Israel Barlow: A Founder of Nauvoo and Early Saint of the Restoration (1806–1883)

Israel Barlow (September 13, 1806 – November 1, 1883) was one of the founders of Nauvoo, Illinois, and a noted early member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After the Saints were expelled from Missouri in the bitter winter of 1838–39, Barlow was among those who crossed into Illinois and helped locate the land—then a swampy bend of the Mississippi—that would become Nauvoo, the great city the Saints built under the Prophet Joseph Smith. His story has been told in 'The Israel Barlow Story and Mormon Mores.' Brother Barlow's life is a faith-promoting witness of the Saints who, driven from Missouri, found by faith and providence a new gathering place from which the restored gospel would go forth to the world.