Spencer Orson

Letters Exhibiting the Most Prominent Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9781017330564
• ISBN-10: 1017330565
• Artikelnr.: 67101037

Autorenporträt

Orson Spencer (March 14, 1802 - October 15, 1855) was a prolific writer and notable Latter-day Saints member. He held various prominent positions in the church and left a large body of theological writings. William Mulder cites Orson Spencer as an example of a highly educated person becoming a Mormon at the time of Joseph Smith. Spencer was born in West Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and was well regarded as a clever young man. He had a fever at the age of twelve, which nearly killed him and left him with a chronic limp. When Spencer was fifteen, the town sheriff was so taken with him that he volunteered to pay for his college. He started at Lenox Academy the same year. Spencer graduated with honors from Union College in Schenectady, New York, in 1824. Spencer began working as a schoolteacher in Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia, in 1825. While in Georgia, he also began law school. Spencer joined the Baptist church and intended to become a pastor in 1827. at 1829, he graduated as class valedictorian from theological college at Hamilton, New York (now known as Colgate University). Between 1829 and 1841, Spencer was the pastor of three congregations in New England.