''Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints'' (abbreviated ''LDS Biographical Encyclopedia'') is a four-volume

biographical dictionary A biographical dictionary is a type of encyclopedic dictionary limited to biographical information. Many attempt to cover the major personalities of a country (with limitations, such as living persons only, in ''Who's Who'', or deceased people onl ...

by Andrew Jenson that includes a church chronology and biographical information about leaders and other prominent members of

the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian Christian church that considers itself to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ. The ch ...

(LDS Church) from its founding in 1830 until 1930. The ''Encyclopedia'' was not an official publication of the LDS Church, but Jenson completed the work during his time as an Assistant Church Historian and it is largely

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. The work was printed by the church-owned Deseret News Press and every stake and

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of the church was provided with free copies for use in meetinghouse libraries. Volume 1 was published in 1901. It was Jenson's original intention that the project would consist of only one volume and that it would contain information on the church and its people from 1830 to the end of the 19th century. However, he later decided to complete the work for the first 100 years of church history, which resulted in the publication of volume 2 in 1914, volume 3 in 1920, and volume 4 in 1936. In total, the four volumes contain over 5000 biographical articles and 2000 photographs. In 1941, the four volumes were updated and re-published in a second edition. In 2003, Greg Kofford Books began reprinting the volumes.

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