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

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, on Douglas, 58-59; to Mormon voters, 59-60;on polygamy, 90;murdered, 90.

From Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics by Johnson, Allen

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

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various