Daniel Sanborn Miles was an early Mormon

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 leader and member of the Presidency of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Miles was born in Sanbornton

Sanbornton, New Hampshire

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, New Hampshire

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, and married Electa Chamberlin in Ryegate

Ryegate, Vermont

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, Vermont

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, in 1813. Orson Pratt

Orson Pratt

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 and Lyman E. Johnson

Lyman E. Johnson

Lyman Eugene Johnson was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He broke with Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon during the 1837-38 period when schism divided the early Church...

 baptized

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 him in April 1832 in Bath, New Hampshire

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. He joined the Latter Day Saints in Kirtland

Kirtland, Ohio

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, Ohio

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 by 1836, and Joseph Smith, Jr. named him one of the seven Presidents of the Seventy later that year. Sidney Rigdon

Sidney Rigdon

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 and Hyrum Smith

Hyrum Smith

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 ordained him.

Miles moved to Missouri

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 in early 1838, where he was later expelled with the rest of the Mormons. He was among the first Mormons to settle in Nauvoo

Nauvoo, Illinois

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, Illinois

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. He is mentioned in a Doctrine and Covenants

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 revelation

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, D&C 124:138. Miles died in 1845 at the home of Josiah Butterfield

Josiah Butterfield

Josiah Butterfield was an early Mormon leader and member of the Presidency of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints....

from complications from a fall.