Abraham O. Smoot
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Abraham Owen Smoot was an American pioneer, businessman, religious leader, and politician. He spent his early life in the Southern United States and was one of seven children. After being baptized a m
Photo of A. O. Smoot by C. R. Savage
Abraham O. Smoot, c. 1880
Smoot Administration Building at BYU
Provo Tabernacle, 1914, which Smoot helped fund and construct
Joseph F. Smith
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Joseph Fielding Smith Sr. was an American religious leader who served as the sixth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was a nephew of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter
Smith, c. 1905
This turn of the century family portrait was taken close to the time Joseph F. Smith succeeded Lorenzo Snow as president of the LDS Church in October 1901. Besides Levira, with whom he had no children, Smith had five other wives and forty-eight children. His wives are (L to R seated by Smith): Mary Taylor Schwartz (married, 1884, seven children); Edna Lambson (married 1871, ten children); Julina Lambson (married 1866, thirteen children, including Joseph Fielding Smith—top row, center); Sarah Ellen Richards (married 1868, eleven children); Alice Ann Kimball (married 1883, seven children); circa 1904
Joseph F. Smith in the Sacred Grove, ca. 1905
Grave marker of Joseph F. Smith, and Julina Lambson Smith, one of his wives