 7, 1837 |
| Far
West high council |
November 7, 1837 the
full complement of twelve high counselors is chosen for Far West, including
Calvin Beebe. |
¶
Minutes of November 7, 1837 |
| Moves
from Far West |
March 3, 1838 has moved
from the Far West area and is replaced on the high council by John P. Green.
|
Elders'
Journal, vol.
1 no. 3 (July 1838), 47. |
| Loses
license |
June 7, 1841 ordered
to surrender his elder's license by the high council of Zarahemla, Iowa
Territory "for breaking covenant and keeping a tippling shop."
Council decides "disfellowship all persons in this church who now do,
or may hereafter keep a tippling shop, or shops." |
Times
and Seasons, vol. 2 no. 19 (August 2, 1841), 498. |
| Illinois |
May 14, 1843 Joseph
stops at Calvin's house for supper in Lima, Illinois and speaks on the value
of "wise men experienced & aged men to assist in council."
Wilford Woodruff, George A. Smith, Lorenzo Snow, and Isaac Morley present. |
WWJ
2:232 |
| Nauvoo
temple |
January 1846 participates
in Nauvoo temple ordinances |
|
| Iowa |
October 1849 living
in Pottawattomie county, Iowa |
|
| |
Summer 1850 disfellowshipped
with eight other "disaffected" members of the Silver Creek branch. |
"High
Council," Frontier Guardian, September 4, 1850, 2 qtd. in "Old
Fox," 169. |
| RLDS |
1859 joins the Reorganized
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
|
| High
council |
April 1860 ordained
a member of the RLDS high council by William Marks and Z. H. Gurley in Amboy,
Illinois. |
History
of the RLDS 2:252. |
| |
June 1, 1860 represents
the Farm Creek branch at a conference held in Council Bluffs, Iowa. |
History
of the RLDS 2:274. |
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Calvin's
sister—Luana |
|
| Sister
marries Orrin Porter Rockwell, then Alpheus Cutler |
Luana was born October
13, 1814 in Lebanon, Madison county, New York. In 1832, sixteen-year-old
Luana married seventeen-year-old Orrin Porter Rockwell (a second cousin
to Joseph Smith). They had five or six children, of whom four survived infancy.
Luana and Orrin were divorced about 1845. She became a plural wife of Alpheus
Cutler on January 14, 1846, by whom she had three children (the first on
February 14, 1846). Her children by Orrin were sealed to him in the Nauvoo
temple. |
"Old Fox,"
162; FamilySearch Ancestral File |
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Alpheus Cutler founded
the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite) on September 19, 1853 in Iowa with
about thirty families. Calvin was an active Cutlerite until 1859 when he
joined the Reorganized church. |
|
| Then
Wheeler Baldwin |
Luana later married
Wheeler Baldwin. She died March 6, 1897 in West Tintic, Juab county, Utah
and is buried in the Provo cemetery. |
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