| Early convert, missionary, possessed after being
ordained to the High Priesthood, Missouri refugee, follows Sidney Rigdon,
Salt Lake City doctor, in and out of LDS and RLDS churches. |
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| Born |
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Harvey Gilman Whitlock, 1809 in Massachusetts |
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Revelations,
81. |
| Died |
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1874 in Bishop Creek, Inyo Co., California |
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| Mission |
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In April or May
1831, Harvey and Edson
Fuller preach in Amherst,
Ohio. Lyman Wight (h)
(swh), Samuel
H. Smith, and others arrive "a few days later." They hold
daily meetings "and
in a few weeks they baptized about fifty in the vicinity." |
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Autobiography
of Joel Hills Johnson, 3, 4 in New Mormon studies. |
| June
1831 conference |
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June [4], 1831 attends first Kirtland
conference as an elder. |
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Minutes
of June [4], 1831 |
| High Priesthood |
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June [4], 1831 ordained to the High
Priesthood by Joseph Smith. Exhorts. Possessed,
Joseph performs exorcism. |
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Lyman's
Vision and the Man of Sin |
| Visits
Jackson county |
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June 7, 1831 called to visit Jackson county with David
Whitmer, "and preach by the way unto this same land." |
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D&C
52:25 |
| Move to Missouri |
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Moves family to Missouri and joins
the Whitmer branch. |
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Revelations,
Whitmer settlement was an early target of mob action in 1833. Outrage
in Jackson County (1) |
| Mob target |
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July 23, 1833 one of nine church leaders required
by the mob to leave Jackson county before January 1, 1834. |
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¶
Missouri Persecutions (2) |
| Excommunicated |
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November 16, 1835 excommunicated. |
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Revelations,
81. |
| Repentant |
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November 16, 1835 Joseph receives a letter of contrition of
Harvey, and in response, receives a revelation directing Harvey to forsake
his sins and come to Kirtland. |
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1834–1836 history,
130–133.
Revelation of November 16, 1835 |
| Rebaptized |
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January 30, 1836 First Presidency resolves that Harvey
be rebaptized
and ordained to the High Priesthood. |
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Minutes of January 30, 1836 |
| Withdraws |
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1838 withdraws from the church |
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Revelations,
81. |
| Iowa |
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1840 living in Cedar county, Iowa. |
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Revelations,
81. |
| Joins Sidney Rigdon |
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1846 member of Sidney Rigdon's Grand Council |
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| Salt Lake doctor |
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1850 Salt Lake City doctor, with a
household of ten and land worth $100. |
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Utah
federal census cited in Who's who, 327. |
| Thief? |
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February 1851 arrested as an accessory to theft. |
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Revelations,
81. |
| Rebaptized |
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[1858] rebaptized. |
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Revelations,
81. |
| Speaker |
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June 27, 1858 addresses the Saints in the bowery
in Salt Lake (remarks not recorded). Brigham tells Wilford that Harvey,
"spoke well but any man that would speak a few words in the power of
God would do more good." |
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JD
7:54, WWJ 5:200, 201. |
| Doctor |
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August 15, 1858 "Harvy Whitlock is a Doctor of the old
school." |
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WWJ
5:208. |
| Springville |
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January 28, 1859 in Springville, Ezra T. Benson and Erastus
Snow are informed that Harvey has been cut off. |
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Brigham
Young Office Journals on New Mormon studies. |
| False information about Sidney |
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April 19, 1859 testifies that after Nauvoo, Sidney was involved
in an "arrangement for temporary swapping wives" (not true). |
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Journal
History qtd. in Sidney Rigdon, 373. |
| RLDS |
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1864 moves to California and joins RLDS church, serves as
president of the Pacific Slope region. |
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Revelations,
81. |
| Excommunicated |
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1868 excommunicated from RLDS church. |
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Family |
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| Wife |
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Minerva Abbot, b. 1810 in Connecticut,
md. by 1830 |
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Revelations,
81. |
| Children |
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Almon
Sally
Sclota
Herman
Hame
Osca
Maloni
Parintha |
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