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Ballantyne was born in Whitridgebog, Roxburghshire, Scotland, where he was a Sunday school teacher in the Relief Presbyterian Church.
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Richard Ballantyne
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In 1843 he and a number of his family members emigrated to Nauvoo, Illinois, where the majority of the Latter Day Saints were gathering. While living in Salt Lake City, Ballantyne asked for permission from his bishop to establish a Sunday school for some of the Latter-day Saint children. Approximately 50 students were in attendance.
Sunday School was organized church-wide in 1867.
In 1852, Ballantyne was called to serve a church mission to India. He worked there with little success from 1853 to 1855.
Like many early Latter-day Saints, Ballantyne practiced plural marriage.
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Religion
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints