Item Detail
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27014
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English
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"I Want to Have Your Name Live with the Saints to All Eternity" : Thomas L. Kane in Mormon Memory
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Journal of Mormon History
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July 2016
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42
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3
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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69-93
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As the most prominent non-Mormon in Latter-day Saint history, Thomas L. Kane occupies a unique place in Mormon memory. For nearly four decades, the distinguished Pennsylvanian served as the Latter-day Saints' advisor and defender. He first met the Mormons at the age of twenty-four in May 1846. Over the next three months, he used his political connections to help raise the Mormon Battalion and then traveled to the Mormon refugee camps. Before he left the camps in September, he received a patriarchal blessing, a ritual normally reserved for Church members. Patriarch John Smith, an uncle of Joseph Smith, laid his hands on the head of "Bro. Thomas," informed Kane that angels had already defended him, and promised him future protection, "For thou art called to do a great work on the earth." Furthermore, Smith told Kane, "Thy name shall be had in honorable remembrance among the saints to all generations." [From the text]
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A History of Kane County
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Council Bluffs/Kanesville, Iowa : A Hub for Mormon Settlements, Operations, and Emigration, 1846-1852
'In Honorable Remembrance' : Thomas L. Kane's Services to the Mormons
Liberty to the Downtrodden : Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer
Re-Placing Memory : Latter-day Saint Use of Historical Monuments and Narrative in the Early Twentieth Century
Sentinel in the East : A Biography of Thomas L. Kane
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