@article{Homer2024,
       author = "Homer, Michael W.",
       title =  {{"There’s no combination, so firm as freemason": William Wines Phelps — New York Journalist, Mason, and Anti-Mason}},
       howpublished = "\url{https://ir.hamilton.edu/do/553bfd4a-ec54-482e-a207-31aa9ad576f4}",
       publisher = {Richard W. Couper Press and Hamilton College Library Special Collections},
       journal = {American Communal Societies Quarterly},
       year = 2024,
       month = jan,
       volumen = {18},
       number = {1},
       pages = {33--64},
}

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January 2024

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2027-01-01

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William Wines Phelps (1792-1872) was a prominent associate of Mormon founder Joseph Smith in Missouri, Ohio, and Illinois. He published the first Mormon newspaper and was Smith’s ghostwriter for some of his most important communications. In this paper I will focus on Phelps’s early years in western New York where he lived for almost forty years, edited three newspapers, became a Freemason, renounced that institution, and became a prominent participant in the anti-Masonic movement. I will then suggest how Phelps’s experiences in New York influenced his conversion and early career in Mormonism.

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Source Title

American Communal Societies Quarterly

ISSN

1939-473X

Volume

18

Issue

1

First Page

33

Last Page

64

Publisher

Richard W. Couper Press

Hamilton College Library Special Collections

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