The Mormon settlement and the gold rush led to escape of the church and other massacre.
Brigham Young lead the majority of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the "Mormon" church) to Utah after the murder of Joseph Smith.
The Mormon religion is based on a series of golden plates that Joseph Smith Jr. found buried after being lead to them by an angel. Since than the text on the plates were transcribed into the Book of Mormon.
The Mormon Trail led to the Salt Lake Valley in Utah.
No. Alex Koehler is not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church).
The first group of Mormon Pioneers were lead to Utah by Brigham Young.
this church became the church of latter day Saints which was the start of the Mormon religion
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Currently (December 2011) there are 21,072 Bishops (leaders of large Mormon congregations) and 7,610 Branch Presidents (leaders of small Mormon congregations) worldwide. Typically, a Bishop is a man called out of the congregation to lead the congregation for about 5 years. Most Mormon men will serve as a Bishop or as a Bishop's assistant, secretary, or clerk within their lifetime.
Brigham Young lead the first group of Mormon pioneers along the Mormon Trail to Utah in 1846-47. Subsequent groups came over the next 25 years lead by various experienced trail guides. The Mormon Trail followed a similar route to the Oregon Trail until Wyoming, when it went south to Utah rather than north to Oregon.
Joseph Smith Jr, the first modern prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church) lead his followers from New York to Ohio to Missouri to Illinois, where he was killed by an anti-Mormon mob.
We don't know the first Mormon to ever set foot in Cache Valley, but the first Mormon to settle in the Cache Valley was William Gardner in 1852. Four years later, a group of settlers lead by Peter Maughan arrived and began to form the communities that exist there today.