Jamesthemormon Restoration

Joseph Smith, Jr. (December 23, 1805 June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he was twentyfour, Smith published the Book of Mormon; by the time of his death fourteen years later, he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and founded a religion and religious culture that continues to the present. Smith was born in Sharon, Vermont, but by 1817, he had moved with his family to western New York, a site of intense religious reviva