Joseph F. Smith's 1864 Mission to Hawaii : Leading a Reformation
Joseph F. Smith : Reflections on the Man and His Times
Provo, UT
Salt Lake City: Religious Studies Center, BYU; Deseret Book
2013
52-72
At age twenty-five, Joseph F. Smith was part of two of the most recognizable events in Hawaiian Church history: the drowning of Lorenzo Snow and the excommunication of Walter Murray Gibson. However, these are only two incidents in a unique eight-month mission Joseph F. served to the Hawaiian Islands (then the Sandwich Islands) in 1864. [From the text]