Skinner's relatives prepared a manuscript history of Smith's career there for publication at a time when his life was being written up, but for some reason it was never published.įrom another personal source (J. He married his wife there her name was Emma Hale he lived there possibly two years. Smith did not do any digging himself, and no gold was actually found. Some of the places were at the back end of the farms of Israel Skinner and Joseph McKewon, Sr., Mr. He carried this stone with him, and consulted it often, and he had his brother, Harris and the other man dig for the gold in the places the stone indicated along the sides of the mountains. Smith would take this into a dark room, put it into his hat, and then hold the hat over his face and claimed he could then see where gold could be found. He had with him a stone which he claimed had some supernatural qualities, and its size was not equal to that of a man's fist. Joseph Smith there rented a two-story board house of Joseph McKewon, an uncle of E. Harris was the man who helped Smith translate the Book of Mormon and furnished the money to print it. He had with him a brother, probably Hyrum Smith, and Martin Harris, and another man. Joseph Smith came to the towns of South Bend and Harmony, in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, probably prior to 1830, before he claimed to have discovered the plates of the Book of Mormon. Skinner, of Sioux City, Iowa, who acquired them from his parents and grand-parents, as having occurred in the place of Mr. The following matters were furnished me by Mr. The fact that he lived in Pennsylvania for a time has never been so mentioned. We avail ourselves of this opportunity to add to the recorded history of his early career, a few items which we understand are not given in any published account of his life, or of Mormonism. He claimed to see visions, and to be able to locate hidden treasures by a witch hazel rod. Smith, in his youth, is reported to have been an overgrown, lazy, good- for-nothing story-telling creature. These, it was claimed, were found, translated, and Smith under them declared God's Prophet. The Mormon church, or as the Mormons themselves styled it, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints," as a religious sect was founded at Manchester, New York, in 1830, by Joseph Smith, a poor, uneducated young man then about 25 years old, born in Vermont, who several years previously claimed to have had revealed to him the place where the engraved plates of the Book of Mormon, a supplement to the New Testament, were buried. This colony was founded by Charles Blancher Thompson, and something of his former career and his previous connection with the general body of Mormons, throws much light on the actual origin of this settlement at Preparation. The origin and development of the Mormons as a religious body, and a social and civil organization, during this century is part of the history of the United States and the rise and fall of the colony at Preparation, Monona County, Iowa, should have its record added to the others. Sioux City : Published by the Academy, 1904-1906. Proceedings of the Academy of Science and Letters of Sioux City The family were Quakers and may have had connections with the Shakers of that region. 27, 1814 in Niskayuna, Schenectady, New York, the son of David and Sarah Blancher Thompson. Preparation was also familiarly known as Baneemy Town.Ĭharles Blancher Thompson was born on Jan. ![]() ![]() ![]() The old town was abandoned and a new town laid out by the Western Town Lot Company in 1899 and given the old name. As they believed their existence in the this world was only a preparation for the world to come, they named the town Preparation. This place had at one time a population of some six or eight hundred, but they finally got into difficulties over the ownership of the property, and the organization broke up. They believed that the Bible had in measure been done away with, by new revelations made by the voice of Baneemy, through the medium of the Chief Apostolic Bishop. They called themselves Conjeprizites (Congregation of Jehovah’s Presbytery of Zion), and the religious order Conjprezon. Thompson, who styled himself the Chief Apostolic Pastor and Evangelical Bishop. Preparation, Monona County, Iowa, A settlement was made at this place about 1858 by a body of seceders from the Mormon Church, under the lead of one Charles B.
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