[…] Young Academy in Provo and after graduation taught school for six years in Provo and Salt Lake City. Like other young women of her generation who later rose to positions of prominence in social […]
[…] to human beings, it ap pears that Smith means only that they can neither be created nor de stroyed; presumably, then, God’s self-existence amounts to nothing more, and is a form of factually, rather […]
[…] Various Authors, for the Primary Associations of the Children of Zion, by Eliza R. Snow (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1880). It contained 121 texts, divided into “Hymns” and “Songs.” In the same year, […]
[…] in America.” The resulting works were Sidney B. Sperry, The Spirit of the Old Testament (Salt Lake City: LDS Department of Education, 1940); Heber Cyrus Snell, Ancient Israel: Its Story and Meaning, A Brief […]
[…] Army service. He was appointed United States Agent in charge of all Army engineering work on the Missouri River, serving from 1917-1919. At the close of the war, the Colonel returned to Salt Lake […]
[…] copy by Philo Dibble, and a copy found in the papers of John Taylor. The “faculties” are de nominated according to the standard phrenological usage of the time. For definitions see any early book […]
[…] imagery indicated by this statement is almost paradoxical in light of his antisecret society rhetoric during the Missouri period (HC 3: 178-82, 303). Aside from this 1835 quotation, I am not familiar with any […]
[…] the collapse of Kirtland society in 1837 the Pratts lived briefly in Henderson, New York; St. Louis, Missouri; Quincy, Illinois; and Montrose, Iowa, before settling in Nauvoo in July 1839. Though Orson Pratt, Sr., […]
Church going is not usually one of the primary images associated with New York City, but it seems that “the city-that-never-sleeps” may not be such a godless metropolis after all. New York Glory is […]
[…] a big “perhaps”) only to “test” her virtue. Leonard’s treatment of the succession of Brigham Young as de facto president of the church is thorough and reasonable. As already mentioned, he believes that Joseph […]