Newel K. Whitney Store Trading Room: The First Bishop’s Storehouse, Kirtland, Ohio
The trading room in the Newel K. Whitney store became the first Bishop’s Storehouse in this dispensation.
Abstract
In the early 1820’s, Newel K. Whitney settled at the Kirtland Flats, and originally built a small store, painted red, on the northwest corner of the town’s major intersection. He later built a larger store, which has been restored today. In Doctrine and Covenants 72, Newel K. Whitney was called as a Bishop, and the trading room in his store became a forerunner to the Bishops’ Storehouses, that provide commodities for the poor and needy as part of the welfare system in the Church today.