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Cuyahoga Falls.
647
Cuyahoga Falls, Ravine at. 647
Dalzell, Private.
356
Dayton, Central View, 1846 .. 279 Dayton, Residence Street, 1846. 280 Dayton, Public Buildings in 189] 285
Dayton, Public Library. 285
Deunison University. 78
Devil's Tea Table ...
310
Double-Headed Baby
317
Dover in 1846 ...
699
Driesbach, Ilerr, Portrait of
842
Dueber-Hampden Watch Factories. 616
Eaglesport
310
Eaton in 1846 ..
450
Eaton in 1889 450
Elm, The Chillicothe, 513
El11, The Logan 409
Elyria in 1846 ...
122
Elyria in 1886.
122
Emigrating to New Connecticut. 668
Emlen Institute.
241
Episcopal Female Academy at Granville 78
Ewing, Mrs. C. F., Portrait of. 823
Farmer's Castle. 783
Finlcy, Rev. J. B., Portrait of .. 457 First Millstones and Salt Kettle in Ohio 818 Fort Ancient. 754
Fort Frye ...
783
Fort Harmar 778
Fort Meigs and Environs 864
Fort Sandusky and Environs. 525
Fort Sandusky, l'lan of
525
Fostoria .......
591
Foster, Sec'y Charles, Portrait of .. 591
Fragment of Shell, Length and Breadtli 672
Fragment of Shell, Thickness.
672
Franklin in 1846.
755
PAOE.
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Cooke, Jay, Portrait of ..
338
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ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE.
Garfield, Autograph of Pres. J. A. 44
Garfield, Pres. J. A. 44
Garfield School Honse. 343
Garfield Stndy. 47
Germantown in 1846 .. 300 Gibraltar from Put-In-Bay 366
Gibson, Gen. W. H., Portrait of. 579
Gilmore, Gen. Q. A. 13-4
Graded Way, The ..
Granville Female College. 79
Granville, First House in 77
Gray, John ... 352
Gray, John, Grave of .. 352
Gnadenhatten Monument
683
Harmar from the Virginia Shore. 826
Harter, Hon. M. D., Portrait of. 482
Hayes, Gen. R. B., Portrait of 538
Hayes, Lucy Webb, Portrait of. 536
Hayes Home, Plan of.
533
Heckewelder, Rev. John .. 690
Heckewelder, Johanna Maria. 690
Hecla Furnace .. 53
Hermit's Cave. 429
Hildreth, Dr. Samuel P., Portrait of. 914
Hinckley Hunt, The Great 205
Hiram College.
444
Hoop Pole Shanty.
378
Humphrey, Gov. Lyman U., Portrait of 621
Ironton
61
Jail, The Indian.
908
Jewett, Hon Hugh J. 337
Johnston, Col. John .. 25.8
Jones, Thos. D., Sculptor. 88
Jones, Thomas D., Monument at Welsh Hills Cemetery.
Kennedy, Gen. Robt. P. 106
Kenton, Simon, Grave of .. 105
Klippart, Prof. J. H., Portrait of. 619
Kountz, John S.
163
Lake Cuyahoga, Map of 629
Lawnfield, the Garfield Home. 44
Lawrence, Judge William ...
Lebanon in 1345. 744
Lebanon in 18:6. 744
London in 1846. 166
London in 1886. 166
Lower Sandusky (Fremont 594
Lowry's Monument
Mac-O-Chee 115
Male Academy at Granville. 78
Mansfield, E. D., Portrait of. 766 Mansfield in 1346. 4.9
Mansfield in 1886 479
Mansfield, Col. Jared, Portrait of. 482
Marion in 1846 191
Marion in 1986 191 Marietta and Harmar, 17:8 789
Marietta and Haymar, 18.3. 789
Marietta College .... 735
Marietta from West Virginia Shore
Massie, Gen. Nathaniel, Portrait of. 513 Massillon in 1946 619
Massillon in 1986 619
Maumee City in 1946. 147
Marysville in 1946 706
Marysville in 1886
606
Medill, Hon. Joseph, Portrait of. 620
Medina Public Square in 1846. 202
Medina Public Square in 1886. 202 Meigs, Gov. Return J., Portrait of. 809 Mercer County Reservoir. 235
Mercer, Gen. Hugh ...... 222
Miami County Court-House 249
Miamisburg in 1946. 300 Miamisburg, Great Mound Near. 300 Middlebury from Tallmadge Roarl. 635
Monoucue, Portrait of. 901
Morrow, Gov. Jeremiah, Portrait of. ,56 Mormon Temple at Kirtland. 36
Mother Solomon 900
Mound at Marietta. 791
Mt, Gilead 317
Muskingum College 318
McArthur, Gov. Duncan, Portrait of 503 McConnellsville in 1:46 307 McConnellsville in 1886. 307
McIntire's Hotel. 327
Mckinley, Major W'm., Portraitof 617
Mckinley, Home of ... 617
McLean, Judge John, Portrait of. 759
McPherson, Gen. J. B., Portrait of. 554
McPherson Monument. 554
Navarre, Peter
152
Newark in 1846.
Newark in 1886 75
Newberry, Dr. John S., Portrait of 653
New Philadelphia in 1:46. 695
New Philadelphia in 1886 695
Oberlin in 1846.
127
Ohio in 1905, MIap .. 154
Ohio Company's Office 796
Ohio Valleys, Map of. 471
Ottawa
471
Ottawa County Court-House 361
Painesville in 1946. 39
Painesville in 1986. 39
Patterson, Col. Robert. 295
Paulding Furnace.
397
Payne, Senator Henry B., Portrait of. 478 Perkins, Gen. Simon, Portrait of. 674
Perkins Homestead. 674
Perry County Court-House, New Lex- ington. 385
Perry, Commodore O. H., Portrait of. 385
Perrysburg.
8.92
Piatt, Col. Jacob 109
Piatt, Judge Benj. M.
109
Piatt, Gen. A. Sanders
111
Piatt, Sarah M. B. 112
112
Piatt, Col. Donn.
Pi tt, Louise Kirby 114
402
Piketon in 1846
429
Pioneer Railroad of the West. 151
Piqua in 1946. 252
Piqua in 1946. 252
Plimpton, Florus B., Portrait of.
Port Clinton Lighthouse
Portsmouth Landing in 1:46 563 Pomeroy, From Coal Mines. 216
Pomeroy in 1886 ..
216
Presbyterian Female Seminary at Gran- ville
Piatt, John J. 114
Pickaway Plains, Map of.
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Pugh, Achilles, Portrait of, 769
Putnam, Gen. Rufus, Portrait of. 808
Putnam in 1846 ... 334
Putnam Female Seminary 335
Ravenna in 1846.
434
Ravenna in 1886. 434
Riddle, Hon. A. G., Portrait of. 444
Rusk, Secretary Jeremiah. 310
Ryan, Hon. Daniel J., Portrait of. 570
Schenck, Gen. Robert C. 295
Scott, J. W.
162
Shakers Dancing .. 751
Shakespearian Epitaph 82
Shephardson's Female College ... 78
Sheridau, Gen. Philip, Portrait of. 390
Sheridan, Gen. Philip, Boyhood Homeof 390 Sherman, Senator John, Portrait of .. 478
Sherwood, Gen. I. R. ,Portrait of .. 620
Sidney in 1846
596
Sidney in 1886
596
Slab College at Oberlin .. 127
Smith, Joseph, Portrait of .. 445
Smith, Wm. Henry, Portrait of. 713
Soldiers' Home, Birdseye View .. 288
Soldier's Hospital, Mrs. Hayes in. 543
Soldiers' Memorial Building, Toledo .. 158
Soldier's Memorial Building, Zauesville 336 Somerset in 1846. 385
Spafford's Hotel 879
Spiegel Grove. 533
Steadman, Jas. B. 161
St. Clair's Battlefield, plan of .. 228
St. Joseph's Church and Convent 384
Table, The Old Constitution. 500
Thomas, Miss Edith. 210
Tiffin, Gov. Edward, Portrait of. 500
Tiffin in 1846. 578
Tiffin in 1886 578
Toledo in 1846.
147
Tomb, The Piatt 115
Troy in 1846.
246
Troy in 1886.
246
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Township Roads, Plan of. 639
Two-Horn Church
801
Union County Court-House 713
Union Furnace and Village .. 60
Upper Piqua.
258
Van Wert in 1886. 722
Venable, Dr W. H., Portrait of. 771
Vinton County Court-House. 735
Vinton, Hon. S. F., Portrait of. 735
Waite, Chief-Justice M. R .. 161
Ward, Gen. Durbin, Portrait of. 768
Warren in 1846. 671
Warren in 1886 671
Waverly in 1886. 422
Wayne's Battle-Ground. 147
Wedded Trees of the Great Miami 257
Wellington, Central View. 130
West, Judge Wm. H .. 106
Western Reserve College. 630
Por- Whipple, Commodore Abraham, trait of. 790
Winter Quarters of Col. Hayes and Fam- ily 543
Wilderness, A Home iu the. 466
Willoughby in 1846. 36
Wolf Creek Mills. 800 Worthington, Gov. Thomas, Portrait of 503 Woods, Justice Wm. B. 68
Woodsfield in 1846. 265
Woodsfield in 1886 265
Wooster in 1846 834
Wooster in 1886 834
Wyandot Mission Church, 1846 .. 898
Wyandot Mission Church, 1888. 900
Yamoyden 766
Y Bridge at Zanesville. 340
Youngstown in 1846 181
Youngstown in 1890.
180
Zanesville in 1846 332
Zanesville in 1890
332
Zoar in 1846
700
Addenda.
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Sketch of Gov. Campbell. . 904 List of State Officers, 1890-1891 905 List of Members of the Sixty-ninth General Assembly. 905
List of Members of the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congress from Ohio. 906
List of Members of the Third State Constitutional Convention ... 907
General Index to Counties, Cities and Villages, with Census of 1880 and 1890, with Volume and Page whereiu Described.
COUNTIES.
LAKE.
LAKE COUNTY was formed March 6, 1840, trom Geanga and Cuyahoga, and so named from its bordering on Lake Erie. The surface is more rolling than level ; the soil is good, and generally clayey loam, interspersed with ridges of sand and gravel. This county is peculiar for the quality and quantity of its fruit, as apples, pears, peaches, plums, grapes, etc. Its situation tends to the pres- ervation of the fruit from the early frosts, the warm lake winds often preventing its destruction, while that some twenty miles inland is cut off.
Area about 215 square miles. In 1887 the acres cultivated were 55,817; in pasture, 38,401; woodland, 18,181 ; lying waste, 2,221 ; produced in wheat, 81,789 bushels; rye, 14,942; buckwheat, 1,046; oats, 249,240 ; barley, 9,017; corn, 194,241 ; meadow hay, 15,949 tons; clover hay, 8,396; flaxseed, 5,321 bushels ; potatoes, 59,562 ; tobacco, 7,830 lbs. ; butter, 307,705 ; cheese, 166,372 ; sorghum, 19 gallons ; maple sugar, 32,983 lbs .; honey, 6,762; eggs, 129,435 dozen ; grapes, 1,169,435 lbs .; wine, 787 gallons; apples, 146,471 bushels ; peaches, 15,674 ; pears, 3,042; wool, 68,023 lbs .; milch cows owned, 3,816. School census, 1888, 4,387 ; teachers, 160. Miles of railroad track, 118.
TOWNSHIPS AND CENSUS.
1840.
1880.
TOWNSHIPS AND CENSUS.
1840.
1880.
Concord,
1,136
722
Mentor,
1,245
1,822
Kirtland,
1,777
984
Painesville,
2,580
5,516
Leroy,
898
722
Perry,
1,337
1,316
Madison,
2,801
2,720
Willoughby,
1,943
2,524
Population of Lake in 1840 was 13,717; 1860, 15,576; 1880, 16,326, of whom 10,583 were born in Ohio; 1,905 New York ; 549 Pennsylvania; 43 Virginia ; 32 Indiana ; 19 Kentucky ; 649 Ireland ; 481 England and Wales ; 244 British America ; 141 German Empire; 19 Scotland; 4 France, and 11 Sweden and Norway. Census of 1890, 18,235.
FIRST SETTLEMENT.
Mentor, according to the statement of Mrs. Tappan, in the MSS. of the Ash- tabula Historical Society, was the first place settled in this county. In the snm- mer of 1799 two families were there. Among the earliest settlers of Lake was the Hon. John Walworth, who was born at New London, Ct., in 1765.
When a young man he spent five years at sea and in Demerara, South America. About the year 1792 he removed, with his family, to the then new country east of Cayuga lake, New York. In 1799 he visited Cleveland, and after his return, in the fall of that year, journeyed to Connecticut, purchased over two thousand acres of land in the present township of Painesville, with the design of making a settlement. On the 20th of Feb- ruary, 1800, he commenced the removal of his family and effects. They were brought on as far as Buffalo, in sleighs. At that place, after some little detention, the party, being enlarged by the addition of some others, drove in two sleighs on the ice of the lake, and proceeded until abreast of Cattaraugus creek, at which point they were about ten miles from land. At dusk, leaving their sleighs and horses some 50 or 60 rods from shore, they made their camp under some
hemlock trees, where all, men, women and children, passed an agreeable night, its earlier hours being enlivened by good cheer and social converse. The next afternoon they arrived at Presque Isle (now Erie, Pa.), where, leaving his family, Mr. Walworth went back to Buffalo for his goods. On his return to Erie, he, with his hired man and two horses and a yoke of oxen, followed the lake shore, and arrived in safety at his new purchase. His nearest neighbors east were at Harpersfield, 15 miles distaut. On the west, a few miles distant, within or near the present limits of Mentor, was what was then called the Marsh settlement, where was theu living Judge Jesse Phelps, Jared Wood, Ebenezer Merry, Charles Parker and Moses Parks. Mr. Walworth soon returned to Erie, on foot, and brought out his family .and effects in a flat boat, all arriving safe at the new home on the 7th of April. The
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first fortnight they lived in a tent, during which period the sun was not seen. About the expiration of this time Gen. Edward Paine-the first delegate to the legislature from the Lake county, in the winter of 1801-2-arrived with seven or eight hired men, and settled about a mile distant. Mu- tually assisting each other, cabins were soon erected for shelter, and gradually the con- veniences of civilization clustered around them.
Shortly after the formation of the State government (states the Barr MSS.) Mr. Walworth, Solomon Griswold, of Windsor, and Calvin Austin, of Warren, were ap- pointed associate judges of Trumbull county. In 1805 Judge Walworth was appointed
collector of customs for the district of Erie. In August he opened the collector's office at Cleveland, and in the March ensuing re- moved his family thither. He held various offices until his decease, September 10, 1812, and was an extensive land agent. Judge Walworth was small in stature, and of weakly constitution. Prior to his removal to the West it was supposed he had the consump- tion ; but to the hardships and fatigue he en- dured, and change of climate, his physicians attributed the prolongation of his life many years. He was a fearless man, and possessed of that indomitable perseverance and strength of will especially important in overcoming the obstacles in the path of the pioneer.
WILLOUGHBY is on the Chagrin river, 3 miles from Lake Erie and 11 miles southwest of Painesville, on the L. S. & M. S. R. R. and N. Y. C. & St. L. R. R. Newspaper : Independent, Independent, J. H. Merrill, editor and publisher. Churches : 1 Congregationalist, 1 Methodist Episcopal, 1 Episcopal, 1 Disciples, 1 Catholic. Bank : Willoughby, S. W. Smart, president, S. H. Smart, cashier. Population, 1880, 1,001. School census, 1888, 323.
Willoughby in 1846 .- The village and township were originally called Chagrin, and chauged, in 1834, to the present name, in honor of Prof. Willoughby, of Herkimer county, N. Y. It was settled about the year 1799, by David Abbot (see page 579), Peter French, Jacob West, Ebenezer Smith, Elisha Graham, and others. Abbot built the first grist mill on the site of the Willoughby mills : Smith was the first man who received a regular deed of his land from the Con- necticut land company. In 1796 Charles Parker, one of the surveyors, built a house at the mouth of the river, and a number of huts for the use of the land company ; the house was the first erected in the township, and probably the first in the county. Parker became a settler in 1802; in 1803 and 1804 John Mil- ler, Christopher Colson, James Lewis and Jacob West settled in Willoughby. Dr. Henderson, the first regular physician, came in 1813, and the first organized town meeting was held April 3, 1815. A bloody battle, says tradition, was fought at an early day between the Indians, on the spot where the medical college stands : human bones have been discovered, supposed to be of those who fell in that action.
The village of Willoughby contains 4 stores, 2 churches, 18 mechanic shops, 1 fulling mill, and in 1840 had 390 inhabitants. The engraving shows, on the right, the Presbyterian church ; on the left, the Methodist church, and in the centre, on a pleasant green, the Medical University, a spacious brick edifice. This flourishing and well-conducted institution was founded in 1834 : its number of pupils has been gradually increasing, and in 1846 its annual circular showed 174 students in attendance .- Old Edition. This institution was removed, in 1846, to Columbus, and became the foundation for Starling Medical College.
THE MORMONS.
Nine miles southwest from Painesville, on the east branch of Chagrin river, in a beautiful farming country, is the little village of KIRTLAND, so famous in the history of Mormonism. We reproduce here from our old edition the account we then gave as to the origin of the sect and their position at that time.
Kirtland is widely known, from having formerly been the headquarters of the Mormons. While here, in the height of their prosperity, they numbered nearly 3,000 persons. On their abandoning it, most of the dwellings went to decay, and it now has somewhat the appearance of a depopulated and broken-down place. The view taken shows the most prominent buildings in the village. In the
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centre is seen the Mormon Temple; on the right, the Teachers' Seminary, and on the left, on a line with the front of the temple, the old banking house of the Mormons. The temple, the main point of attraction, is 60 by 80 feet, and measures from its base to the top of the spire 142 feet. It is of rough stone, plastered over, colored blue, and marked to imitate regular courses of masonry. It cost about $40,000. In front, over the large window, is a tablet, bearing the inscription : "House of the Lord, built by the Church of the Latter Day Saints, A. D. 1834." The first and second stories are divided into two "grand rooms" for public worship. The attic is partitioned off into about a dozen small apartments. The lower grand room is fitted up with seats as an ordinary church, with canvas curtains hanging from the ceiling, which, on the occasion of prayer meetings, are let down to the tops of the slips, dividing the room into several different apartments, for the use of the separate collections of worshippers. At each end of the room is a set of pulpits, four in number, rising behind each other. Each pulpit is calculated for three persons, so that, when they are full, twelve persons occupy each set, or twenty-four persons the two sets. These pul- pits were for the officers of the priesthood. The set at the farther end of the room are for the Melchisedek priesthood, or those who minister in spiritual con- cerns. The set opposite, near the entrance to the room, are for the Aaronic priest- hood, whose duty it is to simply attend to the temporal affairs of the society. These pulpits all bear initials, signifying the rank of their occupants.
On the Melchisedek side are the initials P. E., i. e., President of the Elders; M. P. H., President of the High Priests; P. M. H., President of the High Council, and M. P. C., President of the Full Church. On the Aaronic pulpits are the initials P. D., i. e., President of Deacons; P. T. A., President of the Teachers ; P. A. P., President of the Aaronic Priesthood, and B. P. A., Bishop of the Aaronic Priesthood. The Aaronic priesthood were rarely allowed to preach, that being the especial duty of the higher order, the Melchisedek.
We have received a communication from a resident of Kirtland, dated in the autumn of 1846. It contains some facts of value, and is of interest as coming from an honest man, who has been a subject of the Mormon delusion, but whose faith, we are of opinion, is of late somewhat shaken.
The Mormons derive their name from their belief in the book of Mormon, which is said to have been translated from gold plates found in a hill, in Palmyra, N. Y. They came to this place in 1832, and com- menced building their temple, which they finished in 1835. When they commenced building the temple they were few in num- ber, but before they had finished it they had increased to two thousand.
There are in the church two Priesthoods -the Melchisedek and the Aaronic, including the Levitical, from which they derive their officers. This place, which they hold to be a stake of Zion, was laid off in half acres for a space of one square mile. When it was mostly sold, they bought a number of farms in this vicinity, at a very high price, and were deeply in debt for goods in New York, which were the causes of their eventually leaving for Missouri. They established a bank at Kirtland, from which they issued a number of thousand more dollars than they had specie, which gave their enemies power over them, and those bills became useless.
They adhered to their prophet, Smith, in all things, and left here in 1837, seven hun- dred in one day. They still hold this place to be a stake of Zion, to be eventually a place
of gathering. There is a president with his two counsellors, to preside over this stake. The president is the highest officer ; next is the high priest, below whom are the elders- all of the Melchisedek priesthood. The lesser priesthood are composed of priests, teachers and deacons. They have twelve apostles, whose duty it is to travel and preach the gospel. There are seventy elders or seventies, a number of whom are travelling preachers : seven of the seventies preside over them. There were two seventies organized in Kirt- land. They ordain most of the male mem- bers to some office. They have a bishop with two counsellors to conduct the affairs of the church in temporal things, and sit in judg- ment upon difficulties which may arise between members; but there is a higher court to which they can appeal, called the high conncil, which consists of twelve high priests. The president and his council sit as judges over either of these conrts. There are, however, three presidents who preside over the whole in all the world-so termed.
The method of conducting worship among the Mormons is similar to other denomina- tions. The first ordinance is baptism for the remission of sins ; they lay on hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost, and to heal the sick ;
Drawn by Henry Howe in 1846.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN WILLOUGHBY.
Drawn by Henry Howe in 1846. MORMON TEMPLE AT KIRTLAND.
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anoint with oil; administer the sacrament ; take little children and bless them ; they hold to all the gifts of the Apostolic church, be- lieving there is no true church without them, and have the gift of speaking in different tongues ; they sometimes interpret for them- selves, but commonly there is some one to interpret for them.
A prophet has lately risen among the Mormons, viz., James J. Strang of Wisconsin, who claims to be the successor of Joseph Smith. He has been with them only about two years, and was a young lawyer of Western New York. He claims to have received communications from Heaven at the very hour of Smith's death, commissioning him to lead the people. He has established a stake in Walworth county, Wisconsin, called the city of Voree, by interpretation signify-
ing "Garden of Peace," to which they are gathering from Nauvoo and other places. He has lately visited Kirtland and re-estab- lished it as a stake of Zion, and organized the church with all its officers. There are now here about one hundred members, who are daily increasing, and it is thought that the place will be built up.
Strang is said to have found plates of brass or some other metal. He was directed by an angel, who gave him a stone to look through, by which he made the discovery. They were found three feet under ground, beneath an oak of a foot in diameter. These he has translated : they give an account of a race who once inhabited that land and became a fallen people. Strang preaches pure Bible doctrine, and receives only those who walk humbly before their God.
The Mormons still use the temple at Kirtland. This sect is now divided into three factions, viz. : the Rigdonites, the Twelveites, and the Strangites. The Rigdonites are the followers of Sidney Rigdon, and are but a few in number. Ine Twelveites-so named after their twelve apostles-are very fanatical, and hold to the spiritual wife system and the plurality of Gods. The Strangites maintain the original doctrines of Mormonism, and are located at this place and Voree.
We derive, from a published source, a brief historical sketch of Mormonism.
Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, was born in Sharon, Vermont, December 23, 1805, and removed to Manchester, Ontario county, N. Y., about the year 1815, at an early age, with his parents, who were in quite humble circumstances. He was occasionally employed in Palmyra as a laborer, and bore the reputation of a lazy and ignorant young man. According to the testimony of respect- able individuals in that place, Smith and his father were persons of doubtful moral char- acter, addicted to disreputable habits, and, moreover, extremely superstitious, believing in the existence of witchcraft. They at one time procured a mineral rod, and dug in various places for money. Smith testified that when digging he had seen the pot or chest containing the treasure, but never was fortunate enough to get it into his hands. He placed a singular-looking stone in his hat, and pretended by the light of it to make many wonderful discoveries of gold, silver and other treasures, deposited in the earth. He commenced his career as the founder of the new sect, when about the age of eighteen or nineteen, and appointed a number of meetings in Palmyra for the purpose of declaring the divine revelations which he said were made to him. He was, however, unable to produce any excitement in the village ; but very few had curiosity sufficient to listen to him. Not having means to print his revelations he applied to Mr. Crane, of the Society of Friends. declaring that he was moved by the Spirit to call upon him for assistance. This gentleman bid him go to work or the State prison would end his career. Smith had better success with Martin
Harris, an industrious and thrifty farmer of Palmyra, who was worth about $10,000, and who became one of his leading disciples. By his assistance 5,000 copies of the Mormon bible (so called) were published, at an expense of about $3,000. It is possible that Harris might have made the advances with the expectation of a profitable speculation, as a great sale was anticipated. This work is a duodecimo volume, containing five hundred and ninety pages, and is, perhaps, one of the weakest productions ever attempted to be palmed off as a divine revelation. It is mostly a blind mass of words, interwoven with scriptural language and quotations, with- out much of a leading plan or design.
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