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Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious and political 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
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.
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.
In 1830, Smith published the Book of Mormon, which he characterized as a religious history of the indigenous people of the Americas. [22] This book contained discussions and sermons teaching many traditional Christian doctrines, such as the idea that Jesus ' death represents an atonement for the sins of humanity, that he was the Messiah , and ...
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 ...
On April 6, 1830, at the home of Peter Whitmer in Fayette, New York, Smith organized the religion's first legal church entity, the Church of Christ, [5] which grew rapidly under Smith's leadership. The main body of the church moved first to Kirtland, Ohio , in the early 1830s, then to Missouri in 1838, where the 1838 Mormon War with other ...
The life of Joseph Smith, Jr. from 1831 to 1837, when he was 26–32 years old, covers the period of time from when Smith moved with his family to Kirtland, Ohio, in 1831, until he left Ohio for Missouri early in early January 1838. By 1831, Smith had already published the Book of Mormon, and established the Latter Day Saint movement.
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]