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Charles C. Rich

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Template:Infobox Latter Day Saint biography Charles Coulson Rich (August 21, 1809 – November 17, 1883) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. He led one of the first groups of Mormon pioneers west from Illinois under the leadership of Brigham Young after Joseph Smith's murder.

Rich was chosen and served as an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) under Brigham Young after the Church settled in Utah Territory. President Young asked Rich to open up San Bernardino, California, for settlement in 1850, and Bear Lake Valley, located in Utah and Idaho, in 1863. Rich founded many communities in Bear Lake Valley, including Paris, Montpelier, Fish Haven, Ovid, Georgetown, St. Charles, Bloomington, Bennington, Wardboro, Dingle, Glencoe and Pegram in Idaho, and Garden City, Meadowville, and Laketown in Utah.

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Personal lifeEdit

Rich was born in on August 21, 1809, in Campbell County, Kentucky, to Joseph Rich and Nancy O'Neal.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref> As an adult he reached six feet, 4 inches in height, and was considered a tall man for the time period.Template:Citation needed Rich was baptized into the early Latter Day Saint church on April 1, 1832,<ref name=":0" /> after having been taught by Lyman Wight in 1831.

In 1838, Rich married Sarah D. Pea, whom he had previously proposed to by letter, the two never having met.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Rich followed the church's principle of plural marriage, taking six wives and fathering a total of 51 children.<ref name=":0" />

In 1863, Rich led a party of early Mormons to colonize parts of southeastern Idaho, which at the time was thought to be part of Utah Territory. The communities of Paris and Geneva, Idaho, as well as some other neighboring towns, were under his direction.Template:Citation needed

Rich had six slaves.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Church leadershipEdit

Rich was a leader in Caldwell County, Missouri,Template:Citation needed and fought in the Battle of Crooked River. It was recorded that, during the battle, Rich "dropped his swordTemplate:Spaces... and administered to wounded Apostle David W. Patten, then assuming command and winning the battle."<ref name=":0" /> Rich was also reported to have been shot "while carrying a flag of truce" around Far West, Missouri.<ref name=":0" />

His log house is the only structure from the Mormon period in 1836–38 in Caldwell County to have survived to this day. After the expulsion of the Latter Day Saints from Missouri, Rich settled in Nauvoo, Illinois, where he was made an original member of the Council of Fifty.Template:Citation needed He also served as a member of the Nauvoo High Council,<ref>Doctrine and Covenants 124:132 (LDS Church ed.).</ref> and as Brigadier-General in the Nauvoo Legion.<ref name=":0" />

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After the death of Joseph Smith, Rich followed the leadership of Brigham Young and the surviving Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He and his family migrated to what became Utah with the main body of the church in 1847, leading a pioneer company that arrived October of that year. When Young and the other apostles returned that winter to Winter Quarters, Nebraska, Rich served as a counselor to John Smith, who presided over the early pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley. In October 1848, Rich was made the president of the Salt Lake Stake.<ref>Larson, Andrew Karl, Erastus Snow: The Life of a Missionary and Pioneer for the Early Mormon Church (Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1971) p. 188.</ref>

Brigham Young appointed Rich a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on February 12, 1849.

Rich helped form a Latter-day Saint settlement in San Bernardino, California.<ref name=":0" /> However, this settlement attracted many people who wanted to avoid Young and other leaders of the LDS Church. The members who supported Young were asked to return to Utah in 1857 at the time of the Utah War. At the request of President Brigham Young,Template:Citation needed Charles C. Rich settled the Bear Lake (on the Utah–Idaho border) region and is the namesake of Rich County, Utah<ref name=":0" /> and St. Charles, ID.

In the early 1860s, Rich served as president of the British Mission of the church.

Death and legacyEdit

After suffering from paralysis, Rich died on November 17, 1883, in Paris, Idaho. He has been remembered as "a man of strength and great power of endurance."<ref name=":0" /> His granddaughter, Ada May Rich, became the mother of Laraine Day, who became an actress.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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    Mill burrs sold to Charles C Rich by Brigham Young in exchange for a pair of mules in 1876 to make flour for the people of Bear Lake Valley.

  • Millstone 2 sold to Charles C Rich By Brigham Young.JPG

    They were made in France and moved across the plains by ox cart and used in Salt Lake City prior to being sold to Rich. They were embedded in a walkway south of the Paris Idaho Tabernacle in 1937.

SermonsEdit

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Bust of Charles C. Rich outside of the Paris Idaho Tabernacle.

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ReferencesEdit

  • 2005 Deseret Morning News Church Almanac (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Morning News, 2004).Template:Full citation needed
  • Leonard J. Arrington, Charles C. Rich: Mormon General & Western Frontiersman (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1974)
  • John Henry Evans, Charles Coulson Rich: Pioneer Builder of the West (New York: Macmillan, 1936)

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