Leonard J. Arrington

Biography of Mormon Madelyn Cannon Stewart Silver covers her childhood in Salt Lake City, school years at LDS High School and University of Utah in Salt Lake City, teaching at the LDS University in Salt Lake City, marriage to inventor Harold Silver, writing, trip around the world, family life, and church activities. Includes one of her short stories and 42 of her poems.

Biography of Edwin Dilworth Woolley (1807-1881), a Quaker, moved with his widowed mother and the family from Pennsylvania to East Rochester, Ohio, where he married Mary Wickerham in 1831. He became a Mormon convert, and eventually moved (via Nauvoo) to Salt Lake City, Utah.

Biographies of the presidents from Joseph Smith Jr to Ezra Taft Benson.

This is a history of the Morman church and an explaination of its doctrines.

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Biography of David Eccles (1849-1912), son of William Eccles and Sarah Hutchinson of Glasgow, Scotland. As Mormon converts, the family immigrated in 1863 to Ogden, Utah. David developed widespread mining, railroad, banking, cattle and beet sugar interests in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.

"Adventures of a Church Historian details how Leonard J. Arrington opened up archival resources and presided, for a time, over an unprecedented era of enlightenment as he and those working under his aegis produced path-breaking works of Mormon scholarship." "Arrington was the first professional historian and the first noncentral authority to serve as church historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a position he held from 1972 to 1982."--BOOK JACKET.