Mark R. Grandstaff
MARK R. GRANDSTAFF converted to the LDS church from Catholicism in 1975. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1992. He has taught at the University of Maryland and at the University of California at Berkeley, and currently serves as assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. An earlier version of "Having More Learning than Sense: William E. McLellin and the Book of Commandments Revisited" was presented at the annual meeting of the John Whitmer Historical Society in 1990.
Having More Learning Than Sense: William E. McLellin and the Book of Commandments Revisited
Articles/Essays – Volume 26, No. 4
In November 1831, in a small out-of-the-way community in the Western Reserve of Ohio, known as Hiram, ten ordinary looking men met to discuss an extraordinary circumstance—the publication of a Book of Commandments. This book,…
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