John Wickersham Woolley was born to Edwin D. and Mary W. Woolley (the first of Edwin's seven wives) in Newlin, Columbia, Pennsylvania on December 30, 1831. His father was originally a Quaker farmer, but he was converted to Mormonism in 1837. Edwin would later become Brigham Young's business manager, as well as one of his closest friends, and a Bishop from 1853 to 1881. Newlin can refer to: Newlin Township, Pennsylvania Colin Newlin, an American Actor and Model Diandra Newlin, an American Actor, Singer, Model Michael F. Newlin, an American basketball player Category: ... Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 280 miles (455 km)  - Length 160 miles (255 km)  - % water 2. ... is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Leopold I 1831 (MDCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, or Friends, is a religious community founded in England in the 17th century. ... Book of Mormon, see Latter Day Saint movement. ... Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1837 - 1901) 1837 (MDCCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... See also, Brigham Young University Brigham Young (June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877) was the second prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ... 1853 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ...

Woolley held many responsible civil stations, such as Constable, Justice of the Peace, Deputy Sheriff, Deputy Territorial Marshal, and County Commissioner. Within the Nauvoo Legion (in the State of Deseret) he served as a Lieutenant, Captain, Sergeant and Major. He participated in the Black Hawk War, and was one of the ten who crossed the Little Mountain to meet Johnston's Army in 1857. The Nauvoo Legion was a private militia employed by Joseph Smith, Jr. ... The boundaries of the provisional State of Deseret (orange) as proposed in 1849. ... Utahs Black Hawk War (1865-72) is the name of the estimated 150 battles between Mormon settlers in Sanpete County, central Utah, and members of the Ute, Paiute and Navajo tribes, led by a local Ute chief, Antonga Black Hawk. ... Little Mountain refers to the following places: Little Mountain, South Carolina, a town Little Mountain (South Carolina), a mountain Little Mountain, Flintshire Little Mountain (Virginia), a mountain Little Mountain (West Virginia), a mountain Other uses: Little Mountain Recordings, a record label Category: ... The Utah War was a 19th century armed conflict between Mormon settlers in Utah Territory and the United States federal government. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

Having been ordained a High Priest by Brigham Young, he served on a Bishopric, as a High Councilor in the Davis Stake, and was later ordained a Patriarch. He also was an ordinance worker in the Salt Lake Temple, and he opened LDS General Conference with prayer on more than one occasion. He was married (sealed) to his first wife Julia E. Sirls in March 1851 and was endowed at the same time. He went on later to marry Ann Everington in 1886, and in 1910 married Annie Fisher, with Joseph F. Smith performing the ceremony.^[1] High priest is a priesthood office in the Melchizedek priesthood of denominations within the Latter Day Saint movement, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ... A stake is an administrative unit composed of multiple congregrations in sects of the Latter Day Saint movement. ... Davis County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. ... In the Latter Day Saint movement, Patriarch (also called Evangelist) is an office of the Priesthood whose main duty is to give Patriarchal blessings. ... The Salt Lake Temple is the largest (of more than 120) and best-known temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ... In Mormonism, General Conferences are church-wide meetings of individual Latter Day Saint denominations. ... March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1851 (MDCCCLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Joseph Fielding Smith, Sr. ...

He was among the first to meet the handcart companies in 1856, and in 1860 and 1863, he brought emigrants across the plains himself. On the last occasion Joseph F. Smith acted as the chaplain in his 'company', and they became lifelong friends, with President Smith having picnics with the Woolley family and speaking at his wife's funeral. A statue commemorating Mormon handcart pioneers on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah The Mormon handcart pioneers were participants in the migration of members of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the LDS Church) to Salt Lake City, Utah, who used handcarts... 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... Year 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

He was uncle to LDS Church President Spencer W. Kimball, and Quorum of the Twelve members J. Reuben Clark and John W. Taylor, as well as being father-in-law to B.H. Roberts, President of the Seventy. Spencer Woolley Kimball (March 28, 1895 – November 5, 1985) was the twelfth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1973-1985). ... Joshua Reuben Clark, Jr. ... John W. Taylor is the name of: John Wilkinson Taylor was acting head of UNESCO between 1952 and 1953. ... Brigham Henry Roberts (March 13, 1857 _ September 27, 1933) was born in Warrington, a manufacturing town of Lancashire, England. ... Seventy is a priesthood office in the Melchizedek Priesthood of several denominations within the Latter Day Saint movement, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ...

Involvement with Mormon Fundamentalism

See also: Apostolic United Brethren

He is perhaps best known as the father of Mormon fundamentalism and amongst most fundamentalists is considered an Apostle, Prophet, and President of the Priesthood. The Apostolic United Brethren (hereafter AUB) is a polygamous fundamentalist sect not affiliated with the well-known The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ... Teens From Polygamous Families protested on August 19, 2006 In Salt Lake City Mormon fundamentalism most often describes splinter movements of Mormonism that believe or practice what its adherents consider the fundamental aspects of Mormonism. ...

At the age of 8 he received a Patriarchal Blessing from Joseph Smith, Sr. who was then the Presiding Patriarch of the LDS Church. Within this blessing he was promised he would “be called to responsible stations,” that it would involve having to “receive keys,” as well as “glory and honor” and “worlds of knowledge and power”, and that he would one day “be called the Lord's anointed.” Fundamentalist Mormons see this as a prophesy of the later role he would play as their leader. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and other Mormon denominations, a patriarchal blessing (also called an evangelists blessing) is a special blessing or ordinance given by a patriarch (evangelist) to a church member. ... Joseph Smith, Sr. ... In the Latter Day Saint movement, the Presiding Patriarch (also called Presiding Evangelist, Patriarch over the Church, Patriarch of the Church, or Patriarch to the Church) is a church-wide leadership office within the priesthood. ...

According to an account given by his son Lorin C. Woolley: When John Taylor was in hiding there were very few homes in which he felt his safety was secure, and very few people in whom he placed his confidence. John Woolley was one of these men, and his son Lorin acted as a messenger and sometimes a bodyguard for President John Taylor. It was in John Woolley's home that Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith, Jr. allegedly visited President Taylor on the night of September 26th, 1886, and on the following day set five men apart (including John, his son, and George Q. Cannon) as Apostles, with a special commission to keep alive Celestial Plural Marriage, and the authority to set apart others similarly. This account is highly disputed by most Latter-day Saint scholars. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... John Taylor (November 1, 1808 – July 25, 1887) was the third President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1880 to 1887. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Joseph Smith, Jr. ... George Q. Cannon George Quayle Cannon (January 11, 1827–April 21, 1901) (commonly known as George Q. Cannon) was an early member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and served in the First Presidency under four successive Presidents of... This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ...

In 1890 LDS church President Wilford Woodruff issued what has become known as The Manifesto, officially calling for an end to the practice of plural marriage by church members. Because certain members (Woolley being among them) did not take it seriously, in 1904 another proclamation, sometimes called the second manifesto, was put forth by church President Joseph F. Smith, which stated that those who did not cease the continuation of the practice would be excommunicated from the church. Again, Woolley did not comply and was excommunicated, from the church. Wilford Woodruff (March 1, 1807 – September 2, 1898) was the fourth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), from 1889 until his death in 1898. ... The 1890 Manifesto, sometimes simply called The Manifesto, was a historical statement which officially renounced the practice of polygamy in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church; see also Mormon). Signed on by LDS President Wilford Woodruff in September of 1890, the Manifesto was a... Joseph Fielding Smith, Sr. ...

Some Fundamentalists^[Who?] believe that the excommunication was just a public act that was not privately accepted by Smith and that Woolley actually became Smith's rightful successor in the prophetic office. Some Fundamentalists^[Who?] believe Woolley was a successor to Wilford Woodruff or John Taylor instead.^[2] Wilford Woodruff (March 1, 1807 – September 2, 1898) was the fourth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), from 1889 until his death in 1898. ... John Taylor (November 1, 1808 – July 25, 1887) was the third President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1880 to 1887. ...

Woolley died in 1928, leaving his son Lorin as his successor as leader of the Fundamentalists. Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Notes

1. ^ According to the Mormon Fundamentalism website. Retrieved on 2006-11-02.
2. ^ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not accept John Woolley as a successor to Smith, Woodruff, or Taylor.

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