Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia : a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . h in theChurch, was born Jan. 17, 1812, In Lon-don, England, son of Joseph Home andMaria Maidens. When he was sixyears old his parents emigrated toCanada and settled at a place calledLittle York, now the city of were of the poorer class of people,the father being a shoemaker by trade,and as there were very few schools in the country districts, where they dwelt,the boy Joseph had but little opportuni-ty for education. Ab
Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia : a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . h in theChurch, was born Jan. 17, 1812, In Lon-don, England, son of Joseph Home andMaria Maidens. When he was sixyears old his parents emigrated toCanada and settled at a place calledLittle York, now the city of were of the poorer class of people,the father being a shoemaker by trade,and as there were very few schools in the country districts, where they dwelt,the boy Joseph had but little opportuni-ty for education. About the year 1822the family moved eight miles into thetimbered country to open up a farm,and there his time was spent clearingland and farming until he was twenty-four years of age, when he married. Thelady who became his wife was MissMary Isabella Hales, like himself a na-tive of England, but at that time aresident in his neighborhood. Thedate of their marriage was May 9, months later the young couplewere baptized into the Church of Je-sus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In thespring of 1837 they became acquaintedwith the Prophet Joseph Smith, and in. the following yeai- moved to Far West,Missouri, where they passed throughthe mobocratic troubles of that period,and from 1839 to 1842 resided at , prior to moving up to Nauvoo. Soonafter settling at the latter place engaged in the mei-cantile busi-ness, which he continued as long as heremained there. He was ordained aSeventy, and shortly afterwards setapart as one of the presidency of the28th quorum of Seventy. He left Nau-voo in February, 1846, in the first com-pany of Saints that started for theWest. His family then sonsisted ofhimself, his wife and three children—boys. His daughter. Elizabeth born at Mount Pisgah as they jnui-neyed. They also brought with thema man and his wife and a boy who BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA. 807 drove one of their teams. They spentthe next winter on the Missouri ri
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