| LC control no. | n 85079952 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Pratt, Parley P. (Parley Parker), 1807-1857 |
| Variant(s) | Pratt, P. P. (Parley Parker), 1807-1857 Pratt, Parley Parker, 1807-1857 |
| Biography/History note | Parley P. Pratt (1807-1857) was an American religious leader and missionary. He served as an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1835 to his death in 1857. |
| Associated place | Richmond, Mo. Columbia, Mo. British Isles Valparaiso, Chile |
| Located | Amherst, Ohio : Township New York, N.Y. Nauvoo, Ill. Salt Lake Valley (Utah) San Francisco, Calif. |
| Birth date | 18070412 |
| Death date | 18570513 |
| Place of birth | Burlington, N.Y. |
| Place of death | Van Buren, Ark. |
| Affiliation | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star The Prophet Council of the Utah Legislature |
| Profession or occupation | author poet editor missionary church officer |
| Found in | His Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, c1985: CIP t.p. (Parley P. Pratt) LC data base, 4-19-85 (hdg.: Pratt, Parley Parker, 1807-1857; usage: Parley P. Pratt) His The millennium, and other poems, 1840: t.p. (P.P. Pratt, minister of the Gospel)\ Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 1992: page 1644 (Pratt, Parley P. (Parker); born April 12, 1807, Burlington, New York; assassinated May 13, 1857 near Van Buren, Arkansas; Apostle, February 21, 1835-May 13, 1857) page 1116-1117 (significant LDS missionary, writer, poet of the early years of the LDS Restoration; born April 12, 1807 in Burlington, New York; after marriage in 1827 moved to Amherst township, Lorain, County, Ohio; member of teh Reformed Baptist Society (Campbellite); convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1830 and baptized on September 19, 1830; Left Nauvoo, spent nine months jailed in Richmond, Missouri and Columbia, Missouri; Left Nauvoo, Illinois on August 19, 1839 on mission to British Isles; editor of the Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star; upon return to Nauvoo, called to preside over church in New England and mid-Atlantic states headquartered in New York City; published peridical entitles The Prophet; February 1846 left home in Nauvoo; arrived Salt Lake Valley 1847; 1851 mission to the Pacific with headquarters in San Francisco; sailed to Valparaiso, Chile September 1851; 1856 mission to Eastern states; on returning to the West on May 13, 1857, he was killed by a man twelve miles northeast of Van Buren, Arkansas) Marriage & morals in Utah, c2009: t.p. (Parley P. Pratt) p. 1 (address written by Parley P. Pratt, one of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Chaplain to the Council of the Utah Legislature) |
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