Sunday Tidbits-Some More LDS Firsts

<     1.      Alexander Doniphan and his legal assistant Peter Burnett defended the Prophet Joseph Smith during his Missouri troubles. Peter Burnett would go on to become the first what?

<     a.      The Church’s first lawyer

<     b.      California’s first Governor

<     c.       The first person to enter the Salt Lake Valley

<     d.      The first lawyer converted to the Church

<     2.      Who is the first LDS missionary to circumnavigate the globe (hint: He’s the person pictured above)?

     a.      Addison Pratt

     b.      Orson Hyde

     c.       John Page

     d.      Joseph F. Smith

<     3.      In what year did the entire Quorum of the Twelve serve a mission?

      a.      1837

      b.      1831

      c.       1835

      d.      1844

<     4.      In 1841, what political party was organized to go head to head with the Latter-day Saints?

     a.       Democratic Party

     b.      Republican Party

     c.       Whig Party

     d.      Anti-Mormon Party

Yesterday’s answer:

<     a.      Arizona Cooperate Mercantile Institution

The following from the journal of Jesse N. Smith dated January 28, 1882:

The railroad company moved the telegraph office down to
Barado’s ranch, which place they named Holbrook [Arizona]. They soon after took up the side track at the old place. This left the A. C. M. I. out in the cold. John W. Young having quarreled with F. W. Smith, the superintendent of the A & P railroad, the latter seemed to extend his enmity to the whole Church, and as he had a controlling interest in the lots of the new town of Holbrook, he would neither sell nor rent any ground to us for our store. As the next best move we located the store at Woodruff and erected some temporary buildings there for its accommodation.

Oliver R. Smith, ed., The Journal of Jesse Nathaniel Smith-1834-1906 (Provo: Jesse N. Smith Family Assn., 1970), 259-260.