December 23, 1805
Joseph Smith Jr. was born to Lucy Mack Smith and Joseph Smith Sr.(amc)
Personal Life
1813
Joseph Smith's leg was operated on by Dr. Nathan Smith of Dartmouth Medical School. In convalescence Joseph traveled with his uncle Jesse Smith to Salem, Massachusetts.
Late 1816
Joseph Smith moved with his mother and siblings to Palmyra, New York, from Norwich, Vermont. Joseph Smith Sr. had gone to Palmyra earlier in the year to investigate the move.
About November 19, 1823
Joseph Smith's brother Alvin died at age 25. He had been ill with "bilious colic" and was given a dose of calomel, which may have killed him.
November or December 1825
Joseph Smith's family moved into the frame home that Joseph's brother Alvin had begun before his death in 1823. The home was completed sometime after October 25, 1825.
November 17, 1825
Joseph Smith's employment for Josiah Stowell at the mining excavations in Harmony, Pennsylvania, ended. Joseph then continued to work for Stowell at his farm near South Bainbridge, New York.
November or December 1825
Joseph Smith's family moved into the frame home that Joseph's brother Alvin had begun before his death in 1823. The home was completed sometime after October 25, 1825.
January 18, 1827
Joseph Smith was married to Emma Hale by Esquire Zacharia Tarble, Justice of the Peace.
June 15, 1828
Joseph and Emma Smith's first child, a boy later named Alvin, was born but died within hours.
April 5, 1829
Joseph Smith met Oliver Cowdery for the first time.
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