By the 1840s, however, Smith and several prominent Mormons had become Freemasons and founded a lodge in Nauvoo, Illinois, in March 1842.

One of the nation's most prominent Mormons, Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, happened to be in San Francisco pushing his quest for the Republican Presidential nomination when the resolution was passed.

Peter Whitmer, Sr., a prominent early Mormon, one of the first six members of the church founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1830.

Brigham had forecast--a quality which no other prominent Mormon has probably ever possessed.

Eighty prominent Mormons signed the so-called Danite Manifesto, which warned the dissenters to "depart or a more fatal calamity shall befall you."

The taking of multiple wives was practiced by a minority of mostly prominent Mormons for two or three generations, from the 1840's to 1890, when the church said monogamy was the way of the future.

To celebrate that long-awaited and grand event, prominent Mormon and Gentile citizens joined together in a party at Saltair Resort.

Originally he was supposed to travel with John Page, another prominent Mormon, but Page never showed up in New York and Hyde left without him.

Heber was founded in 1876 or 1877, by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), and the town is named after Heber J. Grant, a prominent Mormon.

Packer's comments have raised criticism by some prominent Mormon and non-Mormon scholars.