Glen M. Leonard

Glen Milton Leonard (born 1938) is an American historian specializing in Mormon history. Leonard is a native of Farmington, Utah.[2] He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Utah. For a time he was managing editor of Utah Historical Quarterly.[2] He has taught at both Brigham Young University and Utah State University. Leonard has been the director of the Museum of Church History and Art in Salt Lake City since it opened in 1984. Leonard and his wife Karen had three sons. They live in Farmington, Utah. Among other callings in the LDS Church, Leonard has served as seventies quorum president, bishop and counselor in a stake presidency. He later served as president of the Farmington Utah North Stake.

Militant Mormon | Samuel W. Taylor, The Kingdom or Nothing: The Life of John Taylor, Militant Mormon

Articles/Essays – Volume 11, No. 1

The publication of two biographies of major figures in Mormon history within a year is no small event. That both Donna Hill’s Joseph Smith (Doubleday, 1977) and Samuel W. Taylor’s Life of John Taylor have…