--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 23 number: 8 published: 1920-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"Kirtland Temple, Ohio,\" *Improvement Era* 23, no. 8 (June 1920): 700." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera238unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera238unse start_page: 700 end_page: 700 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera238unse publication_year: 1920 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # 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.