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The Life and Times of W. W. Phelps

Bruce A. Van Orden
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Table of Contents

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  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • The Man, The Church, And Seeking Zion
    Preface
  • Youth In Rural New Jersey And New York
  • Young Adult Life And Marriage
  • Anti-Masonic Partisan And Newspaper Editor
  • Conversion To Mormonism
  • Dedicating The Land Of Zion
  • "Printer Unto The Church"
  • "Zion Must Increase In Beauty"
  • The Evening And The Morning Star
  • Challenges Mount In Missouri
  • Terror In Jackson County
  • Driven From Jackson County
  • Importuning The Government
  • Attempting To Redeem Zion
  • Joseph's Scribe And Associate In Kirtland
  • The Phelps Family
  • The Book of Abraham
  • Doctrinal Exponent, 1831-1836
  • The Kirtland Temple And Endowment of Power
  • Return To Missouri
  • The Bottom Falls Out
  • Hell To Pay In Missouri
  • The Returning Prodigal
  • Historical Scribe In Nauvoo
  • Newspaper Editing And Ghostwriting
  • Political Clerk In Nauvoo
  • Martyrdom And Succession
  • Interpreter Of Joseph Smith's Nauvoo Doctrines
  • Aide To The Apostles
  • Helping Create Deseret
  • Declining Years And Death
  • Prolific Hymnist
  • Epilogue
  • Index
  • About the Author

About the Book

W. W. Phelps

In this comprehensive and compelling biography, learn of the trials and triumphs of W. W. Phelps, early Latter-day Saint leader, printer, scribe, ghostwriter, and monumental hymn writer. He printed the Book of Commandments and other early standard works. He was one of the “council of presidents” that guided the Church in Kirtland in 1835–36. Phelps continued to be the leading light in newspaper publishing in Nauvoo and was Joseph Smith’s political clerk in governing Nauvoo and running for the US presidency, also playing a key role in the Council of Fifty. He went west with the Saints, helped propose the “State of Deseret,” and published prose and poetry in the Deseret News and his Deseret Almanac. Phelps’s strong feelings sometimes put him at odds with Church leaders, and he was excommunicated three times, rejoining each time.

ISBN 978-1-9443-9436-3

Published in 2018

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