| 424 Henry Kemp, Southwestern Iowa. Hiram Robinson, under Josiah Ells. Temme Hinderks, Missouri, among the Germans. Samuel Brown, Canada. James A. McIntosh, Canada. P. N. Brix, Scandinavian Mission. Thomas Taylor, in charge of English Mission. Thomas Jenkins, in charge of Welsh Mission. Columbus Scott, under W. H. Kelley. Joseph Luff, Rocky Mountain Mission. J. S. Patterson, Wisconsin. R. M. Elvin, Iowa and Nebraska. H. C. Bronson, Eastern Iowa added to former field. G. E. Deuel, Canada. E. H. Gurley, Canada. J. T. Kinneman, under direction of A. H. Smith. J. H. Merriam, under direction of A. H. Smith. Harbert Scott, Southern Indiana. G. S. Hyde, Nebraska. M. H. Bond, Eastern Mission. M. R. Scott, Southern Indiana. Joshua Armstrong, Nebraska. Rudolph Etzenhouser, Des Moines District, with recommendation that he be ordained an elder. He was so ordained at the conference.
April 24, 1883, William E. McLellin, one of the Twelve Apostles chosen in 1835, but who ceased to affiliate with the church in 1838, died at his home in Independence, Missouri.
On April 27, 1883, Lyman O. Littlefield, an elder of Utah, wrote an open letter to "President Joseph Smith, Jr., of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and others conspicuous at the conference recently held in the Temple at Kirtland, Ohio." This was published in the Utah Journal, and other papers, and was copied in the Saints' Herald in its issue for August 11, 1883. President Smith replied, which called forth an answer from Littlefield, and resulted in the exchange of several letters in which the issues were quite thoroughly discussed. The series was published in full in several periodicals including the Herald, and by order of the conference published in pamphlet form.
In the Herald for May 19, 1883, the editor chronicled some items regarding the history of Kirtland, which are, we think, of sufficient importance to record here. He stated:
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