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Show President Smith's Death Is Loss to Church and State ! Passes to - Beyond as Day Dawns Long- . Life, Marked by Many Accomplishments, Is Closed. 7 ' Y ffon tinned from pR 1 . ) i sixteen days, prior to his death. Ho presided at every conference of the rhtirrh while he wax in Salt I like and he niiiiln his last appear- ncf in the Tnhernaclt at the ivihtr conference. I .Mm appearance at that gather- ' lng is believed to have had a nienac.ng effect upon his fail in j health. Hp remained only a few inuiiii.a !)' ' ..mocKcd , 1 o retire lu his home. Since lii.i t ( time he, has been linking frr fi nally. LONG AND USEFUL LIFE. , It wan a otnrmy and turbulent period , for the Church of J 'sua Christ of Jiat- ter-day 8m mis when Joseph Klelding Rmtth entered the arena, of life for : many bat i lea that wsra tn try hln met- I tie. His birth waa In Far Went. Cald- j well county. Mo., November 13, 1838.; He wu a nephew of Joseph Smith, i "he prophet." hta father-being Hyrumj Fmlth, who. It la said, waa more to hia ! younger brother, "the prophet," than i waa Jonathan to Iavld in ancient! times. Mary Fielding, mother of Jo- aeph r. Smith, waa born in Kngland . and waa a woman of strong faith, good 1 business ability and energy. A few days before Joseph F. Smith waa born hia father and uncle were - a Treated. George M. lllnkle, ft Mor- mon and officer in the Missouri state; militia, waa charged by members of ; the church with treachery in betray-i lng the leaders Into tha handa of their enemlea. OeneraT Alexander W. Tonl- phan Interfered after Joseph Hmlth and ; Ilyrum had tieen courtmartialed and , sentenced to be shot. The prisoners were then sent to Jail. j Joaeph Fielding; P.mlth'g childhood ; days ware spent in riotous times. Hia ; father and uncle were killed In the,! Carthage. III., jail June 27. 1844. and, his widowed mother left Nauvo In; IMS. when her son was hut 1 years of age. He drove an ox team Across : Tnsa and while the family stonpd at) Winter charters, now "Florence. Neb.. Joseph. F. was a herd boy. "While at Winter Quarter the boy was herding the rattle one day when ft band of In- i diana suddenly charged him, to drive IjV off the herd. One redman on either j aide rode up and lifted Joseph F. from j hta saddle. Some men riding to the ; Imv fields saved htm from being scalped and perhaps killed. 1 ' BOOK OF MORMON. : The T'nlted Kdltor Enclyclopedla j ritionarv says: "The Church of Jesus Christ of rt- f ter-dny Saints waa founded by Joseph I Smith. April , 130. In Fayette mun- ! ty. N Y. Mormons are so named from i4e Hook of Mormon whose pi&Lea . wre asserted to have been found In New York by Joaeph Smith, to whom their place of concealment waa revealed re-vealed and their contents Interpreted . ' . .,u.b!U nncrbt nam ..si Y.fnrnl aonl of Mhironl. who was the last great prophet in ancient America Moroni, havtmr been dend about 1400 years. According to Smith's etymology, Mor nv-n is from 'Informed Kgypttan' mon. e-d . Ftigllsh more, and means more food. bseph Smith was horn December: ?S, ln-,t in Hhnron. Windsor county. Vt , son of a farmer. At the age of 14, Smith said later, he began to think of the future and went from one re-llgloua re-llgloua denomination to another, but could ftnd nothing satisfactory, nothing noth-ing 'but a great clash In religious sentiment sen-timent ' Then he began to withdrnw into f eeoret plncea. to spend hours In prayer and meditation, and to receive nngoltci vlilta. The second of these happened j on tha evening of September 21. 123. j when It seemed the house was filled j with 'consuming fire. In a moment a personugc' stood, before him. wtth J countenance like lightning' end 'via- j Ible to the extremities of the body, who j 'proclaimed himself an angel of Ood. GOLDEN PLATES. , "Smith said he was Informed whrre aome golden plates were deposited, but the 'prophet' was not yet holv eno-ich ' k i to obtain possession, though he looked at them. After disciplinary probation. fa the recital proceeds, the angel of he Lord placed in Smith's hands the wonderful records, engraven on plates nearly eight inches long by seven wide, a little thinner than ordinary tin. and bound together by three rings running , through the whole. The volume was altogether about six Inches In thickness, thick-ness, a part of which was ecu led. Thel characters, letters or hieroglyphics on the unsealed part were small and beau tlfully engraved. They represented an ! unknown language called 'Reformed ; ! Kgyptiun.' With the records waa found I a cuitou inntrument, called by Smith , Trim and Thummlm.' consisting of two transparent stones, set In the riin on a bow fastened to ft breastplate. Ity , means of these ntone spectacles. (Jod enabled htm to understand and translate trans-late ths ancient records into such hum- ble Kngllsh as the 'prophet' t w ho had received almt no. schul fNlucution and could rend only with difficulty) was master of. The records contained ' the primitive history of America, from Its first settlement by a colony descendants de-scendants fif Jared, who lived soon af- ' ter the flood of Noah that came from the towr of Pbe. at the confusion of languages, until the beginning of the fifth century of the rhnwtian era. There were bloody conflicts and more i races came to the American continent. Finally the faith dwindled r.iid wicked-ness wicked-ness reigned and In a final conflict, A. I). JM, nearly all the Christian j Nephites were annihilated about four miles from the precent Talmyra, N V. Miracles thenceforth cead and.unbe-' I lief gradnally became supreme. I "Shortly before this. however, a prophet called Mormon. nhi. wth hi$ ; son Moroni, had been among the few that had escaped the slauehfer of the I Indians. h:d been commissioned hv i ;d to write an abridgment of ait thlr nropherips btt.rnji tr , nd to hide it In tha earth till Cod should set fit to bring it forth, and to 'unite ft with the Flihle for the accomplishment , of his purpose in the last days ' GOD'S -REVELATIONS. "This is the f, i mon n Hook of Mr- ! mon. believed by the followers of Jo.fph Sm th to he of etfiial authority au-thority with the .Fewinh and hns-tl;in hns-tl;in scriptures and to form an indit-ns-ible Mtpplment to th'-m. contaltiinir Coal's revelations to the new. s hi others to the old. world In A. D. 42. by Moroni, who noon sff- i erward died, these records. whoe sub- ' I I stance had been written by successive ktnes end prleste, wvre finally scaled ( up where Smith found them The Hook I j of Mormon appeared In prnt before the I , wT'd In 1H3. but Vhe plats were nev-r 'shown to outsiders and sll knowledge I jof them h's hecf.me pimply traditional I i Tr-n f-'-m w. V.-rk by enitaot j orv.fMt on Smith and hia fl towers ntnved to Kirtland. ihio. in January. ' 't.ll, to the seat of t Yew .lcrn. ! " l'fn In th autumn itf h'- v. .or- J 0d aa well a by study. This prophecy waa literally fulfilled, for In lees than four montha from hia arrival he waa able to make a tour of the Island of Maui, to prwach, baptise and ad minster the sacrament, etc.. all In the native language. He left h is mountain home to fulfill this mission May 27, 164, In company with other missionaries. They landed ftt Honolulu Hono-lulu September 27. 164, end Joaeph F. lft bored on the Island of Maul ever I eighteen montha with great euccee. 1 After President Hammond took hia departure for hip home In Utah. Joeeph ' f Continued on P'.J anxious that he Smiths escape from ! Jail a m'h gaihercd and ahot them, June 27. 1M4 ' "Sidney Icidon and others desired i to succeed Smith, but the council of i the twelve spallrft elected brtghnm j Young. Th ji1inoj.legtlatur in IMS I revoked the charter of Nauvoo previously pre-viously grapf'd the Mormons, so the j Saint determined to go beyond the j 1h m ri'l tries of t-i tjyttion. In f'ehru-, f'ehru-, ary, 1M, the firit emigrants crosaed 'the ice-lKund Mississippi river, settled I for a enr tn Iowa nnd then marched I arris the- willrneSs." I jntph Ki-Mifg S-nifh, nephew of ohv wa eMnhlUhed In Jackson couptv, ; Mo., and Smith held lie had a rvlu-' rvlu-' tl n th.it he- real Zion was lo b there . The other branch of the Mormon ; church now sf rorgty intrench.! jn j ( IndfTndence. .fackunn count v. Mo i i "Afr Kmlth seturned to KirtlMnd h , whs liitterlv onpoed and on the ngfit I of March '22. 1V32. a mob of Met hodts. ' Tinptistii discipien and mis t'ariotis . Sa!o brtke Into th 'prophet "n' hm. ; ; tore him from his wife'n arm. hurrl-d ; ; him Into an sdtofinr irteadnw and ' : tarred and fs there,) him. rtidn-v TOg- . Ion ws similarly handled and r-n- ; dered temfrnrHv iisan. Smith. h w- I eer. preached ihf net day and bap- f tliwd three Of in verts. The Misiirl col- I onv grew rapidly hut the oppomtion ' -f the pstivew the new seel wn So1 sirona the Mormons had to f) acro Jhe Mis-iuri river and eMleJ in 'lay ; county, the Hm sfsf. whre ih- ,re-j mamed from 133 to 3 . ; YOUNG WINS CONVERTS. ( "Rrighsm Young, who had tei r-.n-ertfd in 111', ws mad- one .f the twelve apMlei and s-nt on a rr.'inooni to New Kngland. where he won many converts. "About the close-of 137 or the rvmn-nlng rvmn-nlng of IB3. Smirhi bank at KirtUnd stopped payment and proceedings were taken against the prophet and others for swindling. He received a 'revelation 'revela-tion Ht that time to depart into Missouri. Mis-souri. hi Missouri the prophet snd lug don were thrown into prison, and. finally, about the close ef lis, the whole body of Saints about K.t'". , quitted Missouri and tok refuge In Illinois. j "Thev obtained a land grant nen the little town of 'ommrce, but ffler a revelation Smith changed il- .tutme t. Nsuvoo, or Tta 'c'lty of Heautv. Smith was mayor of Nauvoo and commander com-mander of the Mormon mihtia. the; Nhuvki legion, he waa supreme in i all matters pertaining tv bis f'dlowers. The doctrine of 'scaling f wives' fin e 1 more caused trouble for the Kamts sni j the prophet and his brother Ihnjm were put tn th 'arthage Jad. W'lwn it waa rumored that the governor wa the' prophet, with his mother, waa among those who marched across the ice of the Muwrssippl river In 184. The- advance guard of those who crossed the plains reached Salt Lake July 21, 147. nrigham Young; eiuenng the valley three days later. Joseph K. drove an oxteam 'across! the plains with his mother and arrived In Salt Lake September 23. 1I4S. ftnd 'continued In charge of the cattle as herd boy for several years, also plow-I plow-I inr and doing other hard work Most of his education he received from his 'mother. Ilia mother died September I 21. Ift.2. leaving htm an orphan at the I age of 14. A year later he was called on a mission mis-sion to the Sandwich islands. He re cetved hia endowments In the old council house and was set apart In the aame building by Apostles larley P. Vratt and Orson Hyde. Ths 1. J S. biographical .encyclopedia saye: "Bmther I'raM. who was spokesman In setting him apart, declared tnat be Khould receive the knowledge of - the Hawaiian language ' by tha gift of "PRESIDENT SMITit CALLED BY DEATH fimoot, (nltd Ptt8 5ntor from Vtah. Smith harl flvm wiv. It la Said ; ' hli children numlrM fin 1 Uiiac. SMITH'S ATTITUDE. j "In 1810, after the suprema court j had upheld the Edmunda-Tucker act, i maklnr polygamy unlawful ta the ter- I rltoriea which resulted In the Imprie- on men t of more than 1000 Mormon a j President Woodruff of the church la-sued la-sued a manatento declaring that poly-svrmy poly-svrmy waa no lonejer practiced by the Mormons. In public arimonttlona, j President Rmtth upheld this manifesto, i hut as to his own caae, ha aald, before the IS moot Inquiry, that although It was contrary to the law of the land, 1 ha hid had a plural family for many ; yeara and ha preferred to met the consequencea of the law rather than to abandon his children and their mothers. moth-ers. Ha testified that ha had eleven children born since 1S90, and that all of hia wives had borne children since I that time, hut he reiterated that no plural marriftee had been performed hy, officer of the Mormon church, or sanctioned to he performed by the church since 1890. "He directed vast business enterprises enter-prises In connection with his admin-j istratlon of church affairs. In the Inquiry In-quiry Into the 'sugar trunt' he told. th, church, had 1500,000 Invested' In mmar. " I" "Hmlth's private fortune. waa alsoj reputed' to be iarar j The following, offices were held by I President Joseph F. Hmlth: President of the Church of Jeaus Christ of Latter-day Halnts. President Halt Lake Temple. -General superintendent Sunday School union. General superintendent Young Men's Mutual Improvement association. President of church board of education. edu-cation. President Brig nam Tounf university. President Brigham Young college. President Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Mer-cantile Institution. President Zion's Savinga Bank and Trust company. - President Utah State National bank. . Presltlent Utah-Idaho Sugar company. com-pany. President Consolidated Wagon and ' Machine company. I I President Beneficial Life Insurance j company. j President Utah Hotel company. j President Inland Crystal Salt bm-l pany. President Silt Lake Knitting works. ' President Wasatch Land and Improvement Im-provement company. j President Salt Lake Dramatic aaso- j elation. Director Home Fire Insurance unu pany. J Director Heber J. Grant company. It tree tor Union Pacific Kallroad com- , (Continued from page I.) F. presided over the Maul conference;. - later he presided over the Kohala conference con-ference for six months, and alill later over the Hllo conference, the latter two conferences were on the Island of Hawaii. He was laboring upon this island at the time of the great volcanic eruption In 1&6. "After a year on the Island of. Hawaii Ha-waii Joseph P. waa transferred to the presidency of the Molokal, conference with Klder Thoma A. Dowel 1 as an assistant. He became III and went to Lanst. where ha remained until the fall of 17. Regain ing hia health he went to Honolulu and In accordance with instructions from the first presidency to relcaee the foreign elders to return tn TTinh. in consequence of the movement move-ment of the United States army toward tha territory. j - RETURNS TO SALT LAKE. . . "After landing in San Francisco and aw Inter visiting at Kan Bernardino, Jo-seph Jo-seph F. crossed the desert as a team " 'Niter, arriving in Salt Lake City February Febru-ary 24, 1858. He had been absent from home about three years and nine months. He Joined tba militia and started at once with an expedition to Intercept the hostile army. He became chaplain of the regiment under Colonel Heber C. Kimball. Later he was ordained or-dained into the thirty-second quorum of seventy. He acted aa aergeant-at-itrnis Int the legislature held In the winter of lUSS-ftf. He whs married April ft. lftr9. and was ordained a high priettt October IS, also being made a mem her of the high council of Salt Lake stake of Zion. "At the April conference, 1840, Jo- neph .F. was called on -a mission to Ureal Britain and went with hia cousin. cou-sin. Samuel H. B. Smith, each driving a four-mule team to pay their way - acrosa the plains. Klder Joseph F. Smith returned home in 1861, but In March of the next year was sent on his 'second mission to Hawaii. When he returned to Salt Lake that winter Klder Smith waa appointed clerk In the historian's office and later In the endowment en-dowment house. He was a member of the city council and served seven consecutive con-secutive terms In the territorial house of representative, and after returning from hia last mission to Kurope. ha served two terms In the council branch of the legislature, acting aa president of the council at the last. In 1 88S Joseph T. presided over the constitutional constitu-tional convention. "BrlghamYoung ordained Smith an apostle July 1. Its, and at the October Octo-ber conference, 1867, he waa called to fill a vacancy In the council of the twelve. GOES TO ENGLAND. "In company with others, Joseph T. raa sent to Provo In 1868 to build up the work In Utah county, but, by permission per-mission of President Young he moved hia family back to Salt Lake In ' and resumed his work in the historian s office of-fice and the endowment house. , He left home February 28, 1874, for Kn-gUnti,- to preside ever the- Europsan missions. Returning to Utah In '76 he wss appointed to preside over the Salnta In Davis county, as the county at that time waa not organised Into a stake of Zion. He held this position until the spring of 1877, when ha was called on his third mission to Great Britain, and before leaving witnessed the dedication of the first Mormon temple completed In the Rocky moun-tian moun-tian country. It waa at St. George. Upon the death of Btpgham Young, a request waa sent to Joseph F. to return home and he reached here September Sep-tember 27, 1877, and the following year Apostle Smith and Orson Pratt went East on a short mission. When the endowment houae waa reopened, subsequent subse-quent to the death of President Young, Joseph F. was placed In charge." I The presidency of the church wss ; organised In 1880 with John Taylor as president and Joseph F. Smith aa his second counselor, the president sending Smith on another Hawaiian mission. He was chosen to the same position under President Woodruff, In 1 later becoming aecond counselor under President Lorenso Snow. Upon the death of President Snow, Joseph F. Smith was selected president of the church. The Associated Press biography of President Smith says of him: "Joseph Fielding Smith was an avowed polygamist. According to his own testimony in the United States senate Inquirv IntO' the case of Reed I Married Edna Lampeon, January 1. 1871. (daughter of Alfred B. Lampoon and Meltaea J. Bigler). who1 waa born March I. ISM. Halt Lake. Their children: chil-dren: Hyrutn Mark, b. March 21. IS7I. m. Ida Bowman, November 16, ISIS; Alvln Fielding, b. August 1. 1ST4, m. Mllll Atkina. June 2, 1801; Alfred Jaann. b. December Is, 1S7S. d. April S. 1177; Edna Mellaaa, b. October . 17. m. John F. Bowman. January 17. 1901; Albert Jesae, b. September IS. KM, d. Auguat 25. 1SSS; Robert, b. November 12. ISM. d. February 4. mmOi Atiirtiat gl. 1 Nw : Tina, h. Oc- tober 11, Use, m. Ambro Oreenwell, December It 1S1. d. October It. IS0S;' Kuth. m. tecember 21, lkI. d. March 17. li; Martha, b. May 12. 17. m. Harold H. Jeneon, September 1. 114. Married A lie Kimball. December S. 1111, (daughter Heber C. Kimball and Annie Oreen), who waa born Hepteiu-ber Hepteiu-ber S, 1SSS, Halt Lake. Their children: Alice May, Heber t'haae, Charlea Coul-aon; Coul-aon; Lucy Mack. b. April 14, ISM; m. Kalph Carter, March IS. 1 IIS; Andrew Kimball, h. January S. Jewae Kim ball, b. March 21. 1SSS, m. May An-deraon. An-deraon. Beplember Ii. !16; Flaluing Kimball, b. April . 1. Married Mary Taylor Hchwarta. January Jan-uary 11. lt4. (daughter William Kchw.rts and Agne. Taylor), who wa. b. April (, lii. Holllday. Utah. Their children: John H.. b. August IS. 1SS. d August t(l. ltt; Calvin H. b. March IS. lt0; Samuel H.. b. October 2. 1SS2; Jame. 8., b. November 12. US4: Agnea, l. November t, 1197; 8!la f . b. January Janu-ary S. 100; Koyal 8, b. May 11. 1S. pany. GENEALOGICAL RECORD. The genealogical record of President Smith reada aa follow.: Joeeph Fielding ftmlth (son of Hy-mm Hy-mm Smith, the patriarch, born February Feb-ruary . 1800. Turnhrldge, vt.. and Mary Melding (daughter of John and Kachel Fleldlngl. born July 21. ISvl, Honeydon. Hedfordahlre, England, died September 21, 1SS2, Halt La, married mar-ried In lJ7l. I lie' waa born November 11, Hit, Far' Wt, Caldwell county. Mo., cam to 1'tah with mother. Heptember 22, 1I4S, ' Heber C. Kimball company. Married Levlra A. '. Kralth. April 4. 18K (daughter Samuel Harriaon Hmlth and Levlra Clark, who waa born April it, 1842, Nauvoo. III. Married Juilna Lampoon. May S. 1844, (daughter of Alfred B. Lampoon and Meliaaa J. Blgler). who waa born June IS. IMS, Suit Lake City. Their I children: Mercy Josephine, born Au-gut Au-gut 14. IM7. d. June S, 1870; Mary Sophronia, b. October ?. 184. m. Alfred Al-fred W. Peteraon. December 17, 101; Donette, b. September 17. 1872. m. Al-onso Al-onso P. Kealer, December 24. 100; Joseph Fielding Jr.. b. July 1, 1J74. m. Louie K. Hhurtllff, April 24. 188. who died March to. 104. m. Ethel Hey-nolda, Hey-nolda, November t. 108: David !, b. March' 24, 1T. m. Emily Jenklna. January 24. 101; Oeorge Carlo, b. Auguat 14. 1 S I. m. Lillian Emery. October Oc-tober 2. 101; Julrna ClariaM. b. February Feb-ruary 1. 184. m. Joaeph B. Peery. De-cemher De-cemher 21, 109; Kllaa Weeley, b. April 21, 18(. m. Mary 11. Smith, December Decem-ber 14. 11: Emily, b. September II. UHI: Kachel. b. December 11, 1K90. m. LeRoy Tylor. June 2. 114; Edith, b. January 2, 1894. Married Sarah Ellen Richards. March I, 1848 (daughter of William Richards! and Sarah Longetrothl, who waa horn l Auguat 24, 150. Salt Lake. Died March 22. 11. Their children are: Sarah Ellen, b. February 4. 14. d. February Febru-ary 11. 184; leonora. h. January SS. 171. d. September 21. 107, m. Joaeph I N'Heon. June 14. 1892: Joaeph Richard Rich-ard a. It. February 22. 1872; Heber John. b. July a 1874. d. March 2, 1877; Rhoda H. b. Julv 20. 1878. d. July . IS7: Minerva, b April 1. 1880.-m. Matthew Miller. April 2i. lOS: Alice, b. July 27. 1882. d. April 2. 101; William Hlch-ard. Hlch-ard. S. November 2S. 1884. m. Florence Orant. Penruary X. 11; Franklin Klch-ar.1. Klch-ar.1. a May 12. 1884: m Ella Olson. Auguat 14. llt: Jaapnette. b. Auguat ii. 181. Aaenath. k. l5ecembcr 28, 184. |
