Joseph Smith, Jr. was a religious leader and founder of the Mormon Church. By the time of his death, he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and his religion, now known as the Latter Day Saints continues to the present with millions of followers. Joseph Smith was born December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont to Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith.
Sep 27, 2013 · Events this week in Illinois explored how courts in the U.S. have protected minority rights since the 1800s, focusing on Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his three habeas corpus and extradition hearings in the 1840s.
Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement.When he was 24, Smith published the Book of Mormon.By the time of his death, 14 years later, he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and founded a religion that continues to the present with millions of global adherents.
Jun 27, 2016 · Yesterday, the 26 th, Governor Ford having prevailed upon Joseph Smith and several other principal Mormons, to resign themselves into the hands of the officers of justice at Carthage to be tried by due process of law, five, and I believe only five, viz: Joseph and Hiram Smith, a Doctor Richards, and two others were incarcerated in the Hancock county jail, and …
Nov 21, 2015 · Mormon leaders have admitted for the first time that the church's founder, Joseph Smith, took multiple wives, some of whom were in their early teens or married to other men. The Salt Lake Tribune ...
William Law | |
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January 24, 1841 – April 18, 1844 | |
Called by | Joseph Smith |
Predecessor | Frederick G. Williams |
Successor | Disputed, possibly: Willard Richards David H. Smith |
Plural wife's maiden name (married name) | Marriage Date | Age |
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Emma Hale (Smith) | January 17, 1827 | 22 |
Fanny Alger | c. 1833–1837 | 16–20 |
Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harris | c. 1838–1842 | 37–41 |
He was survived by his first wife, Emma, who lived until 1879. The essay claims that Emma "approved, at least for a time, of four of Joseph Smith’s plural marriages," but later "vacillated in her view of plural marriage, at some points supporting it and at other times denouncing it.".
The essay also claims that the practice of polygamy was revealed to Smith during his study of the Old Testament in 1831 and accepted reluctantly by the church's founder and a select group of his cohorts. Smith was killed by a mob in Nauvoo, Illinois in 1844 at the age of 38.
Mormon leaders have admitted for the first time that the church's founder, Joseph Smith, took multiple wives, some of whom were in their early teens or married to other men. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the essay disclosing Smith's polygamy was posted on the official website of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints late last months.
Joseph Smith also had multiple other run ins with the law, a conviction for illegal banking, and for destroying a printing press which was exposing his polygamy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith_and_the_criminal_justice_system.
Not only did Joseph Smith marry him self to single women, but he also married him self to women who already had living husbands! Of the over 30 wives that Joseph Smith had, 11 of them were already married to other men! I think that’s usually called adultery.
Deuteronomy 18:20 “ But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.”. 1841 – Joseph Smith begins polygamy in secret.
Joseph Smith III was the Prophet-President of what became known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church), now called the Community of Christ, ...
Smith's mother, Emma, attempted to make a living renting out rooms in the family home; in 1847, Emma married a second husband named Lewis Bidamon . Joseph III began to study and eventually practice law. In 1856, he married Emmeline Griswold and the couple moved into a house that was his parent's first residence in Nauvoo.
Emmeline Griswold. Joseph Smith III was born in Kirtland, Ohio, on November 6, 1832, to Joseph Smith Jr, and Emma Hale Smith. He moved with his parents to Far West, Missouri, in 1838, where his father was arrested partially as a result of the events in the 1838 Mormon War. Young Joseph was able to stay overnight with his father in prison on several ...
Joseph Smith died at Carthage, Illinois, when Joseph III was 11 years old.
Smith presented a revelation which called William Marks, former presiding officer of the church's central stake, to be his first counselor in the reorganized First Presidency. After Marks died, Smith called W. W. Blair and his brother, David Hyrum Smith, to be his counselors in the First Presidency.
In the 1860s and 1870s, Smith began to rebuild the structure of the church, establishing a new First Presidency, Council of Twelve Apostles, seven quorums of the Seventy, and a Presiding Bishopric. Zenas H. Gurley, Sr. became President of the Council of Twelve.
Born in Vermont in 1805, Smith claimed in 1823 that he had been visited by a Christian angel named Moroni who spoke to him of an ancient text that had been lost for 1,500 years. The holy text, supposedly engraved on gold plates by a Native American historian in the fourth century, related a story of Israelite peoples who had lived in America in ...
Joseph Smith, the founder and leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (more commonly known as Mormonism), is murdered along with his brother Hyrum when a mob breaks into a jail where they are being held in Carthage, Illinois. Born in Vermont in 1805, Smith claimed in 1823 that he had been visited by a Christian angel named Moroni ...
During the next several years, Smith dictated an English translation of this text to his wife and other scribes, and in 1830 The Book of Mormon was published. In the same year, Smith founded the Church of Christ—later known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—in Fayette Township.