Item Detail
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30558
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English
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Baptists in Utah
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Utah History Encyclopedia
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Salt Lake City
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University of Utah Press
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"Members of the Baptist Church first entered Utah Territory as part of the general influx of Protestant evangelical faiths following the completion of the transcontinental railroad. These evangelicals came to support the growing non-Mormon populace and to attempt to persuade young Mormons to their cause through education. After a slow start, the Baptist Home Missions Society operated several schools in the territory from 1883 to 1900. However, changing economic, political, and religious conditions in Utah and the nation led to the closure of all early Baptist schools in Utah by the turn of the century." [Author]