Item Detail
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27091
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English
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Joseph and Emma Smith's Susquehanna Home : Expanding Mormonism's First Headquarters
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Mormon Historical Studies
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2015
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16
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Sandy, UT
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Mormon Historic Sites Foundation
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69-118
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[2016 John Whitmer Historical Association winner for Best Historical Article Award]
Joseph Smith only visited E. B. Grandin's print shop on Palmyra's Main Street briefly when problems arose during the winter of 1829-30, after which he returned to his Harmony, Pennsylvania, farmhouse as soon as possible. John Gilbert, who supervised the print shop, remembered him only coming there once, “and then not [staying] over fifteen or twenty minutes.” Oliver could read and write much better than Joseph, which made him the ideal person to oversee the printing, so Joseph left the task completely in Oliver's hands. Joseph had dedicated most of his time and resources for the previous two years toward dictating the Book of Mormon manuscript, which had contributed to a tense relationship between him and his in-laws Isaac and Elizabeth Hale, who lived near him in the Susquehanna Valley