Background
Cahoon was born at Cambridge, New New York
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Reynolds Cahoon
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He later moved to Kirtland, Ohio. Here he was baptized into the Latter Day Saint church by Parley P. Pratt on October 12, 1830. On June 4, 1831, Cahoon was ordained a high priest by Joseph Smith.
Cahoon traveled as a missionary to Jackson County, Missouri, with Samuel H. Smith in June 1831.
On February 10, 1832, Cahoon was made a counselor to Bishop Newel K. Whitney. In Daviess County, Missouri, in 1838, Cahoon was a counselor to John Smith and later the same position in relation to Smith in Montrose, Iowa.
Cahoon died at South Cottonwood, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory.
Membership
He was one of the inaugural members of the Council of Fifty, organized by Joseph Smith in 1844. Cahoon was put in charge of raising funds to finance Joseph Smith"s translation of the Bible in October 1831 and was a member of the committee appointed to oversee the construction of the first Latter Day Saint temple at Kirtland.
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Nationality
United States -
Religion
In The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints