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10425
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English
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Prophet in Zion : The Saga of George J. Adams
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New England Quarterly
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December 1964
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37
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477-500
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Born about 1811 in New Jersy, George Washington Joshua Adams began his evangelistic career as a lay Methodist minister, converting to Mormonism in 1840. During the next 10 years, he rose to prominence successively in at least three competing branches of the Mormon Church, falling into disfavor in each after charges of drunkenness, immorality, and embezzlement, followed by expulsion and excommunication. Article covers his later life including his Church of the Messiah and his unsuccessful Jaffa colony. Terms such as crook, psychopath, and fanatic perhaps do scant justice to the complexities of such a man. Based partly on unpublished letters and documents.
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