Joseph Smith, the Founder and Prophet of Mormonism, Was Born Into an Impoverished and Itinerant Family in Vermont. ... The family moved to Sharon in 1804, onto farmland rented from Lucy’s father.

In 2012, scholar John Turner published an award-winning biography of Brigham Young, a mountain of a man in Western Americana. But there remained a bigger fish to pursue, namely Joseph Smith, the ...

History of Joseph Smith, Jr., by himself, in Joseph Smith's Letter Book at Kirtland, November 27, 1832 to August 4, 1835 (Church Historian's Library, Salt Lake City, Utah). History of the Prophet ...

For Latter-day Saints across the globe, Thursday marks the 180th anniversary of a tragedy \u2014 on June 27, 1844, an armed mob stormed into Carthage Jail and took the lives of the prophet Joseph ...