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Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement.Publishing the Book of Mormon at the age of 24, Smith attracted tens of thousands of followers by the time of his death fourteen years later.
The Book of Mormon is a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, first published in 1830 by Joseph Smith as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi. [1] [2] The book is one of the earliest and most well-known unique writings of the Latter Day Saint movement.
From late 1827 to the end of 1830, Smith wrote and published the Book of Mormon, and established the Church of Christ. To write the Book of Mormon, Smith enlisted the assistance of Martin Harris, a wealthy Palmyra landowner who acted as Smith's scribe.
Smith published the first edition of the translation in March 1830 as the Book of Mormon, with a print run of 5,000 copies at a production cost of $3,000 (or 60 cents per book). Smith eventually obtained testimonies from 11 men who said that they had seen the plates, known as the Book of Mormon witnesses .
Around this time, Cowdery was writing a history of Smith in which he identified the angel as the prophet Moroni from the Book of Mormon. [6] In July 1838, Smith wrote an article for the church periodical Elders' Journal, in the form of questions and answers, that stated the following: Question 4th. How, and where did you obtain the book of Mormon?
Joseph Smith's intention was to write the Book of Mormon which he would then publish. To do so, however, he needed an investment of money, and at the time he was penniless. [113] [better source needed] Therefore, Smith sent his mother [115] to the home of Martin Harris, a local landowner said at the time to be worth about $8,000 to $10,000. [116]
Walker Lewis was another free Black man who held the Mormon priesthood prior to the death of Joseph Smith. A prominent radical abolitionist, Episcopalian, and Most Worshipful Grand Master of Freemasonry from Lowell and Boston, Massachusetts, Lewis became a Latter Day Saint about 1842. In the summer of 1843, he was ordained an elder in the ...
Joseph Smith is the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement and is recognized by multiple Latter Day Saint churches as the founder. Beginning in 1828, Smith began dictating the text of what later became the Book of Mormon, and also began dictating written revelations he said were inspired by God.