Amasa lyman biography of abraham
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SBCSentinel
By Leo Lyman and Mark Gutglueck
Amasa Lyman was San Bernardino’s first mayor and one of the founders of the city.
It is noteworthy that on his substantial historical résumé, the role Amasa Lyman played in making San Bernardino a primary city in the region is not listed as his first or even second-most impressive accomplishment. That is reflected in the consideration that fewer than seven of Lyman’s nearly 64 years were spent in San Bernardino, and that after he departed the town, there is no indication he ever returned. In many of the brief and longer biographies about him written over the years, the descriptions of Lyman as a boatman, as a gunsmith, a farmer, an evangelist and as a religious dissident who engaged in a heresy the church excommunicated him for loom as large or larger than the reference to his having been one of the leaders of the first major expedition of settlers into San Bernardino and their political leader once they were established there.
Born in Lyman, New Hampshire on March 30, 1813, Amasa Mason Lyman was the third son of Roswell Lyman and Martha Mason. At the age of 19 in the spring of 1832, Lyman met two traveling Latter-day Saint missionaries, Orson Pratt and Lyman E. Johnson. Taken with Pratt’s and Johnson’s preachin
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Book of Abraham and Facsimiles, 1 March–16 May 1842
See “To Subscribers,” Times and Seasons, 1 Mar. 1842, 3:710.
Editorial, ca. 1 Mar. 1842, draft, JS Collection, CHL.
Lyman, Journal, 11 July 1835.
Lyman, Amasa. Journals, 1832–1877. Amasa Lyman Collection, 1832–1877. CHL. MS 829, boxes 1–3.
William W. Phelps, Kirtland, OH, to Sally Waterman Phelps, Liberty, MO, 19 and 20 July 1835, in Phelps, “Letters of Faith from Kirtland,” 529.
Phelps, Leah Y. “Letters of Faith from Kirtland.” Improvement Era 45, no. 8 (Aug. 1942): 529.
“Another Humbug,” Cleveland Whig, 5 Aug. 1835, [1].
Cleveland Whig. Cleveland. 1834–1836.
JS, Journal, 11 Feb. 1836.
Woodruff, Journal, 25 Nov. 1836. The remainder of the entry implies Woodruff referred to the papyri and not the dictated English manuscript: “& not ownly the hieroglyphicks but also many figures that this precious treasure Contains.”
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
“Copied from the Journal of Anson Call,” 3–4. According to Call’s record, the reading took two hours.