Item Detail
-
13923
-
3
-
15
-
English
-
The Restoration of Mormonism to Erie County, Pennsylvania
-
Mormon Historical Studies
-
Spring 2000
-
1
-
1
-
3-19
-
Although a county historian attested that an early Mormon presence was absent in Erie County, Pennsylvania, detailed research uncovered more than 100 converts in that county between 1830-33. The author offers a glimpse of the early missionary work done in the county by such missionaries as Jared Carter, Orson Hyde, and Evan Greene. He describes the pattern of proselytizing and analyzes the social origins of the converts. Using data gathered from census, tax, and genealogical records, he demonstrates that most converts were 'not on the peripheries of American society.' They were neither the very poor nor the very wealthy, but fell in between those extremes. He discusses those shared characteristics that might have factored into these early converts joining the Church. As most of the converts left Erie County, their presence was too brief to have left an imprint in the county history
-
An American Prophet's Record : The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith
By No Means Men of Weak Minds : The Gullible Bumpkin Thesis and the First Mormons
Evangelical America and Early Mormonism
Infallible Proofs, Both Human and Divine : The Persuasiveness of Mormonism for Early Converts
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
Missionaries in the American Religious Marketplace : Mormon Proselyting in the 1830s
Missionary Activities and Church Organizations in Pennsylvania, 1830-1840
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Rediscovering History : Mormons in Erie County, Pennsylvania 1832-1833
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Pennsylvania (1830-1854)
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The New England Origins of Mormonism
The Social Sources of Mormonism
The Visionary World of Joseph Smith