About Mario De Pillis
Lived 1926 – 2021 (aged 94–95). Mario De Pillis was an American historian.
Mario S. De Pillis (January 22, 1926, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – November 18, 2021) was an emeritus professor of American Religious history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. De Pillis specialized in the history of such groups as the Latter-day Saints and Shakers. He was the second president of the Mormon History Association who was not a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, any other Latter-day Saint movement church, or a former member of any such church.
De Pillis had a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Yale University.
De Pillis and his wife, the former Freda M. Rustemeyer, were the parents of three sons. De Pillis was a Catholic.
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Mario De Pillis was born in 1926 in Philadelphia.
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