BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY The twelve apostles. The seven presidents of the seventy elders. The first seventy elders. The second seventy elders. [Kirtland? 1836?]
Broadside 31 x 20 cm.
This broadside lists the names of the Twelve Apostles, the seven presidents of the Seventy, and the First Quorum of Seventy, as initially chosen in February 1835, together with those in the Second Quorum of Seventy who were selected a year later. Certainly a product of the Messenger and Advocate press, it would seem to have been printed after the second quorum was organized early in February 1836, and before the excommunication on May 23, 1836, of Charles Kelley, who is listed as a member of the first quorum. One might note that nine of the Twelve, all of the presidents of the Seventy, and all of the First Quorum of Seventy marched with Zion’s Camp.
Excerpted and edited from Peter Crawley, A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church. Volume One, 1830-1847. (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, Religious Studies Center, [1997]). Item 27, p. 61.
Used by permission of the author and the Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University