page_title: Alpheus Cutler
section_title: Winter Quarters
hierarchical_section_title: Alpheus Cutler / Events of 1844–51 / Winter Quarters
caption_attribution_description: English: The Mormon settlement known as Cutler's Park, located in the Florence area in the 1840s. Italiano: Coloni mormoni a Florence, Nebraska, USA Immagine storica dalla Omaha Nebraska Historical Society
context_page_description: John Alpheus Cutler was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement who founded the Church of Jesus Christ in 1853. He had previously served in several church positions under Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, as well as captain of Smith's personal bodyguard and "Master Builder and Workman on all God's Holy Houses." Following the death of Joseph Smith in June 1844, Cutler at first followed the Twelve Apostles under Brigham Young, but later left Young's church to reorganize the Church of Jesus Christ, with himself serving as its first president. Cutler claimed that this was the sole legitimate continuation of Smith's organization, and he served as its leader until his death.
context_section_description: When Brigham Young decided to commence the Saints' trek to the Salt Lake Valley, he appointed Cutler as Captain of "Emigrating Company No. 3," one of twenty-five such travelling units into which the Mormon pioneers were organized. Cutler established Cutler's Park, Nebraska, in 1846, and was appointed presiding member of the municipal High Council on 9 August of that year. Barely a month later, he was asked to find a new location for a settlement; on 11 September he selected the site that would become Winter Quarters, Nebraska.
caption: Cutler's Park, founded by Alpheus Cutler, in the late 1840s.
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