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Stoddard, Calvin W.

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7 Sept. 1801

Stoddard Family Bible; Patriarchal Blessings, 1:2; “Records of Early Church Families,” Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine 26 (Oct. 1935): 151.

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Stoddard Family Bible, ca. 1826–1836. Copy of genealogical information under “Sophronia Smith Family Bible,” in Joseph Smith Sr. Family Reunions Files, 1972–2003. CHL.

Patriarchal Blessings, 1833–. CHL. CR 500 2.

“Records of Early Church Families.” Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine 27 (Oct. 1936): 156–162.

–19 Nov. 1836.

Stoddard Family Bible; Obituary for Calvin W. Stoddard, Wayne Sentinel (Palmyra, NY), 2 Dec. 1836, [2].

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Stoddard Family Bible, ca. 1826–1836. Copy of genealogical information under “Sophronia Smith Family Bible,” in Joseph Smith Sr. Family Reunions Files, 1972–2003. CHL.

Wayne Sentinel. Palmyra, NY. 1823–1852, 1860–1861.

Farmer.

1820 U.S. Census, Palmyra, Ontario Co., NY, 336.

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Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Born at Palmyra, Ontario Co., New York.

Patriarchal Blessings, 1:2; Stoddard Family Bible.

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Patriarchal Blessings, 1833–. CHL. CR 500 2.

Stoddard Family Bible, ca. 1826–1836. Copy of genealogical information under “Sophronia Smith Family Bible,” in Joseph Smith Sr. Family Reunions Files, 1972–2003. CHL.

Son of Silas Stoddard and Bathsheba Sheffield.

Patriarchal Blessings, 1:2; Stoddard Family Bible; Backman, Profile, 68.

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Patriarchal Blessings, 1833–. CHL. CR 500 2.

Stoddard Family Bible, ca. 1826–1836. Copy of genealogical information under “Sophronia Smith Family Bible,” in Joseph Smith Sr. Family Reunions Files, 1972–2003. CHL.

Backman, Milton V., Jr., comp. A Profile of Latter-day Saints of Kirtland, Ohio, and Members of Zion’s Camp, 1830–1839: Vital Statistics and Sources. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Department of Church History and Doctrine and Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1983.

Lived at Ontario Co., 1810.

1810 U.S. Census, Palmyra, Ontario Co., NY, 793.

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Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Married Sophronia Smith, 30 Dec. 1827, at Palmyra.

Stoddard Family Bible; Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches, 40.

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Stoddard Family Bible, ca. 1826–1836. Copy of genealogical information under “Sophronia Smith Family Bible,” in Joseph Smith Sr. Family Reunions Files, 1972–2003. CHL.

Smith, Lucy Mack. Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations. Liverpool: S. W. Richards, 1853.

Resident of Macedon, Wayne Co., New York, June 1830.

1830 U.S. Census, Macedon, Wayne Co., NY, 99.

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Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Proselytized in Palmyra, 1830.

Tucker, Origin, Rise, and Progress of Mormonism, 79.

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Tucker, Pomeroy. Origin, Rise, and Progress of Mormonism: Biography of Its Founders and History of Its Church. New York: D. Appleton, 1867.

Migrated to Kirtland, Geauga Co., Ohio, with Lucy Mack Smith company of Fayette, Seneca Co., New York, branch members, 1831.

Porter, “Study of the Origins,” 316, 320; Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches, 172–173; Katharine Smith Salisbury Younger, Fountain Green, IL, to “Dear Sisters,” 16 May 1886, Saints’ Herald, 3 July 1886, 404–405.

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Porter, Larry C. “A Study of the Origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the States of New York and Pennsylvania, 1816–1831.” PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1971. Also available as A Study of the Origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the States of New York and Pennsylvania, 1816–1831, Dissertations in Latter-day Saint History (Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History; BYU Studies, 2000).

Smith, Lucy Mack. Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations. Liverpool: S. W. Richards, 1853.

Saints’ Herald. Independence, MO. 1860–.

Ordained a priest in LDS church by Oliver Cowdery at Orange, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, 25 Oct. 1831.

Minutes, 25–26 Oct. 1831.

Ordained an elder, 1832.

Carter, Journal, 25 Apr. 1832.

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Carter, Jared. Journal, 1831–1833. CHL. MS 1441.

Became estranged from church.

Minute Book 1, 29 Dec. 1832; Patriarchal Blessings, 1:2; McGavin, Family of Joseph Smith, 90; Kirtland Elders Quorum, “Record,” 7 Mar. and 26 Oct. 1836.

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Patriarchal Blessings, 1833–. CHL. CR 500 2.

McGavin, Elmer Cecil. The Family of Joseph Smith. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1963.

Kirtland Elders Quorum. “A Record of the First Quorurum of Elders Belonging to the Church of Christ: In Kirtland Geauga Co. Ohio,” 1836–1838, 1840–1841. CCLA.

Died at Macedon.

Obituary for Calvin W. Stoddard, Wayne Sentinel (Palmyra, NY), 2 Dec. 1836, [2].

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Wayne Sentinel. Palmyra, NY. 1823–1852, 1860–1861.

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