David Whitmer
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David Whitmer was an early leader of the Latter Day Saint Movement and one of the Three Witnesses to the gold plates of the Book of Mormon. Whitmer later distanced himself from Joseph Smith and was ex
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Whitmer by R. B. Rice, c. 1864
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Portrait of David Whitmer by Lewis A. Ramsey
Oliver Cowdery
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Oliver H. P. Cowdery was an American religious leader who, with Joseph Smith, was an important participant in the formative period of the Latter Day Saint movement in the 1820s and 1830s.
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…movement. Whitmer first heard of Mormonism and the golden plates in 1828 when he made a business trip to Palmyra, New York, and talked with his friend Oliver Cowdery, who believed that there "must be some truth to the matter". Cowdery continued to write Whitmer letters concerning the matter, which Whitmer then shared…
Daguerreotype of Oliver Cowdery found in the Library of Congress, taken in the 1840s by James Presley Ball
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