Samuel Bent (July 19, 1778 – August 16, 1846
) was a member of the
Council of Fifty and a leader in the early years of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Bent was born in
Barre,
Worcester County, Massachusetts.
He lived in New York and Michigan through much of his life and was a Congregationalist and Presbyterian. He married Mary Hilbourne when he was 27, and the couple had four children. In January 1833, he was baptized a member of the
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Life
Carter was born in a sm ...
in
Pontiac, Michigan
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Founde ...
. Within a few days he was serving as a missionary. Bent was a member of
Zion's Camp,
and spent time between Michigan and
Kirtland, Ohio, for the next few years. He attended the
School of the Prophets.
In 1836 he moved to
Liberty, Missouri
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. He was one of the main targets of the mobs in that place that caused the Latter Day Saints to relocate to
Caldwell County, Missouri
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, where Bent was a key figure in the founding of
Far West, Missouri
Far West was a settlement of the Latter Day Saint movement in Caldwell County, Missouri, United States, during the late 1830s. It is recognized as a historic site by the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, added to the register in 1970. It ...
. After his wife Hilbourne died, he married Lettuce Palmer in 1837.
After going to
Nauvoo, Illinois
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, at the time the Latter Day Saints were driven out of Missouri, Bent served as a colonel in the
Nauvoo Legion and as a member of the Council of Fifty. In 1846 he was appointed as president of the Latter Day Saints in
Garden Grove, Iowa, an office he filled until his death.
References
Further reading
*
Andrew Jenson. ''
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia''. Vo. 1, p. 307-308.
External links
Samuel Bent list of contributions L. Tom Perry Special Collections
The L. Tom Perry Special Collections is the special collections department of Brigham Young University (BYU)'s Harold B. Lee Library in Provo, Utah. Founded in 1957 with 1,000 books and 50 manuscript collections, as of 2016 the Library's special ...
,
Harold B. Lee Library,
Brigham Young University
Samuel Bent bond to Joseph Smith, Jr. L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
Samuel Bent account of subscriptions for printing books L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
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1778 births
1846 deaths
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People from Far West, Missouri
People from Nauvoo, Illinois
People from Pontiac, Michigan
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