---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1842 to 1843.
authors:
  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
editors:
  - Ebenezer Robinson
  - Don Carlos Smith
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
  - Taylor, John
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - newspaper
  - times-and-seasons
  - nauvoo
  - nineteenth-century
periodical: Times and Seasons
volume: 4
number: 19
published: 1843-08-15
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“An extract from the Historical sketch of the Life of President Joseph Smith,,” *Times and Seasons* 4, no. 19 (August 15, 1843): 303."
printed_title: An extract from the "Historical sketch of the Life of President Joseph Smith,"
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1843-08-15_4_19
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v4n19.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair)
  identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1843-08-15_4_19
start_page: 303
end_page: 303
curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1843 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1843-08-15_4_19
  publication_year: 1843
---

# An extract from the “Historical sketch of the Life of President Joseph Smith,”