John Glover Smith (1808 - 1888) Profile

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Historical Department journal history of the Church

Historical Department journal history of the Church, April 15, 1844, Page 1-5.

“[Elders] will present before the people “General Smith’s views of the powers and policy of the General Government,” and seek diligently to get up electors who will go for him for the presidency.  All Elders will be faithful in preaching the gospel.” Appointed to serve mission to Pennsylvania.

Transcript for Historical Department journal history of the Church, 15 April 1844

Historical Department journal history of the Church.

Abiah Wadsworth: His Wives and Family, 1810-1979 (The Abiah Wadsworth Family Organization, 1979), 42

Abiah Wadsworth: His Wives and Family, 1810-1979 (The Abiah Wadsworth Family Organization, 1979), 42.

We left on the 10th day of May in Captain [Abraham] Day's company of 50. We had five yoke of cattle, one span of ponies and three wagons, and four cows. My father [Abiah Wadsworth] drove two yoke of oxen and two cows and I drove three yoke of cattle and two cows. My mother [Eliza Ann Hardy Wadsworth] drove the ponies. We all felt fine and had a fine trip with no accidents or sickness on the trip across the plains. We stayed in Salt Lake one night.

Transcript for Abiah Wadsworth: His Wives and Family, 1810-1979 (The Abiah Wadsworth Family Organization, 1979), 42

Frontier Guardian

For the Guardian

"For the Guardian", Frontier Guardian, August 8, 1851, Page 2.

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Br. D. Mackintosh: __



Thinking perhaps a little information from the first Company of emigrants, would be a treat to the friends abroad. I give you the following extract from a letter that I received last evening, from Sister R.R. Patten. Sister Patten left here about the first of May, in the first company of Mormon Emigrants, John G. Smith Captain, Roswell Stevens, Captain of the first fifty; Abraham Day, Captain of the second fifty; and L.A. Shirtliff, Captain of the third fifty. Sister Patten says they traveled up the divide between the Missouri River and the Horn, a distance of two hundred miles, it being a northerly direction, they then turned westward, traveled ten days, came to the Horn [Elkhorn] bridged and crossed, soon came to the Loup Fork, which they forded, from thence they crossed sand hills by hundreds, creeks and sloughs, by bridging with grass and brush, after considerable travel in this way they concluded to divide the company; Captain R. Stevens first Fifty, continued westward; Capt's. Day and Shirtliff, second and third divisions, turned Southwest; and the California emigrants, seventeen wagons in company turned South, and after nine days travel, the second and third divisions came in with the California wagons, and on the 12th of July, reached the Platte Bottoms.



The health of the company was improved from what it was when they left here. There had been no sickness, no deaths, or accidents in the camps,—had lost only four head of cattle—had left no wagons, and lost no goods. She does not speak of having seen an Indian on the route.



<center xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Respectfully Yours, 
E. M. GREENE</center>

Transcript for "For the Guardian," Frontier Guardian, 8 August 1851, 2

Frontier Guardian.

CR 100 137: Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008. Supplement after 31 December 1851: Page 1.

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Mission to assist Joseph Smith's presidential campaign and preach the gospel in Indiana. (JH of April 15, 1844, p.2)

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