LDS Church founder Joseph Smith’s polygamy: The truth is out there — or is it?
Historians point to the diaries of his scribe William Clayton — which the church soon will publish — as more evidence, but so-called polygamy deniers inside and outside the faith aren’t convinced.
Joseph Smith, top left, and some of his reported wives, clockwise from top middle: Emma Hale Smith; Eliza R. Snow; Martha McBride (Knight Smith Kimball); Marinda Nancy Johnson (Hyde Smith); and Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs (Smith Young).
| July 18, 2026, 12:00 p.m.