Nathaniel Henry Felt (February 6, 1816 – January 27, 1887[1]) was a member of the Utah Territorial Legislature and a mid-level leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 19th century.

Felt studied in local schools and was a member of the Divisionary Corps of Independent Cadets[2] until age 15 when he became an apprentice to a tailor in Lynn, Massachusetts.

[3] With the aid of an older brother, John Gillingham Felt, he at age 21 set up a tailor shop with multiple employees and was then involved in trade with China and parts of west Africa.

[4] On September 17, 1843 the Felts were baptized as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, primarily as a result of the missionary work of Erastus Snow.

[6] In late spring 1844, Brigham Young sent his teenage daughter Vilate from Nauvoo, Illinois with Augusta Adams Cobb to live with the Felts in Salem in order for her to obtain a proper education.

[7] By June 1844, Brigham Young and Wilford Woodruff were frequent visitors in the Felt home during their efforts to elect Joseph Smith Jr president of the United States.

When Smith was murdered at Carthage, Illinois, Brigham Young returned to Nauvoo and became leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Another major activity of Felt while in St. Louis was giving priesthood blessings, visiting and comforting the sick, and other such things during the cholera epidemic after the great fire of 1849.

After serving as St Louis conference president for slightly more than three years, Felt was released in 1850 and started west with his wife and three children.

Soon thereafter when the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Schuyler Colfax, visited Salt Lake City with Massachusetts gadfly reporter Samuel Bowles, Nathaniel H. Felt was one of their hosts.

His personality tended toward sharing news and opinion through letters; many of which have been saved by the Historians Office of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and others.

He crusaded vigorously in favor of the practice of plural marriage after 1854 (including a formal "remonstration" to congress[13]) and he watched political matters closely.