Reverend John Lathrop

9TH GREAT-GRANDFATHER

John Lathrop

http://wickedyankee.blogspot.com/2012/03/lothrop-bible-and-sturgis-library.html

My mother used to tell me stories about Reverend John Lathrop and one of the stories was about how he had the Bible memorized and he accidentally burnt a hole in his Bible with candle wax and he knew the Bible so well that he put a piece of paper in the hole and wrote word for word exactly what should have been said in that hole. I always thought that it was a far fetched tale until I saw this picture. Mom was right after all.

Excerpts take from http://larsenhistory.org/Rev_John_Lathrop_and_Mormons.html

"Truman Madsen, in his book, “Joseph Smith the Prophet” states; Brigham Young suggested Joseph was conscious of this preordained role and how the Lord had brought it about. As the latter, an interesting letter was written from Orson Pratt to his brother Parley P. Pratt in the 1850’s that says in effect: “You will recall that Joseph had a vision in which he saw that our ancestral line [meaning the Pratt brothers] and his [meaning the Smiths] had a common ancestor a few generations back.” Apparently neither Parley nor Orson was able to confirm the link. The letter remained in an attic until about 1930, but then a granddaughter took it to Archibald F. Bennett, one of the outstanding genealogists of the Church, and he did the research. He discovered that several generations back from Joseph Smith there was indeed a common ancestor named John Lathrop, and that not only was he the common ancestor of the Pratt brothers and Joseph Smith but also of other early Church leaders, including Wilford Woodruff, Oliver Cowdery, and Frederick G. Williams. In fact one estimate concludes that one-fourth of the early Church members in Americawere descended from John Lathrop. (p.107)"

"U.S. President’s
Ulysses S. Grant (and also General of the North’s efforts to end slavery)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (the President that helped defeat Hitler)
William Howard Taft
Millard Fillmore
George H.W. Bush
George W. Bush

Governors:
George Romney
Mitt Romney
Jon Huntsman, Jr
Jeb Bush
Thomas E. Dewey
Pierre Samuel DuPont
Thomas H. Kean
Sarah Palin

And here are a couple of notables—from a long list:
Former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Homes
American Novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Inventor of the Cotton Gin, Eli Whitney, Jr. (whose invention would end the need for slave labor in picking cotton)
Now you might reason that someone, like the Rev. John Lathrop, who has nearly two million direct descendents, is apt to have a handful of descendents succeed beyond the average person’s abilities.

LDS Church Presidents:
Joseph Smith, Founding President of the LDS Church and his mother Lucy Mack Smith
Wilford Woodruff, Fourth President of the LDS Church
Joseph F. Smith, Sixth President of the LDS Church
George Albert Smith, Eighth President of the LDS Church
Joseph Fielding Smith, Tenth President of the LDS Church
Harold B. Lee, Eleventh President of the LDS Church

LDS Church Apostles:
Hyrum Smith, First Presiding Patriarch of the Church, Apostle
Oliver Cowdery, Second Elder of the Church, Apostle
Frederick G. Williams, Second Councilor to Joseph Smith
Parley P. Pratt, Apostle
Orson Pratt, Apostle
Nathan Eldon Tanner, Apostle, Counselor to Presidents McKay, Joseph Fielding Smith, Lee and Kimball
Marion G. Romney, Apostle, Counselor to Pres. Lee, Kimball
Orson F. Whitney
M. Russell Ballard
Quentin L. Cook

To me there is no question that the great Christian reformer, the Rev. John Lathrop, did indeed have a purpose in this world. Great men and women are the fruit of his loins, but the Smith family, certainly to our religion, stands out for the work they accomplished through the Lord’s hand in restoring the gospel to the Earth in its fullness." End quote.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS INCLUDE ME -JULIE JOHNSON BRINKERHOFF

BOOK ABOUT REVEREND JOHN LATHROP
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