11 Facts About Hazen Aldrich

Hazen Aldrich was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement.

On July 4,1832, Hazen Aldrich was given the Melchizedek priesthood and ordained to the office of elder by Pratt.

In 1834, Hazen Aldrich participated in the Zion's Camp expedition to Missouri.

However, when it was discovered by Smith that Hazen Aldrich had previously been ordained a high priest, he asked Hazen Aldrich to stand down from his position and join the quorum of high priests.

Hazen Aldrich did so on April 6,1837, which left Joseph Young as the presiding president of the Seventy.

In 1836, Hazen Aldrich was the first Mormon missionary to preach in Lower Canada, in what today is the province of Quebec.

Hazen Aldrich apostatized from the church in 1837 in Kirtland, Ohio.

In November 1847, Hazen Aldrich became a member of the Church of Christ.

On September 29,1849, Hazen Aldrich became the president of this Latter Day Saint denomination, and edited a Brewsterite periodical entitled the Olive Branch.

Hazen Aldrich, who did not follow Brewster to Arizona, resigned his position as church president in January 1853, and emigrated to California to support his daughter Betsy through her divorce, and to live with his other daughter, Louisa Hazen Aldrich Geary and her family, in El Monte, Los Angeles, California.

Hazen Aldrich died in El Monte in 1873, and was buried in Rosemead, California, at Savannah Memorial Park.