This unique biography of Joseph Smith, Sr., First Patriarch to the LDS Church and father of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. reveals the personality and character of the Prophet's father.
Nephi Aaron Skinner was born December 8, 1876, at Nounan, Bear Lake County, Idaho. He was the youngest child of thirteen children (eight sons and five daughters) of John and Jane Smith Skinner. He is known to have been the first white child born in the new settlement of Nounan.