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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: County officials in Illinois, Illinois city councillors, Mayors of places in Illinois, Joseph Smith, Jr., Arthur Schultz, Tom Weisner, Elisha P. Ferry, A. George Pradel, Ed Schock, Eric Leys, Roger Charles Sullivan, Robert L. Butler, Dave Koehler, Charles Panici, Adam Kinzinger, Harlan Page Davidson, John J. Nimrod, Sheila Simon, Thomas C. Sharp, Mark Schwiebert, Jerry Costello, Jim Ardis, John Cook, Frank Derickson, Kevin Burns, Merle LeSage, Mayor of Rock Island, Illinois, Frank Edwards, Donald Stephens, Wayne Rosenthal, Morris E. Muhleman, Clark Robinson Griggs, Bill Sarto, Jason Briscoe, Carolyn H. Krause, James M. Riggs, James A. Patten, Carl R. Chindblom, Jim Schwantz, Bob Schillerstrom, Jesse Burr Strode, Fredrik Herman Gade, Douglas P. Scott, Richard D. Auman, Jonathan Russell Bullock, Benjamin F. Funk, Martin D. Foster, Albert Fowler, George Gaulrapp, Anton J. Johnson, Finis E. Downing, Bradford N. Stevens, James Byron Moran, Joseph C. Szabo, Robert E. Jones, William N. Baltz, Charles M. Borchers, Solomon Hicks Bethea, Ben Harper, Charles Box, Lorraine H. Morton, Craig B. Johnson, List of mayors of Rockford, Illinois, Catherine J. Melchert, Alexander Campbell, Kris Povlsen, Maria Rodriguez, William Thomas Rawleigh, Stewart Umholtz, List of mayors of Harvard, Illinois. Excerpt: Joseph Smith, Jr. (December 23, 1805 - June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Regarded as a prophet by his followers, Smith was also a theocrat, city planner, military leader, political theorist, and polygamist. Smith was born in Vermont and reared in western New York by a poor family that had been influenced by the religious enthusiasm of the Second Great Awakening. During the early 1820s, Smith himself was paid to search for buried treasure with a seer stone. Later in the de...
