Asahel Albert Lathrop | |
Birth Date: | 25 December 1810 |
Birth Place: | Tolland County, Connecticut |
Death Place: | Mound City, San Bernardino County, California |
Resting Place: | Pioneer Memorial Cemetery San Bernardino, California |
Nationality: | American |
Known For: | Mormon Pioneer |
Spouse: | (his death) |
Parents: | Grant Sybel (Bliss) Lathrop |
Asahel Albert Lathrop (December 27, 1810January 23, 1891) was one of thousands of 19th-century American Mormon pioneers who is best known today for his involvement on August 6, 1838, in Gallatin Election Day Battle in Daviess County, Missouri; a voting incident involving Asahel's brother-in-law-, Samuel Brown, the husband of Lydia Marie Lathrop, which led to a full-scale war. A group of armed men forced Asahel A. Lathrop from his home, and held his wife and children prisoner; they later died.[1] [2]
Asahel Albert Lathrop is a direct descendant of John Lothropp (also Lothrop or Lathrop; 1584 - 1653) a clergyman, who was a Puritan who came to New England after imprisonment in The Clink.[3]