Write a essay Old men rewer Arthur torothy deming
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I don't know a lot about the origins of Deming's newspaper/book at this point, but he appears to have repeated the approach used in Hurlbut's Mormonism Unvailed. Deming solicited information from eyewitnesses about early mormonism and compiled and published the information in the form of sworn statements. Deming began this work in the 1880s. Unfortunately, he was facing the major obstacle of time: many key figures were dead and buried, memories of some may not have been as sharp, and hearsay can begin to come in and cloud over facts. But even with that major disclaimer, I still found the following statement by S.F. Whitney to be of interest. S.F. Whitney was almost 81 years of age when this statement was recorded, and he writes about events when he was a young man, about 50 years earlier, in and around Kirtland. S.F Whitney is the brother of Newel K. Whitney. Newel K. was a successful area businessman and had converted to mormonism. Joseph Smith lived in the back of Newel's store, the same store that housed the school of the prophets before the temple was built in Kirtland. S.F. remembers talking with both Smith and Rigdon and fending off their attempt to convert him.