Excerpt from The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 16: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women Who Are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time Erty to the common cause - the building up of Zion; and in return was to receive from and manage for the Church a portion of its property called a stewardship; all gains reverting to a general fund, from which every member would derive his or her support. Colonization now began on an extensive scale, both at Kirtland, O., and at Independence, Jackson county, Mo., the site chosen for the City of Zion. A Mormon colony settled in Jackson county during the summer of 1831 and laid the foundations of a city and temple. Ohio and Missouri were then new States, the latter bordering on the wilderness. Lands were pur chased and improved, houses built, mercantile stores and vari0us industries established, and papers published in which the doctrines and pur poses of the Saints were heralded to the world. Alt the same time their missionaries traveled through various parts of the Union and into the Canadian provinces, preaching, proselyting and counseling their converts to gather to Zion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.