Welcome Chapman

Welcome Chapman (July 24, 1805 – December 9, 1893) was an early Mormon leader born in Readsboro, Vermont. Chapman was the leader of the Mormon settlers in Manti, Utah, from 1854 to 1862, and helped broker peace between the settlers and Chief Wakara's tribe.

Read more about Welcome Chapman:  Childhood, Marriage and Conversion, Settling Utah

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    A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
    —John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)