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English
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Excerpts from a journal or sketch of the life of Joel Hills Johnson (brother to Benjamin F. Johnson)
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Dugway, Utah
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Ogden Kraut
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"Born in Grafton, Massachusetts, 1802. Poetry. Religious child. Became Free-Will Baptist, c. 1825. Married, 1826. Purchased farm. Invented shingle machine, 1829. Moved to Amherst, Ohio, 1830. Sawmill. Mormons at Kirtland. Converted. Baptized, June 1831. Ordained elder. Moved to Kirtland. Mission in Ohio, 1835. Temple. Endowments, 1836. Member, second Quorum of Seventy. At Carthage, Illinois, 1839. Moved to Crooked Creek, 1840. President of Crooked Creek Stake. Death of wife. Moved to Ramus, 1840. Secret combination of Saints to rob and plunder. Dissension. Stake disorganized, 1841. Martyrdom of Smiths, 1844. Married Janet Fife, 1845. Went to Knox County. Crossed plains, 1848. Settled in Mill Creek Ward. Justice of peace. Bishop. Member of Deseret's house of representatives, 1849. Called to Little Salt Lake Valley, 1850. Member of Parowan City Council, 1851. Wrote hymns. Walker War. Reformation, 1856. Trip east to investigate death of brother-in-law, Almon W. Babbitt, 1857. Apostates at Genoa [Nebraska?]. Returned to Utah, 1860. Married Margaret Threkold, 1860. Other wives. Moved to Virgin City. President of Mt. Dell Branch, 1865. Second anointings, 1870. Millennialism, 1873. Family organized as "Sons of Joel," 1875. Called to go to Arizona and live in United Order, 1879. Unable to fulfill mission. Wrote pamphlet testifying of truth of gospel as revealed to Joseph Smith." [Abstract from Davis Bitton's Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies]