Editing Cyrus Teed (section)

===Early life===
Teed was born October 18, 1839, in [[Trout Creek, New York]], to Sarah and Jesse Teed.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fine |first1=Howard D. |title=The Koreshan Unity: The Chicago Years of a Utopian Community |journal=Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society |date=June 1975 |volume=68 |issue=3 |pages=213–227 |jstor=40191160 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40191160}}</ref> Cyrus grew up in [[Utica, New York]], and, after leaving school at age 11, went to work on the [[Erie Canal]] as a driver of the animals that pulled the boats along.<ref>Malone, D. B. (2005). Teed, Cyrus Reed. In P. R. Eisenstadt & L.-E. Moss (Eds.), Encyclopedia of New York State (p. 1539). Syracuse University Press. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A194198728/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=ebsco&xid=26d86227</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Millner |first1=Lyn |title=The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet |date=2015 |publisher=University Press of Florida |location=Gainesville, FL |isbn=9780813061238 |page=15}}</ref> Cyrus was a distant relative of [[Joseph Smith]], founder of the [[Latter Day Saint movement]].{{sfn|Millner|2015|page=xiii}}

Teed studied medicine before opening a medical practice in [[Utica, New York]].<ref name=Hinds471>William Alfred Hinds, ''American Communities and Co-operative Colonies.'' Second Edition. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1908; pg. 471.</ref>