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Joseph Smith Jr. was the founding prophet and first President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Between his birth into a poor Vermont family in 1805 and his death at the hands of an Illinois mob in 1844, Joseph published multiple sacred texts, founded and organized cities, received revelations that restored vital truths about ...
Joseph Smith Jr., First President of the Church. Born December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, Joseph Smith Jr. was the fifth of 11 children of Joseph Smith and Lucy Mack. He worked on the family farm in Vermont and later in western New York. A series of remarkable spiritual experiences prepared him for his prophetic calling.
Joseph Smith was a prophet called of God, endowed with God’s power to set up Christ’s church in the latter days. He was born to a farming family of nine children in Vermont in 1805 and moved to New York in 1817.
It included 27 women besides Emma Smith. [6] There are currently 49 women on this list. However, historians disagree as to the number and identity of the plural wives Smith had. Various scholars and historians, including Fawn M. Brodie, George D. Smith, [7] and Todd Compton, have attempted to identify the women who married Smith. [8]
Of the Prophet Joseph Smith, President Wilford Woodruff testified: “He was a prophet of God, and he laid the foundation of the greatest work and dispensation that has ever been established on the earth.” 1. Ancestry and Childhood. Joseph Smith was a sixth-generation American, his ancestors having emigrated from England to America in the 1600s.
Joseph Smith. Courtesy: Intellectual Reserve, Inc. Founder of a uniquely American religion, Joseph Smith was a poor farm boy who became a charismatic prophet, much criticized polygamist, town and ...
Killing of Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith, the founder and leader of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother, Hyrum Smith, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, United States, on June 27, 1844, while awaiting trial in the town jail. As mayor of the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, Joseph Smith had ordered the destruction of the facilities ...
