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  Hyrum Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.
Joseph, Hyrum, John Taylor and Dr. Willard Richards were held awaiting trial in a jail in Carthage.
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 Utah History Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Joseph Fielding Smith was born in Salt Lake City on 19 July 1876, the son of Joseph F. Smith, sixth president of the Mormon Church, and grandson of Hyrum Smith, brother to Joseph Smith, the church's founder.
As a young man, Joseph Fielding Smith labored as a missionary in England from 1899 to 1901.
Joseph Fielding Smith was popularly regarded as the LDS Church's chief theologian and spokesman on doctrinal matters.
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 Vaal Triangle Info Encylopedia - Joseph_Fielding_Smith_(1838-1918)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Smith was son of Patriarch Hyrum Smith and his wife Mary Fielding, a Canadian convert to the Church who married Hyrum after the death of Jerusha Barden Smith.
At the age of fifteen, Smith was called on a LDS Church mission to serve in the Sandwich Islands (designated the Hawaiian Islands after acquisition as a territory of the United States) under the direction of Apostle Parley P. Pratt.
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.
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 Joseph Fielding Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Joseph Fielding Smith (1876-1972), ordained an apostle in 1910, was well known for his gospel writings.
Following Joseph Fielding's death, Harold B. Lee, his successor as President of the Church, said, "Truly, the greatest monument to him is the great posterity which he has given to the world" (Letter to the Joseph Fielding Smith family, July 14, 1972, Salt Lake City, Historical Department of the Church [HDC]).
Joseph Fielding Smith was the tenth President of the Church, serving in that position from 1970 to 1972.
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 Joseph Fielding Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph Fielding Smith (July 19, 1876 July 2, 1972) was the tenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1970 to 1972.
He had been named to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1910, when his father, with whom he shared a name but who is generally referred to as Joseph F. Smith, was President of the Church.
Joseph Fielding Smith spent some of his years among the Twelve Apostles as the Church Historian and Recorder, and was known as a zealous creationist.
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 Meridian Magazine : : Biography : : Joseph F. Smith, From Birth to Apostleship States
Joseph F. Smith was born during one of the most difficult periods of Latter-day Saint history on 13 November 1838 at Far West, Missouri.
At forty-three, Mary Fielding Smith was left alone with five children of Hyrum's from his first marriage; and now she had two of her own--Joseph F. and a baby girl, Martha Ann, born on 14 May 1841.
Joseph F. recalled that upon their arrival, one of the clerks came out and said, "Widow Smith, it is a shame that you should have to pay tithing.
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 Gospel Chic: Presidents Day LDS Style
Joseph Smith's role in history was to found the Church of Jesus Christ based on this restored gospel in preparation for the second coming of Christ.
Joseph Fielding Smith (his full name) was born in Far West, Missouri, on November 13, 1838, during one of the most strife-torn years in the Church's history.
George Albert Smith (1870-1951), the eighth president of the Church, was born April 4, 1870, in Salt Lake City, the son of John Henry Smith and Sarah Farr.
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 Joseph Fielding Smith
Joseph Fielding Smith (1876-1972), the tenth President of the Church, was born July 19, 1876, in Salt Lake City, the firstborn son of Joseph F. Smith, an apostle who would become the sixth President of the Church, and Julina Lambson, the first of his six plural wives.
Under the tutelage of his parents, Joseph Fielding, as he became known in the Church, grew up with a deep affection for the Prophet Joseph Smith and his teachings.
When Joseph Fielding Smith was ordained an apostle on April 7, 1910, the Salt Lake Tribune published criticisms against him, his father, and the Smith family for nepotism.
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 Meridian Magazine : : Biography : : Legacy of a Name
Joseph F. Smith, the sixth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was born into the caldron of intense persecution on 13 November 1838 at Far West, Missouri.
When the Angel Moroni visited Joseph Smith in 1823, he told the young man that his "name should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindreds, and tongues, or that it should be both good and evil spoken of among all people" (Joseph Smith-History 1:33).
"Joseph F. Smith was sincere and intense in whatever he believed; he was loyal and courageous under whatever banner he marched, whether as a churchman, as a partisan, as an advocate of war or of peace, as a business associate or as a personal friend.
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 deseretnews.com | D.C. to host symposium on Joseph Smith
Smith was born Dec. 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vt. He led the church until his murder on June 27, 1844.
Smith founded a university, edited two newspapers, ran several businesses and established the church based on directions he said he was given during visitations from God, Jesus Christ and other angelic ministers.
Interest in Smith appears to be rising, but is accompanied by a cultural backlash against religion, said Bushman, the Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus at Columbia University and chair chairman of the executive committee of BYU's Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History.
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 Joseph Fielding Smith ~ Tenth Prophet
His father was Joseph F. Smith (sixth President of the Church) and his grandfather was Hyrum Smith, brother to the Prophet Joseph Smith and who was martyred with the Prophet Joseph at Carthage Jail.
Joseph Fielding Smith was appointed a member of the YMMIA general board at age 26 (1903), was made a member of the Salt Lake Stake High Council in 1904, and was appointed assistant Church Historian in 1906.
Joseph Fielding Smith died July 2, 1972 at age 95.
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 Joseph Fielding Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Joseph Fielding Smith was born on July 19, 1876 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Joseph F. Smith and Julina Lambson.
Joseph was essentially fatherless from age 8 to 13 due to the fact that his father was in hiding from federal deputies intent on arresting him on grounds of cohabitation.
In January of 1918, Hyrum Mack Smith (Joseph's half-brother and apostle) died from complications associated with a ruptured appendix.
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 deseretnews.com | D.C. opens arms to Joseph Smith
The conference is part of a yearlong celebration by the church of the bicentennial of Joseph Smith's birth in December 1805 in Vermont.
The Joseph Smith bicentennial conference came together through the combined efforts of Gerald McDermott of Roanoke College in Virginia, Robert Millet of BYU and James Hutson, chief of the manuscript division at the Library of Congress.
"Joseph Smith was very committed to preaching gospel to all the world, and he encouraged public education and learning on the part of all people in the world," Welch said.
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 Joseph Fielding Smith
Smith was the son of the Patriarch Hyrum Smith.
Call to the Quorum of the Twelve : When Joseph Fielding Smith was ordained an apostle on April 7, 1910, the Salt Lake Tribune published criticisms against him, his father, and the Smith family for nepotism.
While he is remembered as a gospel scholar, Joseph Fielding Smith's love of life and those he worked with was broader than his scholarship.
www.acglass.com /joseph_fielding_smith.htm   (1348 words)

  
 Affirmation - Our Book of Remembrance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Joseph Fielding Smith was in a sexual relationship with Norval Service, a student at the University of Utah.
Joseph Fielding Smith was ordained "Patriarch to the Church" by LDS President Heber J. Grant.
Joseph Fielding Smith diary referred to the problems he was having of late as "a recurrence of his old trouble in his back." Smith's back problems were likely psychosomatically related to the stress surrounding his sexuality.
www.affirmation.org /memorial/joseph_fielding_smith.asp?Printer=true   (2260 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | There's no place like home
The house was built for Joseph Fielding and Ethel G. Reynolds Smith in 1925.
By the time the family moved in, Joseph Fielding had been a member of the Quorum of the Twelve for 15 years.
Another child was born to the Smiths in 1927, but a few months later, the oldest daughter married, so all 11 children were not in the home for long.
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 Smith, Joseph Fielding -
Smith was born the son of Hyrum and Mary Smith in Missouri.
His uncle was Joseph Smith, the prophet and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS).
At 15 Smith became a missionary in Hawai'i, returning to Utah in 1858, when he became a member of the Nauvoo Legion, the LDS militia.
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 Joseph Fielding Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
One such authority is Joseph Fielding Smith, Apostle and 10th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In the face of this evidence coming from the Prophet Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, and David Whitmer, we cannot say that the Nephites and Lamanites did not possess the territory of the United States and that the Hill Cumorah is in Central America.
In December of 1905, Joseph Fielding Smith accompanied his father and others to Sharon, Vermont for the dedication of the Joseph Smith Monument on the Prophet's 100th birthday anniversary, Decmber 23, 1905.
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 Joseph Fielding Smith Institute of Latter-day Saint History
The Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History is a center for the scholarly study of Mormon history from the perspective of faith.
Since 2001 the Joseph Smith Papers project, under the joint direction of Smith Institute and the Family and Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has grown to include a dozen full-time employees and more than twice that many volunteer and part-time workers.
Smith Institute and its faculty and staff are among the last to vacate the historic Knight Mangum Building, which has housed the institute since it moved to BYU from the LDS Historical Department in the fall of 1980.
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 Duane E. Jeffery, "Seers, Savants and Evolution": Undermining the Integrity of Joseph Fielding Smith
By the time SSE was published, Joseph Fielding Smith had served 19 years as President of the Quorum of the Twelve, four years as a Counselor in the First Presidency, and two and a half years as the tenth President of the Church.
Joseph Fielding Smith became the Tenth President of the Church in January 1970.
Portraying President Joseph Fielding Smith as a reactionary and a Protestant fundamentalist is unbecoming anyone who claims membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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 Joseph Smith, Jr.
Smith, said "Nevertheless, he that repents and does the commandments of the Lord shall be forgiven," Doc.
Smith said, "Abraham received concubines, and they bore him children; and it was accounted unto him for righteousness..." (Doc.
Smith killed at least two before he was shot to death (History of the Church, Vol.
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 Brigham Young University - Idaho Scroll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
President Joseph Fielding Smith was the 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
President Smith saw a fulfillment of his patriarchal blessing which said: “It shall be thy duty to sit in counsel with thy brethren and to preside among the people,” according to the Ensign.
President Smith was the only president of the Church whose father was also president of the Church; Joseph F. Smith was the sixth president of the Church.
www.byui.edu /scroll/20040210/religion2.html   (719 words)

  
 Early Mormonism and the Magic World View - book review
He explains that the Smith family's treasure digging was not unusual for the times and is vital to understanding how early Mormons interpreted developments in their history in ways that differ from modern perceptions.
Among the practices no longer a part of Mormonism are the use of divining rods for revelation, astrology to determine the best times to conceive children and plant crops, the study of skull contours to understand personality traits, magic formula utilized to discover lost property, and the wearing of protective talismans.
The involvement of Joseph Smith and his family and many associates in occult beliefs and magical practices is not news.
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 Vida de Joseph Fielding Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Joseph Fielding Smith nació el 19 de julio de 1876 en Lago Salado, Utah; hijo de Joseph F. Smith y Julina Lambson.
Joseph estuvo esencialmente sin padre desde los 8 años hasta los 13 debido a que su padre estaba escondido porque comisarios federales intentaban arrestarlo por concubinato.
En 1930, Joseph Fielding tuvo una controversia pública con el élder B. Roberts acerca de la existencia del hombre o de otras formas de vida sobre la tierra antes de la época de Adán.
www.bibliamormon.com /Joseph_Fielding_Smith.htm   (693 words)

  
 Statement from the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History - FARMS Review
To some readers, this has suggested that Smith Institute faculty are among Palmer's category of "historians and religion teachers like myself" who share his views of Latter-day Saint origins (p. x).
Smith Institute scholars are unified in rejecting Palmer's argument that Mormon foundational stories are largely inaccurate myths and fictional accounts.
We encourage and participate in rigorous scholarly investigation and discussion of the historical record, and from our perspective acceptance of Joseph Smith's foundational religious claims remains compatible with such investigation.
farms.byu.edu /display.php?table=review&id=510   (225 words)

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