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In 1845 Solomon W. Denton was nominated to be notary public for Oakland County (Journal of the Senate of the State of Michigan).
He was also a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from Oakland County (1848). He served with Almon Mack, Zebina M. Mowry, Isaac I. Voorheis, Francis Baker,and Ezra P. Baldwin.
In addition, Solomon W. Denton was co-editor of the Pontiac newspaper, "The Jacksonian" from 1838 to 1844. He also twice served as Pontiac's postmaster between 1844 and 1860.
Solomon W. Denton served in the Civil War. He had two tours of duty. He first enlisted as a Private at Lapeer, Michigan in Company K, Eighth Infantry on September 23, 1861; he was 45 years old. He was mustered on September 23, 1861, and transferred to Company E on October 1, 1861. He was discharged for disability to Beaufort, S. C. on March 5, 1862. At the time of his discharge he was a Corporal.
Then on January 20, 1863 he re-enlisted at Troy, Michigan as a Private in Company C, Michigan 8th Calvary. He died of disease at Lexington, Kentucky, on March 19, 1864 and was buried at the National Cemetery in Lexington (grave no. 568). His wife, Fanny M. Denton, filed for a pension on April 18, 1864. In her pension she references Co. C, 8th Michigan Calvary.
Solomon W. Denton was an early LDS convert. "According to his own statement he first encountered Mormonism while visting New York State in 1830, at about age sixteen. Denton became a Mormon the next year and apparently lived in Jackson county, Missouri until about the time of the Mormon expulsion from that place in November 1833." In Kirtland, he lived with the Prophet Joseph Smitha and served as his body guard. He married Fanny M. Stanley who was the daughter of Ruth Mack and one of Joseph's cousins.
Denton participated in Zion's Camp and "after returning to Kirtland from that failed campaign he was "engaged in the printing business carried on by Davis, Rigdon, Cowdery and Smith." Denton was probably employed as an apprentice printer in that same printing office as early as its establishment early in 1834 and he may have worked from Phelps and Cowdery at the same trade when he lived in Jackson county, Missouri."
He also served on a mission for the church to Pennsylvania and New York in 1836 with Don Carlos Smith, the Prophet's brother. "Ebenezer Robinson, Denton's co-worker in the Church printing office, records the fact that Soloman W. Denton was a member of the High Priests Quorum at Kirtland, but does not say when he became a member; probably Denton was ordained to that office during the last months of 1836."
Finally, Denton was accused of a plot to murder Joseph Smith and was excommunicated from the church in the early months of 1837.
Source for LDS connection: "Episode Four:
Murderous Threats and Plots, 1835-1837: by Dale R. Broadhurst.
In 1845 Solomon W. Denton was nominated to be notary public for Oakland County (Journal of the Senate of the State of Michigan).
He was also a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from Oakland County (1848). He served with Almon Mack, Zebina M. Mowry, Isaac I. Voorheis, Francis Baker,and Ezra P. Baldwin.
In addition, Solomon W. Denton was co-editor of the Pontiac newspaper, "The Jacksonian" from 1838 to 1844. He also twice served as Pontiac's postmaster between 1844 and 1860.
Solomon W. Denton served in the Civil War. He had two tours of duty. He first enlisted as a Private at Lapeer, Michigan in Company K, Eighth Infantry on September 23, 1861; he was 45 years old. He was mustered on September 23, 1861, and transferred to Company E on October 1, 1861. He was discharged for disability to Beaufort, S. C. on March 5, 1862. At the time of his discharge he was a Corporal.
Then on January 20, 1863 he re-enlisted at Troy, Michigan as a Private in Company C, Michigan 8th Calvary. He died of disease at Lexington, Kentucky, on March 19, 1864 and was buried at the National Cemetery in Lexington (grave no. 568). His wife, Fanny M. Denton, filed for a pension on April 18, 1864. In her pension she references Co. C, 8th Michigan Calvary.
Solomon W. Denton was an early LDS convert. "According to his own statement he first encountered Mormonism while visting New York State in 1830, at about age sixteen. Denton became a Mormon the next year and apparently lived in Jackson county, Missouri until about the time of the Mormon expulsion from that place in November 1833." In Kirtland, he lived with the Prophet Joseph Smitha and served as his body guard. He married Fanny M. Stanley who was the daughter of Ruth Mack and one of Joseph's cousins.
Denton participated in Zion's Camp and "after returning to Kirtland from that failed campaign he was "engaged in the printing business carried on by Davis, Rigdon, Cowdery and Smith." Denton was probably employed as an apprentice printer in that same printing office as early as its establishment early in 1834 and he may have worked from Phelps and Cowdery at the same trade when he lived in Jackson county, Missouri."
He also served on a mission for the church to Pennsylvania and New York in 1836 with Don Carlos Smith, the Prophet's brother. "Ebenezer Robinson, Denton's co-worker in the Church printing office, records the fact that Soloman W. Denton was a member of the High Priests Quorum at Kirtland, but does not say when he became a member; probably Denton was ordained to that office during the last months of 1836."
Finally, Denton was accused of a plot to murder Joseph Smith and was excommunicated from the church in the early months of 1837.
Source for LDS connection: "Episode Four:
Murderous Threats and Plots, 1835-1837: by Dale R. Broadhurst.
A Cenotaph
In 1845 Solomon W. Denton was nominated to be notary public for Oakland County (Journal of the Senate of the State of Michigan).
He was also a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from Oakland County (1848). He served with Almon Mack, Zebina M. Mowry, Isaac I. Voorheis, Francis Baker,and Ezra P. Baldwin.
In addition, Solomon W. Denton was co-editor of the Pontiac newspaper, "The Jacksonian" from 1838 to 1844. He also twice served as Pontiac's postmaster between 1844 and 1860.
Solomon W. Denton served in the Civil War. He had two tours of duty. He first enlisted as a Private at Lapeer, Michigan in Company K, Eighth Infantry on September 23, 1861; he was 45 years old. He was mustered on September 23, 1861, and transferred to Company E on October 1, 1861. He was discharged for disability to Beaufort, S. C. on March 5, 1862. At the time of his discharge he was a Corporal.
Then on January 20, 1863 he re-enlisted at Troy, Michigan as a Private in Company C, Michigan 8th Calvary. He died of disease at Lexington, Kentucky, on March 19, 1864 and was buried at the National Cemetery in Lexington (grave no. 568). His wife, Fanny M. Denton, filed for a pension on April 18, 1864. In her pension she references Co. C, 8th Michigan Calvary.
Solomon W. Denton was an early LDS convert. "According to his own statement he first encountered Mormonism while visting New York State in 1830, at about age sixteen. Denton became a Mormon the next year and apparently lived in Jackson county, Missouri until about the time of the Mormon expulsion from that place in November 1833." In Kirtland, he lived with the Prophet Joseph Smitha and served as his body guard. He married Fanny M. Stanley who was the daughter of Ruth Mack and one of Joseph's cousins.
Denton participated in Zion's Camp and "after returning to Kirtland from that failed campaign he was "engaged in the printing business carried on by Davis, Rigdon, Cowdery and Smith." Denton was probably employed as an apprentice printer in that same printing office as early as its establishment early in 1834 and he may have worked from Phelps and Cowdery at the same trade when he lived in Jackson county, Missouri."
He also served on a mission for the church to Pennsylvania and New York in 1836 with Don Carlos Smith, the Prophet's brother. "Ebenezer Robinson, Denton's co-worker in the Church printing office, records the fact that Soloman W. Denton was a member of the High Priests Quorum at Kirtland, but does not say when he became a member; probably Denton was ordained to that office during the last months of 1836."
Finally, Denton was accused of a plot to murder Joseph Smith and was excommunicated from the church in the early months of 1837.
Source for LDS connection: "Episode Four:
Murderous Threats and Plots, 1835-1837: by Dale R. Broadhurst.
In 1845 Solomon W. Denton was nominated to be notary public for Oakland County (Journal of the Senate of the State of Michigan).
He was also a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from Oakland County (1848). He served with Almon Mack, Zebina M. Mowry, Isaac I. Voorheis, Francis Baker,and Ezra P. Baldwin.
In addition, Solomon W. Denton was co-editor of the Pontiac newspaper, "The Jacksonian" from 1838 to 1844. He also twice served as Pontiac's postmaster between 1844 and 1860.
Solomon W. Denton served in the Civil War. He had two tours of duty. He first enlisted as a Private at Lapeer, Michigan in Company K, Eighth Infantry on September 23, 1861; he was 45 years old. He was mustered on September 23, 1861, and transferred to Company E on October 1, 1861. He was discharged for disability to Beaufort, S. C. on March 5, 1862. At the time of his discharge he was a Corporal.
Then on January 20, 1863 he re-enlisted at Troy, Michigan as a Private in Company C, Michigan 8th Calvary. He died of disease at Lexington, Kentucky, on March 19, 1864 and was buried at the National Cemetery in Lexington (grave no. 568). His wife, Fanny M. Denton, filed for a pension on April 18, 1864. In her pension she references Co. C, 8th Michigan Calvary.
Solomon W. Denton was an early LDS convert. "According to his own statement he first encountered Mormonism while visting New York State in 1830, at about age sixteen. Denton became a Mormon the next year and apparently lived in Jackson county, Missouri until about the time of the Mormon expulsion from that place in November 1833." In Kirtland, he lived with the Prophet Joseph Smitha and served as his body guard. He married Fanny M. Stanley who was the daughter of Ruth Mack and one of Joseph's cousins.
Denton participated in Zion's Camp and "after returning to Kirtland from that failed campaign he was "engaged in the printing business carried on by Davis, Rigdon, Cowdery and Smith." Denton was probably employed as an apprentice printer in that same printing office as early as its establishment early in 1834 and he may have worked from Phelps and Cowdery at the same trade when he lived in Jackson county, Missouri."
He also served on a mission for the church to Pennsylvania and New York in 1836 with Don Carlos Smith, the Prophet's brother. "Ebenezer Robinson, Denton's co-worker in the Church printing office, records the fact that Soloman W. Denton was a member of the High Priests Quorum at Kirtland, but does not say when he became a member; probably Denton was ordained to that office during the last months of 1836."
Finally, Denton was accused of a plot to murder Joseph Smith and was excommunicated from the church in the early months of 1837.
Source for LDS connection: "Episode Four:
Murderous Threats and Plots, 1835-1837: by Dale R. Broadhurst.
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