Research Catalog

Title

Supporting saints : life stories of nineteenth-century Mormons / edited with an introduction by Donald Q. Cannon and David J. Whittaker ; with a foreword by Larry C. Porter.

Publication

Provo, Utah : Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University ; Salt Lake City, Utah : Produced and distributed by Bookcraft, ©1985.

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Additional Authors

• Cannon, Donald Q., 1936-
• Whittaker, David J.
• Porter, Larry C.
• Walker, Ronald W. (Ronald Warren), 1939-2016.
• Dennis, Ronald D., 1940-
• Perkins, Keith.
• Anderson, Lavina Fielding, 1944-2023.
• Anderson, Paul L., 1946-2018.
• Lyon, Ted.
• Flake, Chad J.
• Pace, D. Gene.
• Hartley, William G.
• Madsen, Carol Cornwall, 1930-
• Christianson, James R.

Description

xvii, 412 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The Religious Studies Center specialized monograph series ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Religious Studies Center specialized monograph series ; v. 1.

Subject

• Angell, Truman O. 1810-1887
• Ballantyne, Richard, 1817-1898
• Cannon, Angus M
• Cox, Martha Cragun, 1852-1932
• Flake, Lucy H. 1842-1900
• Grant, Rachel Ridgeway Ivins, 1821-1909
• Howells, William, 1816-1851
• Hunter, Edward, 1793-1883
• Jenson, Andrew, 1850-1941
• Lyon, John, 1803-1889
• Sheets, Elijah F., 1821-1904
• Spori, Jacob, 1847-1903
• Wells, Emmeline B. 1828-1921
• Angell, Truman O. 1810-1887
• Ballantyne, Richard, 1817-1898
• Cox, Martha Cragun, 1852-1932
• Flake, Lucy H. 1842-1900
• Hunter, Edward, 1793-1883
• Jenson, Andrew, 1850-1941
• Lyon, John, 1803-1889
• Spori, Jacob, 1847-1903
• Wells, Emmeline B. 1828-1921
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints > Biography
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Latter Day Saints > Biography
• Latter Day Saints
• Mormons > Biography
• United States, Utah > Biography
• United States, Utah > History > Biography. > 19th century

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Foreword / Larry C. Porter -- Introduction / Donald Q. Cannon, David J. Whittaker -- The heritage and tasks of Mormon biography / David J. Whittaker -- Rachel R. Grant : the continuing legacy of the feminine ideal / Ronald W. Walker -- William Howells : first missionary to France / Ronald D. Dennis -- Andrew Jenson : zealous chronologist / Keith W. Perkins -- A "salt of the earth" lady : Martha Cragun Cox / Lavina Fielding Anderson -- Truman O. Angell : architect and saint / Paul L. Anderson -- Richard Ballantyne and the defense of Mormonism in India in the 1850s / David J. Whittaker -- John Lyon : poet for the Lord / Thomas E. Lyon -- From the diary of Lucy Hannah White Flake / Chad J. Flake -- Elijah Fl Sheets : the half-century bishop / D. Gene Pace -- Edward Hunter : pioneer presiding bishop / William G. Hartley -- Emmeline B. Wells : romantic rebel / Carol Cornwall Madsen -- Jacob Spori : kingdom builder, 1847-1903 / James R. Christianson -- Angus M. Cannon : pioneer, president, patriarch / Donald Q. Cannon.

ISBN

• 0884945650
• 9780884945659

LCCN

85071425

OCLC

• ocm13063629
• 13063629
• SCSB-1159065

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library