Glen M. Leonard

Glen Milton Leonard (born 1938){{cite web | title=The story of the Latter-day Saints / James B. Allen and Glen M. Leonard | work=J. Willard Marriott Library & S.J. Quinney Law Library catalog search | publisher=University of Utah | url=http://hip.library.utah.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1C2B915190421.110614&profile=mrmain&uri=link=3100009~!3874466~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=subtab68&menu=search&ri=1&source=~!horizon&term=0877475946&index=ISBN | access-date=2008-10-13 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} is an American historian specializing in Mormon history.

Background

Leonard is a native of Farmington, Utah.{{cite book | author=Arrington, Leonard J. | author-link=Leonard J. Arrington | chapter=Foreword | pages=vii | title=The Story of the Latter-day Saints | editor=James B. Allen and Glen M. Leonard | publisher=Deseret Book | year=1976 | location=Salt Lake City}} He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Utah. For a time he was managing editor of Utah Historical Quarterly. He has taught at both Brigham Young University and Utah State University. Leonard has been the director of the Museum of Church History and Art in Salt Lake City since it opened in 1984.{{cite magazine |title=New Church Museum Dedicated |url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1984/05/news-of-the-church/new-church-museum-dedicated?lang=eng |department=News of the Church |first=Bob |last=Cazier |magazine=Ensign |date=May 1984 |access-date=2014-03-14 |pages=104–106}}

Leonard and his wife Karen had three sons. They live in Farmington, Utah.

Among other callings in the LDS Church, Leonard has served as seventies quorum president, bishop and counselor in a stake presidency.{{cite journal | title=Paintings from the Church's Second International Arts Competition | author=Leonard, Glen M. | url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1991/06/paintings-from-the-churchs-second-international-arts-competition?lang=eng | journal=Ensign|date=June 1991|access-date=2008-09-25}} He later served as president of the Farmington Utah North Stake.{{cite journal | author=Leonard, Glen M. | title=I Have a Question | url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1998/03/i-have-a-question?lang=eng | journal=Ensign | date=March 1998 | access-date=2008-09-25}}

Published work

Leonard has authored and co-authored several books on Mormon history. Among these are Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, A People of Promise and A History of Davis County, Utah. He also co-authored The Story of the Latter-day Saints with James B. Allen and Massacre at Mountain Meadows with Richard E. Turley, Jr. and Ronald W. Walker.

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References

[https://web.archive.org/web/20080914102301/http://deseretbook.com/authors/author-info/19215 Deseret Book authors bio.]
Church News, September 23, 1995.{{full citation needed|date=September 2018}}