Mormon Historical
Orville M. Allen
Ezra T. Benson
Oliver Cowdery
Orson Hyde
Alexander Hunter
J. E. Johnson
Thomas L. Kane
Heber C. Kimball
Jesse Little
Amasa Lyman
Henry W. Miller
James Murdock
John Neff
Orson Pratt
Parley P. Pratt
Dr. Willard Richards
George A. Smith
Joseph Smith
Mary Fielding Smith
Hyrum Smith
Allan Taylor
John Taylor
Jacob Weber, Sr.
Lyman Wight
Wilford Woodruff
Brigham Young
The Mormons* more than any people helped to cause settlement on the western side of the Missouri. Their settlement in the Florence area was a difficult period and many died as a result.
The Mormons first arrived at the Missouri River starting in 1846 and settled for a brief period before traveling on, with the majority being the Winter of 1846/1847. A large number of the Mormons moved on to the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1848.
From 1846 to 1853, the area was mostly populated by the Mormons. Even though after 1853 the area was no longer predominately Mormon, the Mormons continued to be settled in the surrounding areas as late as 1859 or 1860.
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