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"There is the Greatest Excitement in This Country That I Ever Beheld" : Mormonism's New England Ministry of the Forgotten Eli P. Maginn
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Mormon Historical Studies
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Fall 2014
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15
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2
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Sandy, UT
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Mormon Historic Sites Foundation
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157-272
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The story of Eli P. Maginn is an unusual Mormon story that speaks of activities conducted in the periphery of Mormonism, away from the pulsing complexity that often characterized the center of Mormon gravity in its formative years. This outlying circumstance elevates the story's importance because Eli P. Maginn (ca. 1818-1844) reminds us that much of the broad scope of the early church remains be mined, that more remains to be understood and disseminated about the Mormon past for us to make sense of the genesis of the religion and its people. Maginn's life not only augments what we already know about the early Saints but also adds angles and dimensions requiring us to reconsider ensconced traditions.
This is a story illustrating the early missionary work of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in North America. In the absence of Maginn's personal records and institutional compliations of the church's missionary records, which were not kept at this time, Maginn's role during the formative period of Mormon history survives through a few items of primary documentation along with fragmentary references found in records created by his associates and other contemporaries. [Excerpt from the article]
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