Isaac Morley (March 11, 1786 – June 24, 1865) was an early member of the Latter Day Saint movement and a contemporary of both Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.

Morley was present at many of the early events of the Latter Day Saint movement, and served as a church leader in Ohio, Missouri, and Utah Territory.

[citation needed] While in this area, he joined the reformed Baptist faith (also known as the Campbellites) under the ministry of Sidney Rigdon.

[3] Morley was also the leader of a utopian group that practiced communal principals, holding goods in common for the benefit of all.

Morley later built a small house for them on his farm, where Joseph's and Emma's twins, Thaddeus and Louisa, were born and died only three hours later on April 30, 1831.

Isaac's daughter, Lucy, and her elder sister kept house for Emma while she was ill. Morley was ordained a High Priest on June 4, 1831, by Lyman Wight[3] and was immediately selected for a leadership position.

On June 7, 1831, Morley was asked to sell his farm and act as a missionary while traveling to Independence, Missouri with Ezra Booth (an assignment given to him through Doctrine and Covenants 52:23).

In July 1833, a mob of about 500 men demolished the home and printing office of William Wines Phelps at Independence and tarred and feathered Bishop Partridge.

He was in attendance at the dedication of the Kirtland Temple in March 1836 and was among the first to receive the washing and anointing ordinance, also known as the "initiatory".

[3] He lived in Far West until he was arrested with fifty-five other Mormon citizens on the basis of the Extermination Order of Missouri governor Lilburn W. Boggs.

In October 1840, Hyrum Smith[citation needed] appointed Morley to serve as president of the stake centered in Lima, Illinois,[3] with John Murdock and Walter Cox as counselors.

[3] However, in September 1845, his houses, cooper's shop, property, and grain were burned by a mob, and his family took refuge in the Mormon center of Nauvoo.

After Ute Indian leader Walkara invited Church president Brigham Young to send Mormon colonists to the Sanpitch (now Sanpete) Valley in central Utah, Young dispatched Morley and James Russell Ivie as leaders of the first company of 225 settlers.

[3] During his last years, Morley spent most of his time on his calling as a patriarch, conferring priesthood blessings on thousands of church members.