Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, Glen M. Leonard provide brief biographical entry for Philip Klingensmith.
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- Book
- Hearsay
- Secondary
- Reference
Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, and Glen M. Leonard, Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Tragedy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 259
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- Oxford University Press
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
Klingensmith, Philip (1815–81?), 42. [A] Private, Company D, First Platoon, Cedar City. One of the nine men indicted for the massacre. Though only a private, he was considered a key supporter of the massacre and used his role as local bishop to exert his infl uence. Traveling to the Meadows late Tuesday, September 8, he killed one of two emigrants found in the cedars near Leach’s Spring. He admitted shooting one of the emigrant men on Friday. He also reportedly had at least one of the children killed. Klingensmith turned state’s evidence and thereby avoided prosecution.33
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