Non mormon biography of joseph smith

The life of Joseph Smith, Jr. from 1831 to 1837, when he was 26–32 years old, covers the period of time from when Smith moved with his family to Kirtland, Ohio, in 1831, until he left Ohio for Missouri early in early January 1838.

By 1831, Smith had already published the Book of Mormon, and established the Latter Day Saint movement. He had founded it as the Church of Christ, but eventually dictated a revelation to change its name to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.^[1]

Move to Kirtland, Ohio

After receiving what Smith described as revelations,^[2] Smith and his wife Emma Hale Smith moved to Kirtland, Ohio, early in 1831,^[3] arriving about February 3.^[4] They lived with Isaac Morley's family while a house was built for them on the Morley farm.

Many of Smith's followers and associates settled in Kirtland, and also in Jackson County, Missouri, where Smith said he was instructed by reve