Erle Whiting

Ivan Erle Whiting, Sr. was the fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ , a branch of the Latter Day Saint movement. His short tenure in office was marred by a dispute between the Independence, Missouri congregation of the church, where he and the church headquarters were located, and the branch at Clitherall, Minnesota, which rejected his election to office and chose Clyde Fletcher from their own congregation as president of the church. When the Independence branch refused to accept this unlawful development, the Minnesota branch broke away under Clydes leadership as the True Church of Jesus Christ . A battle between the two branches for church properties and leadership was resolved in the Independence branchs favor by a Minnesota court, and Clyde Fletchers schismatic sect ceased to exist with his death, when both congregations were reunited under Erles successor, Rupert Fletcher.

Erle Whiting was born in Clitherall, Minnesota onJanuary 1876. His father, Isaac Whiting, served as the third president of the Cutlerite church, and he married Blanche Gertrude Cruzan in Clitherall onOctober 1910.

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