Wilford Woodruff, who after finishing common school attended an academy for four years, where he studied classical languages along with chemistry, mathematics, and other advanced subjects. Converted to the Church in 1833, he left on a mission a year later. In the midst of preaching throughout the Tennessee Valley he still found time, his journal records, to study Hebrew, English grammar, and a book on philosophy. Returning to Kirtland after his mission, he resumed his study of Greek and Latin in 1836.16
