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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Russell Martin Harris celebrated his 86th birthday Friday by giving a gift to the Mormon church — a leather wallet carried by his great-great-grandfather in the 1830s.
That's better than it first sounds. It was that ancestor, Martin Harris, who mortgaged his farm to get the $3,000 needed to print the first 5,000 copies of the Book of Mormon, the central text of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Family folklore holds that the soft, caramel-brown wallet carried the cash to the printer, Russell Harris said.
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