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Martin Harris (Latter Day Saints)

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Martin Harris (May 18, 1783 – July 10, 1875) was an early convert to the Latter Day Saint movement who guaranteed the first printing of the Book of Mormon and also served as one of Three Witnesses who testified that they had seen the golden plates from which Joseph Smith said the Book of Mormon had been translated. [1]

77 relations: All About Mormons, Andrew Jackson, Angel, Anthon Transcript, Apostle (Latter Day Saints), B. H. Roberts, Book of Commandments, Book of Mormon, Bookcraft, Brigham Young, Cache Valley, Charles Anthon, Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints), Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite), Clarkston, Utah, Clay County, Missouri, Columbia College (New York), David Whitmer, Death of Joseph Smith, Deseret Book Company, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, District (LDS Church), E. B. Grandin, Easton, New York, England, Ensign (LDS magazine), Far West, Missouri, Ghost, Gladden Bishop, Golden plates, Herald (Community of Christ), High priest (Latter Day Saints), History of the Church (Joseph Smith), Improvement Era, James Strang, Jesus, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Sr., Joseph Smith–History, Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, Kirtland Safety Society, Kirtland Temple, Kirtland, Ohio, Latter Day Saint movement, Lost 116 pages, Lucy Harris, Lucy Mack Smith, Millennial Star, Missouri, Mormonism, ..., Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, New York (state), New York City, Oliver Cowdery, Palmyra (town), New York, Pennsylvania, Phineas Young, Pomeroy Tucker, Presbyterianism, Presiding high council, Quorum of the Twelve, Richard Lloyd Anderson, Ronald W. Walker, Seer stone (Latter Day Saints), Shakers, Sidney Rigdon, Signature Books, Teachings of Presidents of the Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Three Witnesses, Utah Territory, Voree plates, War of 1812, Warren Parrish, William E. McLellin, William Smith (Latter Day Saints), Zion's Camp. Expand index (27 more) »

All About Mormons

"All About Mormons", also known as "All About the Mormons?", is the 12th episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 108th overall episode of the series.

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Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837.

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Angel

An angel is generally a supernatural being found in various religions and mythologies.

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Anthon Transcript

The "Anthon Transcript" (often identified with the "Caractors document") is a small piece of paper on which Joseph Smith wrote several lines of characters.

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Apostle (Latter Day Saints)

In the Latter Day Saint movement, an apostle is a "special witness of the name of Jesus Christ who is sent to teach the principles of salvation to others." In many Latter Day Saint churches, an apostle is a priesthood office of high authority within the church hierarchy.

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B. H. Roberts

Brigham Henry Roberts (March 13, 1857 – September 27, 1933) was a Mormon leader, historian, and politician.

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Book of Commandments

The Book of Commandments is the earliest published volume said to contain the revelations of Joseph Smith Jr. Text published in the Book of Commandments is now considered scripture by Latter-day Saints as part of the larger Doctrine and Covenants.

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Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421.

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Bookcraft

Bookcraft was a major publisher of books and products for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Brigham Young

Brigham Young (June 1, 1801August 29, 1877) was an American religious leader, politician, and settler.

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Cache Valley

Cache Valley is an agricultural valley of northern Utah and southeast Idaho, United States that includes the Logan metropolitan area.

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Charles Anthon

Charles Anthon (November 19, 1797 – July 29, 1867) was an American classical scholar.

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Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints)

The Church of Christ was the original name of the Latter Day Saint church founded by Joseph Smith.

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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints—usually distinguished with a parenthetical (Strangite)—is a schism of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Clarkston, Utah

Clarkston is a town in Cache County, Utah, United States.

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Clay County, Missouri

Clay County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Columbia College (New York)

Columbia College is the oldest undergraduate college at Columbia University, situated on the university's main campus in Morningside Heights in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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David Whitmer

David Whitmer (January 7, 1805 – January 25, 1888) was an early adherent of the Latter Day Saint movement who eventually became the most interviewed of the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon's golden plates.

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Death of Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith, the founder and leader of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, on June 27, 1844.

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Deseret Book Company

Deseret Book is an American publishing company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, that also operates a chain of bookstores throughout the western United States.

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Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought is an independent quarterly journal of "Mormon thought" that addresses a wide range of issues on Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint Movement.

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District (LDS Church)

A district of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is a geographical administrative unit composed of a number of congregations called branches.

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E. B. Grandin

Egbert Bratt Grandin (March 30, 1806 – April 16, 1845) was a printer in Palmyra, New York, best known for publishing the first edition of the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the churches of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Easton, New York

Easton is a town in southwestern Washington County, New York, United States along the county's western boundary.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Ensign (LDS magazine)

The Ensign of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly shortened to Ensign, is an official periodical of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Far West, Missouri

Far West, Missouri, was a Latter Day Saint (Mormon) settlement in Caldwell County, Missouri.

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Ghost

In folklore, a ghost (sometimes known as an apparition, haunt, phantom, poltergeist, shade, specter or spectre, spirit, spook, and wraith) is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living.

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Gladden Bishop

Francis Gladden Bishop (January 19, 1809 – November 30, 1864) was a minor leader in the Latter Day Saint movement after the 1844 succession crisis.

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Golden plates

According to Latter Day Saint belief, the golden plates (also called the gold plates or in some 19th-century literature, the golden bible) are the source from which Joseph Smith said he translated the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the faith.

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Herald (Community of Christ)

Herald (formerly The True Latter Day Saints' Herald and The Saints' Herald) is the official periodical of the Community of Christ.

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High priest (Latter Day Saints)

In most denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement, a high priest is an office of the priesthood within the Melchizedek priesthood.

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History of the Church (Joseph Smith)

History of the Church (cited as HC) (originally entitled History of Joseph Smith; first published under the title History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; nicknamed Documentary History of the Church or DHC) is a semi-official history of the early Latter Day Saint movement during the lifetime of founder Joseph Smith.

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Improvement Era

The Improvement Era (often shortened to The Era) was an official magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) between 1897 and 1970.

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James Strang

James Jesse Strang (March 21, 1813 – July 9, 1856) was an American religious leader, politician and monarch.

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Jesus

Jesus, also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus Christ, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.

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Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Joseph Smith Sr.

Joseph Smith Sr. (July 12, 1771 – September 14, 1840) was the father of Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Joseph Smith–History

Joseph Smith–History (abbreviated JS–H) is a book in the Pearl of Great Price that contains an excerpt of the autobiographical record of some of the early events in Joseph Smith's life.

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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

The Journal of Book of Mormon Studies is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal covering topics surrounding the Book of Mormon.

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Kirtland Safety Society

The Kirtland Safety Society (KSS) was first proposed as a bank in 1836, and eventually organized on January 2, 1837, as a joint stock company, by leaders and followers of the Church of the Latter Day Saints.

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Kirtland Temple

The Kirtland Temple is a National Historic Landmark in Kirtland, Ohio, United States, on the eastern edge of the Cleveland metropolitan area.

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Kirtland, Ohio

Kirtland is a city in Lake County, Ohio, United States.

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Latter Day Saint movement

The Latter Day Saint movement (also called the LDS movement, LDS restorationist movement, or Smith–Rigdon movement) is the collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian primitivist movement founded by Joseph Smith in the late 1820s.

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Lost 116 pages

The "lost 116 pages" were the original manuscript pages of what Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, said was the translation of the Book of Lehi, the first portion of the golden plates revealed to him by an angel in 1827.

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Lucy Harris

Lucy Harris (née Harris) (1792–1836) was the wife of Martin Harris, and an early skeptic of the translation of the Book of Mormon's Golden Plates.

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Lucy Mack Smith

Lucy Mack Smith (July 8, 1775 – May 14, 1856) was the mother of Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Millennial Star

The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star (usually shortened to Millennial Star) was the longest continuously published periodical of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, being printed in England from 1840 until 1970, when it was replaced by the Church-wide Ensign.

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Missouri

Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States.

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Mormonism

Mormonism is the predominant religious tradition of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity started by Joseph Smith in Western New York in the 1820s and 30s.

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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, or simply the Maxwell Institute, is a research institute at Brigham Young University (BYU) made up of faculty and visiting scholars who study and write about religion, primarily The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Oliver Cowdery

Oliver H. P. Cowdery (October 3, 1806 – March 3, 1850) was, with Joseph Smith, an important participant in the formative period of the Latter Day Saint movement between 1829 and 1836.

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Palmyra (town), New York

Palmyra is a town in Wayne County, New York, United States.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Phineas Young

Phineas Howe Young (also found as Phinehas) (February 16, 1799 – October 10, 1879) was a prominent early convert in the Latter Day Saint movement and was later a Mormon pioneer and a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Pomeroy Tucker

Pomeroy Tucker (August 10, 1802 – June 30, 1870) was a journalist and New York politician.

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Presbyterianism

Presbyterianism is a part of the reformed tradition within Protestantism which traces its origins to Britain, particularly Scotland, and Ireland.

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Presiding high council

In the Latter Day Saint movement, there are two presiding high councils, one said to be "standing," and the other "traveling." The traveling high council is generally known as the Quorum of Twelve Apostles.

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Quorum of the Twelve

In the Latter Day Saint movement, the Quorum of the Twelve (also known as the Council of the Twelve, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Council of the Twelve Apostles, or the Twelve) is one of the governing bodies or (quorums) of the church hierarchy organized by the movement's founder Joseph Smith, and patterned after the twelve apostles of Christ (see Mark 3).

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Richard Lloyd Anderson

Richard Lloyd Anderson (born 1926) is an emeritus professor of Church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University (BYU).

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Ronald W. Walker

Ronald Warren Walker (1939 – May 9, 2016) was a historian of the Latter Day Saint movement and a professor at Brigham Young University (BYU) and president of the Mormon History Association.

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Seer stone (Latter Day Saints)

According to Latter Day Saint theology, seer stones were stones that were sacred gifts from God.

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Shakers

The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly known as the Shakers, is a millenarian restorationist Christian sect founded in the 18th century in England.

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Sidney Rigdon

Sidney Rigdon (February 19, 1793 – July 14, 1876) was a leader during the early history of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Signature Books

Signature Books is a press specializing in subjects related to Utah, Mormonism, and Western Americana.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church

Teachings of Presidents of the Church is a series of books published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), often informally known as the Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian, Christian restorationist church that is considered by its members to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ.

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Three Witnesses

The Three Witnesses is the collective name for three men connected with the early Latter Day Saint movement who stated that an angel had shown them the golden plates from which Joseph Smith, Jr.

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Utah Territory

The Territory of Utah was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from September 9, 1850, until January 4, 1896, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Utah, the 45th state.

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Voree plates

The Voree plates, also called The Record of Rajah Manchou of Vorito, or the Voree Record, were a set of three tiny metal plates allegedly discovered by Latter Day Saint leader James J. Strang in 1845 in Voree, near Burlington, Wisconsin.

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War of 1812

The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies from June 1812 to February 1815.

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Warren Parrish

Warren F. Parrish (also Warren Parish) (January 10, 1803 – January 3, 1877) was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement.

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William E. McLellin

William Earl McLellin (January 18, 1806 – April 24, 1883) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement.

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William Smith (Latter Day Saints)

William Smith (also found as William B. Smith) (March 13, 1811 – November 13, 1893) was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and one of the original members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

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Zion's Camp

Zion's Camp was an expedition of Latter Day Saints, led by Joseph Smith, from Kirtland, Ohio to Clay County, Missouri during May and June 1834 in an unsuccessful attempt to regain land from which the Saints had been expelled by non-Mormon settlers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Harris_(Latter_Day_Saints)

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