[Ads-l] Antedating of "Jack Mormon"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Jack Mormon (OED 1844 [23 Dec.])

1844 Alton (Ill.) Telegraph & Democratic Review 13 July 2/5 (Newspapers.com)

The County Commissioners' Court ... the Sheriff, [etc.] are either Mormons, or, if possible, what is worse, Jack Mormons.

Fred Shapiro



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