Lorenzo Snow

The life of Lorenzo Snow, later the fifth President of the Church, written by his sister Eliza R. Snow Smith: his boyhood in Ohio, his conversion, his missions to Great Britain, Italy and the Sandwich Islands, his years leading Brigham City, and a supplement of his 1872–73 letters from a tour of Europe and the Holy Land. Lorenzo’s own journal entries, letters and discourses are read in his voice.

The title page says the book was “written and compiled” by Eliza R. Snow Smith. In her preface, signed E. R. S. S., she calls it “a tribute of sisterly affection” and a “token of sincere respect to his family,” meant to be handed down as a family memorial. She says she has “varied materially from the usual course of biographers,” adding a full genealogical record, selections from his letters and discourses, and missionary sketches by some of his sons and sons-in-law. She quotes his journal at length, and the book includes his pamphlet “The Voice of Joseph.” The Supplement’s Palestine letters come from a larger collection of correspondence, some of which she omits.

The book has no chapter titles in print; short titles were written for the page, and each chapter’s printed synopsis of topics is read at its start. Chapter LXIII, the family record, is read as short sentences with the dates and places kept. The contents page is not read. The one footnote appears as a small number you can tap.

Text produced for Project Gutenberg by the Mormon Texts Project (released December 19, 2014). The Gutenberg record lists the author as “Eliza R. Snow”; the title page says “Eliza R. Snow Smith.”