E.B. Grandin
Egbert Bratt Grandin was born in 1806 in Freehold, New Jersey, and was raised near Palmyra, New York. 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 obtain an estimate for printing costs. Grandin and his associates were dubious at first about printing this story from a "golden Bible". Joseph Smith then took the manuscript pages to Thurlow Weed, a fellow printer, but Weed flatly turned him down, saying he did not believe Joseph Smith's translation account.
The manuscript was finally returned to Grandin, who agreed to publish the account. On August 17, 1829, the agreement was made to publish five thousand copies for three thousand dollars.
Publication was completed and the first copies went on sale on March 26, 1830. Grandin died in 1845.
