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Acknowledgments

APPRECIATION IS EXTENDED TO REFERENCE LIBRARIANS, archivists, and others who have provided assistance in compiling information for this book—particularly those at the following repositories:

• Chardon Public Library, Geauga County Public Library, Chardon, Ohio

• Church Archives, Family and Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah

• Church History Library, Family and Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah

• Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio

• Community of Christ Library-Archives, Independence, Missouri

• Fairview Park Regional Library, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Fairview Park, Ohio

• Family History Library, Family and Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah

• Geauga County Archives and Records Center, Chardon, Ohio

• Geneva Public Library, Ashtabula County District Library, Geneva, Ohio

• Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

• Kirtland Family History Center, Kirtland, Ohio

• Kirtland Public Library, Kirtland, Ohio

• Kirtland Temple Historic Center, Kirtland, Ohio

• Lake County Historical Society, Lake County Historical Center, Kirtland Hills, Ohio

• Morley Library, Painesville, Ohio

• Ohio Genealogical Society, Mansfield, Ohio

• Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio

• State Library of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio

• Western Reserve Historical Society Library, Cleveland, Ohio

I am indebted to the following people and express my gratitude to those individuals who provided information and assistance for this book in any way:

• Milton V. Backman Jr., emeritus professor of Church history and doctrine, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

• Gina R. Barkett, assistant director, Kirtland Public Library, Kirtland, Ohio

• Susan Easton Black, professor of Church history and doctrine, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

• Christine Cox, library director, and her reference staff, Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah

• G. David Dilts, senior reference consultant, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah

• Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, associate professor of Church history and doctrine, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

• Lachlan Mackay, historic sites coordinator, Community of Christ, Kirtland Temple Historic Center, Kirtland, Ohio

• Sally Malone, genealogy librarian, Morley Library, Painesville, Ohio

• Suzanne (Sue) McDonald, library director, Community of Christ, Independence, Missouri

• Craig K. Manscill, associate professor of Church history and doctrine, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

• Craig J. Ostler, associate professor of Church history and doctrine, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

• Diane Parkinson, microforms librarian and director of the Utah Valley Regional Family History Center, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

• Keith W. Perkins, emeritus professor of Church history and doctrine, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

• Ronald E. Romig, archivist, Community of Christ, Independence, Missouri

• Ann Sindelar, reference supervisor, and her reference staff, Western Reserve Historical Society Library, Cleveland, Ohio

• Bari Oyler Stith, county archivist, and her reference staff, Geauga County Archives and Records Center, Chardon, Ohio

• Russell Taylor, reference supervisor, and his reference staff, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

• Karon Tomlinson, curator of collections and librarian, Lake County Historical Society, P. K. Smith Research Library, Kirtland Hills, Ohio

• Ronald G. Watt, senior archivist, Church Archives, Salt

Lake City, Utah

Special thanks to Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, for providing secretarial, computer, and editorial services and research support. The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Kirsha Quigley, his BYU student secretary. Melvin J. Thorne, associate teaching professor, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Brigham Young University, and Victoria Blanchard, student editorial assistant, Brigham Young University’s faculty editing service, were especially helpful in reading the manuscript and offering editing suggestions. The author would like to thank the Religious Studies Center staff for their assistance with the production of this book—Richard D. Draper, Charlotte A. Pollard, Devan Jensen, and Carmen Cole, typesetter. Research for this volume was partially funded by Brigham Young University’s Religious Studies Center and Brigham Young University’s Department of Church History and Doctrine.

—Kip Sperry