West, Aaron L.Brigham Young University Studies Quarterly
Smith moved his family and constructed the first Mormon Temple in Kirtland, Ohio, to build a New Jerusalem but failed to do so. The residents found their presence intolerable and were threatened as the growing number of their members might give them a chance to control the town. The same ...
The Memoirs of Joseph Smith III on the 1880 Kirtland Temple Lawsuit and Church Succession: A Comparison of the Dictated and Published VersionsCarruth, LaJean PurcellJohn Whitmer Historical Association Journal