Cowdery, Oliver
Person
biographical statement
Citation:
Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon, 1966: t.p. (Oliver Cowdery)LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Cowdery, Oliver)
Wikipedia, December 10, 2013 (Oliver Cowdery; Oliver H.P. Cowdery; born October 3, 1806, Wells, Vermont; died March 3, 1850, Richmond, Missouri)
Wikipedia, Dec. 23, 2013 (parents: William Cowdery and Rebecca Fuller; taught school at Manchester, N.Y. in 1829, where met Smith family; assisted as scribe during translation of Book of Mormon; made Second Elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1830; excommunicated from Church in 1838; studied and practiced law in Tiffin, Ohio, edited local Democratic newspaper; rebaptized into Church on Nov. 12, 1848 at Kanesville, Iowa; d. Mar. 3, 1850 in Richmond, Mo.)
Oliver Cowdery, 2013: (the first lawyer who was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Ancestry.com, via WWW, Dec. 23, 2013 (Oliver Cowdery; m. Dec. 18, 1832 in Kaw, Mo. to Elizabeth Ann Whitmer (1815-1892), seven children)
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Reuben Miller letter
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231564383]
Identifier: MSS 672
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten and initialed letter addressed to Henry Sabey of Mt. Knickerbocker, Illinois, and dated 16 Nov. 1848. Miller writes concerning conditions of the Mormons at Council Bluffs, Iowa, what they have heard about the Salt Lake Valley of Utah, and describes the baptism of Oliver Cowdery, an early leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who had been cut off years earlier.
Dates:
1848 November 16
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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Reuben Miller letter
Photocopy of the Printer's Copy of the Book of Mormon
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232481058]
Identifier: MSS 2356
Abstract
A photocopy of the printer's copy of the Book of Mormon, 466 pp. Scribal copy of entire text of the Book of Mormon; each page indicates the relative portion of the volume.
Dates:
1830
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