25 Facts About Isaac Morley

Isaac Morley was an early member of the Latter Day Saint movement and a contemporary of both Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.

Isaac Morley was one of the first converts to Smith's Church of Christ.

In 1812, Isaac Morley married Lucy Gunn, with whom he had seven children.

Isaac Morley was an early settler in the Western Reserve wilderness area of northern Ohio, and created a productive farm in the region near Kirtland, Ohio.

Isaac Morley was the leader of a utopian group that practiced communal principals, holding goods in common for the benefit of all.

On November 5,1830, Morley was baptized into the newly organized Church of Christ by Parley P Pratt.

Isaac Morley had been introduced to the teachings of Smith when Oliver Cowdery and several other missionaries passed through Ohio.

Isaac Morley was ordained an elder shortly after his baptism.

Isaac Morley later built a small house for them on his farm, where Joseph's and Emma's twins, Thaddeus and Louisa, were born and died only three hours later on April 30,1831.

Isaac Morley was ordained a High Priest on June 4,1831, by Lyman Wight and was immediately selected for a leadership position.

Isaac Morley was ordained on June 6 as First Counselor to Bishop Edward Partridge and served until Partridge's death in 1840.

On June 7,1831, Isaac Morley was asked to sell his farm and act as a missionary while traveling to Independence, Missouri with Ezra Booth.

Isaac Morley moved from Jackson County to Clay County with his fellow Latter Day Saints.

Isaac Morley left Missouri and returned to Kirtland in early 1835.

Isaac Morley was in attendance at the dedication of the Kirtland Temple in March 1836 and was among the first to receive the washing and anointing ordinance, known as the "initiatory".

In 1835, Isaac Morley served a mission with Partridge to the Eastern States.

Isaac Morley returned to Missouri with his family in early 1836, and helped establish the city of Far West.

Isaac Morley lived in Far West until he was arrested with fifty-five other Mormon citizens on the basis of the Extermination Order of Missouri governor Lilburn W Boggs.

In October 1840, Hyrum Smith appointed Isaac Morley to serve as president of the stake centered in Lima, Illinois, with John Murdock and Walter Cox as counselors.

Isaac Morley emigrated to the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1848 with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints following the death of Joseph Smith, and is considered to be the founder of Manti, Utah.

Isaac Morley encouraged the settlers in their work and assured them that their community would grow to be one of the best in the mountains.

Isaac Morley supervised the building of the first schoolhouse and the first gristmill in Sanpete Valley.

Isaac Morley served as a senator in the general assembly of the provisional State of Deseret.

Isaac Morley represented Sanpete county in the Utah territorial legislature from 1851 to 1857.

Isaac Morley died on June 24,1865, in Fairview, Utah.