Town of Rowley records show John Smith as son of Joseph and Sarah.

Gideon Hawley describes the basics of 19th century school as "reading, writing, and arithmetic."

A letter from JS to OC, scribed by FGW.

Palmyra Reflector describes translation of BOM, highlights JS's lack of education.

Abraham Lincoln describes how he will run as a representative and uses his legal knowledge to bolster his campaign.

JS obtained the plates in 1827 and commenced translating them then.

Joseph states that he was deprived of a benefit of an education and was instructed only in the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic.

J. Orville Taylor provides commentary on public schools during Joseph's time.

Mulholland records the account of the BOM translation; Joseph used instruments he called U&T.

Cleveland Herald rebuts The Pittsburgh American, calls Joseph "without education or genius" with "a little low cunning."

Orson Hyde writes in a German tract that Joseph did not receive an education.

Nauvoo Neighbor correspondent describes Joseph as illiterate.

Lucy Mack Smith describes Hyrum Smith's education.

Lucy Mack Smith records how Smith family educated their children.

Lucy Mack Smith recalls that JS Sr. taught school.

LMS highlights JS's farm labors.

Lucy Mack says that Oliver Cowdery taught school at the district school when the Smith family arrived in Harmony.

Orasmus Turner writes that JS was "possessed of less than ordinary intellect."

Abraham Lincoln records that he wrote his own farewell speech from Springfield, demonstrating his literacy.

George Thomas Chapman records the life sketch of John Wheelock Smith, son of Professor John Smith, distant relative of Joseph Smith.

George Thomas Chapman records the life sketch of Dartmouth alumni Levi Spaulding.

George Thomas Chapman records the life sketch of Samuel Mason Smith, son of Professor John Smith, distant relative of Joseph Smith.

George Thomas Chapman explains the limitations of the Sketches of Dartmouth alumni, and that some inaccuracies are to be expected.

Pomeroy Tucker reports that Joseph knew a lot of stories.

According to TP, JS was illiterate c. ~1830.

Gazetteer and Business Directory prints reports that Joseph attended a little bit of school.

Emma Hale Smith on JS as being a poor at dictation and writing.

Simon Smith tells Mark Forscutt that JS's education was "very limited."

William Smith reports that although Joseph did not have a common education, he had a high regard for truth.

Benjamin Saunders reports to William H. Kelley that that Joseph had little education.

Hyrum Smith was much more educated than JS.

Isaac Butts, in a statement, states that Joseph went to school.

AJ describes how OC taught school in the district school in Manchester, Ontario county, N.Y..

Asael Smith gives address to Joseph Smith Sr. to give his children a good education, if possible.

Biography of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain).

Junius F. Wells reports that Joseph went to a school on Dewey Hill.

A Dartmouth Alumni Magazine article recalls that Hyrum Smith was "destined for Dartmouth," but went west before attending.

Bruce A. Van Orden reports that Hyrum Smith went to school much earlier than Joseph.

David Herbert Donald describes 19th-century education for Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln was sought after to write letters for his neighbors as few could write well at that time.

Richard K. Behrens connects Joseph Smith Jr.'s paternal grandparents to the Joseph Smith and Elisabeth Palmer who were mistakenly identified as the parents of Reverend John Smith in a Dartmouth Alumni Sketch.

TMTH&M says MT(SC) was educated until the fifth grade.

An exhibit summarized by DCL recounts the history of Moor's Charity school.

Charles Dudley Warner's notes from autobiography of Samuel Clemens concerning his education.