| LC control no. | nr2005005663 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Abel, Elijah, 1810-1884 |
| Variant(s) | Ables, Elijah, 1810-1884 Able, Elijah, 1810-1884 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Cincinnati (Ohio) Salt Lake City (Utah) Ogden (Utah) |
| Birth date | 1810 |
| Death date | 1884-12-25 |
| Place of birth | Maryland |
| Place of death | Salt Lake City (Utah) |
| Affiliation | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
| Profession or occupation | Carpenters |
| Found in | Abel Elijah, 1992: p. 2 (Elijah Abel, 1810-1884) Black Mormons, via www, Jan. 25, 2005 (Elijah Abel, 1810-1884) Journal of Mormon history, vol. 39 no. 2, 2013: page 165 (Elijah Ables; spelling of his name is unclear from the historical record; in his own writings he spells his name as both Ables and Able; one of the first African American priesthood holders in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) page 168 (not clear whether born free or as a slave; probably born between 1808 and 1812 in northern Maryland) page 187 (served an LDS mission in Canada in the 1830's) page 203 (in Nauvoo, Illinois in 1841 working as a carpenter and undertaker) page 206 (Ables boarding at a house in Cincinnati in 1842 on mission for the LDS Church) page 234 (spring of 1853 moved from Cincinnati to Council Bluffs, Iowa, planning to travel to Utah and arrived October 1853 settling in Salt Lake City) page 247 (worked as carpenter and hotel manager in Salt Lake City; moved to Ogden in 1870) page 252 (died in Salt Lake City, Christmas day, 1884) African American National Biography, accessed October 16, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Abel [Able], Elijah; Abel, Elijah; mormon leader, frontiersman/pioneer; born c.1810 in Maryland, United States; baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and gathered with the Mormons in Kirtland, Ohio (1932); ordained to the church's Melchizedek or higher priesthood, making him one of a very small number of African American men to hold the priesthood (1836); became a member of the church's Third Quorum of the Seventy (1836); settled in Salt Lake City (1853); worked in Salt Lake City as a carpenter and hotel manager; he spent nearly a half- century living and preaching Mormonism to both black and white audiences across the eastern United States and Canada; died 25 December 1884 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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