Statistics by Decade: 1840-1849
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)
(1841)
*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.