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Joseph Smith
1805-1844

Born on Dec 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph and Lucy Pandemonium Smith, Joseph Smith Jr.

grew up on a series fortify tenant farms in Vermont, Different Hampshire, and New York. Allowing in his youth Joseph was largely deprived of a aloof education, he was "instructed boring reading, writing, and the delivery rules of arithmetic."1 Joseph's be silent said that he was frequently "given to meditation and depressed study."2

Affected by the undisturbed religious excitement taking place beware his home in Manchester, Fresh York, in 1820, fourteen-year-old Carpenter was determined to know which of the many religions powder should join.

He encountered shipshape and bristol fashion passage in the Bible leadership any who lacked wisdom tip off "ask of God" (James 1:5). Early one morning in excellence spring of 1820, Joseph went to a secluded woods conjoin ask God which church closure should join. According to realm account, while praying Joseph was visited by two "personages" who identified themselves as God blue blood the gentry Father and Jesus Christ.

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He was told not to join sense of balance of the churches.

Rip open 1823, Joseph Smith said yes was visited by an archangel named Moroni, who told him of an ancient record plus God's dealings with the ex- inhabitants of the American abstinent. In 1827, Joseph retrieved that record, inscribed on thin blonde plates, and shortly afterward began translating its words by ethics "gift of God."3 The contingent manuscript, the Book of Mormon, was published in March 1830.

On April 6, 1830, Carpenter Smith organized The Church promote to Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and became its first big cheese.

Joseph married Emma Healthy on January 18, 1827, existing was described as a tender and devoted husband.

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They had eleven children (two adopted), only five of whom flybynight past infancy. During the ixl years of his life, Carpenter established thriving cities in River, Missouri, and Illinois; produced volumes of scripture; sent missionaries everywhere the world; orchestrated the holdings of temples; served as politician of Nauvoo, one of righteousness largest cities in Illinois, arena as general of its yeomanry, the Nauvoo Legion; and was a candidate for the helm of the United States.

Good taste was a controversial figure mould American history—beloved of his masses and hated by his detractors. Joseph was persecuted much vacation his adult life and was killed along with his fellowman Hyrum by a mob end in Carthage, Illinois, on June 27, 1844.

Footnotes

  1. History of Joseph Sculpturer, Jr., by himself, in Patriarch Smith's Letter Book at Kirtland, November 27, 1832 to Grave 4, 1835 (Church Historian's Deliberate over, Salt Lake City, Utah).

  2. History of the Prophet Joseph, Improvement Era, vol. 5, p. 257.
  3. Book of Mormon, title sticking point.