Thank you for taking the time to give such a lengthy response. I appreciate the effort, and you've answered quite a few things satisfactorily. Assuming fairmormon.org is reliable, the author of the PDF seems to have been quite dishonest.

darth_ender said:

Probably. What issues are you getting hung up on again?

You've directly answered some of them and I found the answers to others through links you posted in your second post, so I'm happy for now.

Maybe I used this link before, but here are Martin Harris's five churches following his departure from the Church.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Harris_(Latter_Day_Saints)#Strangite.2C_Whitmerite.2C_Gladdenite.2C_Williamite.2C_Shaker

Note that four of the five are Mormon split offs; only the Shakers were not. That intrigues me, as the Doctrine and Covenants specifically addresses Shaker doctrine as false.

I know wish I had checked out the Wikipedia article earlier, as I probably would have saved you a lot of time. It appears that the author of our PDF used Wikipedia as his sole source for his info on Martin Harris, down to using quotations from Wikipedia's citations in the same order as presented on Wikipedia. That seems like a bad method to follow.