About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 67. Chapters: Joseph Smith, Jr., Frederick M. Smith, Ina Coolbrith, Joseph F. Smith, Bruce R. McConkie, Lucy Mack Smith, Emma Smith, Joseph Fielding Smith, William Smith, Joseph Smith III, George A. Smith, Children of Joseph Smith, Jr., Francis M. Lyman, Hyrum Smith, Alvin Smith (brother of Joseph Smith, Jr.), Joseph Smith, Sr., George Albert Smith, Jesse N. Smith, Samuel Harrison Smith, Joseph Fielding McConkie, Emma Smith Kennedy, List of descendants of Joseph Smith, Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith, Elbert A. Smith, M. Russell Ballard, Richard R. Lyman, Eldred G. Smith, Elias Smith, John Henry Smith, John Smith (nephew of Joseph Smith, Jr.), Bathsheba W. Smith, Jefferson Smith, Julia Murdock Smith, Florence S. Jacobsen, Amy B. Lyman, David Hyrum Smith, Hyrum M. Smith, Nicholas G. Smith, Lewis C. Bidamon, Israel A. Smith, Wallace B. Smith, Alexander Hale Smith, Mary Fielding Smith, David A. Smith, John Smith (uncle of Joseph Smith, Jr.), W. Wallace Smith, Hyrum G. Smith, Don Carlos Smith, George Albert Smith, Jr., Clarissa S. Williams, Michael A. Kennedy. Excerpt: Joseph Smith, Jr. (December 23, 1805 - June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. He was also a theocrat, politician, city planner, military leader, and polygamist. Smith was raised in western New York during a period of religious enthusiasm. Having been influenced by folk religion as a youth, he claimed the ability to find buried treasure through supernatural means. In the late 1820s, Smith said that an angel had directed him to a buried book of golden plates inscribed with a religious history of ancient American peoples. After publishing what he said was an English translation of the plates as the Book of Mormon, he organized branches of the Church of Christ, a church whose adherents were later called Latter Day Saints ...
