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to earn his bread by manual labour, Joseph "hired," in October, 1825, to an old gentleman who lived in Ohenango county, New York, who for a month employed him along with other men to "prospect " for a silver mine which the Spaniards were reported to have once worked in Harmony, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania. From this originated the story of the Prophet being a money digger.

During this service he boarded at the house of a Mr. Isaac Hale, and won the affections of his daughter Emma, whom he married on the 18th of January, 1827, and who in course of time was designated in revelation as "The Elect Lady" of the Church. As the Hale family were opposed to the union, Joseph and his young bride betook themselves to his father's residence in New York.

The same year, on the 22nd of September, the time appointed having arrived, Joseph presented himself at the usual