Knight of the Kingdom

Download or read book Knight of the Kingdom written by Conway Ballantyne Sonne and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Richard Ballantyne (1817-1898), who became a Mormon convert in 1842, followed shortly by his widowed mother and the rest of the family. They immigrated in 1843 from Scotland (via New Orleans) to Nauvoo, Illinois, and moved to Salt Lake valley in 1848. Richard married three times (in 1847, and polygamously in 1855 and 1856). In Utah, he began a Sunday School and the Church accepted and sponsored the Sunday School plan. In early 1853, Richard was called to be one of several missionaries who sailed for India, where he worked in the Madras District. They had some initial success, but also much publicity against them. Late in 1854, very ill, Richard was released to go home (via England). In England he was placed in charge of a company of Mormons immigrating to Utah; they arrived in September 1855. He moved to Eden and then Ogden, Utah, eventually spending much of his time with the Sunday School program of the Church.