Omaha & Council Bluffs

In the chronology

1. 1869Danish-language congregations keep membership and account books in Omaha, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa.
2. 1870sMany members regather in the Deer Lodge Valley, Montana, under George Williams, the “Prophet Cainan,” who claims to be Morris's successor. In 1874 the Montana church is divided into two stakes. A local history of Anaconda dates the first Morrisite settlers in the valley to 1863, among them William Price Thomas on Warm Springs Creek, east of the later townsite; has a group under William James arriving in 1867 as others left; and describes a caravan of thirteen covered wagons that came in June 1871, part of a larger migration from Iowa, Nebraska, Utah and Idaho: Scandinavian families, mostly Danes, with English, Scottish and Welsh believers. It places the two congregations in the upper valley near Lost Creek and near Race Track Creek, with about eighty members in all (Patrick F. Morris, Anaconda, Montana, 1997, pp. 15–17).

Records, documents and questions

• Repositories Henry Hendrickson interview, April 19, 1962
• Questions Why were so many Morrisites Scandinavian?
• Questions Why did some Morrisites join the RLDS Church?

People

People on the 1861–62 roll whose notes or pages mention this place (7). Each name links to the name index.

Bright, Benjamin; Farley, Robert E. page; Forscutt, Mark Hill page; Guhl, Soren Peter page; Nuttor, Dinah page; Nuttor, William page; Richardson, Jane

This page gathers entries from across the guide by the place’s names, so a few may mention it only in passing. Corrections and additions: contact@morrisite.org.

Rogers, Eric Paul, ed. “Omaha & Council Bluffs.” Morrisite.org. https://morrisite.org/place/omaha-council-bluffs.html. Add the date you consulted it.

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