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100 1 Watt, Ronald G.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
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245 14 The Mormon passage of George D. Watt :|bfirst British
convert, scribe for Zion /|cRonald G. Watt.
264 1 Logan, Utah :|bUtah State University Press,|c[2009]
264 4 |c©2009
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500 Includes index.
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 "On the Lord's business" -- Early life in Britain --
Journey to America and Nauvoo -- Mission to Britain --
Across the wide Atlantic and on to Zion -- Life and times
in Utah : politics in the territory -- Reporter for Zion -
- Deseret alphabet -- Family and life in Salt Lake City --
A man for all seasons : intellectual activities -- Sermons
of obedience : traveling with Brigham Young and to Britain
-- Life-changing events : leaving the office, businessman
-- Spiritual wanderings : apostasy and spiritualism --
Family and farm life in Davis County.
520 "Nineteenth century Mormonism was a frontier religion with
roots so entangled with the American experience as to be
seen by some scholars as the most American of religions
and by others as a direct critique of that experience. Yet
it was also a missionary religion that through
proselytizing quickly gained an international, if
initially mostly Northern European, makeup. This mix
brought it a roster of interesting characters:
frontiersmen and hardscrabble farmers; preachers and
theologians; dreamers and idealists; craftsmen and social
engineers. Although the Mormon elite soon took on, as
elites do, a rather fixed, dynastic character, the social
origins of its first-generation members were quite
diverse. The Mormon Church at its beginning provided a
good study in upward mobility. George D. Watt was a self-
educated English convert with both unusual, for the time
and place of frontier Utah, clerical skills and ambitions
to improve his status. A man with intellectual pretensions,
he had little formal training but a strong will, avid
curiosity, and appetite for knowledge. Those traits made
up for what he lacked in schooling and drew him into what
served as intellectual circles among the Mormon elite and,
later, to the church's disenchanted fringe. They also made
him, for a time, essential to Brigham Young as a clerk and
reporter but sent him into religious and social exile, due
to a contest of wills with his employer that Watt had no
chance of winning. Reputed to have been the first of the
many English converts to the LDS church, Watt's repeatedly
demonstrated ability to learn quickly made him an early
master of Pitman shorthand, just then coming into use.
Employing this skill, he made two important contributions
to Mormon literature: First, based on that shorthand, he,
more than anyone, created the "Deseret Alphabet," which
now is a curiosity but then was an innovation that,
intended to create a unique Mormon orthography and
pedagogy, stands well for the broad attempt to build in
Utah the wholly self-sufficient culture of the Kingdom of
God. Second, his efficient note taking allowed him to take
down the sermons of Young and other church leaders and
publish them in the Journal of Discourses, an
indispensable historical record. In addition, Watt learned,
thought, and wrote about a variety of subjects, from
horticulture to spiritualism, which helped define him as a
resident Utah intellectual. He eventually left the Mormon
Church, but the records of his domestic life before and
after that decision provide a rich portrait of the working
of polygamous households, particularly complicated ones in
his case. Despite his accomplishments, because of his
potential, George Watt's story is at heart a tragedy. His
breach with Brigham Young resulted in social isolation,
poverty, and rejection by friends and associates. He never,
though, lost his sense of independence or his avid mind.
Whether facing an economic affront or pressing, in writing,
his own conclusions about life and God, he engaged the
challenge where he found it."--Publisher's description
546 English.
588 Description based on print version record; resource not
viewed.
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