People
Brief biographical sketches for selected persons mentioned in Joseph Smith’s papers. Names listed in this directory include church leaders and members, Smith family members, people Joseph Smith encountered in his travels, parties involved in legal and business matters, and other acquaintances. Each entry also includes links to all documents that mention the person. Some entries have document links but no biographical sketch; these are included to assist researchers interested in individuals who are less prevalent in Joseph Smith’s documentary record.
- Babbitt, Almon Whiting
- Babbitt, Delcena Diademia Johnson
- Babbitt, Erastus Aires
- Babbitt, Maria Lawrence
- Bachman, George Ogden
- Backenstos, Clara M. Wasson
- Backenstos, Jacob B.
- Backenstos, William
- Backman, George Ogden
- Badham, Richard
- Badlam, Alexander, Sr.
- Bagby, Walter
- Bailey, John J.
- Bailey, Lydia Goldthwaite
- Bailey, Mary
- Bailey, Nathaniel Platt
- Baker, Edward Dickinson
- Baker, Elizabeth (Betsey)
- Baker, Jesse
- Bald, Robert
- Baldwin, Caleb
- Baldwin, Nathan Bennett, Sr.
- Baldwin, Wheeler
- Ball, Jonah R.
- Ball, Joseph T.
- Ballantyne, John
- Barber, William
- Barden, Jerusha T.
- Barker, William
- Barlow, Israel
- Barnard, John Porter
- Barnes, Lorenzo Dow
- Barnett, John Tipton
- Barney, Hiram
- Barney, Lewis
- Barney, Royal, Jr.
- Barstow, George
- Bartlett, Patty
- Barton, Almera Woodward Johnson
- Barzee, David
- Bassett, Heman (Herman) A.
- Bates, Luther P.
- Bates, Sarah Marinda
- Batson, William
- Baty, John
- Bazden, L.
- Beebe, Calvin
- Beemer, Philip
- Beman (Beaman), Alvah
- Beman (Beaman), Louisa
- Beman (Beaman), Sarah (Sally) Burt
- Benbow, John
- Bennet, James Arlington
- Bennett, James Gordon
- Bennett, John Cook
- Bennett, Samuel C.
- Benson, Desdemona Wadsworth Fullmer
- Benson, Ezra Taft
- Bent, Samuel
- Benton, Abram Willard
- Benton, Thomas Hart
- Bernethy, R.
- Bernhisel, John Milton
- Bernhisel, Malissa (Melissa) Lott
- Bernow, Joseph
- Bettisworth, David
- Bevan, James
- Bever, G.
- Bias, Garret
- Bidamon, Emma Hale
- Bidwell, David
- Bierce, Lucius Verus
- Bigler, Mark
- Billings, Titus
- Billins, J. H.
- Birch, Thomas
- Birchard, Matthew
- Bird, Phineas Reeves
- Bisbee, Harriet Jolly
- Bishop, Francis Gladden
- Bishop, Isaac H.
- Bissell (Bissel), Benjamin
- Black, Adam
- Blackhurst, Margaret Stephenson
- Blackman, Stephen
- Blake, Gideon
- Blakeslee, James
- Blennerhassett, Richard Spotswood
- Bliss, Robert S.
- Bogart, Samuel
- Boggs, Lilburn Williams
- Boman, Julia Ann Stringham
- Bond, Ira
- Bonney, Amasa
- Bonney, Edward William
- Boosinger, George
- Booth, Ezra
- Booth, Lorenzo Dow
- Booth, Thomas
- Boren, Alabama B.
- Bosier, Squire
- Bosley, Edmund (Edmond)
- Bostwick, Orsamus Ferdinand
- Bosworth, Joseph Bucklin
- Boynton, Clarissa
- Boynton, John Farnham
- Boynton, Nathan
- Boynton, Ray
- Boynton, Susannah (Susan) Lowell
- Bozarth (Bosier, Bozorth), Squire
- Brackenbury, Benjamin B.
- Brackenbury, Charles W.
- Brackenbury, Elizabeth Davis
- Brackenbury, Joseph Blanchett
- Braden, James
- Bradford, Jehial
- Branch, William Henry
- Brandon, George Washington
- Brannan, Samuel
- Brassfield, John
- Brayman, Mason
- Breazeale, Hugh Lawson
- Brewer, James
- Brewer, Nancy Jane Carter
- Bridgman, Peter Goff
- Brink, William Bicking
- Brooks, Lester
- Browett, Martha
- Brown, Alanson
- Brown, Albert
- Brown, Eliza
- Brown, Jessie
- Brown, John
- Brown, Samuel
- Brown, Samuel Cornelius
- Brown, Uriah
- Browning, Orville Hickman
- Brunson, Seymour
- Bryan, John Alexander
- Buchanan, Elizabeth
- Buckwalter, Henry A.
- Buell, Presendia Lathrop Huntington
- Bullard, Harriet
- Bullard, Joel
- Bullock, Thomas
- Bump, Abigail Pettingill
- Bump, Jacob
- Burch, Francis
- Burch, Thomas C.
- Burdick, Thomas
- Burgess, Harrison
- Burgess, James
- Burgess, Jonathan
- Burgess, William
- Burk (Burke), John Matthias
- Burk, Charles
- Burket, George
- Burket, John
- Burnet, William
- Burnett, Peter Hardeman
- Burnett, Stephen
- Burns, Miles
- Burr, Amasa
- Burroughs, Philip
- Burt, Sarah (Sally)
- Burton, John
- Busenbark, Lovina Patterson
- Bushnell, Nehemiah
- Butler, Daniel, Jr.
- Butler, John Lowe
- Butterfield, Josiah
- Butterfield, Justin
- Butterfield, Margaret Major
- Butterfield, Sylvia