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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irate mobs did not denounce Joseph Smith as loafer, drunkard, Satan's instrument, until he had refused to tell the hiding place of the golden plates. After they had dug up most of the Palmyra Hill of Cumorah without finding the gold, they drove him out of New York State. After the Mormon bank in Kirtland, Ohio failed during the panic of 1837, mobs in Ohio, Missouri and Illinois tarred & feathered Smith, lynched his followers. Non-Mormons envied the prosperous, fast-growing Mormon city of Nauvoo, feared a well-trained Mormon army of 5,000 men, and known political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polygamist Epic | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Hill Cumorah, near Palmyra in upstate New York, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints last Week celebrated the 111th anniversary of the birth of Mormonism. According tc Mormon lore, on Cumorah, where now stands a large statue of the Angel Moroni, Founder Joseph Smith received from the angel the gold tablets on which the Book of Mormon was inscribed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tithes and Security | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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