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Early Church Figures, 1830–1844
118 people who held a role or were named in a Doctrine and Covenants revelation. Search or filter below; the full spreadsheet (with birthplaces, death dates, and source notes) is available to download.
| Name | Category | Born | Office(s) | D&C | In D&C? | Fate by ~1844 | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jesse Gause | Prophet / First Presidency | 1784 · East Marlborough, Pennsylvania | Counselor in the Presidency of the High Priesthood 1832 (<9 months) | 81 (originally addressed to him; name later replaced with F.G. Williams) | Yes | Excommunicated Dec 1832; left the church | The 'forgotten' first counselor of D&C 81 |
| Frederick G. Williams | Prophet / First Presidency | 1787 · Suffield, Connecticut | 2nd Counselor in First Presidency 1833–37; physician; scribe | 81(calling),90,92,102 | Yes | Removed 1837; excommunicated 1839; reconciled 1840; died in fellowship 1842 | First Presidency counselor and Joseph Smith's physician |
| Sidney Rigdon | Prophet / First Presidency | 1793 · St. Clair Twp., Pennsylvania | Counselor in the First Presidency 1833–44; spokesman; JST scribe | 35,36,37,40,41,44,49,52,58,61,63,70,71,73,76(shared vision),90,93,100,124 | Yes | Faithful through 1844; rejected as leader after the martyrdom; excommunicated Sept 1844 | Chief counselor and orator of the early church |
| Joseph Smith Jr. | Prophet / First Presidency | 1805 · Sharon, Vermont | First Elder 1830; President of the Church 1832–44; Mayor of Nauvoo 1842–44; Lt. Gen., Nauvoo Legion | Recipient of most revelations; e.g. 3,5,6,10,17,18,19,20,21,24,28…; martyrdom in 135 | Yes | Martyred at Carthage | Founding prophet and translator of the Book of Mormon |
| Joseph Smith Sr. | Smith family | 1771 · Topsfield, Massachusetts | Presiding Patriarch & Assistant President 1834; Assistant Counselor, First Presidency 1837 | 4,23,90,124 | Yes | Died faithful 1840 | Family patriarch, one of the Eight Witnesses, first Presiding Patriarch |
| Lucy Mack Smith | Smith family | 1775 · Gilsum, New Hampshire | (no ecclesiastical office); honored 'Mother in Israel' | — | No | Remained faithful; stayed in Nauvoo after 1844 (did not go to Utah) | Matriarch and author of the foundational family memoir |
| Alvin Smith | Smith family | 1798 · Tunbridge, Vermont | (died 1823, before the church was organized) | 137:5 (posthumous vision) | Yes | Predeceased the church (died 1823) | His death shaped doctrine on salvation of the dead |
| Hyrum Smith | Smith family | 1800 · Tunbridge, Vermont | 2nd Counselor First Presidency 1837; Presiding Patriarch & Assistant President 1841 | 11,23,124(91–96),135 | Yes | Martyred at Carthage | Joseph's brother, Patriarch, Eight Witness, and co-martyr |
| Sophronia Smith McCleary | Smith family | 1803 · Tunbridge, Vermont | (no office) | — | No | Remained in Illinois; later joined the RLDS Church | Eldest sister of Joseph Smith |
| Samuel H. Smith | Smith family | 1808 · Tunbridge, Vermont | Elder; among the first missionaries 1830; High Council 1834 | 23,52,75 | Yes | Died faithful weeks after the martyrdom (fever) | One of the first missionaries and an Eight Witness |
| Katharine Smith Salisbury | Smith family | 1813 · Lebanon, New Hampshire | (no office) | — | No | Remained in Illinois; later joined the RLDS Church | Younger sister and long-lived witness |
| Don Carlos Smith | Smith family | 1816 · Norwich, Vermont | President, High Priests Quorum 1836; first editor of the Times and Seasons 1839–41; Brig. Gen., Nauvoo Legion | 124:133 | Yes | Died faithful 1841 (pneumonia) | Youngest brother and Nauvoo's first newspaper editor |
| Emma Hale Smith | Smith family / Relief Society | 1804 · Harmony, Pennsylvania | Book of Mormon scribe; hymnal compiler 1835; first President, Nauvoo Relief Society 1842 | 25 | Yes | Widowed 1844; remained in Nauvoo; later supported the RLDS Church | The 'elect lady' of D&C 25 and Relief Society founder |
| Martin Harris | Book of Mormon Witnesses | 1783 · Easton, New York | High Priest 1831; Kirtland High Council 1834; Three Witnesses | 3,5,10,17,19 | Yes | Excommunicated 1837; long separated; rebaptized in Utah 1870 | Financier of the Book of Mormon; a Three Witness who never denied his testimony |
| Christian Whitmer | Book of Mormon Witnesses | 1798 · Dauphin County, Pennsylvania | Teacher 1830; Far West High Council | — | No | Died faithful 1835 (before the family's 1838 break) | Eldest Whitmer son and an Eight Witness |
| Hiram Page | Book of Mormon Witnesses | 1800 · Vermont | Teacher 1830 | 28 (his seer-stone 'revelations' rebuked) | Yes | Left with the Whitmers after 1838; affirmed the witness | An Eight Witness; occasion of D&C 28 |
| Jacob Whitmer | Book of Mormon Witnesses | 1800 · Pennsylvania | (local roles) | — | No | Excommunicated 1838; never returned but affirmed the witness | An Eight Witness |
| Oliver Cowdery | Book of Mormon Witnesses | 1806 · Wells, Vermont | Second Elder 1830; Three Witnesses; Assistant President 1834; Church Recorder | 6,7,8,9,13,17,18,20,21,23,24,26,28,110… | Yes | Excommunicated 1838; out of the church in this window (rebaptized 1848) | Chief scribe of the Book of Mormon, Second Elder, and a Three Witness |
| Peter Whitmer Jr. | Book of Mormon Witnesses | 1809 · Fayette, New York | Lamanite missionary 1830–31; Far West High Council | 16,30(5–8) | Yes | Died faithful 1836 (tuberculosis) | Youngest Whitmer son, Eight Witness, and early missionary |
| John Whitmer | Book of Mormon Witnesses / Missouri leadership | 1802 · Pennsylvania | First Church Historian 1831; editor, Messenger and Advocate 1835; counselor in the Missouri presidency | 15,26,30(9–11),47,69,70 | Yes | Excommunicated 1838; kept the history records; affirmed the witness | First official Church Historian and an Eight Witness |
| David Whitmer | Book of Mormon Witnesses / Missouri leadership | 1805 · near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania | Three Witnesses; President of the Church in Missouri (Zion) 1834–38 | 14,17,18,30,52 | Yes | Excommunicated 1838; never returned; affirmed his testimony to the end | Longest-lived of the Three Witnesses |
| Peter Whitmer Sr. | Whitmer family | 1773 · Pennsylvania | (no prominent office) | — | No | Left with the family after 1838 | His Fayette home was the site of the church's April 1830 organization |
| Mary Musselman Whitmer | Whitmer family | 1778 · Germany | (no office) | — | No | Left with the family after 1838 | Reported an unofficial vision of the plates ('ninth witness') |
| Joseph Knight Sr. | Knight family | 1772 · Oakham, Massachusetts | Colesville branch member | 12,23(6–7) | Yes | Died faithful during the exodus (1847) | Early patron who materially supported the translation |
| Newel Knight | Knight family | 1800 · Marlborough, Vermont | High Priest; Missouri High Council; Colesville company leader | 52,54,56,72,124 | Yes | Died faithful during the exodus (1847) | Subject of what Joseph Smith called the church's first miracle |
| Joseph Knight Jr. | Knight family | 1808 · Halifax, Vermont | Priest; emigrant-company captain 1846 | — | No | Faithful; gathered to Utah | Faithful early convert who emigrated to Utah |
| Isaac Morley | Missouri (Zion) leadership | 1786 · Montague, Massachusetts | Counselor to Bishop Partridge; Patriarch 1837; founder of Manti, Utah | 52,64 | Yes | Remained faithful; died in Utah | Kirtland communal leader and Missouri bishopric counselor |
| Algernon Sidney Gilbert | Missouri (Zion) leadership | 1789 · New Haven County, Connecticut | Church agent and keeper of the storehouse in Missouri; elder 1831 | 53,57,61,64,82,90 | Yes | Died faithful 1834 (Zion's Camp cholera) | Commercial agent who ran the Lord's storehouse in Zion |
| William W. Phelps | Missouri (Zion) leadership | 1792 · Hanover, New Jersey | Church printer 1831; counselor in the Missouri presidency | 55,57,58,70 (and 85, a letter to him) | Yes | Excommunicated 1838; reconciled/rebaptized 1840; died faithful in Utah | First church printer and hymn-writer ('The Spirit of God,' 'Praise to the Man') |
| Edward Partridge | Missouri (Zion) leadership | 1793 · Pittsfield, Massachusetts | First Bishop of the Church 1831; Bishop in Missouri 1831–40 | 36,41,42,50,51,52,57,58,60,64,82,115,124 | Yes | Died faithful 1840 (tarred & feathered 1833; imprisoned 1838) | The church's first bishop; administered consecration in Zion |
| John Corrill | Missouri (Zion) leadership | 1794 · Massachusetts | Counselor to Bishop Partridge; keeper of the storehouse 1837; Missouri legislator 1838 | 50,52 | Yes | Left the church; testified against Joseph 1838; excommunicated 1839; wrote a critical history | Assistant bishop who became a measured dissenter and historian |
| John Johnson | Kirtland leadership & bishopric | 1778 · Chesterfield, New Hampshire | Elder/High Priest 1833; Kirtland High Council 1834; united firm member | 96 | Yes | Removed from the high council 1837; drifted from activity; stayed in Kirtland | Host of the Hiram farm revelation site |
| Reynolds Cahoon | Kirtland leadership & bishopric | 1790 · Cambridge, New York | Kirtland Temple building committee; counselor to Bishop Whitney; stake presidency counselor | 52,61,75,94 | Yes | Remained faithful; to Utah | Member of the Kirtland Temple committee |
| Newel K. Whitney | Kirtland leadership & bishopric | 1795 · Marlborough, Vermont | Bishop of Kirtland 1831; later Presiding Bishop of the Church 1847 | 63,64,72,78,84,93,96,104,117 | Yes | Remained faithful; to Utah | Second bishop; his store housed the School of the Prophets |
| David W. Patten | Quorum of the Twelve (1835) | 1799 · Vermont | Apostle (ord. Feb 15, 1835) | 114; referenced posthumously in 124 | Yes | Faithful; died 1838 | First Latter-day Saint apostle to die a martyr's death |
| Thomas B. Marsh | Quorum of the Twelve (1835) | 1800 · Acton, Massachusetts | President of the Quorum of the Twelve 1835–38 (ord. Apr 26, 1835) | 31,52,56,75,112 | Yes | Apostatized 1838; excommunicated 1839; rebaptized 1857 (rank not restored) | First President of the Twelve; his 1838 apostasy became a cautionary tale |
| Brigham Young | Quorum of the Twelve (1835) | 1801 · Whitingham, Vermont | Apostle (ord. Feb 14, 1835); President of the Twelve 1840; 2nd Church President 1847 | 126; named in 124 | Yes | Faithful; led the church after the martyrdom | Directed the Twelve's rise and the westward migration |
| Heber C. Kimball | Quorum of the Twelve (1835) | 1801 · Sheldon, Vermont | Apostle (ord. Feb 14, 1835); opened the British Mission 1837; 1st Counselor, First Presidency 1847 | 124 | Yes | Faithful | Pioneered the pivotal 1837 British mission |
| Orson Hyde | Quorum of the Twelve (1835) | 1805 · Oxford, Connecticut | Apostle (ord. Feb 15, 1835); dedicated the Holy Land 1841 | 68,75,100,102,103,124 | Yes | Wavered 1838, dropped May 1839, restored June 1839; faithful | The one 1838 apostolic dissenter who repented and rejoined |
| William E. McLellin | Quorum of the Twelve (1835) | 1806 · Smith County, Tennessee | Apostle (ord. Feb 15, 1835) | 66,75 (context of 67) | Yes | Excommunicated 1838; never returned; organized rival churches | Prominent apostle turned persistent critic |
| Luke S. Johnson | Quorum of the Twelve (1835) | 1807 · Pomfret, Vermont | Apostle (ord. Feb 15, 1835); later a bishop in Utah | 68,75 | Yes | Excommunicated 1838; rebaptized 1846 (not re-ordained apostle); died faithful | Original apostle who left and returned as a bishop |
| Parley P. Pratt | Quorum of the Twelve (1835) | 1807 · Burlington, New York | Lamanite missionary 1830–31; Apostle (ord. Feb 21, 1835) | 32,49,50,52,97,103,124 | Yes | Faithful (brief 1837 estrangement) | Founding apostle and author ('Voice of Warning') |
| John F. Boynton | Quorum of the Twelve (1835) | 1811 · Bradford, Massachusetts | Apostle (ord. Feb 15, 1835) | — | No | Dropped from the Twelve 1837; excommunicated 1837; became a scientist/inventor | Apostle who left over the Kirtland banking failure |
| Lyman E. Johnson | Quorum of the Twelve (1835) | 1811 · Pomfret, Vermont | Apostle (ord. Feb 14, 1835 — among the first ordained) | 68,75 | Yes | Excommunicated 1838; never returned; became a lawyer | One of the first apostles ordained; permanently left |
| Orson Pratt | Quorum of the Twelve (1835) | 1811 · Hartford, New York | Apostle (ord. Apr 26, 1835); later Church Historian | 34,52,75,124,136 | Yes | Brief excommunication 1842, rebaptized 1843; faithful | Foremost early theologian/mathematician |
| William Smith | Quorum of the Twelve (1835) | 1811 · Royalton, Vermont | Apostle (ord. Feb 1835); Presiding Patriarch 1845 | 124 | Yes | An Apostle in 1844; excommunicated 1845; later Strangite, then RLDS | The Prophet's brother; contested succession after 1844 |
| Lyman Wight | Quorum of the Twelve (1841) | 1796 · Fairfield, New York | High Priest 1831; Adam-ondi-Ahman stake president 1838; Apostle (ord. Apr 1841) | 52,103,124 | Yes | Faithful in 1844; led a colony to Texas after the martyrdom; excommunicated 1848 | The 'Wild Ram of the Mountains' |
| John E. Page | Replacement Apostles (1838–41) | 1799 · Trenton, New York | Apostle (ord. Dec 1838) | 118 | Yes | Faithful in 1844; excommunicated 1846; later Strangite | Called to fill the Twelve; failed to sustain his standing after 1844 |
| Willard Richards | Replacement Apostles (1838–41) | 1804 · Hopkinton, Massachusetts | Apostle (ord. Apr 1840 in England); Church Historian; 2nd Counselor, First Presidency 1847 | 118,124,135 | Yes | Faithful; the only man in Carthage Jail unharmed at the martyrdom | Eyewitness scribe of the martyrdom |
| Wilford Woodruff | Replacement Apostles (1838–41) | 1807 · Farmington, Connecticut | Apostle (ord. Apr 1839); 4th Church President 1889 (issued the 1890 Manifesto) | 118,124 | Yes | Faithful | Diarist of the Restoration and later church president |
| John Taylor | Replacement Apostles (1838–41) | 1808 · Milnthorpe, England | Apostle (ord. Dec 1838); editor, Times and Seasons / Nauvoo Neighbor; 3rd Church President 1880 | 118,124,135(author) | Yes | Faithful; severely wounded at Carthage | Survivor of the Carthage attack; later church president |
| George A. Smith | Replacement Apostles (1838–41) | 1817 · Potsdam, New York | Apostle (ord. Apr 1839, age 21); later 1st Counselor to Brigham Young 1868 | 124 | Yes | Faithful | Youngest of the apostolic cohort; a Smith-family cousin |
| Hazen Aldrich | First Seven Presidents of the Seventy | 1797 · Vermont | President of the Seventy 1835; returned to the high priests 1837 | — | No | Later left; associated with the Strangites | An original president of the Seventy |
| Joseph Young | First Seven Presidents of the Seventy | 1797 · Hopkinton, Massachusetts | Senior President of the Seventy 1835 (long-serving) | — | No | Faithful; to Utah | Senior president of the Seventy for decades |
| Levi W. Hancock | First Seven Presidents of the Seventy | 1803 · Springfield, Massachusetts | Elder 1831; one of the First Seven Presidents of the Seventy | 52 | Yes | Faithful; to Utah | Long-serving president of the Seventy |
| Lyman R. Sherman | First Seven Presidents of the Seventy | 1804 · Monkton, Vermont | President of the Seventy 1835 | 108 (addressed to him) | Yes | Faithful; died early 1839 | Recipient of D&C 108; named to the Twelve but died before ordination |
| Zebedee Coltrin | First Seven Presidents of the Seventy | 1804 · Ovid, New York | Elder 1831; president of the Seventy 1835 (returned to high priests 1837) | 52 | Yes | Faithful; to Utah | An original president of the Seventy |
| Sylvester Smith | First Seven Presidents of the Seventy | 1806 · Tyringham, Massachusetts | President of the Seventy 1835 (returned to high priests 1837) | 75 | Yes | Later disciplined/estranged | President of the Seventy who clashed with Joseph on Zion's Camp |
| Leonard Rich | First Seven Presidents of the Seventy | unverified | President of the Seventy 1835; returned to the high priests 1837 | — | No | Later fell away | An original president of the Seventy |
| Emer Harris | Early elders & missionaries | 1781 · Cambridge, New York | Elder | 75 | Yes | Faithful; to Utah | Mission-called elder; brother of Martin Harris |
| Leman Copley | Early elders & missionaries | 1781 · Connecticut | (no lasting office) | 49,54 (his broken covenant) | Yes | Left; rescinded his consecration 1831; later minor splinters | Ex-Shaker whose reneged land covenant forced the Colesville move |
| Hezekiah Peck | Early elders & missionaries | 1782 · Guilford, New York | Priest 1832; Bishop of the Nauvoo Tenth Ward 1844 | — | No | Remained faithful | Stalwart Colesville convert and later Nauvoo ward bishop |
| Vienna Jaques | Early elders & missionaries | 1787 · Beverly, Massachusetts | (laywoman; consecrated her wealth); among the first women endowed | 90(28–31) | Yes | Faithful; emigrated to Utah; died at age 96 | One of the very few women named in the D&C, singled out for her consecration |
| Ezra Thayre | Early elders & missionaries | 1791 · Randolph, Vermont | Elder; Seventy 1835; Adam-ondi-Ahman high council 1838; Council of Fifty 1844 | 33,52,56 | Yes | Stayed in Nauvoo; rejected Brigham Young; rebaptized 1854, then RLDS 1860 | An early convert; occasion of the rebuke in D&C 56 |
| Ezra Booth | Early elders & missionaries | 1792 · Newtown, Connecticut | High Priest 1831; mission to Missouri | 52 (apostasy alluded to in 64) | Yes | Apostatized Sept 1831; wrote nine anti-Mormon letters | First prominent apostate and published critic |
| John Murdock | Early elders & missionaries | 1792 · Kortright, New York | Elder/High Priest; Missouri high councilor; later Patriarch | 52,99 | Yes | Remained faithful; died in Utah | Faithful missionary-elder |
| Symonds Ryder | Early elders & missionaries | 1792 · Hartford, Vermont | Elder | 52:31 (name famously misspelled 'Symonds Ryder') | Yes | Left by Sept 1831; linked to the March 1832 tar-and-feather mob | Convert-turned-apostate tied to the tarring of Joseph Smith |
| Solomon Hancock | Early elders & missionaries | 1793 · Springfield, Massachusetts | Elder; missionary | 52 | Yes | Faithful; died 1847 | Mission-called elder (D&C 52) |
| Wheeler Baldwin | Early elders & missionaries | 1793 · New York | Elder/High Priest 1831; presiding elder, Big Blue branch 1832 | 52 | Yes | Later Cutlerite (1854), then RLDS (1859) | Early Missouri branch elder |
| Simeon Carter | Early elders & missionaries | 1794 · Killingworth, Connecticut | Elder; missionary; high councilor | 52,75 | Yes | Faithful; died in Utah | Mission-called elder (D&C 52, 75) |
| Selah J. Griffin | Early elders & missionaries | 1795 · Virginia | Elder; Second Quorum of the Seventy 1835; Kirtland high council; blacksmith | 52,56 | Yes | Later standing unverified | Mission-called elder repositioned by D&C 56 |
| Gideon Carter | Early elders & missionaries | 1798 · Killingworth, Connecticut | Elder | 75 | Yes | Died 1838 in the Battle of Crooked River | Mission-called elder killed with David Patten |
| Seymour Brunson | Early elders & missionaries | 1798 · Plattsburg, New York | Elder; Nauvoo high council | 75 | Yes | Died faithful 1840 | Elder at whose funeral baptism for the dead was first taught |
| Daniel Stanton | Early elders & missionaries | 1801 · Rensselaerville, New York | Elder | 75 | Yes | Faithful; to Utah | Mission-called elder (D&C 75) |
| Jared Carter | Early elders & missionaries | 1801 · Benson, Vermont | Elder; missionary | 52,79 | Yes | Left the church during the Kirtland dissent | Missionary named in D&C 52 and 79 |
| Northrop Sweet | Early elders & missionaries | 1802 · New York | Elder 1831 | 33 | Yes | Left almost immediately; co-founded the 'Pure Church of Christ' (1831) | Recipient of D&C 33 who founded one of the first splinter groups |
| Sylvester Smith (elder) | Early elders & missionaries | 1806 · Tyringham, Massachusetts | Elder (see also First Seven Presidents of the Seventy) | 75 | Yes | Later disciplined | Mission-called elder; see Seventy entry |
| Harvey Whitlock | Early elders & missionaries | 1809 · unverified | Elder | 52 | Yes | Disaffected and reconciled repeatedly | Mission-called elder (D&C 52) |
| Ziba Peterson | Early elders & missionaries | 1810 · New York | Elder; one of the four Lamanite missionaries | 32 | Yes | Excommunicated by 1833; went to the California gold rush | Lamanite missionary who fell away |
| Burr Riggs | Early elders & missionaries | 1811 · unverified | Elder | 75 | Yes | Later estranged | Mission-called elder (D&C 75) |
| Heman Bassett | Early elders & missionaries | 1814 · unverified | Elder (authority later removed) | 52:31 (authority transferred to Symonds Ryder) | Yes | Left the church | Early elder whose priesthood authority was reassigned in D&C 52 |
| Stephen Burnett | Early elders & missionaries | 1814 · unverified | Elder | 75 | Yes | Left the church 1838 | Mission-called elder who apostatized |
| Asa Dodds | Early elders & missionaries | unverified | Elder (mission call) | 75 | Yes | unverified | Elder named in D&C 75 mission assignments |
| Calves Wilson | Early elders & missionaries | unverified | Elder (mission call) | 75 | Yes | unverified | Elder named in D&C 75 mission assignments |
| Eden Smith | Early elders & missionaries | unverified | Elder (mission call) | 75 | Yes | unverified | Elder named in D&C 75 mission assignments |
| Edson Fuller | Early elders & missionaries | unverified | Elder (mission call) | 52 | Yes | unverified | Elder named in D&C 52 mission assignments |
| George James | Early elders & missionaries | unverified | Elder (mission call) | 52 | Yes | unverified | Elder named in D&C 52 mission assignments |
| Jacob Scott | Early elders & missionaries | unverified | Elder (mission call) | 52 | Yes | unverified | Elder named in D&C 52 mission assignments |
| Joseph Wakefield | Early elders & missionaries | unverified | Elder (mission call) | 52 | Yes | unverified | Elder named in D&C 52 mission assignments |
| Major N. Ashley | Early elders & missionaries | unverified | Elder (mission call) | 75 | Yes | unverified | Elder named in D&C 75 mission assignments |
| Micah B. Welton | Early elders & missionaries | unverified | Elder (mission call) | 75 | Yes | unverified | Elder named in D&C 75 mission assignments |
| Ruggles Eames | Early elders & missionaries | unverified | Elder (mission call) | 75 | Yes | unverified | Elder named in D&C 75 mission assignments |
| Solomon Humphrey | Early elders & missionaries | unverified | Elder (mission call) | 52 | Yes | unverified | Elder named in D&C 52 mission assignments |
| William Carter | Early elders & missionaries | unverified | Elder (mission call) | 52 | Yes | unverified | Elder named in D&C 52 mission assignments |
| Shadrach Roundy | Nauvoo leadership | 1789 · Rockingham, Vermont | Named to the bishopric in D&C 124:141; Nauvoo policeman; Council of Fifty | 124:141 | Yes | Faithful; to Utah | Named with Vinson Knight and Samuel H. Smith to the bishopric |
| Isaac Galland | Nauvoo leadership | 1791 · Somerset County, Pennsylvania | Elder; authorized church land agent | 124(78–79) | Yes | Inactive by ~1842 (not a dissenter) | Land dealer whose sales enabled the settlement of Nauvoo and Iowa |
| William Marks | Nauvoo leadership | 1792 · Rutland, Vermont | Nauvoo Stake President 1839–45; alderman; Council of Fifty 1844 | 124(79–80) | Yes | Faithful but wavering; supported Rigdon after 1844; later RLDS | Nauvoo Stake President who split in the succession crisis |
| George Miller | Nauvoo leadership | 1794 · near Stanardsville, Virginia | Bishop 1841 (succeeding Partridge); Trustee-in-Trust 1844; Council of Fifty | 124(20–22) | Yes | Faithful in 1844; later Strangite; excommunicated 1848 | Nauvoo bishop appointed by revelation |
| Peter Haws | Nauvoo leadership | 1796 · Upper Canada (Ontario) | Nauvoo House Association; Nauvoo high council alternate; Council of Fifty 1844 | 124(62,64) | Yes | Faithful in 1844; later excommunicated 1849 | Nauvoo House Association trustee named in D&C 124 |
| John Snider | Nauvoo leadership | 1800 · New Brunswick, Canada | Seventy 1839; Nauvoo House Association | 124(22,62) | Yes | Faithful; to Utah | Charged by revelation to help build the Nauvoo House |
| John C. Bennett | Nauvoo leadership | 1804 · Fairhaven, Massachusetts | Assistant President, First Presidency 1841–42; first Mayor of Nauvoo 1841–42; Major Gen., Nauvoo Legion | 124(16–17) | Yes | Excommunicated 1842; became a leading public accuser; later Rigdon/Strang | Rapid-rising leader whose 1842 fall badly damaged the church |
| Vinson Knight | Nauvoo leadership | 1804 · Norwich, Massachusetts | Bishop's counselor 1836; acting bishop, Adam-ondi-Ahman 1838; Bishop at Nauvoo 1839; to the bishopric per 124:141 | 124(74,141) | Yes | Died faithful 1842 | Nauvoo bishop, often identified as Presiding Bishop 1841–42 |
| Robert B. Thompson | Nauvoo leadership | 1811 · Great Driffield, England | Church clerk and scribe; general church clerk | 124 | Yes | Died faithful 1841 | Church clerk named in D&C 124 |
| Almon W. Babbitt | Nauvoo leadership | 1812 · Cheshire, Massachusetts | Seventy 1835; President of the Kirtland Stake 1841; Illinois legislature 1844 | 124:84 (reproved) | Yes | Disfellowshipped several times, each restored; a member | Named in D&C 124 to be rebuked, yet remained in the church |
| Amos Davis | Nauvoo leadership | 1813 · New Hampshire | Postmaster of Commerce 1839; Captain, Nauvoo Legion | 124:111 | Yes | Nominal member; increasingly at odds with the city 1842–44 | Nauvoo merchant warned in D&C 124 |
| Charles Ivins | Nauvoo dissenters | 1799 · New Jersey | Expositor proprietor | — | No | Dissenter; Expositor proprietor | Seventh proprietor of the Nauvoo Expositor |
| Wilson Law | Nauvoo dissenters | 1806 · Ireland | Major General, Nauvoo Legion 1842; Nauvoo City Council | — | No | Excommunicated Apr 1844; cashiered from the Legion; Expositor proprietor | William Law's brother; Legion commander turned dissenter |
| Sylvester Emmons | Nauvoo dissenters | 1808 · Hunterdon County, New Jersey | Nauvoo City Council 1843–44; editor of the Nauvoo Expositor | — | No | Non-member dissenter; suspended from the City Council | Editor of the Nauvoo Expositor |
| William Law | Nauvoo dissenters | 1809 · County Tyrone, Ireland | 2nd Counselor, First Presidency 1841–44 | 124 (called to the First Presidency) | Yes | Removed early 1844; excommunicated Apr 1844; led a rival church; Nauvoo Expositor | Former First Presidency counselor who became the leading Nauvoo dissenter |
| Robert D. Foster | Nauvoo dissenters | 1811 · Braunston, England | Surgeon General, Nauvoo Legion 1841; Regent, University of Nauvoo | 124:115 | Yes | Excommunicated Apr 1844; Expositor proprietor | Physician/developer named in D&C 124 who became a core dissenter |
| Charles A. Foster | Nauvoo dissenters | 1815 · Braunston, England | Expositor proprietor | — | No | Dissenter; Expositor proprietor | Robert Foster's brother and Expositor co-publisher |
| Francis M. Higbee | Nauvoo dissenters | 1820 · Tate, Ohio | Colonel, Nauvoo Legion | — | No | Excommunicated May 1844; Expositor proprietor; his complaint triggered Joseph's fatal arrest | Dissenter whose legal complaint led to the arrest at Carthage |
| Chauncey L. Higbee | Nauvoo dissenters | 1821 · Ohio | Aide-de-camp to Gen. Bennett, Nauvoo Legion; later an Illinois lawyer/judge | — | No | Excommunicated May 1842; Expositor proprietor 1844 | Dissenter who became a prominent jurist |
| Sarah M. Cleveland | Relief Society | 1788 · Massachusetts | First Counselor, Nauvoo Relief Society 1842 | — | No | Faithful | First counselor in the founding Relief Society presidency |
| Elizabeth Ann Whitney | Relief Society | 1800 · Derby, Connecticut | Second Counselor, Nauvoo Relief Society 1842 | — | No | Faithful; to Utah | Second counselor in the founding Relief Society presidency |
| Eliza R. Snow | Relief Society | 1804 · Becket, Massachusetts | Secretary, Nauvoo Relief Society 1842 | — | No | Faithful; later general Relief Society president in Utah | 'Zion's poetess'; founding secretary of the Relief Society |
| Isaac Hale | Associates / non-members | 1763 · Waterbury, Connecticut | (never a member) | — | No | Never joined; remained hostile to Joseph Smith | Emma's father and a noted early opponent |
| Josiah Stowell | Associates / non-members | 1770 · Winchester, New Hampshire | (no office) | — | No | Believed and was baptized; later activity limited | Employer whose 1825 hire brought Joseph to Harmony; a court witness for him |