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Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer and others formally organized the Church of Christ, starting the Latter Day Saint movement.
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Joseph Smith
Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement (1805–1844)
Joseph Smith Jr. was an American religious and political leader and the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. Publishing the Book of Mormon at the age of 24, Smith attracted tens of thousands of followers by the time of his death fourteen years later. The…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Oliver Cowdery
American Mormon leader (1806–1850)
Oliver H. P. Cowdery was an American religious leader who, with Joseph Smith, was an important participant in the formative period of the Latter Day Saint movement between 1829 and 1836. He was the first baptized Latter Day Saint, one of the Three Witnesses to the Book of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
David Whitmer
Book of Mormon witness (1805–1888)
David Whitmer was an early leader of the Latter Day Saint Movement and one of the Three Witnesses to the gold plates of the Book of Mormon. Whitmer later distanced himself from Joseph Smith and was excommunicated from the church in 1838, but continued to affirm his testimony of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints)
Original name of the Latter Day Saint church founded by Joseph Smith in the 1820s
The Church of Christ was the original name of the Latter Day Saint church founded by Joseph Smith. Organized informally in 1829 in upstate New York and then formally on April 6, 1830, it was the first organization to implement the principles found in Smith's newly published Book…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Latter Day Saint movement
Religious movement
The Latter Day Saint movement is the collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian Restorationist movement founded by Joseph Smith in the late 1820s.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)