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from about age 14 in a Salem, Massachusetts retail store for Mr. Benjamin Cox. With the aid of an older brother, John
Gillingham Felt, he at age 21 set up a tailor shop with multiple employees and was then involved in trade with China and parts of west Africa. Felt's ancestry in Salem was deep and well-connected having descended from George Felt who first arrived in Salem in the year 1628 with
343:(the name then used by the Utah Territorial Militia) with the rank of colonel and standing on the general staff. In 1854 Felt entered the practice of plural marriage, marrying Sarah Strange as his second wife. In 1854-1856 Felt served as a missionary in New York City where he served as assistant editor of
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February 1847 Felt was appointed president of the St. Louis Branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. By this time the branch numbered well over 800 members. Largely due to emigration from elsewhere but also as a result of baptisms there the branch was growing even more. In March
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in present LDS Church organization) was organized by Felt into six ecclesiastical wards with governing council of twelve bishops to oversee emigration and relief for the poor. With areas outside St. Louis added to the
Conference's jurisdiction it soon had between 3,000 and 10,000 Latter-day Saints
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Gravois. Felt also oversaw the purchasing of supplies for and the chartering of steamboats for the British Mormons who would stop in St. Louis on their way to Utah. Another major activity of Felt while in St. Louis was giving priesthood blessings, visiting and comforting the sick, and other
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Nathaniel Felt and his wife the former Hannah Reeves. The older Felt died when Nathaniel H. was seven. Felt studied in local schools and was a member of the Divisionary Corps of Independent Cadets until age 15 when he became an apprentice to a tailor in Lynn, Massachusetts. He also clerked
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and primarily consisted of wagons carrying goods bought by the Church to try to avoid paying exorbitant rates charged by some merchants in Utah. Nathaniel would have been familiar with such enterprises having descended from great grandfather
Jonathan Felt whose sons David and John Felt ran a
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After serving as St Louis conference president for slightly more than three years, Felt was released in 1850 and started west with his wife and three children. He crossed the plains in the Edward Hunter
Company which included the Heywood and Woolley Church Merchandise Train managed by
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after 1854 (including a formal "remonstration" to congress) and he watched political matters closely. He was elected several times as either alderman or member of the city council in Salt Lake. As he aged his health declined, but he maintained employment as a cashier for
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in his hometown. His personality tended toward sharing news and opinion through letters; many of which have been saved by the
Historians Office of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and others. He crusaded vigorously in favor of the practice of
249:. who became a lifelong associate of Nathaniel and Eliza. In March 1844, Felt was ordained president of the Salem Branch of the Church by Erastus Snow. In late spring 1844, Brigham Young sent his teenage daughter Vilate from
336:. In the same year Felt was called as a traveling bishop of the LDS Church, with the assignment to instruct local bishops in various locations on the proper methods of processing and recording tithing and other donations.
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such things during the cholera epidemic after the great fire of 1849. In the end, Felt proved himself valuable to
Brigham Young who used him for many other assignments in the following years.
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president of the United States. When Smith was murdered at Carthage, Illinois, Brigham Young returned to Nauvoo and became leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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In late Spring 1845 the Felts moved to Nauvoo and donated carpets and furniture to be used as furnishings in the Nauvoo Temple. While in Nauvoo he was the tailor for Brigham Young,
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with Augusta Adams Cobb to live with the Felts in Salem in order for her to obtain a proper education. By June 1844, Brigham Young and
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and a large patent document from England. Nathaniel Henry Felt died at his home in Salt Lake City on Thursday, January 27, 1887.
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under John Taylor. During Felt's journey back from New York he intercepted the tragic handcart companies of 1856 including the
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and Jonathan C. Felt. In turn this article is largely the same as Fred E. Woods, "Nathaniel H. Felt: An Essex County Man," in
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Felt arrived in Utah in October 1850 and was appointed an alderman of
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were frequent visitors in the Felt home during their efforts to elect
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Regional Studies In Latter-day Saint Church History in New England
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On September 17, 1843 the Felts were baptized as members of the
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