February 4, 1831

Kirtland, Ohio
Joseph Smith and his wife, Emma, arrived in Kirtland, Ohio (from New York) and were kindly received into the house of Newel K. Whitney.
Sources: 
Joseph Smith History A1:92–93 
History of the Church, Joseph Smith, 1:145–46
"'Thou Art the Man': Newel K. Whitney in Ohio," Mark L. Staker, BYU Studies 42:1
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