Source:Orsamus Turner:History of the Pioneer Settlement:214:Joseph was made fun of at the printer when he was young

Orsamus Turner (1852): "to once and a while blacken the face of the then meddling inquisitive lounger-but afterwards Prophet"

Orsamus Turner (1852): "to once and a while blacken the face of the then meddling inquisitive lounger-but afterwards Prophet"

Orsamus Turner, who considered Joseph Smith "a cheat and a fraud," had this to say about Martin Harris. Turner felt that Joseph Smith duped Martin Harris into mortgaging his farm in order to finance the printing of the Book of Mormon:

Once a week [Joseph Smith] would stroll into the office of the old Palmyra Register, for his father's paper. How impious, in us young "dare Devils" to once and a while blacken the face of the then meddling inquisitive lounger-but afterwards Prophet, with the old fashioned balls, when he used to put himself in the way of the working of the old fashioned Ramage press!The editor of the Cultivator, at Albany-esteemed as he may justly consider himself, for his subsequent enterprize and usefulness, may think of it, with contrition and repentance; that he once helped, thus to disfigure the face of a Prophet, and remotely, the founder of a State..