After Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, Parley P. Pratt was the most influential figure in early Mormon history and culture. Missionary, pamphleteer, theologian,

Parley Parker Pratt, son of Jared Pratt and Charity Dickson, was born in 1807 in Burlington, New York. He married Thankful Halsey in 1827. He died in 1857 in Al