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- Born 1772 Sanbornton, New Hampshire
- Married Electa Chamberlin 1813; five children
- Baptized 1832
- Ordained Elder 1836
- Ordained Seventy and placed in First Quorum of Seventy
1836
- Set apart as a President of the First Quorum of Seventy
1836
- Died 1845 Hancock County, Illinois
Daniel S. Miles was the son of Josiah Miles and
Marah Sanborn. He was born 23 July 1772 at Sanbornton, Belknap County,
New Hampshire. On September 20, 1813, in Ryegate, Vermont, he married
Electa Chamberlin. The Encyclopedia of Mormonism states that he fathered only one child, while the Ancestral File lists five, among them Daniel Sandborn (sic) Miles, with whom he should not be confused.
Brother Miles was baptized April 1832 by Orson
Pratt and Lyman E. Johnson in Bath, New
Hampshire. He joined with the Saints in Kirtland, Ohio by 1836. He is first
mentioned in the history of Joseph Smith in connection
with a Priesthood meeting held in the Kirtland Temple Feb. 24, 1836, at
which "Daniel Miles was considered worthy to be ordained to the Priesthood."
Two days later he was ordained an Elder by Reuben Hedlock. Later the same
year he was ordained a Seventy on 20 December 1836 by Hazen
Aldrich and set apart as one of the First Seven Presidents of Seventies
on the same day, under the hands of Sidney Rigdon
and Hyrum Smith. He seems to have been the first
man set apart as a President of the Seventy who did not participate in
Zion's Camp.
In Kirtland, Daniel Miles paid tax on two horses
and one cow in 1836. As the winds of apostasy swirled about Kirtland, he
removed with his family to Missouri early in 1838, arriving in Far West
on 14 March. Here he represented the Seventies at a solemn meeting
held April 6, 1838. Like others he suffered in the Missouri persecutions
and was expelled from the state on threat of extermination. After the Mormon
expulsion from Missouri, he located in Illinois. He was among the first
"Mormon" settlers at Commerce (afterwards Nauvoo), Ill.; and is mentioned
in a revelation given through the Prophet Joseph Jan. 19, 1841. (Doc. and
Cov. 124: 138.) though he traveled to Kirtland in November 1839.
While in Nauvoo he was named a temporary member of Nauvoo high council,
seemingly an unusual calling for a President of the First Quorum of the
Seventy.
Elder Daniel S. Miles died 12 October 1845 at the
home of Josiah Butterfield in Hancock County,
Illinois. Elder Miles died as a faithful member of the Church. The vacancy
occasioned by his death was filled by Benjamin L.
Clapp in April, 1845. Pres. Joseph Young,
Seventh (senior) President of the Seventy described Elder Miles as "a man
of good faith, constant in his attendance at the meetings of the council,
until the time of his death, which occurred at quite an advanced stage
of his life."
Bibliography
Smith, History of the Church, multiple citations, see index
Andrew Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p.192
Lyndon W. Cook, The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.267
Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol.4, Appendix 1
Ancestral File
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