![]() Kirtland is the township, five miles square, that stands between Chester, where Garfield taught and Mentor, where he now lives. It is the universal testimony in the vicinity that he did, literally, cast out a devil. Thunder: 'I command that you come out of her!'" Talked to her and made her stand before him and get under his influence and then, while all the people looked, he cried to her in a voice of Had fits and she was brought before Joe Smith, who was a man of the largest presence and of a very warm magnetism. He said to me on one occasion: "There was a woman at Kirtland who General Garfield has always had a soft side in his nature for the supernatural. ![]() When Garfield was seven years old, and Smith and Rigdon fled in the night to Missouri. ![]() A costly temple was consecrated at Kirtland in 1836, and missionaries dispatched to England, In 1838 the bank at Kirtland failed, At teh same place the "quorum of the twelve apostles" was organized and sent out to preach, Brigham YoungĪmong them. Head of the Mormon government took the style of the "First Presidency." Brigham Young, at the age of thirty-two arrived at Kirtland, and was madeĪn elder and began to preach there. For alleged fraudulent dealings both Smith abd Rigdon were tarred and feathered in a neighboring town, in 1832. They made converts all round about them, established a mill and store and got up a bank without a charter, of which Joe Smith was president and Years later, and in 1831 settled at Kirtland, Ohio, on the Reserve, and in the very next township to that where Garfield taught school at Chester. These religious emotions were about the only ones to affect the hard, inexpressive people, about Ashtabula. ![]() "the running exercise," "the dancing exercise," "the barking exercise," and "visions and trances." An old historian describes it in divisions, under the heads of "the falling exercise," "the jerking exercise," "the rolling exercise," Hereabouts occurred the great revival of religion in 1803, called Uncle Dale's Old Mormon Articles: NYC, 1880-1899īrooklyn, New York City, Saturday, June 26, 1880. ![]()
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