Born February 19, 1793, near the village of Library, St. Clair Township, Alleghany County, Pa., lived on his father’s farm til his father died in 1810; he pretended to work the farm til 1813. In 1813 he went into a tannery in Pittsburgh, where he staid till 1817 Joined the Baptist Church at Peters Creek, Library, in 1817. Studied theology under Mr. Clark in Beaver County, Pa., in 1818 and 1819. License to preach as a regular Baptist preacher by the Connequising Baptist Church in 1819. Went to Warren, Ohio, in the fall of 1819, studied with Adamson Bently, who was pastor of the Baptist Church in Warren, Ohio, and joined the church March 4, 1820; ordained as Baptist preacher at Warren, April 1, 1820. Married Phebe Brooks in 1820. Moved to Hartford, Trumball County, Ohio, preached for the Baptist Church until January, 1822. He preached occasionally in school-houses and dwellings in Conneaut, Ohio, near where Solomon Spaulding lived, in 1819—22. Was installed as pastor of First Baptist Church in Pittsburgh, January 28, 1822. Showed Rev. John Winter in his study Spaulding’s "Manuscript Found” the same year. Was suspended for heresy July 11, 1823, Expelled for heresy October 11, 1823. Preached for adherents in the Court House of Pittsburgh until the summer of 1824. Engaged in tanning in the fall of 1823, and sent his family to Warren in the fall of 1825. He joined | them in the winter. Moved to Bain- bridge, Ohio, April 1, 1826. Preached Rev. W. Goodall's funeral sermon in Mentor in August, 1826. Was hired by the Baptist Church of Mentor and Kirtland, and removed to Mentor in the spring of 1827. Was seen by Lorenzo Saunders at the Smiths’ in Manchester, N. Y. in the spring of 1827, and again in the fall of 1827. Preached Mormonism in Rochester, N. Y., in the spring of 1830. Was connected to the Mormons November, 1830. Moved to Kirtland in the fall of 1830, November. Again visited Smiths’ at Manchester, N. Y., December, 1830.

HARVEY BALDWIN, of Aurora, Portage County, Ohio, says that over thirty years ago he heard his father say that he belonged to the Baptist Church in Bainbridge, Portage County, Ohio, when ‘Sidney Rigdon preached there, and that several times when he called to see Rigdon he found him in a room by himself, and that he each time hurriedly put away books and papers he had as though he did not wish him to see them. Deacon Clapp, of the church Garfield attended in Mentor, says he was eighteen years old when Rigdon came to Mentor to live, and that he had a large chair with a leaf on the arm to write on with a drawer underneath with a lock and key. The chair was covered with spots of ink. Rigdon told him he had had much use for it.

STATEMENT OF H. H. LUSE.

I was born in Green County, Pa., March 13, 1810. In 1814 my parents moved to the town of Howland, near Warren, Ohio. I attended the Baptist Church, of which my mother was a member. I occasionally heard Sidney Rigdon preach. I moved his household goods from his father-in-law’Dsea,- con Brook’s, house in Warren, with an ox-team, to a brick house in Mentor, Ohio, in March, 1828, Rigdon and his wife rode in a one-horse wagon. I heard Rigdon preach a very pompous sermon at the Austintown yearly meeting in 1829, T think. The audience generally expressed their disgust. Alex Campbell and Scott were present. I moved in October, 1835, to Parkman, Geauga County, Ohio, about twenty- five miles from Kirtland, It was generally believed at that time that Sidney Rigdon was the author of Mormonism. The first moment I saw and heard Kalloch preach in Union Hall, I thought of Sidney Rigdon, whom he strongly resembles in every respect.

H. H. Luse.

Witnessed by:

BERTHA LUSE (Daughter),

EDNA LUSE (Daughter).

No. 18 Essex Place, San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 13, 1887.

It is quite probable Rigdon obtained additional household goods from Deacon Brook’s family, his wife’s parents, in Warren, Ohio, which Mr. Luse moved, for Rigdon certainly moved from Bainbridge to Mentor in the spring of 1827.