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Anson Call (May 13, 1810 – August 31, 1890) was a Mormon pioneer and an early colonizer of many communities in Utah Territory and surrounding states. Born at Fletcher, Vermont, Call was baptized a member of the Church of the Latter Day Saints in 1836.〔Kenneth Ray Call. "Anson Call" in Arnold K. Garr, Donald Q. Cannon, and Richard O. Cowan, ed., ''Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History''. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book, 2000) p. 170.〕 Call was with the Latter Day Saints in Kirtland, Ohio and Nauvoo. In Missouri, he was allegedly a member of the Danites,〔D. Michael Quinn (1994). ''The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power'' (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books) ISBN 1-56085-056-6.〕 although there is no reference to Danite activity or battles associated with the Danites in his personal memoirs or journals. During the Missouri years of the Latter Day Saint movement, Call's farm was stolen from him, and he reported that he was nearly murdered in his effort to regain it.〔Anson Call (1854). ''Personal Journal''. p. 17〕 In 1848, he crossed the plains as a Mormon pioneer. He settled in Bountiful, Utah Territory, where he served as a bishop beginning in 1850.〔〔Andrew Jenson. ''Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.'' (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1941) p. 81.〕 In 1851, Call led the first company of Latter-day Saints to settle at Fillmore, Utah Territory.〔Jenson, p. 250.〕 Other areas Call helped colonized were Iron County, Utah; Carson Valley; and Calville, Arizona. (While some〔 have said he also helped colonize Tooele County, Utah, that seems to be somewhat "factually enhanced" by enthusiastic descendants: he probably just gathered firewood in a canyon there with his brother Josiah who did help settle Tooele (so told in ~2014 and 2015 to Luke Anson Call by his father Anson Vee Call, both from Tooele), as any actual settling there doesn't seem to be mentioned in Anson's personal journal〔Anson Call (1854). ''Personal Journal''〕 nor in his biography.〔. (There is a plaque or marker, just west of where North Main street reaches the top of the hill, behind a restaurant, showing that Josiah Call did help settle Tooele.)〕 In Mormon history, Call is perhaps most famous for recording Joseph Smith's Rocky Mountain prophecy. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anson Call」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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