| Stone mason for the House of the Lord in Kirtland,
1837 dissident. Member, Church of Christ (McLellin/Harris); bishop, James
J. Strang church. |
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May 12, 1785 in Richmond, New Hampshire. |
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Ancestry.com (by subscription) |
| Died |
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August 12, 1849 in Homer, Champaign Co., Illinois |
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| Father |
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Jacob Bump |
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| Mother |
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Rebecca Dinah Slye |
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| Married |
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November 27, 1808 marries Lydia Bowen in Richmond. |
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1821 Jacob Bump 2d purchases land in Portland, Chautauqua
Co., New York. Jacob Bump 1st buys land in Portland in 1822 and sells in
1833 or 1834. |
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H. C. Taylor, Historical Sketches of the
Town of Portland (1873). Link
to source at RootsWeb website (then search for Jacob Bump). |
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| Bricklayer, mechanic |
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Mr. Jacob Bump had charge of the erection of the Store [in Hanover?],
and soon afterwards the Silver Creek House for Oliver Lee. He was a practical
bricklayer, a first-class mechanic, who understood his business to perfection.
He was an extremely rapid workman and when he was once placed in charge
of a job of work, the owner could feel assured that it would be well and
quickly done. But he, like many other first-class mechanics, had one pernicious
habit. He would have his periodical spells of intoxication. During these
sprees all business was neglected, and he gave his whole time to spreeing
and debauching. … |
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"Early History of Hanover," Fredonia
Censor, Sept. 24, 1884. Link
to source at Dale Broadhurst website. |
| Baptized |
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Not long after this event [Jacob declared he would stop drinking], the
great Mormon revival of 1833 set in here. Bump was one of the first converts,
and from the first took a prominent and active part in all their meetings.
Early in the spring of 1832 he disposed of his property and with his family,
and several other families, started for Kirtland. … |
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Jacob Bump was chosen master builder [of the House of the Lord]. |
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| Stone mason |
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[The House of the Lord] was ordered to be built of brick,
but, as misfortune attended the burning of the first kiln, it was perhaps
thought that the Lord would not be particular; hence stone was substituted.
The first stone was laid July 24, 1833, by Jacob Bump, who superintended
the mason-work to its completion." |
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History of Geauga, 248.
Original: Jacob Benup |
| Endorses Joseph after Zion's Camp |
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August 23, 1834 living in
Bolton, New York, attends meeting where Joseph's conduct on Zion's Camp
is investigated. Signs statement published in the Evening and Morning
Star that he is "perfectly satisfied" with his conduct. |
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Minutes
of August 23, 1834 |
| Testimony: Agitated
by rumors |
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August 28, 1834 at trial Sylvester
Smith of testifies he was "agitated" by
rumors of Joseph's conduct on the journey to Zion, and conversation with
Sylvester, but when he heard
the testimony on the 11th, he was satisfied Joseph had done nothing wrong. |
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¶ Minutes
of August 28, 1834 |
| Testimony: Sylvester claims
Parley got bread |
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August 29, 1834 testifies after returning from the West, he went with
Sylvester to see Sidney Rigdon about complaints about Joseph's conduct
on the way to and from Missouri. Sylvester told Sidney that Parley got
bread from the person he sent him to. |
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¶ Minutes of August
29, 1834 |
| Blessed for work
on House of the Lord |
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March 7, 1835 among those "blessed
with the blessings of Heaven and a right in the house of the Lord in this
place agreeably to the labor and expense they have performed on the same. …The
right here spoken of is according to each mans labor or amount of donations." |
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¶ Minutes
of March 7–8, 1835 // HC 2:207. |
| Plasters interior |
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November 9, 1835 begins plastering the inside of the House
of the Lord (contractor for $1,500). |
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MS history vol. 2, 684 (Jan.
8, 1836) // HC 2:363. |
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January 8, 1836 "Jacob Bump … is still continueing the work
notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather." |
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MS history vol. 2, 684 (Jan. 8, 1836). |
| Son dies |
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August 12, 1836 living in Kirtland when twelve-year-old son,
George, dies of "inflammation of the brain." |
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Messenger and Advocate 2, no.
11 (Aug. 1836): 361. |
| Sells 40 acres |
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Fall 1836 sells 40 acres half a mile south of the House of the Lord to
William Huntington for $3,000. |
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Four Zinas, 57. |
| Kirtland Safety Society notes |
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January 6, 1837 purchases
the first Kirtland Safety Society notes issued, with notes from other banks. |
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Woodruff journal 1:120. |
| Forecloses on 40 acres |
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[Fall 1837] In conciquence of a mortgage which was on the farm I boat
of Jacob Bump who failed in property or in conciquence of his becoming
a dissipated dishonest Decentor I lost m land which Cost me three thousand
dollars. In this situation I was suddenly reduced to a state of poverty. |
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Oliver Huntington diary and autobiography
qtd. in Four Zinas, 70. |
| Dissenter, pugilist |
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[December] 1837] There was a council there when President Young, Brother
Brigham as we called him, spoke in favor of Joseph, and Jacob Bump who
had been a long time a Pugilist before he came into the Church, said "how
on [12] earth can I keep my hands off this man," Brigham said, lay
them on if it will do you any good. The voice seemingly of an individual,
was absolutely necessary to say that Joseph had a single friend. |
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George A. Smith discourse, Ogden, Utah, tabernacle,
Nov. 15, 1864, Journal of Discourses 11:11–12. |
| Dissidents take over House of the Lord |
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October 22, 1845 a letter from Reuben McBride in Kirtland read to the
Twelve reports "that
the Rigdonites, S. B. Stoddard, Jacob Bump, R[obert] D. Foster, Hiram
Kellog, Leonard Rich, [and] Jewel Raney are the leaders of the rioters.
They have broke into the House of the Lord and taken possession of it and
are trying to take possession of the Church Farm &c."
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William Clayton journals (Smith), 188. |
| Joins reconstituted Church of Christ |
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Joins movement headed by William E. McLellin (h) and Martin
Harris to
draft David Whitmer as head of a new Church of Christ. |
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| Strangite bishop |
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August 7–10, 1846 attends conference of new Church of Christ headed
by James J. Strang. Stake is organized. Jacob Bump attends as bishop. |
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"Kirtland," Voree Herald, September
1846. Link
to source at Dale Broadhurst website. |
| Church of Christ excommunicates William E.
McLellin |
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June 3, 1849 one of four elders present at the excommunication
of William E. McLellin from the new Church of Christ, the others being
M. C. Isham, Alfred Bonney, and Leonard Rich, as well as Martin Harris,
president, and Isaac N. Aldrich, secretary. |
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Gospel Herald (Voree, Wisconsin) July 5, 1849
Link
to source at Dale Broadhurst website. |
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Family |
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| Wife |
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Lydia Bowen (b. August 7, 1786 in Richmond, New Hampshire;
md. November 27, 1808 in Richmond; April 16, 1852 in Homer, Illinois) |
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| Children |
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Leander (b. May 7, 1809 in Ostego, New York; md. Elizabeth
Lucy Dixon, April 13, 1859 in Homer, Champaign Co., Illinois; d. October
20, 1880) |
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Edwin (b. 1812 in Chautauqua
Co., New York; md. Diane Robinson in 1824; d. April 13, 1859 in Old Thornton,
Illinois) |
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George ([1814]–August 12, 1836) Not listed in genealogical records. |
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Thomas J. (b. June 7, 1819 in Chautauqua
Co.; md. May Fagin in 1840; d. August 25, 1877 in Homer, Illinois) |
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