- Dominicus Carter was a respected citizen in early Provo, Utah. Besides farming, Dominicus ran the Lion House, the city’s first hotel. He helped organize a manufacturing company to harness the power of the Provo River. He served on the City Council. He was appointed Selectman for a judge. He participated in developing a road to Pleasant Grove. He organized bands and choirs. He served in Stake Presidencies and helped to break ground for the Provo Tabernacle. Ironically, he also served time in the State Penitentiary-as many polygamists did. But, besides all of that, Dominicus ran a blacksmith shop. Yes, Dominicus made farm tools, plows, harrows, picks, grub hoes, and crow bars. He fashioned chains, flat irons, fire shovels, pokers, and ice skates. He kept horses and oxen well-shod and well-harnessed, too. And it is for his blacksmith work that Dominicus holds a special place in history.
Brother Dominicus Carter “obeyed the gospel” and was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in June of 1834. From the moment he left the waters of baptism, the young blacksmith embraced his new religion with enthusiasm and steadfast faith. In the fall of 1836, Dominicus moved his wife, Lydia Smith; his two daughters; and his two sons to Kirtland, Ohio. There, Dominicus enjoyed more of the blessings of membership in the Church. Soon after his arrival, Dominicus was ordained a Priest. Just before Christmas, he received a Patriarchal Blessing at the hands of Joseph Smith, Sr.
By July of 1838, Dominicus and Lydia had added two more daughters to their clan-so it was with six children (ranging in age from five months to nine years) that the family set out on the 870 mile journey to Adam-ondi-Ahman, Missouri. They traveled with the Kirtland Camp, suffering ridicule, threats, and persecution on their trek. Dominicus emerged as a natural leader, mercifully aiding three men who were jailed, dutifully acting as Camp Commissary, and valiantly burying his two-year-old daughter, Sarah Emily.
Less than three weeks after the family had settled in Far West, mobs attacked the home. Lydia took the five remaining children into the woods and spent the night in cold rain. She died from the exposure. Dominicus did not let discouragement overtake him. Within months, he had been ordained to the Third Quorum of the Seventies and had headed for Nauvoo, Illinois. In March of 1839, shortly after his arrival in Nauvoo, Dominicus married Sylvia Ameretta Meacham.
A couple of years later, Dominicus was ordained a High Priest. In 1843, he was called on a mission to Indiana. The following year, Dominicus married another wife, Mary Durfee. He also served another mission. He was called to Vermont, but was traveling through Indiana when the Prophet Joseph Smith was martyred. He was then asked to return to Nauvoo. In 1845, Dominicus served a third mission, to Ohio. He was sent with Lorenzo Snow and other prominent brethren to collect donations and tithings for the Nauvoo Temple. In January of 1846, Dominicus married another wife, Sophronia Babcock.
During the freezing winter of 1846, Dominicus took his growing family across the Mississippi River. With other weary Saints, he built makeshift lodgings at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dominicus planned to leave for the Salt Lake Valley in the first company of 1847. But more than fifteen years of service to God’s Kingdom had taught Dominicus to sustain the appointed leaders. Being an expert blacksmith, Dominicus was asked to remain at Council Bluffs and help prepare horses, oxen, and wagons for the long journey westward. Dominicus accepted the assignment. For five long years, Dominicus and the others who were called to serve took green timber and boiled it in salt water or kiln dried it. They traveled to distant cities to purchase iron. They made tools. They made wagons. They made it possible for the Saints to move West.
Dominicus reached Utah in 1851. There he married four more wives (Polly Miner, Elizabeth Brown, Caroline Maria Hubbard, and Francis Nash) and fathered the rest of his 45 children (there may have been a few more; the records are incomplete). He also carried out many prestigious leadership positions-though none was more valuable than the labor of love he performed by building wagons at Council Bluffs.
(Compiled by Rhonda Seamons in June 2003. Updated in May 2014.)
The 17 Jun 1856 sealing of Caroline Maria HUBBARD to Dominicus CARTER
cancelled 25 Jan 1860.
Baptism date of 22 Aug 1973 and Endowment of 12 Sep 1973 SL for Dominicus
Carter taken from IGI M 0153 N. America Maine as of Sept 1981
Compiled from archive sheets submitted by:
Mrs. May Larsen Bate from the records of Joseph Marcellus Bate, deceased.
Orlando B. Merrill from film of sealing records "Outside the Endowment House".
Book A and Al p 142; Records of Joseph Anderson's Office 47 E. South Temple
Ester B. Warner, Grantsville, Utah
Janet Rumpf from the family records of Alma Ervin Carter, 303 17th Ave. So.,
Nampa, Idaho.
Dominicus Carter was a respected citizen in early Provo, Utah. Besides farming, Dominicus ran the Lion House, the city’s first hotel. He helped organize a manufacturing company to harness the power of the Provo River. He served on the City Council. He was appointed Selectman for a judge. He participated in developing a road to Pleasant Grove. He organized bands and choirs. He served in Stake Presidencies and helped to break ground for the Provo Tabernacle. Ironically, he also served time in the State Penitentiary-as many polygamists did. But, besides all of that, Dominicus ran a blacksmith shop. Yes, Dominicus made farm tools, plows, harrows, picks, grub hoes, and crow bars. He fashioned chains, flat irons, fire shovels, pokers, and ice skates. He kept horses and oxen well-shod and well-harnessed, too. And it is for his blacksmith work that Dominicus holds a special place in history.
Brother Dominicus Carter “obeyed the gospel” and was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in June of 1834. From the moment he left the waters of baptism, the young blacksmith embraced his new religion with enthusiasm and steadfast faith. In the fall of 1836, Dominicus moved his wife, Lydia Smith; his two daughters; and his two sons to Kirtland, Ohio. There, Dominicus enjoyed more of the blessings of membership in the Church. Soon after his arrival, Dominicus was ordained a Priest. Just before Christmas, he received a Patriarchal Blessing at the hands of Joseph Smith, Sr.
By July of 1838, Dominicus and Lydia had added two more daughters to their clan-so it was with six children (ranging in age from five months to nine years) that the family set out on the 870 mile journey to Adam-ondi-Ahman, Missouri. They traveled with the Kirtland Camp, suffering ridicule, threats, and persecution on their trek. Dominicus emerged as a natural leader, mercifully aiding three men who were jailed, dutifully acting as Camp Commissary, and valiantly burying his two-year-old daughter, Sarah Emily.
Less than three weeks after the family had settled in Far West, mobs attacked the home. Lydia took the five remaining children into the woods and spent the night in cold rain. She died from the exposure. Dominicus did not let discouragement overtake him. Within months, he had been ordained to the Third Quorum of the Seventies and had headed for Nauvoo, Illinois. In March of 1839, shortly after his arrival in Nauvoo, Dominicus married Sylvia Ameretta Meacham.
A couple of years later, Dominicus was ordained a High Priest. In 1843, he was called on a mission to Indiana. The following year, Dominicus married another wife, Mary Durfee. He also served another mission. He was called to Vermont, but was traveling through Indiana when the Prophet Joseph Smith was martyred. He was then asked to return to Nauvoo. In 1845, Dominicus served a third mission, to Ohio. He was sent with Lorenzo Snow and other prominent brethren to collect donations and tithings for the Nauvoo Temple. In January of 1846, Dominicus married another wife, Sophronia Babcock.
During the freezing winter of 1846, Dominicus took his growing family across the Mississippi River. With other weary Saints, he built makeshift lodgings at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dominicus planned to leave for the Salt Lake Valley in the first company of 1847. But more than fifteen years of service to God’s Kingdom had taught Dominicus to sustain the appointed leaders. Being an expert blacksmith, Dominicus was asked to remain at Council Bluffs and help prepare horses, oxen, and wagons for the long journey westward. Dominicus accepted the assignment. For five long years, Dominicus and the others who were called to serve took green timber and boiled it in salt water or kiln dried it. They traveled to distant cities to purchase iron. They made tools. They made wagons. They made it possible for the Saints to move West.
Dominicus reached Utah in 1851. There he married four more wives (Polly Miner, Elizabeth Brown, Caroline Maria Hubbard, and Francis Nash) and fathered the rest of his 45 children (there may have been a few more; the records are incomplete). He also carried out many prestigious leadership positions-though none was more valuable than the labor of love he performed by building wagons at Council Bluffs.
(Compiled by Rhonda Seamons in June 2003. Updated in May 2014.)
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Domincus Carter had been in the saddle a long time. Now nearing seventy years of age, he was slowing down, and was ready for a younger man to succeed him as president of the High Priest's Quorum at Provo.
“I was in the camp that started from Kirtland [to Missouri, and] many of the camp were killed," he recounted to his fellow quorum members at a meeting early in the spring of 1874.
"Bishop [Myron] Tanner’s father's head was cut open. And we had to sign away our property."
That was decades ago, back when the Saints lived in the states. Dominicus had seen it all.
"I can bear testimony that the work is true," he told his brethren. "I have never seen a day that I wish to change my faith for any other."
Dominicus had now served fourteen years as president of the quorum. He had done his best during that time but was now convinced it was time for a change.
"Brethren," he told them, "I have lost my hearing & one of my eyes. I wish to ask to be excused and let some one else take charge of the quorum as I can't hear. Brethren, I wish your prayers.”
The brethren agreed to the change.
Myron Tanner, bishop of the Provo 3rd Ward, moved that Brother Carter be excused and released with the prayers of the Quorum. The move was seconded by A. O. Smoot, presiding bishop (and soon to be stake president) of the county. The motion was carried unanimously.
Smoot then motioned that David John be sustained as the new president of the High Priest's Quorum at Provo. John, 41, was a Welsh immigrant and business partner of Smoot's. Dominicus Carter seconded the motion, and it was carried unanimously.
Source: Minutes, Mar 28, 1874, Utah Stake, High Priests Minutes, 1874-1913, LR 9629 13, vol. 3, Church History Library, SLC.
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