Ohio editor, first book-length critic
Eber D. Howe
1798–1885
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The Book of Mormon: Origins, Translation, and Witnesses
Ohio editor, first book-length critic
Published Mormonism Unvailed in 1834, built on affidavits gathered by the excommunicated Doctor Philastus Hurlbut. The book set the terms of anti-Mormon argument for a century: the Smiths as money-diggers, and the Book of Mormon as a reworking of Solomon Spalding's unpublished romance passed through Sidney Rigdon. It also printed Anthon's letter denying Harris's version of their meeting.
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Mormonism Unvailed sets the terms of criticism
E. D. Howe published Hurlbut's material along with Charles Anthon's letter, and argued in his final chapter that Sidney Rigdon obtained Spalding's manuscript from a Pittsburgh printing office and worked it into the Book of Mormon. Howe conceded he had no positive proof of the Rigdon connection.
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Eber D. Howe
The Hurlbut affidavits on Smith family money-digging, Anthon's own 1834 letter, and the original statement of the Spalding–Rigdon theory.
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