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Rich was born in Connecticut in 1800 and was a farmer.
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Leonard Rich
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In 1833, he baptized Truman Angell, future architect of the Salt Lake Temple. In 1834, the Kirtland High Council rebuked him for "transgressing the word of wisdom and for selling the revelations at an extortionary price." That same year he was part of Zion"s Camp. In January 1837, Rich signed the new constitution of the Kirtland Safety Society.
On April 6 of that year, he and other presidents of the Seventy who were ordained high priests prior to their call were released.
That fall, he dissented from the church and in December the church excommunicated him. In 1845, Reuben McBride reported that Rich was a leader of rioters who broke into and took possession of the Kirtland Temple.
He died in Kirtland in 1868.
