.. David Marshall Stuart was orphaned as a young boy in Paisley, Scotland. He joined the LDS church when he was sixteen years old. He set sail from Liverpool and arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1847. In early 1856, still unmarried, he was preaching the gospel in Sacramento, California, when he wrote a letter to Apostle Amasa Mason Lyman full of flowery observations on religion. As a second letter later attests, he must not have expec...
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