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  • Smith then turned to [[wildcat banking]], establishing the [[Kirtland Safety Society]] in January 1837, which issu After a warrant was issued for Smith's arrest on a charge of banking fraud, Smith and Rigdon fled Kirtland for Missouri on the night of January
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  • A more common expedient for raising money on the frontier was wildcat banking. Smith did not have enough capital to obtain a state charter, but he printe Many Latter Day Saints, including prominent leaders who had invested in the banking scheme, became disaffected and either left the church or were excommunicate
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  • A more common expedient for raising money on the frontier was wildcat banking. Smith did not have enough capital to obtain a state charter, but he printe Many Latter Day Saints, including prominent leaders who had invested in the banking scheme, became disaffected and either left the church or were excommunicate
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  • ==Given that banking was in its infancy, the Saints were not sophisticated in their understandin ==The Kirtland Safety Society was reconfigured as an "anti-banking company" after it failed to receive a charter as a bank==
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  • {{:Question: Was the Kirtland Safety Society a "wildcat bank"?}} |summary=The Kirtland Safety Society Anti-Banking Company is an important part of our church history, having, as it did, a si
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