E.B. Grandin

E(gbert) B(ratt) Grandin was born in 1806 and died in 1845. Grandin started in the printing industry when he was only eighteen years of age, at the Wayne Sentinel, a weekly newspaper in Palmyra.

In June of 1829 Joseph Smith took a few manuscript pages of the Book of Mormon to Grandin to estimate a quote. Grandin and his associates were dubious at first on printing this story from a "golden Bible". Joseph Smith then took the manuscript pages to Thurlow Weed, a fellow printer, but flatly turned him down, saying he did not believe Joseph Smith's translation account.

The manuscript was finally returned to Grandin, who agree to publish the account. On August 17 1829 the agreement was made to publish five thousand copies for three thousand dollars.