Did Abraham Lincoln Ever Meet Joseph Smith?
On January 2nd, 1843, Joseph Smith surrendered himself, and appeared in Springfield to face a federal court extradition hearing. The State of Missouri sought to bring him back upon allegations that the Prophet was an accessory to a conspiracy to assassinate a former Governor there.
Contemporary accounts reveal many prominent citizens attended to glimpse the Prophet and to observe the proceedings. In fact, it became somewhat a social outing, when presiding judge Nathaniel Pope's wife insisted on sitting beside him astride the bench. On the other side sat another Springfield belle-Mrs. Abraham Lincoln !
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