Joseph F. Smith

Joseph F. Smith (born Nov. 13, 1838, Far West, Mo., U.S.—died Nov. 19, 1918, Salt Lake City, Utah) was an American religious leader, the sixth president (1901–18) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the main Mormon denomination). After his uncle Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, and his father, Hyrum Smith, were murdered in Carthage, Ill., in 1844, he and his mother fled with the majority of the Mormons to Utah. Made...