One is constructive and elevating and comes from our Heavenly Father; the other is destructive and debasing and comes from Lucifer. The couple later had three children..." "...Smith was called to be a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1903. Smith was called as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1903. On August 25, 1857, Smith's group camped next to the Fancher–Baker party, headed the opposite direction, at Corn Creek, now Kanosh. We have our agency and make our own choice in life subject to these unseen powers. He also was closely involved in its implementation. Smith agreed, and "admired his grit". On May 25, 1892, Smith married Lucy Emily Woodruff, a granddaughter of Wilford Woodruff, in the Manti Temple. George Albert Smith (June 26, 1817 – September 1, 1875) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. [36] Also during his presidency the first translation of the endowment ceremony was done. Grandchild George Albert Smith V suggests that his grandfather struggled with depression, feeling incompetent, and being overwhelmed. [7]:124 Smith professed that these experiences helped deepen his understanding of the Gospel and personal belief in the existence of God, stating in a 1921 general conference session, "I have been in the valley of the shadow of death in recent years, so near the other side that I am sure that for the special blessing of our Heavenly Father I could not have remained here. Over his lifetime, he traveled approximately a million miles fulfilling church assignments.[35]. Though he worried about her and tried to comfort her as much as he could, President Smith’s duties as a General Authority often required him to be away from home. [30] In 1935 he was succeeded in this position by Albert E. Bowen. Here’s a statement by President George Albert Smith who reported in 1906 of visiting the Hill Cumorah and of hearing the reports of farmers finding arrow heads while plowing in the region. Never a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Considering how many airplanes crashed in these early years of aviation Clark may well have had a more reasonable approach to the issue. In 1928, Smith purchased the Hill Cumorah for the church. Leaving on August 3, 1857, Smith arrived at Parowan, Utah on August 8, 1857,[8] and on August 15, he set off on a tour of the local military district manned by the Utah militia known as the Nauvoo Legion, led by stake president-Colonel W. H. Dame. The translation was done by Antoine R. Ivins and Eduardo Balderas, with the approval of the First Presidency. While Larsen was still technically Church Historian until 1997, others succeeded him as Executive Director of the Historical Department, and those men were sometimes referred to as the Official Church Historians. George Albert Smith, first counselor to President Brigham Young from 1868 to 1875, was the first son ... "Before leaving the Temple of Nauvoo," wrote George A., "my wife, under the law of Abraham and Sarah, gave me five wives, viz: Lucy Smith, born February 9, 1817, at Newry, After returning, he was made a member of the third quorum of the seventies presiding council in Salt Lake City, which meant he had specific assignments for conducting missionary outreach in the area. George Albert Smith (commonly known as George A. Smith to distinguish him from his grandson (George Albert Smith, the prophet, of the same name) was an early leader in the Latter-day Saint movement and served in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and as a member of the church’s First Presidency (counselor to Brigham Young). In 1873 he was appointed and sustained as Trustee-in-Trust for the church, which office he held until his death. I am a son of Dr. Lyman Merrill Horne and Myrtle Swainston Horne. She also was a delegate to the world council. Wife/Age @ marriage (Smith’s age) Marriage date Kids Other info Wife’s marital status 1 Bathsheba W. Bigler – 19 (24) 7/25/ 1841 3 Born 5/3/1822 Died 9/20/1910 in SLC Officiated in each of the temples constructed during her lifetime: Nauvoo, Logan, Manti, St. George, and Salt Lake. He was the first of many leaders of the LDS Church to hold this position. He was among those closely involved in the 1912 decision for the LDS Church to sponsor scout troops. [18] Smith later said he was uncomfortable, perhaps "on account of my extreme timidity", because some of the militia members were eager that "their enemies might come and give them a chance to fight and take vengeance for the cruelties that had been inflicted upon us in the States", such as the Haun's Mill massacre,[19] where 18 Mormons were killed in 1838 in a skirmish with the Missouri militia during the Mormon War. Smith never remarried, which made him the only man to have not had a living wife while he was serving as church president. In the early 1880s Smith began to … His mother, Sarah Farr, was the first of John Henry Smith's two wives (who he had simultaneously for many years). [13] In 1932, Smith was elected a member of the BSA's National Council. He was interred at the Salt Lake City Cemetery. He would be regularly invited to give a talk while visiting. George was a giving, hard working man that loved his family and helping all And a third is Hugh B. Brown’s remarks about “heterodox” thoughts to a BYU audience in 1969. Just prior to his marriage to Lucy, Smith served as a Mutual Improvement Association (MIA) missionary throughout many areas in Southern Utah. For much of the 1930s Smith was involved in protecting her husband, George Elliott, from charges of mail fraud connected with alleged fraudulent stock sales by the Salt Lake Mortuary in Montana. These documents are located in boxes 132-143. There is a division line well defined that separates the Lord's territory from Lucifer's. [3], In 1894, after returning from serving in the church's Southern States Mission, Smith got a job as assistant to a traveling salesman at ZCMI. During the winter of 1850–51, the settlers constructed a fort enclosing homes, a meeting house, a school, and a watch tower. [14], Starting in 1933 Smith was president of the Utah Society for the Sightless. Smith felt the charges were baseless charges developed by other morticians who resented the Salt Lake Mortuaey's low prices. [1] His work as a salesman for ZCMI involved a long trip, starting at Panaca, Nevada and moving north-eastward, with Smith taking grocery orders while his associate, James Poulton, took shoe orders. - LDS First Presidency (George Albert Smith), letter to Virgil H. Sponberg (critic of the anti-black ban), May 5, 1947, quoted in Lester E. Bush, Mormonism's Negro Doctrine: An Historical Overview, p. 42 Apostle Mark E. Peterson (1900 – 1984): “We must not inter-marry with the Negro. [14] Riding in a wagon afterwards, John D. Lee said he warned Smith that the Indians would likely attack emigrant trains, and that Mormons were anxious to avenge the blood of the prophets,[15] and according to Lee, Smith seemed pleased, and said "he had had a long talk with Major Haight on the same subject."[16]. They had two daughters and one son. A-1, 229; "Sketch of the Autobiography of George Albert Smith,", harvnb error: no target: CITEREFMartineau1857 (. [18], Smith's second daughter, Edith, earned a master's degree in history. This trip, known as Zion's Camp, was intended to bring aid to suffering members of the church in Missouri. T. R. Cutler & Wife, W. S. McCornick, Joseph Geoghegan, George [Albert] Smith and wife, George Alfred Smith, Myself & Wife Sarah F. and others Went in a special Car to the Sugar Co. Power plant in Bear River and found it … Smith died in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, and was buried at the Salt Lake City Cemetery. After seeing Smith remove his hair, glasses, and false teeth, Paiutes gave him the name Non-choko-wicher, or "takes himself apart".[25]. [19], Lucy served as president of the Relief Society in Europe while Smith was the mission president. A son, John Henry Smith, also served as … A Ghost Hunter Overshadowed George Albert Smith (1864-1859) is someone I should've known about long ago. His wives bore him 20 children, 11 of whom were still living when Smith died. He was also an ardent supporter of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Baptism Smith dedicated the Idaho Falls Temple on September 23, 1945. This was a result of over 20 years of work on trying to get the hill coordinated between Smith and Willard Bean on the part of the church and the local landowners.[33]. Why? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, attack and destroy the Baker–Fancher emigrant train, "George Albert Smith Family photograph collection, 1870s-1950s", George A. Smith Family Papers, University of Utah, Grampa Bill's G.A. Smith served as a missionary to the eastern United States, traveling and preaching during the summers of 1835, 1836, and 1837, while attending school each winter. He publicly denounced the activities and political influence of the American Ku Klux Klan. When George Albert Smith fled Nauvoo with his wives Bathsheba, Lucy and sixteen year-old Hannah, he left in their fourteen room house (unsold) his wife Sarah Ann, (Hannah's sister) to take care of his wives, Nancy and Zilpha, who were to have babies. [17] Smith's son, George Albert Smith, Jr., became a professor at Harvard Business School. Louie B. Along with his better-known French counterpart Georges Méliès George Albert Smith was one of the first filmmakers to explore fictional and fantastic themes, often using surprisingly sophisticated special effects. Smith's first wife, Bathsheba W. Smith served as general president of the LDS Relief Society from 1901 to 1910. In September 1832, at the age of 15, George A. Smith, was baptized into the Church of Christ,[4] eight months after his parents had been baptized. "Hyrum Smith and Harold Beecher came to consider Joseph Patriarch's position." They named their community Parowan. This was an employee gift by the First Presidency in 2000. Golden Kimball as their mission president, from 1892 to 1894. Smith was a prominent leader in the settlement of many communities in southern Utah, and played a role in the chain of events preceding the Mountain Meadows Massacre on September 11, 1857. For others of the same name, see. DOVER - George Albert Smith, 82, of 6115 Wyse Fork Road, passed away on Tuesday, June 7, 2011, at Lenoir Memorial Hospital. Isaac C. Haight, Cedar City stake president, and second in military command under Dame, met with Smith again on August 21. Smith served in this position until his death in 1875. 21 quotes from George Albert Smith: 'There are two influences ever present in the world. In addition to Parowan, Smith's tour included visits to Cedar City and Santa Clara. From 1920 until 1923 Smith served as president of the British and European Missions of the church..." He was born on 4 January 1864 in London. In 1923, he served on the reception committee for US President Warren G. Harding's visit to Salt Lake City.[11]. It was intended he would assume the position of mission secretary, essentially chief assistant to the mission president, in August. [9], In 1920, while serving as president of the church's European Mission, Smith toured England and Scotland as the ZCMI representative to the American Goods Association tour sponsored by the British Chamber of Trade. American religious leader who served as the eighth president of The Church, George Albert Smith was one of nineteen children of Latter Day Saint apostle John Henry Smith. The places a large number of historical markers in the western United States over the next five years. He was also on the general board for Religion Classes, which were weekday religious instruction that later merged with the Young Men and Young Women programs. He also received the Silver Beaver Award that year. In his youth, Smith worked at the Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI) factory and traveled throughout Utah as a salesman. With the death of quorum president, Rudger Clawson, in 1943, Smith was sustained as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and served in the position for two years. [24] From November 1892 to August 1893 and from October 1893 to May 1894 Kimball was out of the mission so Smith was acting mission president. He was set apart as a missionary on September 7, 1891. The two men replaced former apostles Thomas B. Marsh, who had left the church, and Orson Hyde, who had been disfellowshipped and removed from his position. They organized the Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association. Smith was ordained a seventy in the priesthood on March 1, 1835, by Joseph Smith. They were assigned to the 4 stakes that covered Juab, Millard, Beaver and Iron counties. George Albert and Lucy Smith had been married for about 40 years when Lucy began a prolonged struggle with frail health. Scholars have asserted that Smith's tour, speeches, and personal actions contributed to the fear and tension in these communities, and influenced the decision to attack and destroy the Baker–Fancher emigrant train near Mountain Meadows, Utah. [8], In 1902, there were those who sought to convince Smith to run for the United States Senate. Starting in 1978, the duties of Church Historians fell to the Executive director of the historical department. His grandfather, for whom he was named, was also an LDS Church apostle as well as a cousin of church founder Joseph Smith. Given what seems to be George Albert’s emotional fragility, physical illness may have been a socially acceptable way for him to retreat, rest, and regroup before tackling his responsibilities again with renewed determination."[7]:124. A son, John Henry Smith, also served as an apostle and member of the First Presidency. In addition to his first wife, Bathsheba, Smith married Lucy Smith, Nancy Clement, Sarah Ann Libby, Hannah Maria Libby, Zilpha Stark, and Susan E. West. Here is the entire caption: “George Albert Smith was among the General Authorities assigned to purchase and preserve important Church history sites. It was several years after their marriage that the first daughter was born, with the pregnancy starting shortly after Woodruff gave Lucy a priesthood blessing to be a mother. (GASD) 1946 - October 3 As reported in both the Improvement Era and the front page of the Deseret News , Patriarch Joseph F. Smith wrote a letter to Pres. He was humorously known for sometimes removing his wig to wipe his brow while preaching. On April 26, 1839, at the age of 21, George A. Smith was ordained an apostle and became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve. In 1934, the BSA's National Council awarded him the prestigious Silver Buffalo Award. Lucy Smith died in 1937. Smith was a portly man, at 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) and at least 250 pounds (110 kg). After his return from Europe in 1921, Smith had a full schedule of stake conference assignments. He then studied law at University of Deseret (later the University of Utah) for a year. Pages: George A. 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George Albert Smith and his father, John Henry Smith, had the distinction of being the only father and son to serve simultaneously in the Quorum of the Twelve, which they did from 1903 until 1911. The nearer I went to the other side, the greater was my assurance that the gospel is true. His wife joined him, and they served in the mission office until June 1894. In the winter of 1850, Smith led a company of 118 volunteers and about 30 families to establish a colony near the Little Salt Lake in Iron County. [13] Smith addressed a group of Indians in Santa Clara, counseling them that "the Americans" were approaching with a large army, and were a threat to the Indians as well as the Mormons. Especially in the 1920s, Smith would regularly contact Salt Lake City businessmen to personally urge them to donate money to scouting. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s he was a strong supporter of use of airplanes in travel. Dorothy Smith Wife Female 22 Kentucky George Smith Son Male 5 Illinois Contributor: Stephen Cantrell (48212706) George Albert Smith Gender: Male Race: White Age: 29 Birth Date: 7 Jul 1911 Birth Place: Mapleton Residence Place: Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois Registration Date: 16 Oct 1940 In 1896, he had joined the Republican Party and campaigned for William McKinley, who became President of the United States. [10] During the tour, Smith gave military speeches[11] and counseled Mormons that they should prepare to "touch fire to their homes, and hide themselves in the mountains, and to defend their country to the very last extremity." One sign of this was the Young Women's Journal, merging into the young women's MIA-published Improvement Era in 1929. George Albert Smith, Director: As Seen Through a Telescope. The couple later had three children. They were married on May 25, 1892, in the Manti Utah Temple. The assignment was to increase attendance and participation in MIA, for both young men and young women. No apostle was immediately called to replace Smith. Known for his somewhat bombastic speaking style, Smith once said, "We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if [non-Mormons] envy us our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow-minded, pinch-backed race of men, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy, and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. His counselors were Richard R. Lyman and Melvin J. Ballard. Smith felt that the pensions should be left in place. In the spring of 1834, the 16-year-old Smith accompanied a group of Latter Day Saints on a 2000-mile march to Missouri and back to Ohio. Although Smith's rank in the Legion was simply a private,[9] one Parowan resident understood that part of the purpose of his trip was to represent the church leadership and to organize the regiment, inspect the troops, and provide instructions. Smith was an avid genealogist and family historian and was named national vice president of the Sons of the American Revolution in 1922. [20] Also traveling north with the Smith party were several Native chiefs of the southern Utah Territory.[21]. [6] There George met his cousin, Joseph, for the first time. Felt, the general superintendent of the Primary, guided Stewart to take a hospital training course in Denver expand her medical training she already had as a registered nurse. It was looked upon as the "flagship" stake of the church, and Lyman, Merrill and Smith initiated programs and changes that were adopted elsewhere throughout the church. He was the son of “Uncle John Smith,” the patriarch. 10Sarah Libby – 26 (34) 8/8/ 1845 0 Born 5/7/1818 Died 6/12/1851 Sarah & Hannah (sisters) joined the Church and both promptly married William. George A. Smith's grandson and namesake, George Albert Smith, also became an apostle and later was the church's eighth president. Smith's first wife, Bathsheba W. Smith, served as general president of the church's Relief Society from 1901 to 1910. George A. Smith was born in Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York, the son of John Smith and Clarissa Lyman, and was brought up in the Congregational Church. In 1837 the callings of Church Historian and Church Recorder were separated, but in 1842 these callings were again merged. Smith was the first church president to visit Mexico while in office. Term ended by removal of apostleship; was later excommunicated. In this capacity, he preached in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Germany. To visit the site with all of the books and quotes from these, go here. [citation needed]. While surveying for a railroad as a young man, Smith's eyesight was permanently impaired by glare from the sun. Smith's daughter Emily Stewart, served for a time on the Primary General Board. They arrived at Center Creek, 265 miles from Salt Lake City, on January 13, 1851. His mother, Sarah Farr, was the first of John Henry Smith's two wives (who he had simultaneously for many years). [22] When the Baker–Fancher party inquired about places to stop for water and grazing, Hamblin directed them to Mountain Meadows,[23] near the "Indian farm" there, a regular stopover on the Old Spanish Trail. Smith also gave many impromptu concerts on this sales trip, playing on harmonica and guitar with Poulton accompanying on the flute. Single 2 Nancy Clement (Clemmond) – 29 (27) 11/29/ 1844 Smith's brother, Winslow Farr Smith, was also involved with these charges. In 1946 I witnessed a prophetic utterance made by George Albert Smith, prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1945 to 1951. From 1898 to 1902 Smith was chair of the Republican committee for the 28th voting district of Utah. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/EoM/id/4143, Grampa Bill's G.A. Grandson Robert Murray Stewart remembers, 'There were problems associated with his mental health, just maintaining control of himself.' That year he presided at stake conferences in Utah, Arizona and in Chihuahua state in Mexico.[31]. When he was excommunicated they both left him and again both married his cousin George Albert Smith on 11/20/1845, Sarah’s grandson George Albert Smith became prophet. From 1920 until 1921 Smith served as president of the church's British and European missions. Being unable to support the chosen course of action, he resigned from the board later that year. [28] Smith then served as head of the youth program for young men in Salt Lake Stake from 1902–1903. [25], As was common at the time, Smith was ordained a seventy when he went on his mission. After his four months of service, President Smith returned home and married Lucy Woodruff, his childhood sweetheart. The long panning shots of Pompeii linger respectfully, as a tourist would, before the camera finally raises its eye to the mighty volcano looming in the distance beyond. His mother, Sarah Farr, was the first of John Henry Smith's two wives (who he had simultaneously for many years). [7], During the hurried series of actions Young and LDS Church leaders initiated on learning of the imminent arrival of U.S. troops into Utah Territory in 1857-8, Smith left Salt Lake City to visit southern Utah communities. This council oversaw scouting in California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah. In 1930, Smith invited a group of his friends who shared his interest in the history of the LDS Church to his house. He worked tirelessly to convince the British government to allow the church to send more missionaries and also met with Swiss officials to get permission to send more missionaries to that country. Smith attended high school at Brigham Young Academy, graduating in 1884. Under his leadership the society built a new home for the blind in Salt Lake City. [37]:1 He was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery. [7]:115 Throughout his life, Smith took to his bed, sometimes for days at a time, with emotional and mental illness related issues. Smith was the eighth official Church Historian and General Church Recorder of the LDS Church between April 1854 and 1871. Future church president Wilford Woodruff was ordained an apostle on the same day. After the death of his father, his mother moved the family to Brighton where she would run a boarding house on Grand Parade. 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