The recent acquisition by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of Mormonism’s first temple — in Kirtland, Ohio — along ... tied to founder Joseph Smith and his band of believers ...

On Tuesday afternoon, the Salt Lake City-based faith announced the purchase of the valuable Ohio ... Joseph Smith’s writing desk from the Kirtland Temple. • Emma Smith’s walking stick ...

This violence claimed many lives, including Mormon prophet Joseph Smith's ... Mormons to migrate from New York to Ohio in 1831. There, in Kirtland, Smith received his first taste of mob violence.