“Question 10: Was not Jo Smith a money digger[?]
“Answer: Yes, but it was never a very profitable job to him, as he only got fourteen dollars a month for it.”
Joseph Smith, Jr./editor, Elders’ Journal of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Far West, MO: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, July 1838), 43.
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