Show I HOLY JULY CITY NOW FORGOTTEN Established by Mormons Lake on Island In Michigan It Was of Con Importance Th The State clety Is Historical so o preparing n a history or of the Mormons who settled In and around the state during the Ule middle Of the nineteenth u century The history win will contain mud much new material concerning the tho early Mormons I who settled In IU ml- and nud built their thell sac ed sacked city of I Nauvoo just above After the death of f Joseph Smith lend loader leader r of oC the tho Mormons In 1844 1544 one of f the claimants to the succession was Vas James J. J Strong Strang of Burlington WIs who was nS converted to m In 1843 1543 U 43 b by b missionaries who came to Bur Bur- lington Strong soon gained a strong following and nd established a holy city at Voree Vorce where his followers made their headquarters sent out ut missionaries mission aries and became successful 1 rivals to the Brigham Young movement In Utah About bout 1849 Strang Strong moved his followers follow follow- foll followers w ers to Beaver er Island In Lake Lale Michigan where here he built a new sacred city and had hal his headquarters from 18 1840 1849 9 to 1850 1856 The city of St. St James was the most Important between Detro Detroit t and Milwaukee Strang met death at the hands of two of his followers lIe He left no successor and the Gentiles profitIng profitIng profit profit- Ing by the confusion descended on his domain and looted It to The Inhabitants were forced to leave with such of their possessions as they could carry and n were deported b by boat bont to Chicago and Milwaukee The church built up by Strang was as' as thus destroyed It Is estimated estimated esti esti- mated that of this branch of the Mormons Mormons Mormons Mor Mor- mons less than two hundred now re- re re rc- main |