Thomas Joseph Steed

American politician

Thomas Joseph Steed

Personal details

Born

(1826-12-13)13 December 1826
Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England

Died

26 June 1910(1910-06-26) (aged 83)
Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.

Resting place

Farmington City Cemetery

Spouse(s)

Children

Parents

Thomas Steed and Charlotte Niblett

Signature

Thomas Joseph Steed (13 December 1826 – 26 June 1910) was an early Mormon pioneer in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.^[1]^[2] He was a polygamist, and author, with his diary being published posthumously in 1925.^[3]^[4]^[5]

His descendants include a number of people that later formed the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, including Warren Steed Jeffs, Rachel Jeffs, Heleman Jeffs, Lyle Jeffs and Elissa Wall.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Biography

Thomas Joseph Steed was born in Great Malvern, Worcestershire on December 13, 1826.^[9]

He died at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City on June 26, 1910, following surgery for a hernia.^[10]

Steed, Thomas (1925). The Life of Thomas Steed from His Own Diary 1826-1910.^[11]

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^ "The Life of Thomas Steed". Saints by Sea. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
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^ Lund, Anthon Henrik (1913). The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine. Geneal. Society of Utah.
^ "New edict purportedly from FLDS leader Warren Jeffs raises alarm". FOX 13 News Utah (KSTU). 1 August 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
^ Singular, Stephen (7 July 2009). When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought Back. Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4299-5788-5.
^ Steed, Matilda Cecilia Giauque; Meadows, Fanny Louisa Steed (1916). Genealogy of the Steed family of Utah from 1860 to 1916. Harold B. Lee Library. Farmington, UT : Steed Family Association.
^ Whitney, Orson Ferguson (October 1904). History of Utah in Four Volumes. Vol. IV. G. Q. Cannon & Sons. pp. 415–416. Retrieved 1 March 2024 – via Internet Archive.
^ "Another Pioneer Goes to Reward". The Ogden Standard. Salt Lake. 27 June 1910. p. 4. Retrieved 1 March 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Saints, Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day. "Thomas Joseph Steed". www.churchhistorianspress.org. Retrieved 26 December 2023.