Smith instructed church members to stockpile grain, and not to sell it to emigrants or use it for animal feed. George Albert Smith is one of the most important figures in Victorian cinema. He would be regularly invited to give a talk while visiting. (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. A Ghost Hunter Overshadowed George Albert Smith (1864-1859) is someone I should've known about long ago. With the death of Heber J. While presiding over the European Mission, Smith had his first airplane flight as part of a journey from Britain to Sweden. Future church president Wilford Woodruff was ordained an apostle on the same day. Why? He was assigned to serve with William B. Dougall, Jr., who was a grandson of Brigham Young. [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. They organized the Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association. After his four months of service, President Smith returned home and married Lucy Woodruff, his childhood sweetheart. 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, Lucy Smith died in 1937. 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. DOVER - George Albert Smith, 82, of 6115 Wyse Fork Road, passed away on Tuesday, June 7, 2011, at Lenoir Memorial Hospital. 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. During their engagement, President Smith had received word that he would be called to serve a second mission. George Albert Smith We visited the Hill Cumorah and were accorded the courtesy of going thereon by the wife of Mr. George Sampson, a brother of Admiral Wm. [4], Smith also served as secretary of the Kanab Cattle Company and a member of the Utah National Guard.[5]. 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. And a third is Hugh B. Brown’s remarks about “heterodox” thoughts to a BYU audience in 1969. A-1, 229; "Sketch of the Autobiography of George Albert Smith,", harvnb error: no target: CITEREFMartineau1857 (. The places a large number of historical markers in the western United States over the next five years. Term ended by removal of apostleship; was later excommunicated. Initially when Smith left to serve in the Southern States mission on June 23, 1892, he left Lucy behind in Salt Lake City. 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. 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. The couple later had three children. Smith was a portly man, at 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) and at least 250 pounds (110 kg). Smith was the first church president to visit Mexico while in office. George was a giving, hard working man that loved his family and helping all After his return from Europe in 1921, Smith had a full schedule of stake conference assignments. A. H. Lund & son, Coy. 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. [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." Simple Acts of Loving Service. 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, having served in the Quorum together between 1903 and 1910. 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. George Albert Smith, Director: As Seen Through a Telescope. In his youth, Smith worked at the Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI) factory and traveled throughout Utah as a salesman. We have our agency and make our own choice in life subject to these unseen powers. Term ended by removal of apostleship; was later excommunicated. He instead deferred to allow Reed Smoot to be the Republican candidate. George Albert Smith (June 26, 1817 – September 1, 1875) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. [14], Starting in 1933 Smith was president of the Utah Society for the Sightless. It was also planned for his wife to join him at that time. His grandfather, for whom he was named, was also an LDS Church apostle as well as a cousin of church founder Joseph Smith. 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. 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. [25], As was common at the time, Smith was ordained a seventy when he went on his mission. [17] Smith's son, George Albert Smith, Jr., became a professor at Harvard Business School. The following quotes come from the book The Teachings of George Albert Smith by eighth president George Albert Smith (edited by Robert and Susan McIntosh. He was the first of many leaders of the LDS Church to hold this position. Over his lifetime, he traveled approximately a million miles fulfilling church assignments.[35]. Smith later said he had no knowledge of the Baker–Fancher party prior to meeting them on the trail. She was a member of the YW MIA's General Board for 29 years.[20]. He was later present at the Pan American exposition in Buffalo in 1901 and heard the shot that killed McKinley. 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. Especially in the 1920s, Smith would regularly contact Salt Lake City businessmen to personally urge them to donate money to scouting. 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. [12] In the 1920s Smith was elected a member of the BSA Regional Executive Council for the 12th region. I am a son of Dr. Lyman Merrill Horne and Myrtle Swainston Horne. 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. 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 … George Albert Smith attended Brigham Young University and later the University of Deseret (now the University of Utah). Considering how many airplanes crashed in these early years of aviation Clark may well have had a more reasonable approach to the issue. The city of St. George, Utah, may have been named after him. He was interred at the Salt Lake City Cemetery. [30] In 1935 he was succeeded in this position by Albert E. Bowen. 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 was eventually diagnosed with lupus erythematosus, a chronic debilitating autoimmune disease. Smith felt that the pensions should be left in place. 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. Smith was called as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1903. He publicly denounced the activities and political influence of the American Ku Klux Klan. 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). … In 1928, Smith purchased the Hill Cumorah for the church. [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 ought to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices; and it is not to be wondered at that they should envy those who so much better understand the social relations."[24]. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, Smith was one of nineteen children of Latter Day Saint apostle John Henry Smith. Smith was ordained a seventy in the priesthood on March 1, 1835, by Joseph Smith. Smith dedicated the Idaho Falls Temple on September 23, 1945. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s he was a strong supporter of use of airplanes in travel. 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. To visit the site with all of the books and quotes from these, go here. 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. [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 also an ardent supporter of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). The translation was done by Antoine R. Ivins and Eduardo Balderas, with the approval of the First Presidency. 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. [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. Smith died in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, and was buried at the Salt Lake City Cemetery. They arrived at Center Creek, 265 miles from Salt Lake City, on January 13, 1851. Single 2 Nancy Clement (Clemmond) – 29 (27) 11/29/ 1844 [37]:1 He was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery. [22], Smith's first assignment in Tennessee was to serve in the Middle Tennessee District, covering the area in and around the city of Nashville. The couple later had three children..." "...Smith was called to be a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1903. When World War II ended, Smith helped send supplies to Europe and was also known for his efforts to revitalize missionary work. They also printed the first Braille edition of the Book of Mormon.[15]. Grandchild George Albert Smith V suggests that his grandfather struggled with depression, feeling incompetent, and being overwhelmed. [6] There George met his cousin, Joseph, for the first time. In 1838, he moved with his parents and a large body of church members to the state of Missouri. From 1922 to 1935, Smith was the general superintendent of the church's MIA. She then became one of the leaders of Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City. Baptism 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. My father was a great-grandson of George A. Smith, cousin of the Prophet Joseph and counselor to Brigham Young. "Hyrum Smith and Harold Beecher came to consider Joseph Patriarch's position." After seeing Smith remove his hair, glasses, and false teeth, Paiutes gave him the name Non-choko-wicher, or "takes himself apart".[25]. Just prior to his marriage to Lucy, Smith served as a Mutual Improvement Association (MIA) missionary throughout many areas in Southern Utah. Smith also gave many impromptu concerts on this sales trip, playing on harmonica and guitar with Poulton accompanying on the flute. 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 A great bond of love existed between George and his cousin Joseph. Smith served in this position until his death in 1875. George Albert Smith accomplished much during his 81 years—in the Church, in his community, and throughout the world. 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. There were times when 'he just could not pull it all together.' 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. During the winter of 1850–51, the settlers constructed a fort enclosing homes, a meeting house, a school, and a watch tower. [8], In 1902, there were those who sought to convince Smith to run for the United States Senate. She and May Anderson disagreed on how to run the hospital which lead to her resignation from the Primary General Board in 1932. [36] Also during his presidency the first translation of the endowment ceremony was done. From 1920 until 1923 Smith served as president of the British and European Missions of the church..." In 1907, Smith negotiated the church's purchase of the Joseph Smith farm in Palmyra, New York..[29]. This trip, known as Zion's Camp, was intended to bring aid to suffering members of the church in Missouri. The nearer I went to the other side, the greater was my assurance that the gospel is true. Smith served in this position until his death on September 1, 1875. In 1930, Smith invited a group of his friends who shared his interest in the history of the LDS Church to his house. [34] The group would eventually erect more than 100 monuments and markers. He worked for Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institute in the factory and later as a salesman. On August 25, 1857, Smith's group camped next to the Fancher–Baker party, headed the opposite direction, at Corn Creek, now Kanosh. Smith's first wife, Bathsheba W. Smith, served as general president of the church's Relief Society from 1901 to 1910. Never a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He was born on 4 January 1864 in London. This was an employee gift by the First Presidency in 2000. [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. 11 His grandfather, for whom he was named, was also an LDS Church apostle as well as a cousin of church founder Joseph Smith. He went there to complete the reconciliation of and return to the church a group of apostates in Mexico known as the "Third Conventionists". While surveying for a railroad as a young man, Smith's eyesight was permanently impaired by glare from the sun. On May 25, 1892, Smith married Lucy Emily Woodruff, a granddaughter of Wilford Woodruff, in the Manti Temple. 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Smith's first wife, Bathsheba W. Smith served as general president of the LDS Relief Society from 1901 to 1910. 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. 21 quotes from George Albert Smith: 'There are two influences ever present in the world. She also was a delegate to the world council. No apostle was immediately called to replace Smith. Smith attended high school at Brigham Young Academy, graduating in 1884. That year he presided at stake conferences in Utah, Arizona and in Chihuahua state in Mexico.[31]. During his tenure, cooperation between the young men and young women's MIA organizations increased. 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. [10], In 1921, Smith became a member of the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce. He continued in this position until 1949. Grandson Robert Murray Stewart remembers, 'There were problems associated with his mental health, just maintaining control of himself.' Smith felt the charges were baseless charges developed by other morticians who resented the Salt Lake Mortuaey's low prices. 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). Smith taught school during the first winter, and later served as a member of Utah's territorial legislature. He also received the Silver Beaver Award that year. For four years, beginning in 1909, President Smith suffered a severe illness and was unable to carry on his duties as a general authority. In 1896, he had joined the Republican Party and campaigned for William McKinley, who became President of the United States. Under his leadership the society built a new home for the blind in Salt Lake City. For a few years leading up to 1902 Smith served as an assistant to Richard R. Lyman and Joseph F. Merrill in running the Salt Lake Stake's youth program for young men. In 1873 he was appointed and sustained as Trustee-in-Trust for the church, which office he held until his death. [citation needed]. Golden Kimball as their mission president, from 1892 to 1894. 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. [3] His first cousin was Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. "...In 1892, Smith married Lucy Emily Woodruff, the daughter of Wilford Woodruff, Jr., in the Manti Temple. In 1837 the callings of Church Historian and Church Recorder were separated, but in 1842 these callings were again merged. George Albert and Lucy Smith had been married for about 40 years when Lucy began a prolonged struggle with frail health. [13] In 1932, Smith was elected a member of the BSA's National Council. The assignment was to increase attendance and participation in MIA, for both young men and young women. He was set apart as a missionary on September 7, 1891. [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. They named their community Parowan. 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. Pages: George A. 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Smith agreed, and "admired his grit". It was intended he would assume the position of mission secretary, essentially chief assistant to the mission president, in August. A second is George Albert Smith’s famous disavowal of the claim that “when our leaders speak, the thinking has been done” in 1945. He was appointed as a receiver for the Land Office in Utah in the years 1898 and 1903.[6]. They were assigned to the 4 stakes that covered Juab, Millard, Beaver and Iron counties. Grant, Smith became president of the church on May 21, 1945. [21], Smith and his new wife, Lucy, were missionaries in the church's Southern States Mission, with J. He also was closely involved in its implementation. Smith's brother, Winslow Farr Smith, was also involved with these charges. Smith was appointed mission secretary. 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). Never a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. 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. For others of the same name, see. 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. This council oversaw scouting in California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah. This article is about the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [5] The following year, John Smith and his family moved to Kirtland, Ohio, the church's new headquarters. In the early 1880s Smith began to … Smith never remarried, which made him the only man to have not had a living wife while he was serving as church president. There is a division line well defined that separates the Lord's territory from Lucifer's. JS History, vol. After the death of his father, his mother moved the family to Brighton where she would run a boarding house on Grand Parade. 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. 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. In 1868, Smith was called to replace Heber C. Kimball as First Counselor in the First Presidency to church president Young. The group stopped at Mountain Meadows to eat dinner on August 20[12] with a group of resident missionaries. 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. Starting in 1978, the duties of Church Historians fell to the Executive director of the historical department. One year later, on his 81st birthday, April 4, 1951, George Albert Smith passed away quietly in his home with his son and daughters at his bedside. In March 1951, Smith suffered a stroke that left him mostly paralyzed on the right side of his body, and gradually deteriorated until his death on April 4, 1951, his 81st birthday. 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