b Jan 7, 1805 Harrisburg, PA
m Jan 9, 1831 Julia A Jolley
bap June 29, 1829
d Jan 25, 1888
June 1829 became one of the "3 witnesses"
April 6, 1830 o elder - charter member of the church
Oct 25, 1831 o high priest
July 7, 1834 o President of the Church in Missouri
1835 with O Cowdery & M Harris selected 12 apostles
Feb 5, 1838 not sustained as "President of the church in
Missouri"
April 13, 1838 expelled by High Council at Far West
Jan 23, 1847 named Pres of Church of Christ (McClellin)
authored Address to all believers in Christ(1886)
bibl TMD:52-60
BOM:386-91
RJS:24-25
LBE 1:263-71photo
JH 3(3):298--3(4):446-54
SH 96(42):985,992-93
Anderson, Richard Lloyd
Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses
Deseret: Salt Lake City, Utah 1981 photo
Blankmeyer, Helen Van Cleave
David Whitmer, Witness for God
Springfield, IL 1955
Romig, Ronald E
"David Whitmer: Faithful Dissenter, Witness Apart"
Chapter One in
Lanius, Roger D & Thatcher, Linda eds.
Differing Visions: Dissenters in Mormon History
University of Illinois Press 1994
0-252-02069-3
Part 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 2 In This Chapter I Give You a Few Quotations from the Book of Mormon
Part 2
Chapter 3 To Believers in the Book of Mormon
Chapter 4 How the Church was Established in the Beginning and How They Drifted into Error
Chapter 5 One Man to Lead and Receive Revelations for the Church, Not According to the Teachings of Christ
Chapter 6 The Doctrine of Christ All Contained in the Two Sacred Books
Chapter 7 Relative to Publishing the Revelations
Chapter 8 The Changes and Additions to Some of the Revelations
Chapter 9 High Priests
Chapter 10 The Choice Seer
Chapter 11The Gathering
Chapter 12 Changing the name of the church