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  Hyrum Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hyrum Smith (February 9, 1800 – June 27, 1844) was the older brother of Joseph Smith, Jr.
Hyrum was born in Tunbridge, Vermont to Joseph Smith, Sr.
Hyrum served as presiding officer of a church branch in Colesville, New York and was one of the first LDS preachers in the surrounding area.
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 Hyrum Smith -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hyrum Smith (February 9, 1800 – June 27, 1844) was the older brother of (Click link for more info and facts about Joseph Smith, Jr.) Joseph Smith, Jr.
Hyrum served as presiding officer of a church branch in (Click link for more info and facts about Colesville, New York) Colesville, New York and was one of the first LDS preachers in the surrounding area.
Hyrum barricaded the door and was the first to die from gunfire.
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 Joseph F. Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Smith was son of Patriarch Hyrum Smith and his wife Mary Fielding, a British convert to the Church who married Hyrum after the death of Jerusha Barden Smith.
Smith reported that he was devastated by his mother's death, and relied upon the emotional support and help of Brigham Young and his step-father Heber C. Kimball among others.
Smith is often remembered as Church President for the construction and dedication of the Seagull Monument at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 1, 1913.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Fielding_Smith_(1838-1918)   (1605 words)

  
 IN Smith, Hyrum
Hyrum Smith, Reynolds Cahoon, and Jared Carter are appointed as a Church building committee.
of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and Hyrum Smith the Patriarch.
Hyrum Smith was forty-four years old in February, 1844, and Joseph Smith was thirty-eight in December, 1843; and henceforward their names will be classed among the
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 Hyrum Smith, General Authority
Hyrum was Joseph Smith's closest confidante and advisor, the Second Elder in the Church and Patriarch to the Church.
Hyrum was born February 9, 1800 in Tunbridge, Vermont to Joseph Smith, Sr.
Hyrum the faithful, remained at Joseph's side as the winds of persecution and mobocracy swirled anew.
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 NovaTRAIN: Hyrun Smith, Trainer On: Time Management, Organizational Skills, Life Balance, Performance Improvement, ...
Hyrum W. Smith, Vice Chairman of the Board of FranklinCovey, has been motivating individuals to gain better control of their personal and professional lives through values-based time and life management since he helped create the company in 1984.
Hyrum serves on the board of directors and councils of the Tuacahn Center for the Arts near St. George, Utah; SkyWest Airlines; the University of Utah National Advisory Council; the Dixie College National Advisory council; and the Children's Miracle Network.
Hyrum was also honored as the International Entrepreneur of the Year by the Brigham Young University Marriott School of Management in 1993.
www.novatrain.com /trainers/hyrunsmith.html   (476 words)

  
 Joseph Smith's Character
He broke with the Smiths when he found what a measureless and wicked fraud he had become involved in; he started a newspaper in Nauvoo to expose that fraud, but it, with the office, was destroyed by a mob shortly after the first edition was printed.
Hyrum had once a very fine, brand new blue suit, and people told me the suit was the produce of the spoils of the Gentiles.
Hyrum gave it to me in his office, told me to take it home and read it and then be careful with it and bring it back again.
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 MORMON ORIGINS - JOSEPH SMITH - EARLY LDS HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS - MORMONISM
At the beginning of the year 1844 Hyrum Smith was acting as counselor to Joseph Smith as well as holding the office of Patriarch to the church.
After the death of Joseph and Hyrum Smith on 27 June 1844 many questions were asked about a successor to the office of Prophet-President and Patriarch to the church.
A reference to the birth of David Hyrum Smith born 17 November 1844 is in the Journal of Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs, LDS archives.
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 1831-32 Smith, Hyde, Coltrin, Paratt and Carter journals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In his book Corbett speaks of "Hyrum Smith's Diary" and says (in a note on page 96) that the diary was then in the "possession of his descendants." Corbett quotes from that diary through the month of November 1832 (on page 105) and provides a single brief entry for December.
According to both Hyrum Smith and Zebedee Coltrin, Orson Pratt was present at Springfield in Erie Co., PA on April 4th and 5th.
Hyrum would ever after be Orson's benefactor, a role which he may have played as early as June 1833 when Hyde was elevated to the position of personal clerk to Joseph Smith, Jr.
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 Hyrum Smith Family Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Smith Family Artifacts and Their Story - A documentary telling the story of the restoration using the artifacts that belonged to the Smith family.
See the clothing Hyrum Smith was martyred in, the box that held the golden plates, and other interesting early historical artifacts that tell a compelling story of faith, love and sacrifice.
The famous sculptor, Dee Jay Bawden has been commissioned to sculpt a likeness of Jerusha Barden Smith to be placed alongside the bust of Hyrum that is already in the home were she and Hyrum lived in Kirtland.
www.hyrumsmith.org   (403 words)

  
 Gospel Link
The violent deaths of the Prophet Joseph Smith at the age of thirty-eight and his brother Hyrum Smith (age forty-four), Associate President and patriarch of the Church, dramatically ended the founding period of the LDS Church.
Joseph Smith´s enemies countered the destroying of the press with criminal charges against him and his brother for inciting a riot.
Despite his promises of protection and a fair trial, Governor Ford allowed the Smiths to be imprisoned by their enemies without bail and without a hearing on a wholly new charge of treason for having declared martial law in Nauvoo.
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Lorin Woolley said that the bodies of Joseph and Hyrum Smith were dug up, put in new caskets, and brought to the Salt Lake Valley at a very early date.
The story about the bodies of the Prophets Joseph and Hyrum Smith having been brought to this country by the pioneers is a fallacy; they were buried in Nauvoo, and their resting place remains undisturbed.
That Joseph and Hyrum were not resurrected in 1886 may be further borne out by the fact that the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints exhumed their bodies in 1928.
www.mormonfundamentalism.com /10PSindex.htm   (2238 words)

  
 Succession in the First Presidency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Mar 1832 Joseph Smith received a revelation for Jesse Gause "to be a high priest in my church and a councellor unto my servant Joseph unto whom I have given the keys of the Kingdom which belongs always to the presidency of the high Priesthood" (Kirtland Revelation Book, pp.
Shortly after this ordination William Smith began claiming that this ordination meant he should be the President of the Church, because of Hyrum Smith's position as both Patriarch and Associate President (Smith, History of the Church, 7:418).
Hence, although Hyrum Smith was the Presiding Patriarch, as well as next in authority to Joseph Smith as Associate President, William Smith's ordination as the Presiding Patriarch did not mean that he was also the President of the Church (Times and Seasons, 6 [1 Jun. 1845]: 920-922).
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 General Authority & Church History Quizzes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In Andrew Jenson's LDS Biographies, it states that Elder Smith "was stricken with his last illness, from the effects of which he died." Joseph F. Smith, the 6th President of the Church, died on November 19, 1918 at the age of 80.
Thus, Hyrum Smith, Joseph F. Smith, and John Henry Smith are the three apostles who have had sons serve as Presidents of the Church, and Hyrum Smith is the only apostle to have a son and a grandson serve as President.
Hyrum Smith, ordained as an apostle on November 7, 1837, was the father of Joseph F. Smith, the sixth President of the Church.
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 Doctrine and Covenants Revelation Sites — Carthage Jail
Hyrum was shot first and fell calmly, exclaiming: I am a dead man! Joseph leaped from the window, and was shot dead in the attempt, exclaiming: O Lord my God!
Samuel Smith, a younger brother of the Prophet, heard of the mob's intent to kill Joseph and Hyrum.
At the fateful moment, just after Hyrum's death, the Prophet jumped from the left window as he was shot with two balls from outside the jail, and two balls from within.
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 Through the Camera Lens: The People at Nauvoo
This commemoration at the actual gravesites of Joseph and Hyrum Smith couldn't have been held in the years immediately following their deaths, as few realized precisely where they were buried.
Thus, after Joseph and Hyrum's bodies had finished lying in state in the dining room of the hotel wing of the Smith's Mansion House, their coffins were filled with sand and rocks and buried near the temple.
For protection, Joseph and Hyrum were buried behind the foundation of the unfinished Nauvoo House, and remained there until 1845.
www.meridianmagazine.com /photoessay/020703smith.html   (991 words)

  
 Changing World Chapter 17
Mormon writer Hyrum L. Andrus recorded: "Of the Prophet's appearance as a Lieutenant General at the head of the Nauvoo Legion, Lyman L. Woods recalled, 'I have seen him on a white horse wearing the uniform of a general....
Smith was pleasant and social, more so than we had ever seen her before....
In the latter part of the summer, 1843, the Patriarch, Hyrum Smith, did in the High Council, of which I was a member, introduce what he said was a revelation given through the Prophet;...
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 Joseph Smith's Death
When Hyrum fell, Joseph exclaimed, "Oh dear, brother Hyrum!" and opening the door a few inches he discharged his six shooter in the stairway (as stated before), two or three barrels of which missed fire.
Joseph and Hyrum Smith, the members of the council, and all others demanded, proceeded to Carthage, gave themselves up, and were charged with riot.
Joseph and Hyrum, however, were rearrested, and, says Ford, were charged with overt treason, having ordered out the legion to resist the posse comitatus, though, as he states, the degree of their crime would depend on circumstances.
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 One Day in the Life of Joseph Smith, Translator Extraordinaire of the Book of Mormon
Father Smith: Joseph, you may be right, but I dare say that someday, men and women of such intellect and genius may be born who might see through our fraud and expose you as a plagiarizer.
Father Smith: And, my son, your proposed visit of Christ to the Americas not only contradicts Ethan Smith, who says this was Moses, but also contradicts the testimony of von Humboldt regarding the Mexican Quetzalcoatl, as we learned from Sidney regarding Mr.
Dozens of sources were tapped with the help of Joseph's co-conspirators, resulting in a mishmash of ideas in the book that somehow have remained intact after all these years, gaining millions of believers and many deluded souls who claim to find increasing evidences of authenticity.
www.jefflindsay.com /oneday.shtml   (8140 words)

  
 John Whitmer (1802-1878)
According to Lucy Mack Smith, John was also sent to preside over the church in Kirtland—which is not attested elsewhere.
In the fall of 1836, Joseph Smith Jr., S. Rigdon, and others of the Leaders of the church at Kirtland, Ohio, Established a bank for the purpose of Speculation and the whole church partook of the same spirit.
Smith, S. Rigdon, and Hiram Smith were the instigators and G. Robinson was the prosecutor—against David Whitmer, L.
www.saintswithouthalos.com /b/whitmer_j.phtml   (2378 words)

  
 Andrew Knaupp Illustration-Gallery--Against the Christian Door
Here the Prophet Joseph Smith, his brother Hyrum Smith, John Taylor, and Willard Richards were attacked by and angry mob of over 100 men.
He was the brother of the Prophet Joseph Smith, a member of the First Presidency, and the Patriarch of the Church.
Hyrum's brotherly dedication to Joseph and unwavering support of the Church led him down many roads of hardship and persecution with his brother, and finally led him down the road to Carthage, where he too would give his life.
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 Amazon.ca: Books: The 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management: Proven Strategies for Increased ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Yet Smith's sharply focused managerial constructs become muddled with material on "life management," aimed at achieving "inner peace--the transcendant feeling of fulfillment and well-being." And his commercial endorsements of his company's seminars and products are irksome.
Hyrum is fairly self absorbed and has lost touch with the outside world, his focus is overly concerned with convincing the reader that he has impacted others with his stories that only a few of these are very useful.
Hyrum Smith gives us the formula, and we just pop our own individual life charactersistics and goals into the equation.
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 Amazon.com: 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Smith is CEO of Franklin Quest, a company that conducts time-management seminars for corporations, organizations, and government agencies, reaching as many as 20,000 persons per month.
Although Hyrum Smith, and his partner Stephen Covey, recognize the importance of spiritual values and "absolute moral truth" (see Hyrum's concluding chapter in "The 10 Natural Laws..."), their emphasis and appeal are broader than Ken's ministry.
Regarding control, Smith notes that there are events that we can't control, but believe we can just as there are events that we can control, but believe we can't.
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 Welcome to Adobe GoLive 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Besides portraits of Hyrum Smith and his first wife, Jerusha; of Lucy Mack Smith; and of John Smith, the canes of Hyrum and John Smith and the Hyrum Smith family Bible were also included.
He paid great tribute to the Smith family, discussed their sacrifices,and challenged the audience to live up to the great heritage of the Restoration.
A reception was subsequently held in the newly established Joseph Smith Sr.
lib.byu.edu /~imaging/fol_newsletters/issues/fall00/fall00_art5.html   (320 words)

  
 Meridian Magazine :: Books: Hyrum Smith—A Man of Integrity
Editors’ Note:  We have been impressed by this new biography of the Patriarch, Hyrum Smith, and so we invited author Jeffrey O’Driscoll to tell us why he wrote the book, what impressed him as he did so, and his feelings about Hyrum Smith.
Hyrum, thy name shall be written in the book of the law of the Lord, for those who come after thee to look upon, that they may pattern after thy works.”
While Joseph was gone, Hyrum gave frank counsel to local stake presidents and wrote letters of direction to those who presided over outlying branches of the Church and to members of the Twelve who were on missions.  To Parley P. Pratt, he wrote, “I intend to.
www.meridianmagazine.com /books/040929hyrum.html   (650 words)

  
 Mormons
Smith translated the Book of Mormon from gold plates that he said the angel Moroni revealed to him.
Whether any of this 'proves' that Joseph Smith was not a Prophet or that Mormonism is a false religion is specious at best and is irrelevant to the discussion from a Masonic perspective.
In any event, Joseph Smith was initiated the day the lodge was instituted and became a Master Mason the next.
www.masonicinfo.com /mormons.htm   (1472 words)

  
 Mormon News for WE 19Jan01: Franklin Covey Founder Hyrum Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Smith said that some factors made the experience more painful.
In spite of the nature of Smith's error, his marriage remains intact and his family has forgiven him.
Smith says that his experience has made him more spiritual.
www.mormonstoday.com /010119/B2HSmith01.shtml   (631 words)

  
 The Prophet Joseph Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Joseph Smith was a prophet and a powerful witness of Christ.
At his death seventeen years later, in 1844, he had left a substantial archive for the study of his life and the church he was instrumental in founding.
We consider Joseph Smith to be a Prophet of God and Apostle of Jesus Christ similar to those men mentioned in the Bible like Moses, Samuel, Isaiah, Peter, Paul, and John.
www.lightplanet.com /mormons/daily/history/people/joseph_smith   (739 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: What Matters Most: The Power of Living Your Values   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Smith believes that goal setting has value not only for individuals who have lost their moral compass, but for families, organizations (such as his Franklin Covey Company) and even nations.
Smith shares some anecdotes about his own development and the efficacy of his program, including a lengthy tale about lecturing to troubled Utah high school kids, along with reflections on Winston Churchill, Michael Jordan and Mother Teresa.
Smith is a veteran planner and values trainer whose purpose here is to help you match up your life with your values.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0743510089   (946 words)

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