1895 08 04 Brooklyn Eagle All About the Mormons

All About the Mormons

Apparently prompted by the donation of a collection of books on Mormon history to the Long Island Historical Society (now the Brooklyn Historical Society) by Colonel Lewis C. Hopkins, a well known New York financier (according to the article), the Brooklyn Eagle launched a 3-part series on Mormonism.

The first article covers Hopkins' friendship with George Q. Cannon and a list of the works donated, which Hopkins hoped would be "the most complete of its kind in the world, so that scholars will regard Brooklyn as the intellectual Mecca of everything appertaining to the history of" the Mormons.

The article touches on the Mormon people, the new Temple in Salt Lake City and the size of the Tabernacle. Interviewed by a Brooklyn Eagle reporter, Hopkins gives his own views of the Mormon people and a sketch of George Q. Cannon. He discusses how the Church is supported and the number of members, and gives some information on Mormon beliefs.