T. B. H. Stenhouse, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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(1825 –1882) Mormon pioneer
Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1825
Place of Birth: Dalkeith, Scotland, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 07-Mar-1882
Profession: journalist
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About T. B. H. Stenhouse
- Thomas Brown Holmes Stenhouse (21 February 1825 – 7 March 1882) was an early Mormon pioneer and missionary who later became a Godbeite and with his wife, Fanny Stenhouse, became a vocal opponent of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Stenhouse was born in Dalkeith, Scotland.
- He joined the LDS Church in England in 1845.
- In 1850, Stenhouse married Fanny Warn and shortly thereafter joined Lorenzo Snow and Joseph Toronto on a mission to Italy; they became the first LDS Church missionaries to preach in that country.
- Later in the same year, Stenhouse was sent to Switzerland and became the first Mormon missionary to preach there. In 1855, Stenhouse and his wife emigrated to Utah Territory.
- They settled in Salt Lake City; Stenhouse the editor of the Salt Lake Telegraph, a newspaper that was consistently pro-Mormon.
- Their daughter, Clara Federata Stenhouse, married Joseph Angell Young.
- In 1870, Stenhouse was convinced by the writings of William S.
- Godbe, who criticised LDS Church President Brigham Young on political and religious grounds.
- The Stenhouses were particularly opposed to the LDS Church's practice of plural marriage.
- Stenhouse and his wife became part of the "Godbeites" and were excommunicated from the LDS Church. As Godbeites, Stenhouse and his wife published several exposés of Mormonism.
- Stenhouse's most famous work is his 1873 The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons.
- In 1872, Fanny Stenhouse published "Tell it All": The Story of a Life Experience in Mormonism. Stenhouse died in San Francisco, California.
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