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Harvey G. Whitlock (1809–1874)
Early convert, missionary, possessed after being ordained to the High Priesthood, Missouri refugee, follows Sidney Rigdon, Salt Lake City doctor, in and out of LDS and RLDS churches.
Born   Harvey Gilman Whitlock, 1809 in Massachusetts   Revelations, 81.
Died   1874 in Bishop Creek, Inyo Co., California    
Mission   In April or May 1831, Harvey and Edson Fuller preach in Amherst, Ohio. Lyman Wight (h) (swh), Samuel H. Smith, and others arrive "a few days later." They hold daily meetings "and in a few weeks they baptized about fifty in the vicinity."   Autobiography of Joel Hills Johnson, 3, 4 in New Mormon studies.
June 1831 conference   June [3–6], 1831 attends first Kirtland conference as an elder.   Minutes of June [3–6], 1831
High Priesthood   June [3–4], 1831 ordained to the High Priesthood by Joseph Smith. Exhorts. Possessed, Joseph performs exorcism.   Lyman's Vision and the Man of Sin
Visits Jackson county  

June 7, 1831 called to visit Jackson county with David Whitmer, "and preach by the way unto this same land."

 

D&C 52:25

Move to Missouri   Moves family to Missouri and joins the Whitmer branch.   Revelations, Whitmer settlement was an early target of mob action in 1833. Outrage in Jackson County (1)
Mob target   July 23, 1833 one of nine church leaders required by the mob to leave Jackson county before January 1, 1834.   ¶ Missouri Persecutions (2)
Excommunicated   November 16, 1835 [1835] excommunicated.   Revelations, 81.
Repentant   November 16, 1835 Joseph receives a letter of contrition of Harvey, and in response, receives a revelation directing Harvey to forsake his sins and come to Kirtland.   1834–1836 history, 130–133.

Revelation of November 16, 1835
Rebaptized   January 30, 1836 First Presidency resolves that Harvey be rebaptized and ordained to the High Priesthood.   Minutes of January 30, 1836
Withdraws   1838 withdraws from the church   Revelations, 81.
Iowa   1840 living in Cedar county, Iowa.   Revelations, 81.
Joins Sidney Rigdon   1846 member of Sidney Rigdon's Grand Council    
Salt Lake doctor   1850 Salt Lake City doctor, with a household of ten and land worth $100.   Utah federal census cited in Who's who, 327.
Thief?   February 1851 arrested as an accessory to theft.   Revelations, 81.
Rebaptized   [1858] rebaptized.   Revelations, 81.
Speaker   June 27, 1858 addresses the Saints in the bowery in Salt Lake (remarks not recorded). Brigham tells Wilford that Harvey, "spoke well but any man that would speak a few words in the power of God would do more good."   JD 7:54, WWJ 5:200, 201.
Doctor   August 15, 1858 "Harvy Whitlock is a Doctor of the old school."   WWJ 5:208.
Springville   January 28, 1859 in Springville, Ezra T. Benson and Erastus Snow are informed that Harvey has been cut off.   Brigham Young Office Journals on New Mormon studies.
False information about Sidney   April 19, 1859 testifies that after Nauvoo, Sidney was involved in an "arrangement for temporary swapping wives" (not true).   Journal History qtd. in Sidney Rigdon, 373.
RLDS   1864 moves to California and joins RLDS church, serves as president of the Pacific Slope region.   Revelations, 81.
Excommunicated   1868 excommunicated from RLDS church.    
   
   
    Family    
Wife   Minerva Abbot, b. 1810 in Connecticut, md. by 1830   Revelations, 81.
Children   Almon
Sally
Sclota
Herman
Hame
Osca
Maloni
Parintha
   
   
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