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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Joseph F. Smith, John Taylor, Parley P. Pratt, George Q. Cannon, Wilford Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow, Orson Pratt, Brigham Young, Jr., George A. Smith, Heber J. Grant, Anthon H. Lund, W. W. Phelps, Charles Sreeve Peterson, John D. Lee, Charles R. Dana, Jesse N. Smith, Joel H. Johnson, Marriner W. Merrill, Isaac C. Haight, Benjamin G. Ferris, Charles C. Rich, Jefferson Hunt, Joseph Young, John S. Fullmer, John R. Murdock, Hosea Stout, Franklin D. Richards, William W. Taylor, William R. Smith, John Henry Smith, Levi W. Hancock, Samuel W. Richards, John Hamilton Morgan, Joseph Angell Young, Nathaniel H. Felt, Albert Carrington, Jacob Johnson, Horton D. Haight, William Adams Hickman, Thomas Grover, Edward Hunter, Joseph Howell, George W. Brimhall, William W. Cluff, Lorin Farr, Edwin D. Woolley, Jacob Gates, William Thomas Stewart, Edward Partridge, Jr., Phinehas Richards, Enoch Reese, Horace S. Eldredge, Elisha H. Groves, Christopher Layton, John M. Moody, William H. Dame. Excerpt: Joseph Fielding Smith, Sr. (November 13, 1838 - November 19, 1918) was the sixth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was the last president of the LDS Church to have personally known the founder of the Mormon faith, Joseph Smith, Jr., who was the brother of his father Hyrum Smith. Smith was the son of Patriarch Hyrum Smith and his second wife Mary Fielding, a British convert to the Church who married Hyrum after the death of his first wife, Jerusha Barden Smith. In addition to her two children, Mary Fielding Smith raised the five children from the union of Hyrum and Jerusha. Smith was born in Far West, Missouri on November 13, 1838. Just a few days before he was born, his father Hyrum had been taken prisoner under the auspices of the Missouri Executive Order 44 (infamously called the "extermination...