Family Background
Cowdery was born October 3, 1806 in Wells, Vermont. His father, William, was a farmer who moved the family to Poultney, Vermont when Oliver was three. William Cowdery may have been a follower of the sectarian leader Nathaniel Wood of Middletown, Vermont, whose small religious sect, the "New Israelites," practiced divining for buried treasure and for revelatory purposes.
Read more about this topic: Oliver Cowdery, Biography
Other articles related to "family background, family, background":
... to capture the effects of important elements of family background (such as single-parent family structure at age 14) ... importance of IQ relative to parents' SES, and relative to family background more generally ... Estimates based on a variety of methods, including analyses of siblings, suggest that parental family background is at least as important, and may be more important ...
... The Curries belonged to an old Scottish family descended directly from the Curries of Duns, Berwickshire, in the late sixteenth century and, via a cadet, from the Corrie/Currie family of Annandale, Dumfriesshire ...
... The Mahler family came from eastern Bohemia and were of humble circumstances the composer's grandmother had been a street pedlar ... From this background the future composer developed early on a permanent sense of exile, "always an intruder, never welcomed" ...
... His family surname Litif is a derivation of the Qur'anic Sufis verses, virtually all the Sufis distinguish the Lataif-as-Sitta, otherwise referred to as the six subtleties which ...
Famous quotes containing the words background and/or family:
“... every experience in life enriches one’s background and should teach valuable lessons.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)