Smith, Joseph

Cultural  

1. The founder of the Mormons in the nineteenth century. He was killed by a mob opposed to his church, and the leadership passed to Brigham Young.

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Example Sentences

In the University of Glasgow, Watt was employed to fit up the instruments of the Macfarlane Observatory, which gave him an opportunity of becoming acquainted with Adam Smith, Joseph Black, and Robert Simson, names immortal in the scientific annals of Scotland.

From Project Gutenberg

“We came into the game with the idea of stopping Torrey Smith,” Joseph said after the game.

From Washington Post

Alloway, credited with coining the term pop, picked the late Jackson Pollock, the late David Smith, Joseph Cornell, maker of bric-a-brac-packed boxes, Ernest Trova, who endlessly repeats images of falling men, and Roy Lichtenstein.

From Time Magazine Archive

Smith, Joseph, founder of Mormonism, 259; death of, 430.

From Project Gutenberg

Three at least of the younger men who shared the simple pleasures of this homely Anderston board—Adam Smith, Joseph Black, and James Watt—were to exert as important effects on the progress of mankind as any men of their generation.

From Project Gutenberg