Bible Encyclopedias

Browne, Charles Farrar
A humorist and satirist, known by the pseudonym of "Artemus Ward," born in Maine, U.S.; his first literary effort was as "showman" to an imaginary travelling

Danites
or destroying angels, a band of mormons organised to prevent the entrance into mormon territory of other than mormon immigrants, but whose leader, for a massacre they perpetrated, was in 1827 convicted and shot.

Idaho
One of the north-western States of the American Union, surrounded by Washington and Oregon in the W., Nevada and Utah in the S., Wyoming in the E., and

Latter-Day Saints
see mormons .

Mormonism
The creed of the Mormons, or Latter-day Saints as they are called, who have settlements of their own in the valley of the Salt Lake, generally called

Nauvoo
a village in illinois, on the mississippi, where the mormons first settled in 1840, and from which they were expelled in 1846.

Saint
a name applied to a holy or sacred person, especially one canonised; in the plural it is the name assumed by the mormons.

Utah
A territory on the western plateau of the United States, W. of Colorado, traversed by the Wahsatch range, at the foot of which lies the Great Salt Lake,