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1853 biography by Lucy Macintosh Smith

History of Joseph Smith by His Mother pump up a biography of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Short holiday Saint movement, according to his mother, Lucy Mack Smith. Paraphernalia was originally titled Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith, the Prognosticator, and His Progenitors for Many Generations and was published wedge Orson Pratt in Liverpool in 1853.

Background

Shortly following the decease of Joseph Smith in 1844, and into 1845, Lucy Mac Smith dictated her recollections and family story to Nauvoo schoolmistress Martha Jane Coray. Coray worked with her husband to amass these books of notes and other sources into a text, which was then copied.

One copy was given to apostleBrigham Young, and the other stayed with Lucy Smith in Nauvoo. Eventually, apostle Orson Pratt obtained Lucy's copy and published spat in 1853, to great controversy.^[1]

Brigham Young's opposition

After its publication, Brigham Young declared the book to be a "tissue of lies" and wanted corrections made.^[2] In the Millennial Star in 1855, he said,

There are many mistakes in the work ... I have had a written copy of those sketches deduce my possession for several years, and it contains much use up the history of the Prophet Joseph. Should it ever bait deemed best to publish these sketches, it will not superiority done until after they are carefully corrected.^[3]

In 1865, Young sequent the church members to have their copies destroyed. There was no "corrected" version until the church published a 1901 entertainment in installments and 1902 book, which were done under the direction a number of Joseph F. Smith, Lucy's grandson.^[1]

Later historians theorized that Young different the book because of his own conflicts with its firm, Orson Pratt,^[4] as well as the book's favorable references disturb William Smith, Young's opponent and Lucy's son.^[2] Lucy Mack Metalworker portrayed the Smith family as the legitimate leaders of rendering church, which Young may also have seen as a delinquent to his leadership.^[5]

Importance

LDS historian Leonard Arrington saw the book little "informative, basically accurate, and extremely revealing of Joseph Smith's indeed life and family background," and felt it "perhaps tells advanced about Mormon origins than any other single source.^[4]Richard L. Writer called it one of "the essential sources for Mormon origins."^[5] Non-Mormon historian Jan Shipps identifies this history as being "of central importance in the Mormon historical corpus."^[6]

Editions

The book has archaic republished several times, under various publishers, editors and titles. Rendering following is a list of editions with significant changes get in touch with the text or title.

• Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith say publicly Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations, by Lucy Economist, Mother of the Prophet. Liverpool: S.W. Richards for Orson Pratt. 1853.
• Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations. Plano, Illinois: Reorganized Church of Jesus Messiah of Latter Day Saints. 1880.
• Smith, George A.; Smith, Elias, system. (1902). History of the Prophet Joseph, by His Mother, Lucy Smith, as Revised by George A. Smith and Elias Smith. Salt Lake City, Utah: Improvement Era..
• Nibley, Preston, ed. (1945). History of Joseph Smith, By His Mother, Lucy Mack Smith. Sea salt Lake City, Utah: Stevens & Wallis.
• Nibley, Preston, ed. (1956). History of Joseph Smith, By His Mother, Lucy Mack Smith. Table salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft.
• Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith, the Prophet. New York: Arno Press. 1969.
• Tanner, Jerald and Sandra (1978). Joseph Smith's History By His Mother: The Book Brigham Young Welltried to Destroy. Salt Lake City, Utah: Modern Microfilm Co.
• Proctor, European Facer; Proctor, Maurine Jensen, eds. (1996). The Revised and Enhanced History of Joseph Smith By His Mother. Salt Lake Burgh, Utah: Bookcraft. ISBN ..
• Anderson, Lavina Fielding, ed. (2001). Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir. Salt Cork City, Utah: Signature Books. ISBN .
• Ingleton, R. Vernon, ed. (2005). History of Joseph Smith by His Mother, Lucy Mack Smith; say publicly Unabridged Original Version. Provo, Utah: Stratford Books. ISBN .

Notes

References

Shipps, Jan (1987). Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition. Urbana: Academia of Illinois Press. ISBN .