Sidney Rigdon’s 1845 Organization

The organization of the church established by Sidney Rigdon in an April 1845 conference in Pittsburg. The following lists come from RLDS History of the Church 3:8–12, and can be read here: https://restorationbookstore.org/pages/sidney-rigdon-faction. On this page, I have made it easier to read by removing it from its original paragraphs and placing into list format.

President of the Church:

  • Sidney Rigdon

Counselors to the President of the Church:

  • Samuel James
  • Ebenezer Robinson

Patriarch:

  • Carvel Rigdon

Quorum of Twelve Apostles:

  1. Samuel Bennett
  2. Hugh Herringshaw
  3. Jeremiah Hatch, Jr.
  4. James Blakeslee
  5. Josiah Ells
  6. Benjamin Winchester
  7. William Small
  8. E. R. Swackhammer
  9. D. L. Lathrop
  10. Joseph M. Cole
  11. G. W. Robinson
  12. William E. McLellin

Presidents of Seventies:

  1. A. B. Tomlinson
  2. J. F. Olney
  3. F. Meryweather
  4. Leonard Rich
  5. George T. Leach
  6. J. M. Greig
  7. William Hutchings

standing High Council:

  1. D. Savary
  2. C. A. Beck
  3. John Smith
  4. Thomas J. Lanyon
  5. James Logan
  6. J. A. Forgeus
  7. Matthew Smith
  8. Peter Boyer
  9. Robert Kincaid
  10. Lewis James
  11. James Spratley
  12. John Frazier

Presidency of the High Priests’ Quorum:

  • Austin Cowles
  • William Stanley
  • Hiram Kellogg

Presidency of the Elders’ Quorum:

  • John Duncan
  • Briggs Alden
  • William White

Bishopric and Presidency of the Lesser Priesthood:

  • William Richards
  • T. L. Baker
  • Richard Croxall

presidency over the Pittsburg Stake:

  • Richard Savary
  • James Smith
  • Samuel G. Flagg

Quorum of 73

Read here my commentary on this quorum of 73 men who “had been ordained under his [Sidney’s] hands to be prophets, priests, and kings, unto God.”

The key for the symbols attached to the names below are given as follows: * = member of the First Presidency; # = member of the Quorum of the Twelve.

  1. Josiah Ells #
  2. Richard Croxall 
  3. Samuel James *
  4. Jeremiah Hatch, Jr. #
  5. Carvel Rigdon 
  6. Thomas Lanyon 
  7. Richard Savary 
  8. Leonard Soby 
  9. Ebenezer Robinson *
  10. James M. Greig 
  11. Austin Cowles 
  12. E. R. Swackhammer #
  13. Samuel G. Flagg 
  14. Charles A. Beck 
  15. Edward McClain 
  16. William White 
  17. James Logan 
  18. Benjamin Stafford 
  19. John A. Forgeus 
  20. John Frazier 
  21. William Stanley 
  22. William Small #
  23. Hyrum Kellogg 
  24. Peter Boyer 
  25. George M. Hinkle 
  26. Samuel Bennett # 
  27. Dennis Savary 
  28. James Blakeslee #
  29. Briggs Alden 
  30. Amos B. Tomlinson 
  31. Hugh Herringshaw #
  32. Fred Meryweather 
  33. Timothy L. Baker 
  34. Joseph Parsons 
  35. Christian Seichrist 
  36. George T. Leach 
  37. John Duncan 
  38. John Smith 
  39. William Richards 
  40. James Smith 
  41. Leonard Rich 
  42. George W. Crouse 
  43. Jesse Morgan 
  44. William E. McLellin # 
  45. Lewis James 
  46. Joseph M. Cole #
  47. John W. Rigdon 
  48. George W. Robinson #
  49. James Twist 
  50. Sidney Rigdon * 
  51. Robert Kincaid 
  52. James G. Divine 
  53. Matthew Smith 
  54. James Spratley 
  55. Algernon S. Rigdon 
  56. Jeremiah Cooper 
  57. William Hutchings 
  58. William Brothers 
  59. David L. Lathrop #
  60. Archibald Falconer
  61. Joseph B. Bosworth 
  62. John W. Latson 
  63. George Morey 
  64. John Hardy 
  65. John Evans 
  66. Edward B. Wingate 
  67. Benjamin Winchester #
  68. Abram Burtis 
  69. Joseph H. Newton 
  70. John Robinson 
  71. William D. Wharton 
  72. John F. Olney 
  73. Jacob O. Jenks