Dan Jones, a friend of Joseph Smith, and a successful missionary with over 2000 baptisms, is born in Halkyn, Wales. (1)
-- 200 years ago - Aug 4, 1810
The Church temporarily withdrew fellowship from Orson Hyde and William E. McLellin, following their criticism of Sidney Rigdon s grammar school. [LDS Church History Vol II] (2)
-- 175 years ago - (Tue) Aug 4, 1835
[Plains] Milo Andrus Company begins crossing plains (3)
-- 155 years ago - Aug 4, 1855
1 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, United Kingdom, "On This Day," https://www.lds.org.uk/show_oda.php
2 - Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
3 - Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847-1868, Chronological Company List, http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompanylist-chronological/0,15765,3968-1,00.html
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