Kirtland Temple, Ohio

Photo by George Ed. Anderson, Springville, Utah. KIRTLAND TEMPLE, OHIO East fork of the Chagrin river, in the foreground. The corner stone of the Kirtland temple, the first temple erected by the Latter-day Saints, was laid in July, 1833. The finished structure, now no longer owned by the people who built it, nor used for the pur- poses for which temples are erected, was dedicated in March, 1836. The Indian missionaries (Doctrine and Covenants, 32) found in Kirtland, the Campbellite community who had many of their temporal affairs in common. Sidney Rigdon, one of the community, a reformed Baptist preacher, was converted, and after two or three weeks labor by the missionaries, they baptized some 127 converts, to whom was later added more than one thousand.