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Jack-Mormons
JACK-MORMONS is an appellation given to a class of citizens who purchased much of the property of the saints during the exodus from Nauvoo, Ill., in 1846. After the departure of the saints the Jack-Mormons became objects of hatred on the part of the mobocrats of Illinois, because they had shown more or less friendliness towards the exiled saints from whom they obtained property exceedingly cheap.
Even at the present time the appellation Jack-Mormons is sometimes applied to friendly non-Mormons, who work in harmony with the Latter-day Saints.
Jackson Branch Minidoka Stake
JACKSON BRANCH, Minidoka Stake, Cassia Co., Idaho, consists of the Latter-day Saints residing in a farming district under the Minidoka Project and is the only organization of the Minidoka Stake on the south side of Snake River, but on account of it being nearer to Rupert (the headquarters of Minidoka Stake) than to Burley (the headquarters of Burley Stake), the transfer was made in 1924, when the Minidoka Stake was organized. The center of the branch, where the meeting house stands, is about a mile east and a mile south of Snake River and six miles east northeast of Rupert.
The first L. D. S. settlers in that part of the Minidoka Project now included in Jackson Branch were George Koch and Charles Albert Brewerton, who came to the location in 1906, and soon afterwards, as the settlement grew, a Sunday school was organized with George Koch as superintendent. In 1909 a branch of the Declo Ward of the Burley Stake was organized at [p.371] Jackson with Charles Albert Brewerton as presiding Elder. He acted until 1917, when the branch was organized as an independent branch (reporting directly to the stake presidency), with Robert B. Orr, jun., as president. He was succeeded in 1928 by Hershel Barnes, who presided Dec. 31, 1930. At this time the membership of the branch was 90, including 15 children. The total population of the Jackson Precinct in 1930 was 306.
Jackson Branch Teton Stake
JACKSON BRANCH, Teton Stake, Teton Co., Wyoming, consists of the Latter-day Saints residing in the town of Jackson and vicinity. Jackson is the principal town in Jackson Hole or Jackson Valley, situated in a beautiful cove at the mouth of Cash Creek Canyon, about five miles southeast of Snake River Bridge, 30 miles southeast of Driggs, the headquarters of the Teton Stake, 45 miles south of the lower end of Jackson Lake, and 70 miles south of the south entrance to Yellowstone Park. The saints of Jackson own a frame meeting house (brick veneered) seating 150 people. This meeting house was erected in 1905 at a cost of about $3,000. The town of Jackson also contains two modern school houses, a number of stores and other business houses and is an important outfitting place for tourists, who visit Jackson Hole Valley and lakes, to enjoy the scenery connected with the Grand Teton, which rises to a height of 14,000 feet above sea level, a few miles from Jackson, or about 8,000 feet higher than the Jackson Lake.