E. Gary Smith

E. GARY SMITH is an attorney practicing in Costa Mesa, California, with an active interest in Mormon history. He is currently researching a book on the office of Patriarch to the Church with Irene M. Bates. This paper was presented at the Mormon History Association annual meeting, May 1982, in Ogden, Utah. 1

The Patriarchal Crisis of 1845

Articles/Essays – Volume 16, No. 2

Almost a year after Patriarch to the Church Hyrum Smith was killed, the Times and Seasons, the official church newspaper in Nauvoo, carried an editorial entitled “Patriarchal,” with the prefatory note: “As the nature of…