Solomon spaulding biography

  • Biography.
  • Solomon Spalding was an American author who wrote two related texts: an unfinished manuscript entitled Manuscript Story – Conneaut Creek, and an unpublished historical romance about the lost civilization of the mound builders of North America.
  • After serving in his youth in the Revolutionary army, and beginning to study law, he was graduated at Dartmouth in 1785, studied for the.

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    Solomon Spalding (February 20, 1761 – October 20, 1816) was the author at least two related texts: the unfinished but extant "Manuscript Story — Conneaut Creek", and the finished (but lost) "Manuscript Found", an unpublished historical romance about the lost civilization of the mound builders of North America. After Spalding's death, a number of individuals suggested that Spaulding's work was used as a source for the Book of Mormon, a scripture in the Latter Day Saint movement.

    Biography[]

    Spalding was born in Ashford, Connecticut. He was a member of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. In 1782, he entered Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, graduating with the class of 1785.[1] In October 1787, he became an ordained Congregationalist preacher in Windham, Connecticut.

    In 1795, Spalding married Matilda Sabin and opened a store with his brother Josiah in Cherry Valley, New York. In 1799, they moved the store to Richfield, New York.

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    Solomon Spalding and Revisionist History

    NOTE: This webpage taken entirely from mormonstudies

    Bibliography

    Appendix: Sidney Rigdon in New York Before 1830

    Additional Statements on Rigdon

    The Spalding theory is dead. That is the Great Myth, which has been perpetuated by both Mormon and non-Mormon scholars. After Fawn Brodie published her 1945 "refutation" of the Spalding theory, interest in this explanation of the Book of Mormon vanished among scholars. Thomas O'Dea wrote in 1957: "Few, if any, scholars take it seriously today" (O'Dea 1957, 24). In a 1974 article, Jan Shipps wrote: "In 1945 Fawn Brodie completely demolished the Spaulding manuscript myth" (Waterman 1999, 33). Lester E. Bush, Jr. echoed O'Dea and Shipps in his 1977 article: "Since 1945 serious students of Mormonism have treated the Spalding theory as little more than a historical curiosity." Bush also expressed his hope that "Spalding might be forever buried in obscure

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    Solomon Spalding (1761 - 1816)

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    Born in Ashland, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
    Ancestors

    Son of Josiah Spaulding and Priscilla (Paine) Spalding

    Brother of Priscilla (Spaulding) Kimball and Elisha Spaulding

    Husband of Matilda (Sabin) Davison — married 21 Feb 1795 [location unknown]

    [children unknown]

    Died at age 55in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States

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    Biography

    Solomon Spalding (February 20, 1761 – October 20, 1816) was the author of the Manuscript Story, a work of fiction about the lost civilization of the mound builders of North America. After Spalding's death, a number of individuals suggested that Manuscript Story was identical or similar to portions of the Book of Mormon, a scripture in the Latter Day Saint movement.

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    Spalding was born in Ashford, Connecticut. He was a member of the Continental Army during the American R

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