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	Sidney Rigdon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sidney Rigdon served as a Regular Baptist clergyman for a number of years in his early life, but became disaffected after becoming associated with Alexander Campbell and Walter Scott, founders of the Campbellite reform.
		Rigdon became a strong advocate of the construction of the Kirtland Temple.
		Rigdon continued to act as church spokesman and gave a speech at the ground-breaking of the original Nauvoo Temple.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sidney_Rigdon (1372 words)

	Rigdonite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sidney Rigdon and other church leaders including Brigham Young and James J. Strang presented themselves as leaders of the movement and established rival church organizations.
		Rigdon's group was initially headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Rigdonites are sometimes referred to as "Pennsylvania Latter Day Saints" or "Pennsylvania Mormons." The primary surviving Rigdonite organization is the Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite).
		Rigdon toured the eastern branches of the church in late 1844 and early 1845, gathering leaders to his cause.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rigdonite (746 words)

	Autobiographical Sketch of Sidney Rigdon to 1830
		Sidney S. Rigdon was born in Saint Clair township, Allegheny county, State of Pennsylvania, on the 19th of February, A. 1793, and was the youngest son of William and Nancy Rigdon.
		Ann Lucy Rigdon, grandmother of Sidney S. Rigdon, was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to the city of Boston, Massachusetts, and was there married to Thomas Baker Rigdon.
		Nancy Rigdon's mother was a native of Freehold, Monmouth county, New Jersey, was born March 16th, 1759, and died October 3d, 1839, and was the eldest daughter of Bryant Gallaher, who was a native of Ireland.
	www.saintswithouthalos.com /b/rigdon_sh.phtml (2839 words)

	DELUSIONS OF SIDNEY RIGDON
		Sidney Rigdon was born February 19, 1793, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, of English and Irish stock.
		Rigdon." Campbell, who had often stated that his restoration represented the New Testament church, was forced to argue that Rigdon's proposal did not represent the practices of the primitive church at Jerusalem.
		Rigdon's conversion and the missionary aftermath which followed transformed Mormonism from a sect of about a hundred members to one which was a major threat to Protestantism on the Western Reserve.
	www.christianchronicler.com /History2/delusions_of_sidney_rigdon.html (1513 words)

	Sidney Rigdon - MormonWiki
		Sidney Rigdon was an influential leader in the early days of Mormonism and was a good friend of the Prophet Joseph Smith.
		In 1820, Rigdon married Phebe Brooks and was ordained as a Baptist minister.
		Rigdon returned immediately after the death of Joseph Smith and offered to be the “guardian of the Church,” but his offer was rejected by the members of the Church (see Choosing a Prophet).
	www.mormonwiki.com /mormonism/Sidney_Rigdon (1040 words)

	Sidney Rigdon : A Portrait of Religious Excess by Richard S. Van Wagoner - book review with relevant links
		Another significant factor to Rigdon's demise in the eyes of Utah Mormons was the conflict between his daughter and Joseph Smith.
		Nancy Rigdon, Sidney's daughter, was seduced by Joseph Smith when Smith was actively acquiring new wives.
		Rigdon's speech included a "war of extermination, for we will follow them, till the last drop of their blood is spilled or else they will have to exterminate us" which led to Apostle Parley P. Pratt's killing of a militiaman and severely wounding another.
	www.lds-mormon.com /sr.shtml (1873 words)

	The Story of the Church - Sidney Rigdon
		Rigdon went into the pool, which, at the deepest, was about four feet, and after a suitable address with prayer, Cahoon came forward and was baptized.
		Sidney Rigdon was born in Saint Clair Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1793, the youngest son of William and Nancy Rigdon.
		Rigdon's family, mother and brothers advanced the unrefuted testimony that Sidney was never a printer; that he never lived in Pittsburgh until 1822, eight years after the Spauldings moved away, and that he then went there as a pastor of a leading church.
	www.centerplace.org /history/misc/soc/soc11.htm (3567 words)

	Sidney Rigdon Home, Public Square, Far West, Log House, Mormon Period, Rich Branch, Miriable, Allred Settlement, Salem, ...
		President Rigdon provided a supper for the sick, and the brethren provided for them like men of God, for they were hungry, having eaten but little for several days, and having traveled eleven miles this day; eight hundred and sixty miles from Kirtland, the way the camp traveled.
		Sidney Rigdon, from a series of portraits of the Church Presidents, painted to hang in the Kirtland Temple, Kirtland, Ohio, 1837
		The schoolhouse, where Sidney Rigdon preached shortly after settling in the area, was moved to the center of the town square for use as a combination church, town hall, and courthouse.5 The Rigdon dwelling, a two-story log cabin directly across the street from the town square, was the village's largest home.
	www.jwha.info /mmff/rigdon.htm (1069 words)

	Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess
		As these schismatics organized themselves into the new Disciples of Christ church, the Reverend Sidney Rigdon was already aligning himself with another, more radical movement, the Latter-day Saints, where he quickly became the LDS prophet's principal advisor and spokesman.
		Rigdon's following gradually dwindled, as the one-time orator took to wandering the streets, taunting indifferent passersby with God's word.
		He is the author of Lehi: Portraits of a Utah Town, Mormon Polygamy: A History, and Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess; and the co-author of A Book of Mormons.
	www.signaturebooks.com /sidney.htm (442 words)

	Church History Volume 1, Chapter 8
		"Sidney Rigdon was born in Saint Clair Township, Allegheny County, State of Pennsylvania, on the l9th of February, A. 1793, and was the youngest son of William and Nancy Rigdon.
		Nancy Rigdon's mother was a native of Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey; was born March 16, 1759, and died October 3, 1839, and was the eldest daughter of Bryant Gallaher, who was a native of Ireland.
		Sidney Rigdon being born in 1793 was only twenty or twenty one years of age at the time.
	www.centerplace.org /history/ch/v1ch08.htm (6197 words)

	Solomon Spalding and Revisionist History
		At first he said he did not remember of ever seeing Rigdon until after 1830 sometime; but after studying it over a while, he said it seemed to him that one time he was over to Smiths, and that there was a stranger he never saw before, and that they said it was Rigdon.
		I saw Rigdon in 1830 preach with the Bible in one hand and the book of Mormon in the other, and he said the Bible is now fulfilled and done away and the Book of Mormon was to take its place.
		Sidney Rigdon, a renegade preacher, was let in during the translation.
	www.mormonstudies.com /history2.htm (3221 words)

	Amazon.com: Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess: Books: Richard S. Van Wagoner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sidney Rigdon was without question one of the most significant forces shaping the early Church, yet because he fell out of favor with the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles following the murder of Joseph Smith, his contributions have been airbrushed out of the collective Mormon consciousness.
		Sidney's experience in the establishment of the church begins to deviate from the standard version during the Nauvoo years, and Van Wagoner's treatment of the battle to establish primacy in the leadership of the Church post-martyrdom is something every Mormon should read.
		Above all, Sidney Rigdon was a brilliant man with a penchant for excess, particularly when it comes to his religious convictions regarding the imminent return of Jesus Christ, the destruction of the world, and the redemption of Zion (which turned out to be in a whole bunch of places in Sidney's world).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1560850302?v=glance (1841 words)

	Sidney Rigdon (1793—1876)
		Fall 1829 Sidney and protege Orson Hyde undertake a mission west and establish churches in Elyria, Lorain County and Florence, Huron County.
		Sidney Rigdon then spoke And said he had bin trying to preach the gospel for a long time and now he had done he thought he should never try to preach again and confessed he was completely used up and advised the people not to contend against it what they had heared
		March 1, 1832 Joseph, Sidney, and Newel to covenant with one another on behalf of the United Firm, and counsel with Saints in Zion.
	www.saintswithouthalos.com /b/rigdon_s.phtml (4682 words)

	Sidney Rigdon Kirtland 1835 D&C Doctrine and Covenants Mormon LDS
		Sidney Rigdon Kirtland 1835 DandC Doctrine and Covenants Mormon LDS
		Below Rigdon's front signature is the second owner's inscription, "Jacob Scott's Book; bought of President Rigdon; Kirtland, Ohio; May, 1837; Price one dollar 50 cents." On the first rear blank flyleaf is the faint first name signature of the third owner "Wingfield" Watson.
		The front and rear manuscript signatures, "Sidney Rigdon's", are on the recto of the folios which are the blank sheets that form the "made" endsheets.
	www.mormonism.com /Rigdon.htm (679 words)

	Sidney Rigdon, General Authority
		Sidney Rigdon was born February 19, 1793 in St.
		The life of Sidney Rigdon from this time forth, until the Nauvoo period, was closely knit with that of the Prophet Joseph Smith.
		It has been the opinion of some of the early brethren that Sidney Rigdon's mind was impaired by the suffering and persecution that he passed through, which accounted in large part for his indifference and opposition in his declining years.
	personal.atl.bellsouth.net /w/o/wol3/rigdos1.htm (692 words)

	Critique of the Spalding Enigma: Alleged Pre-1830 Rigdon/Smith Visits
		In contravention to the unequivocal and presumptive declarations of Sidney Rigdon 1, Joseph Smith 2, and Oliver Cowdery 3 (i.e.
		Sidney Rigdon: In the fall of 1830, "The first house at which they [Pratt and Cowdery] called, was Elder Rigdon's; and after the usual salutations, presented him with the Book of Mormon -- stating it was a revelation from God.
		Rigdon having been ordained, under our hands, visited elder J. Smith, Jr., in the state of New-York, for the first time; and from that time forth, rumor began to circulate, that he (Rigdon) was the author of the Book of Mormon.
	www.scn.org /~bp760/visit.htm (5746 words)

	Rigdon1841.htm
		President RIGDON called a vote of the Church to discountenance the use intirely of all liquors from the Church in Sickness and in health except wine at the Sacraments and for external Washing.
		Rigdon's modern biographer portrays him as a manic depressive, whose periods of despair naturally increased in the unhealthy climate of early Nauvoo.
		Rigdon had once been a prime mover in the formation of Mormonism, and now there were others who enjoyed equal and more influence with the Prophet who could not be interrupted this day to come testify for his counselor.
	www.rickgrunder.com /VanNorman/rigdon41.htm (1210 words)

	Pioneer Preacher Profile: John Rigdon
		Among the prominent preachers of that period, was John Rigdon, who moved into Louisa County at an early day, and travelled and preached from Lee County on the south, to Jones County on the north, and as far west as Keokuk County, in a kind of irregular evangelizing.
		Charles Rigdon in Keokuk County, Levi Fleming in Davis, and H. Hendrix in Wapello, and others, labored as they had opportunity, mostly at their own charges.
		Rigdon and Casteel continued north and established a church in Elma, Washington in 1856.
	ncbible.org /nwh/ProRigdon.html (1484 words)

	H. A. Davis' "Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon" Part 5
		Rigdon has shown himself to be a young visionary -- perhaps so dedicated to his own dreams that he thought nothing of appropriating for himself Spalding's dream and modifying it from a novel to a new religion.
		Rigdon was a very lazy man, he would not make his garden and depended on the church for garden supplies.
		Rigdon, who from his first appearance, was regarded as the 'brains' of the movement, seemed satisfied to be the power behind the throne.
	thedigitalvoice.com /enigma/wrw/1977DavE.htm (7911 words)

	H. A. Davis' "Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon" Part 4
		Sidney Rigdon was born in Library, Pennsylvania, on February 19, 1793.
		Sidney Rigdon, when quite a boy, living with his father some fifteen miles south of Pittsburgh on a farm, was thrown from his horse, his foot entangled in a stirrup and dragged some distance before relieved.
		Rigdon told him that another book of equal authority with the bible, as well authenticated and as ancient, which would give an account of the history of the Indian tribes on this continent, with many other things of great importance to the world, would soon be published.
	thedigitalvoice.com /enigma/wrw/1977DavD.htm (6540 words)

	Excerpt: Sidney Rigdon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The schoolhouse, where Sidney Rigdon preached shortly after settling in the area, was moved to the center of the town square for use as a combination church, town hall, and courthouse.
		Wickliffe Rigdon, later recalling the reaction of Far West residents, wrote that "the women were greatly excited and the men showed great fear as to what might happen." Young Rigdon saw Joseph Smith in front of the Rigdon home loading a weapon.
		Although Rigdon and the other hostages felt they had been betrayed by their own negotiators, what they failed to understand was that the surrender agenda had been dictated with no room for negotiation; the terms were unconditional.
	www.signaturebooks.com /excerpts/sidney.htm (6337 words)

	MORMON CENTRAL - JOSEPH SMITH - LDS TEMPLES - BOOK OF MORMON - MORMONISM
		Rigdon was a thirty-seven years old Reformed Baptist pastor with a congregation in Mentor.
		Rigdon and many others became convinced that they had no authority to minister in the ordinances of God; and that they had not been legally baptized and ordained.
		The early accounts agree that Sidney Rigdon was baptized on a Monday.
	www.xmission.com /~research/central/resth1.htm (900 words)

	1994 Richard VanWagoner Book
		Rigdon taught me during the time that I was under his tuition, and I must say, that I should not have been more surprised if they had accused the Lord Bishop of London of the same things which they charge against Mr.
		Rigdon's numerous and consistent denials to the contrary, speculation regarding his acquisition of a second Spalding manuscript dominated secular investigation into the twentieth century.
		Rigdon's most poignant denial of involvement with the Book of Mormon is found in his 27 May 1839 letter to the Boston Journal [sic] reprinted in Winchester, 25-27.
	solomonspalding.com /Lib/vWg1994a.htm (6240 words)

	The Trial Of Sidney Rigdon First Counselor To The Prophet Joseph Smith
		If they are for Sidney Rigdon; and believe he is the man to be the First President and the leader of this people, we wish them to manifest it as freely as they do in other places; because this will form another party.
		I am informed that Elder Rigdon is sick; I am also informed that he and his party have had a council this morning, and have concluded not to say anything in their own defense, thinking that would be best for them.
		I heard Elder Rigdon's discourse last Sunday, myself; I heard him pour blessings upon this people in an unbounded degree; I heard him encourage the building up of this city and the Temple; he said he was one with us, and left his blessing upon the congregation.
	www.zianet.com /collier/rigdon.htm (2992 words)

	The Trial of Sidney Rigdon, First Counselor to the Prophet Joseph Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Consequently, President Rigdon (who at the time was in good standing) endeavored to have himself established as a guardian to the Church, until the Prophet's children became of age.
		More than anything else, it was the last action that brought on Rigdon's trial and excommunication, for he had violated the law of union, which was the prime objective of the Holy Order.
		And it is for this very reason that the Rigdon trial is so important, for it is the most comprehensive document pertaining to the Fulness of the Priesthood, which survived the Nauvoo period.
	www.zianet.com /collier/dop29.htm (478 words)

	Thomas Campbell's Letter to Sidney Rigdon (1831)
		Soon after the return of Rigdon to Kirtland, in some of his eloquent harangues on the subject of his new faith, he gave a challenge to the world to disprove the new Bible, and the pretensions of its authors.
		Rigdon, and sincerest wish for the happiness of your family.
		It is only necessary to say, that after Rigdon had read a few lines of the above, he hastily committed it to the flames.
	www.mun.ca /rels/restmov/texts/tcampbell/etc/LSR-MU.HTM (1628 words)

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