T. Edgar Lyon

Thomas Edgar "Ed" Lyon was a prominent Latter-day Saint historian and educator. He is most noted for his work on 19th century Latter-day Saint history. He also wrote on Latter-day Saint doctrine. Lyon was born in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Articles

Preparation for the Kingdom | Milton V. Backman, American Religions and the Rise of Mormonism

This book will satisfy an intellectual need which has long existed in the L.D.S. Church and among all those who wish to investigate the “apostasy” from the Early Christian Church and the course of religious…

On the Mormon Trail | Alma P. Burton, Mormon Trail from Vermon to Utah, and R. Don Oscarson and Stanley B. Kimball, The Travelers’ Guide to Historic Mormon America

Dr. Alma P. Burton, currently Assistant Administrator of Seminaries and Institutes for the L.D.S. Department of Education, first published his guide in 1952 to satisfy a long-felt want of many people who desired to trace…

A Surviving Dynamic | Francis W. Holm, Sr., The Mormon Churches, A Comparison from Within

This is a unique composition in the true sense of the word—there is not another with which it can be compared. Francis W. Holm, Sr., was reared in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…

The Current Restoration of Nauvoo, Illinois

Approximately 250 miles southwest of Chicago and 150 miles north of St. Louis lies Nauvoo, Illinois. At this place the Mississippi River rather abruptly pushes itself into Iowa and then returns again to its generally…

Free Masonry at Nauvoo | Mervin B. Hogan, Founding Minuates of the Nauvoo Lodge, U.D.

This small publication makes available in useable form the printing of two documents which deal with the first Masonic Lodge organized at Nauvoo and the rapidity with which it grew. At Nauvoo in 1841 there…

Church Historians I Have Known

This talk is necessarily going to be “oral history.” As such it is suspect, as most oral history must be. Time plays tricks on our memories. It beclouds our judgment, confuses people, bends our interpretations,…