Perkins, Keith

found: Backman, M.V. A profile of Latter-Day Saints of Kirtland, Ohio, and members of Zion's Camp, 1983 (a.e.)t.p. (Keith Perkins)

found: Kirtland village 1830-38, 1977:title page (researched by Keith W. Perkins)

found: Wikipedia, September 27, 2018(Keith W. Perkins; Keith W. Perkins was a professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University (BYU); he has written widely on the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in the period when it was headquartered at Kirtland, Ohio; he was born in Phoenix, Arizona; he has a BA in History Education from Arizona State University and an MA and Ph. D. from BYU in Church History and Doctrine; he was seminary principal at the LDS seminary adjacent to Granite High School in Salt Lake County, Utah, and then instructor at the Tempe Institute of Religion (adjacent to the campus of Arizona State University) before joining the BYU faculty in 1975; among other works, Perkins compiled with Milton V. Backman Jr. Journals, Diaries, Biographies, Autobiographies and Letters of Some Early Mormons and Others Who Knew Joseph Smith, Jr. and/or His Contemporaries; during the mid-1980s, as chair of the department of Church History and Doctrine, Perkins developed the idea for special symposium to be held in various locations related to church history; this was the beginning of the various publications in the LDS Church History in place x series)