Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith
noun
religious leader who founded the Mormon Church in 1830 (1805-1844)
• Syn: ↑Smith
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑Latter-Day Saint, ↑Mormon

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Joseph Smith [Joseph Smith]
(1805–44) the US religious leader who started the ↑Mormon Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and published The Book of Mormon (1830) containing their basic beliefs. After some of his followers burnt down the offices of a Mormon newspaper that had criticized him, Smith was arrested with his brother Hyrum and taken to a prison at Carthage, ↑Illinois, where an angry crowd shot and killed them.

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