Oliver Cowdery's Vermont Years and the Origins of Mormonism

Authors

Larry E. Morris

Keywords

Mormon studies, Oliver Cowdrey, Vermont

Abstract

Most of what is known about Oliver Cowdery's youth comes from a well-known summary offered by his sister Lucy Cowdery Young:

Now in regard to Oliver he was born in the Town of Wells in the state of Vermont[.] when he was three years of age Father married my Mother she resided in the Town of Poultney so Oliver was brought up in Poultney Rutland County Vermont and when he arrived at the age of twenty he went to the State of New York where his older brothers were married and Settled and in about two years my father moved there.

Recommended Citation

Morris, Larry E. (2000) "Oliver Cowdery's Vermont Years and the Origins of Mormonism," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 39: Iss. 1, Article 7.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol39/iss1/7