Anson Call (May 13, 1810 – August 31, 1890) was a Mormon pioneer and an early colonizer of many communities in Utah Territory and surrounding states.
Born at Fletcher, Vermont, Call was baptized a member of the Church of the Latter Day Saints in 1836.
He was with the Latter Day Saints in Kirtland, Missouri and Nauvoo. In Missouri, he was allegedly a member of the Danites, although there is no reference to Danite activity or battles associated with the Danites in his personal memoirs or journals. During the Missouri years of the Latter Day Saint movement, his farm was stolen from him, and he was nearly murdered in his effort to regain it. In 1848, he crossed the plains as a Mormon pioneer. He settled in Bountiful, Utah Territory, where he served as a bishop beginning in 1850.
In 1851, Call led the first company of Latter-day Saints to settle at Fillmore, Utah Territory.
Other areas Call helped colonized were Iron County, Utah, Tooele County, Utah, Carson Valley and Calville, Arizona.
In LDS history, he is perhaps most famous for recording Joseph Smith, Jr.'s Rocky Mountain prophecy.
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So natural that you want to go to war.”
—Irving Berlin (1888–1989)