Thomas C. Sharp
Male, Deceased Person
1818 – 1894
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Who was Thomas C. Sharp?
Thomas Coke Sharp was a prominent opponent of Joseph Smith, Jr. and the Latter Day Saints in Illinois in the 1840s. Sharp promoted his anti-Mormon views largely through the Warsaw Signal newspaper, of which he was the owner, editor, and publisher. Sharp was one of five defendants tried and acquitted of the murders of Smith and his brother Hyrum.
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- Born
- Sep 25, 1818
Mount Holly - Also known as
- Thomas Sharp
- Mayor Thomas C. Sharp
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Dickinson College
- Died
- Apr 9, 1894
Carthage
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on July 23, 2013
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