1840-1849
Statistical Information
Membership: 48,160
Membership Growth:
Converts Baptized:
Missionaries Called: 1,454
Missionaries Serving (avg/yr): 152
Number of Wards:
Number of Stakes:
Number of Missions:
Number of Temples: 2
Major Events in this decade of Church History:
Temples Built:
1 Total
Nauvoo Temple (1846)*
*Later destroyed by arson fire in 1848
Apostle Deaths:
Joseph Smith (1844)
Hyrum Smith (1844)
Apostles Called:
Willard Richards (1840)
Lyman Wight (1841)
Amasa M. Lyman (1842)
Ezra T. Benson (1846)
Charles C. Rich (1849)
Lorenzo Snow (1849)
Erastus Snow (1849)
Franklin D. Richards (1849)
*William Smith excommunicated (1845), John E. Page excommunicated (1846), Lyman Wight excommunicated (1849)
Church Leadership:
(1849)
Heber C. Kimball
Brigham Young
Willard Richards
Orson Hyde
Parley P. Pratt
John Taylor
Wilford Woodruff
George A. Smith
Orson Pratt
Amasa M. Lyman
Ezra T. Benson
Charles C. Rich
Lorenzo Snow
Erastus Snow
Franklin D. Richards
(1841)
Sidney Rigdon
Joseph Smith Jr.
Hyrum Smith
William Law
Brigham Young
Heber C. Kimball
Orson Hyde
Parley P. Pratt
William Smith
Orson Pratt
John Taylor
John E. Page
Wilford Woodruff
George A. Smith
Willard Richards
Lyman Wight
*Hyrum Smith was ordained an Apostle and made Assistant President of the Church in 1841. He was not added to the Quorum but served with Joseph in the First Presidency.
