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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Spaulding, Solomon 1761-1816 (search)
, O., and while living there wrote a romance entitled The manuscript found, which was a narrative of the customs of the people whom the writer believed to be the original inhabitants of the North American continent. This narrative was never published, but was read to many friends of the author as early as 1811-12. In 1830 a number of Mormons preaching in Ohio gave an account of how the golden plates had been found from which the Book of Mormon was compiled. From this account a suspicion arose that the Book of Mormon was an outgrowth of The manuscript found, and it was alleged that Sidney Rigdon and Joseph Smith stole Spaulding's manuscript, and from it made the book of the Mormon faith. In 1884, however, James H. Fairchild, president of Oberlin College, compared Spaulding's manuscript with the Book of Mormon and declared that there was no resemblance except in general features. Spaulding died in Amity, Pa., Oct. 20, 1816. See Mormons; Smith, Joseph. speaker of Congress, the