Daniel Miles

(1772–1845)

Daniel Miles was born in Sanbornton, New Hampshire. He married Electa Chamberlin in 1813. He was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Orson Pratt and Lyman Johnson in 1832, and in 1836 Miles moved to Kirtland, Ohio, where he was ordained an elder. Later in 1836, he was ordained a Seventy, and he was appointed a President of the Seventy the following year. Miles was a stockholder in the Kirtland Safety Society. In 1838 he moved to Far West, Missouri. He later became an early settler of Commerce, Illinois, which was later renamed Nauvoo.

References in the Doctrine and Covenants

Doctrine and Covenants 124

Additional Information

Biographical facts and sources, The Joseph Smith Papers