He grew up in the unchurched and dissenting, but God-fearing, tradition of a New England Protestant biblical culture, which attracted many of those whose economic standing in established society had been eroded. was perhaps the most original, most successful, and most controversial of several religious innovators -including Ellen Gould White (Seventh-day Adventists), Mary Baker Eddy ( Christian Science), and Charles Taze Russell (Jehovah's Witnesses) -who created important religious movements in nineteenth-century America.īorn in Sharon, Vermont, on December 23, 1805, Smith was the third of the nine children of Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith. SMITH, JOSEPH (1805 –1844), the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, popularly known as the Mormons.
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