Background
Emmett was born in Boone County, Kentucky.
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James Emmett
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Career
He was a missionary for the church in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Missouri. In February 1844, Smith selected Emmett to explore the western United States and to select a location that the Latter Day Saints could settle in. Emmett was added to Smith"s Council of Fifty in March 1844.
When Smith was killed later in 1844, Emmett claimed that he had been empowered by Smith to lead the Latter Day Saints away from Nauvoo to a new settlement.
Young and the other apostles dropped Emmett from the ranks of the Council of Fifty in 1845. By 1846, Emmett returned to Young and pledged to follow his leadership.
In 1849, Emmett traveled to Utah Territory, but shortly thereafter he left the Latter Day Saint church and moved to Tuolumne County, California. He later moved to San Bernardino, where he died.
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December 28, 1852 (aged 49)