He would be regularly invited to give a talk while visiting. George Albert Smith (June 26, 1817 – September 1, 1875) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. Smith served in this position until his death on September 1, 1875. [37]:1 He was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery. [19], Lucy served as president of the Relief Society in Europe while Smith was the mission president. [20] Also traveling north with the Smith party were several Native chiefs of the southern Utah Territory.[21]. [25], As was common at the time, Smith was ordained a seventy when he went on his mission. The places a large number of historical markers in the western United States over the next five years. He was later present at the Pan American exposition in Buffalo in 1901 and heard the shot that killed McKinley. After Joseph Smith's death and the assumption of church leadership by Brigham Young, George A. Smith traveled to the Salt Lake Valley as a Mormon pioneer with the first company of settlers in 1847. For four years, beginning in 1909, President Smith suffered a severe illness and was unable to carry on his duties as a general authority. 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. To visit the site with all of the books and quotes from these, go here. At the time the Salt Lake Stake took in all of Salt Lake county and was by far the largest stake by membership in the LDS Church. 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[21], Smith and his new wife, Lucy, were missionaries in the church's Southern States Mission, with J. The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles had not had twelve members since September 3, 1837, when. [12] In the 1920s Smith was elected a member of the BSA Regional Executive Council for the 12th region. 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). [32] Smith continued as chair of the Centennial Committee until it work ended in 1930. 21 quotes from George Albert Smith: 'There are two influences ever present in the world. A Ghost Hunter Overshadowed George Albert Smith (1864-1859) is someone I should've known about long ago. Initially when Smith left to serve in the Southern States mission on June 23, 1892, he left Lucy behind in Salt Lake City. He was the first of many leaders of the LDS Church to hold this position. 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. In 1838, he moved with his parents and a large body of church members to the state of Missouri. George Albert Smith Sr. (April 4, 1870 – April 4, 1951) was an American religious leader who served as the eighth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). - 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. After his return from Europe in 1921, Smith had a full schedule of stake conference assignments. He was interred at the Salt Lake City Cemetery. 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. A. H. Lund & son, Coy. Smith was an avid genealogist and family historian and was named national vice president of the Sons of the American Revolution in 1922. Grandson Robert Murray Stewart remembers, 'There were problems associated with his mental health, just maintaining control of himself.' He was also an ardent supporter of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). He was the son of “Uncle John Smith,” the patriarch. His wife joined him, and they served in the mission office until June 1894. George was a giving, hard working man that loved his family and helping all Lucy Smith died in 1937. Smith attended high school at Brigham Young Academy, graduating in 1884. 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. Being unable to support the chosen course of action, he resigned from the board later that year. Under direction from the General Assembly of the State of Deseret, the group organized the political entity of Iron County and elected Smith as chief justice. 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. Here is the entire caption: “George Albert Smith was among the General Authorities assigned to purchase and preserve important Church history sites. Under his leadership the society built a new home for the blind in Salt Lake City. A second is George Albert Smith’s famous disavowal of the claim that “when our leaders speak, the thinking has been done” in 1945. A son, John Henry Smith, also served as an apostle and member of the First Presidency. No apostle was immediately called to replace Smith. 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. [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]. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s he was a strong supporter of use of airplanes in travel. They had two daughters and one son. He was set apart as a missionary on September 7, 1891. [7]:116 After 1903, Smith found his frequent travels debilitating and began to show prominent symptoms of physical weakness. Never a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. [30] In 1935 he was succeeded in this position by Albert E. Bowen. In 1932, Smith found himself at odds with much of the ZCMI board over plans to cut pensions for retirees as the Great Depression caused disruption for the company. 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. [18], Smith's second daughter, Edith, earned a master's degree in history. In 1928, Smith purchased the Hill Cumorah for the church. [7]:115 Throughout his life, Smith took to his bed, sometimes for days at a time, with emotional and mental illness related issues. [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. In addition to Parowan, Smith's tour included visits to Cedar City and Santa Clara. Smith taught school during the first winter, and later served as a member of Utah's territorial legislature. They named their community Parowan. One of his sons, John Henry, became a member of the Twelve and father of George Albert Smith, the eighth president of the Church. DOVER - George Albert Smith, 82, of 6115 Wyse Fork Road, passed away on Tuesday, June 7, 2011, at Lenoir Memorial Hospital. George A. Smith's grandson and namesake, George Albert Smith, also became an apostle and later was the church's eighth president. Term ended by removal of apostleship; was later excommunicated. The couple later had three children. In the early 1880s Smith began to … My father was a great-grandson of George A. Smith, cousin of the Prophet Joseph and counselor to Brigham Young. 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. His illnesses seem to have come on in large part as a result of many of the difficult circumstances he suffered while visiting stake conferences during the first six years he was an apostle. It was also planned for his wife to join him at that time. During their engagement, President Smith had received word that he would be called to serve a second mission. From 1920 until 1921 Smith served as president of the church's British and European missions. 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. The city of St. George, Utah, may have been named after him. 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. [3] His first cousin was Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. 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. George Albert Smith and Charles Urban snaffled the plum job of travelling to Italy to take a series of views of Italy for the Warwick Trading Company, including this one. [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. They arrived at Center Creek, 265 miles from Salt Lake City, on January 13, 1851. That year he presided at stake conferences in Utah, Arizona and in Chihuahua state in Mexico.[31]. Over his lifetime, he traveled approximately a million miles fulfilling church assignments.[35]. Smith's daughter Emily Stewart, served for a time on the Primary General Board. … This trip, known as Zion's Camp, was intended to bring aid to suffering members of the church in Missouri. 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. 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. The assignment was to increase attendance and participation in MIA, for both young men and young women. Smith was a portly man, at 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) and at least 250 pounds (110 kg). 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. 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]. [17] Smith's son, George Albert Smith, Jr., became a professor at Harvard Business School. His mother, Sarah Farr, was the first of John Henry Smith's two wives (who he had simultaneously for many years). Smith's first wife, Bathsheba W. Smith served as general president of the LDS Relief Society from 1901 to 1910. 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. 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. Smith died in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, and was buried at the Salt Lake City Cemetery. His mother, Sarah Farr, was the first of John Henry Smith's two wives (who he had simultaneously for many years). In his youth, Smith worked at the Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI) factory and traveled throughout Utah as a salesman. 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. Why? He was appointed as a receiver for the Land Office in Utah in the years 1898 and 1903.[6]. Following a normal pioneer Utah childhood, George Albert Smith married Lucy Woodruff in 1892 in the Manti Utah Temple. [6] There George met his cousin, Joseph, for the first time. Smith felt that the pensions should be left in place. 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. I am a son of Dr. Lyman Merrill Horne and Myrtle Swainston Horne. The translation was done by Antoine R. Ivins and Eduardo Balderas, with the approval of the First Presidency. John Henry Smith and George Albert Smith are the only father and son pair to have been members of the Quorum of the Twelve at the same time, h… He was among those closely involved in the 1912 decision for the LDS Church to sponsor scout troops. The group stopped at Mountain Meadows to eat dinner on August 20[12] with a group of resident missionaries. [5] The following year, John Smith and his family moved to Kirtland, Ohio, the church's new headquarters. In 1896, he had joined the Republican Party and campaigned for William McKinley, who became President of the United States. Simple Acts of Loving Service. [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. They were married on May 25, 1892, in the Manti Utah Temple. 11 [26], Smith also served as a Sunday School teacher and then as the organization's superintendent for the 17th WardWard in Salt Lake City, immediately north-west of Temple Square.[27]. From 1922 to 1935, Smith was the general superintendent of the church's MIA. Louie B. George Albert Smith is one of the most important figures in Victorian cinema. In 1907, Smith negotiated the church's purchase of the Joseph Smith farm in Palmyra, New York..[29]. 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. [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. There is a division line well defined that separates the Lord's territory from Lucifer's. Smith served in this position until his death in 1875. [16] Lucy had spent much of her time growing up in the household of her grandfather and looked on him as almost more of a father than a grandfather. [23] However, Kimball felt that Smith needed more training in the mission field before being joined by his wife, and so did not allow her to join her husband until November. See George A. Smith [July 4, 1852], JD 1:79; harvnb error: no target: CITEREFSmith1875 (, harvnb error: no target: CITEREFSmith1857 (, These chiefs included Ammon, Kanosh, Tutsegabit, and Youngwids (, harvnb error: no target: CITEREFBrooks1950 (, harvnb error: no target: CITEREFBagley2002 (, harvnb error: no target: CITEREFCarleton1859 (. [34] The group would eventually erect more than 100 monuments and markers. JS History, vol. He worked for Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institute in the factory and later as a salesman. One sign of this was the Young Women's Journal, merging into the young women's MIA-published Improvement Era in 1929. This article is about the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [4], Smith also served as secretary of the Kanab Cattle Company and a member of the Utah National Guard.[5]. Smith was appointed mission secretary. In 1873 he was appointed and sustained as Trustee-in-Trust for the church, which office he held until his death. When World War II ended, Smith helped send supplies to Europe and was also known for his efforts to revitalize missionary work. Grandchild George Albert Smith V suggests that his grandfather struggled with depression, feeling incompetent, and being overwhelmed. The couple later had three children..." "...Smith was called to be a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1903. And a third is Hugh B. Brown’s remarks about “heterodox” thoughts to a BYU audience in 1969. He went there to complete the reconciliation of and return to the church a group of apostates in Mexico known as the "Third Conventionists". [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. After his four months of service, President Smith returned home and married Lucy Woodruff, his childhood sweetheart. Isaac C. Haight, Cedar City stake president, and second in military command under Dame, met with Smith again on August 21. J. Reuben Clark, of the church's First Presidency, was an equally ardent opposer of the use of airplanes. This trip, known as Zion's Camp, was intended to bring aid to suffering members of the church in Missouri. "...In 1892, Smith married Lucy Emily Woodruff, the daughter of Wilford Woodruff, Jr., in the Manti Temple. After the death of his father, his mother moved the family to Brighton where she would run a boarding house on Grand Parade. With the death of Heber J. On the way back to Salt Lake City, Smith was accompanied by a party including Jacob Hamblin of Santa Clara, a newly appointed Mormon missionary to the Natives in the region who also ran a federally funded "Indian farm" next to Mountain Meadows. He served in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and as a member of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In this capacity, he preached in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Germany. 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. In this photograph is Lucy Woodruff Smith standing on top of the Hill Cumorah with Pliny T. Sexton, who was the owner of most of the hill. These documents are located in boxes 132-143. While presiding over the European Mission, Smith had his first airplane flight as part of a journey from Britain to Sweden. He also was closely involved in its implementation. Smith was called as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1903. Single 2 Nancy Clement (Clemmond) – 29 (27) 11/29/ 1844 Future church president Wilford Woodruff was ordained an apostle on the same day. [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. Grant, Smith became president of the church on May 21, 1945. He was also made chairman of the church's Centennial Celebration Committee. [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. There were times when 'he just could not pull it all together.' 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. Smith instructed church members to stockpile grain, and not to sell it to emigrants or use it for animal feed. He excelled at this enough to be promoted to working in the packing box shop, where he again excelled and was promoted to wholesale grocery salesman for ZCMI's Salt Lake County operations. Smith's brother, Winslow Farr Smith, was also involved with these charges. [17] Haight told Smith he had heard reports that 600 troops were already approaching Cedar City from the East, and that if the rumors were true, Haight would have to act without waiting for instructions from Salt Lake City. Smith's first wife, Bathsheba W. Smith, served as general president of the church's Relief Society from 1901 to 1910. Not only did he conduct an extensive ghost hunt -- lasting over a year -- in Brighton, England, he went on to make some of the very earliest movies, some … 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. 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