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America -p131 Charles Lloyd Cohen, Paul S. Boyer - 2008"The Megiddo Church's founder, Wisconsin Civil War veteran LT Nichols (1844–1912), began his ministry in Dodge County, Wisconsin. In 1873 he moved to Yamhill County, Oregon, where he established a small
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Historical Museum and Archives, State Historical Society of Iowa - 2005 "Founder LT Nichols, in the tradition of Alexander Campbell, Barton Stone, and William Miller, intended to "restore" the Christian church ... When Nichols died in 1912, Maud Hembree, a female convert from
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Truesdale Nichols Sr. – though it appears that the younger Nichols never used his given names. He founded his church in 1880. Nichols conceived an idea of spreading his message by cruising the Mississippi, the Ohio, and their tributaries in a three-deck
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Megiddo Mission p1872 Gari-Anne Patzwald - 2002 "LT's father, Lemuel Truesdale Nichols, was born in the so-called burned-over district of upstate New York. Over a period of several decades, he followed the frontier and eventually settled in the Pacific
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Patzwald introduces the MegiddoChurch, a semi-communitarian, millennialist sect whose home congregation never numbered more than a few hundred adherents but whose publications, most notably the Megiddo Message, knit together ..."
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p100 Michael Leavy, Glenn Leavy - 2005 "LT Nichols (1844-1912) was a successful manufacturer near
Minneapolis when strong spiritual yearnings made him lake steps toward the establishment of a mission. He decided that through a boat, he could reach as many people as possible
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Megiddo Mission Church stems from the teachings of LT Nichols (1844-1912), who was originally from India." Drafted into the Union army during the War Between the States, Nichols personally appealed to President Abraham Lincoln for
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J. Gordon Melton Encyclopedia of American religions - 2003 "Megiddo Church 481 Thurston Rd. Rochester, NY 14619 LT Nichols was an independent Bible student who became a ... succeeded by Maud Hembree, a former Roman Catholic. She developed an active mission
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6 William White - 1946 "(The initials were those of his father, Lemuel Truesdale Nichols, but there is every indication that the younger Nichols never used the names themselves.) He was born on October I, 1844, near Elkhart, Indiana, and grew up in frontier
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67-69 1997 "As mentioned earlier, the original group who went west was comprised of the following people: Lemuel Truesdale Nichols, Sr, & wife Emmeline Dunbar Rev. LT Nichols b 1844 Elkhart, IN Harriet E. Griffis b 1844 Eagle, NY (wife of LT) Ella
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