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English
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Carrington, Albert
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Utah History Encyclopedia
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Salt Lake City
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University of Utah Press
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"Albert Carrington (1813-1889) spent most of his adult life as a prominent leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He grew up in Royalton, Vermont, his birthplace, and attended Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1834. After teaching school in Pennsylvania, where he also studied law, he moved to Hamilton, Wisconsin, where he engaged in lead mining and married Rhoda Maria Woods. He was baptized into the Mormon Church on 18 July 1841 and later moved his family of wife and four children to Nauvoo, Illinois, just prior to the murder of the Mormon leader Joseph Smith in June 1844. Because of his scholarly background and activity as a proselytor for his faith, he was soon recognized as one of the intellectual leaders in the Mormon community." [Author]