Benjamin Winchester

Benjamin Winchester (August 61817–January 251901) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. Winchester was the youngest adult member of Zion's Camp, an original member of the first Quorum of the Seventy, editor of the first independent Mormon periodical, the "Gospel Reflector", president of a large branch of the church in Philadelphia, a zealous missionary who baptized thousands, a Rigdonite Apostle, and ultimately a dissenter who repudiated Mormonism altogether.

References

*Benjamin Winchester (ed.), "The Gospel Reflector", reprint of the original 1841 Philadelphia edition by Richard Drew for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite), 1993.
*Elizabeth Proctor Kiddle "et alia" (ed.), "The Family of Auer Winchester Proctor", Provo, Utah: 1978.
*David J. Whittaker, "Early Mormon Pamphleteering", BYU Studies, 2003.