Thomas William Herringshaw gives biographical sketches of both Ethan and Joseph Smith.
- Type
- Book
- Source
- Thomas William Herringshaw Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- DirectSecondary
- Reference
Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: American Publisher's Association, 1907), 859, 863
- Scribe/Publisher
- American Publisher's Association
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
SMITH, ETHAN, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 19, 1762, in Belchertown, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman and city missionary of Boston in 1832-49. He was the author of A View of the Trinity; and A View of the Hebrews, in which the origin of the American Indians was traced to the ten tribes of Israel. He died Aug. 29, 1849, in Pompey, N. Y.
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SMITH, JOSEPH, founder of the mormon sect, was born Dec. 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vt. After failing to start a colony of his sect in Ohio and Missouri, he at last settled in Nauvoo, Ill. But this failed as all others had, on account of the opposition of the people to the peculiar doctrines of the mormons. Joseph and his brother being confined in jail, were surrounded by a mob and both killed June 27, 1844, in Carthage, Ill.
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