Robert Cunningham's Conversion and Baptism
Published October 13, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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Millennial Star Research
While traveling to Stevenson, Elder William Gibson met a young man named Robert Cunningham at a place called Daloy. The young man requested baptism, which Elder Gibson performed and confirmed, after which Cunningham later moved to Utah.
In Their Own Words
“When on the way, at a place called Daloy, a young man from Stevenson met me and desired to be baptized. I did so and confirmed him, and then went on my way. The young man’s name was Robert Cunningham. He went to Utah and lived in or near Ogden. — Millennial Star 66:36”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 8 September 1904 (Vol. 66, No. 36). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1904-09-08_66_36 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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