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Source: Church History Vol. 3 Chapter 39 Page: 758

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758 Strang's organization. At the April conference of 1849, held at Voree, Wisconsin, he was ordained an apostle, under the hands of J. J. Strang and others, and was also appointed, with J. J. Strang and J. E. Page, "a committee to draw up in order the laws concerning the authority, order, and prerogatives and relations of the priesthood." That he was a very active and zealous man is evident from the record gleaned from the publications of the time. On May 6, 1849, he was on Beaver Island, Lake Michigan, where he assisted J. J. Strang and others in exploring the island.

He left Beaver Island on the 11th, and on the 22d, he was at Ithaca, Ohio, having preached there and at Lewisburg. Soon after, he was at Dayton, Ohio. June 19, he was at Georgetown, Ohio, and back to Lewisburg on the 23d, and Ithaca the 25th. July 6 to 9 he was in attendance at a conference on Beaver Island, where he received a unanimous vote of confidence. At this conference he was appointed a mission to the state of Ohio, and on the 22d, he wrote on board the canal boat Empire, thirty-three miles from Toledo, Ohio. September 8 and 9 he was at a conference held at St. James, Beaver Island. October 5 to 8 he was at a conference in the city of New York, when he took an active part in the commendation of Sunday schools. At this conference he was appointed to go to New Bedford, Massachusetts.

On March 24, 1850, he wrote from "Big Bend of Fox River, Kane County, Illinois," saying: "My health is poor, and has been for the last six or seven months, and which was the reason, in part, of my coming home last fall. My health while in the east was very poor, and I thought best to come home. On arriving home, or where my family was, I found them in want of my presence. The most of them, with myself, have been sick the past winter. But I have held meetings in Batavia, and in the region round about, as far as I was able."

The tenor of this letter indicates that he was still strongly imbued with the spirit of the movement under Strang, yet we have noticed nothing further from him in connection with this movement. How long he continued with Strang we have not been able to determine. Nor do we know just

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