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Differently from the northern European nations, Italy provided very few immigrants for the first “wave” of Mormon converts to Utah in the 1850-1880.
Only a small group of about 50 Waldensians from an area near Turin came to the Salt Lake Valley in that early period. They had been converted by the missionary efforts of Joseph Toronto and Lorenzo Snow, who later became the President of the LDS Church.
The name of those Waldensian families, such as Bertoche, Beus, Cardon, Chatelain, and Malan, today are of historical importance, because their descendants are very numerous, and are deeply intertwined with the development of Utah.
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