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On This Day: Smith dedicates new Mormon Church

Joe Smith dedicated a Church of Latter Day Saints in Chicago . The Lancaster Daily Intelligencer carried the news On This Day in 1880. The dedication was the day prior. Joe Smith is referred to as a “son of the original Joe Smith.” The brief article notes also that the Church of Latter Day Saints is also known as the Joe Smith Mormons.   Source: Lancaster daily intelligencer. ( Lancaster , Pa. ), 3 May 1881. Chronicling America : Historic American Newspapers . Library of Congress.    On This Day is a prompt I started to further explore historical events.                  © Jeanne Ruczhak-Eckman, 2015