. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . joined the Mormon exodusto Illinois. When the church was established atNauvoo. Rigdon was still one of its presidents. Inthe course of his connection with that body he hadbeen twice tarred and feathered, and several timesimprisoned for his alleged conspiracies and misde-meanors. When Joseph and Hyrum Smith wereshot at Carthage. 27 June. 1844, Rigdon aspiredto the leadership of the seer, but the twelve apos-tles preferred Brigham Young. Rigdon refused tosubmit to his authority, and, for his contumacy,was declared to be cutoff from the commu
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . joined the Mormon exodusto Illinois. When the church was established atNauvoo. Rigdon was still one of its presidents. Inthe course of his connection with that body he hadbeen twice tarred and feathered, and several timesimprisoned for his alleged conspiracies and misde-meanors. When Joseph and Hyrum Smith wereshot at Carthage. 27 June. 1844, Rigdon aspiredto the leadership of the seer, but the twelve apos-tles preferred Brigham Young. Rigdon refused tosubmit to his authority, and, for his contumacy,was declared to be cutoff from the communionof the faithful, and delivered to the devil, to bebuffeted in the flesh for a thousand years. Thuscast out, he left the town of Nauv,.o in the autumnof 1844 and went to Pittsburg. Pa., and thence toFriendship, N. Y., where lie died declaring firmbelief in the doctrines and truthfulness of the Book of Mormon. RIGGS, Elias, missionary, h. in New Provi-dence, Union co., N. J., It) Nov., 1810. He wasgraduated at Amherst in 182.), and at Andover. theological seminary in 1832. He was a mission-ary at Athens and Argos, Greece, for the Americanboard, from 1832 till 1838, and in Smyrna, AsiaMinor, from 1838 till 1853. Since the latter datehe has labored atConstantinople. Hevisited the UnitedStates in 1856, taughtHebrew in Uniontheological seminaryin 1857-8, and wasinvited to becomeprofessor there, butpreferred to returnto his foreign translation ofthe Scriptures intothe Turkish languagewas placed in 1873by the British andforeign Bible societyand the AmericanBible society in thehands of a-commit-tee, of which he wasa member. As a result of its labors, the entireBible was published in both Arabic and Armeniancharacters in 1878. A revision was made by alarger committee, including Dr. Riggs, and thenew work was issued in 1886. Mr. Riggs receivedthe degree of D. D. from Hanover college. Ind., and that of LL. D. from Amherst in is the author of A Manual of the C
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