| Birth | 3 April 1815 | Hempfield, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States |
Citation(s)
Birth Citation(s)
Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), p. 172.
Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Church History Library), entry for Philip Klingensmith, folder "Companies of 10 reports, 1846 April" (#7), image 3, line 8.
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| Death | August 1881 | Sonora, Mexico |
Citation(s)
Death Citation(s)
Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, Utah: Tribune Pub. Co., 1871-1919), "Klingensmith: He is Supposed to Have Been Murdered by Mormons," 4 August 1881, p. 4, column 3.
Deseret News, Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News Co., 1889-1910), "A Far-Fetched Assumption," 16 August 1881, p. 2, column 2.
Proof Summary
From both of these articles, one gets two very different views of Philip Klingensmith's death. The Salt Lake Tribune, which at the time was an Anti-Mormon newspaper, claimed that Philip was murdered by the Mormon Church as retribution for testifying in the Mountain Meadows Massacre trial. The Deseret News, on the other hand, almost always supported the Mormon Church, claimed the assertion was absolute hogwash. While we may never know who killed Philip Klingensmith, the article in the Salt Lake Tribune does tell us that he was found dead in Sonora, Mexico around August 1881.
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