Day Saints, under the direction of Brigham Young, rejected Page's claim, but retained him in his position with the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Page was then called to serve in the Council of Fifty in 1845 to help plan and facilitate the church's move to the Rocky Mountains. However, he was then removed from the Quorum of the Twelve on February 9, 1846. After urging the Latter Day Saints to follow James J. Strang as leader of the church, Page was excommunicated on June 26, 1846. Ezra T. Benson was called by Young to replace Page in the Quorum. After leaving the church, Page worked on the Strangite periodical Zion's Reville as editor in 1847. Although Page was an apostle under Joseph Smith and President of the Quorum of the Twelve under Strang, he eventually came to reject both leaders as "fallen prophets". He later became affiliated with the organization of James C. Brewster and Hazen Aldrich, and later that of Granville Hedrick. By 1855, he, William Marks, and others were holding their own worship services. He joined the Church of Christ (Hedrickites) in 1862 and was instrumental in helping the church obtain possession of the Temple Lot in Independence, Missouri. Page died in on October 14, 1867 in Sycamore, Illinois at the age of 68. Notes References Quist, John. "John E. Page: Apostle of Uncertainty," in Mormon Mavericks, John Sillito and Susan Staker (eds.), Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002. External links John E. Page letter, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University Maureen Ursenbach Beecher research materials on women in Upper Canada, approximately 1986-1994, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University George Ranney Justice of the Peace docket book, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University Grampa Bill's G.A. Pages: John E. Page Biography of John E. Page, The Joseph Smith Papers (accessed May 1, 2012) 1799 births 1867 deaths American Latter Day Saint leaders American Latter Day Saints Apostles of the Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints) Church of Christ (Temple Lot) members Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite) members Converts to Mormonism Doctrine and Covenants people Latter Day Saint leaders People excommunicated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints People from Far West, Missouri People from Trenton, New York Religious leaders from Missouri Religious leaders