Excerpt from Church Chronology: A Record of Important Events Pertaining to the History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized with six members, April 6, 1830, at a meeting held at Fayette, Seneca Co., N. Y. Since that time is has continually grown, and its members have steadily increased until the greater portion of Utah and parts of Idaho, Arizona, N evada, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico are peopled with Latter-day Saints. There are also colonies of Saints in Old Mexico and Canada, besides branches and conferences in nearly every State in the Union and in Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Turkey, New Zealand, Australia, Tas mania, Hawaii, Samoa, Society Islands, Tuamotu Islands, and other countries. The Church in her gathered condition consists at the present time of forty organized Stakes of Zion, of which twenty-five are in Utah, or mostly so, seven in Idaho, four in Arizona, one in Colorado, one in Wyoming, one in Old Mexico, and one in Canada. The Saints in Nevada and New Mexico belong to Stakes, the headquarters of which are located in Utah. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.