Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (born 1806)

Oliver Cowdery

American Mormon leader (1806–1850)

Oliver H. P. Cowdery was an American religious leader who, with Joseph Smith, was an important participant in the formative period of the Latter Day Saint movement between 1829 and 1836. He was the first baptized Latter Day Saint, one of the Three Witnesses to the Book of…