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Mormons in Amboy
Amboy,
IL ,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
41° 42' 49.979988",
-89° 19' 53.100012"
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Illinois State
Historical Marker
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The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was established in 1852 in southern Wisconsin. On April 6, 1860, Joseph Smith II, son of the Morman founder, was ordained President-Prophet of the Reorganized Church. The ceremony was held at Goldman's Hall, which stood on this site at Amboy. A Mormon congregation had been organized here about 1840. Smith headed the Reorganized Church unitl death in 1914. Church Headquarters was founded at Plano, Illinois in 1866, moved to Lamoni, Iowa, in 1881 and to Independence, Missouri, in 1921.
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Mormons Historical Marker Location Map, Amboy Illinois Map
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