Item Detail
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6019
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English
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Joseph Smith III and the Kirtland Temple Suit
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BYU Studies
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Summer 1985
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25
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110-16
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"On 23 February 1880, Judge L. S. Sherman of the Court of Common Pleas, Lake County, Ohio, announced the decision awarding ownership of the historic Kirtland Temple, the Mormon religious edifice completed in 1836, to the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the plaintiff in the case. Members of the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints might argue that the questions of which church was the legitimate successor was not really at issue in this case, that it was merely a routine suit to quiet title to real estate and was decided on technical grounds. And indeed, the LDS church was not even represented in the court. However, Judge Sherman's finding was very important to members of the Reorganized church during the years following its issuance since it was the affirmation of a legal tribunal that their church was the legal successor to the early Mormon movement." [Publisher's abstract]
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An Ambivalent Rejection : Baptism for the Dead and the Reorganized Church Experience
Mark Hill Forscutt : Mormon Missionary, Morrisite Apostle, RLDS Minister
Mark Hill Forscutt : Mormon Missionary, Morrisite Apostle, RLDS Minister
Ownership of the Kirtland Temple : Legends, Lies, and Misunderstandings
The Book of Mormon : An Asset or Liability for a Becoming Peace Church?
The Kirtland Safety Society and the Fraud of Grandison Newell : A Legal Examination
The Latter Day Saints in Ohio : Writing the History of Mormonism's Middle Period