Mack was proud of her father's involvement in the Revolutionary War.
Magazines and educational publications heralded mothers as "the chief transmitters of religious and moral values" (Bloch, 101). This shift toward commercialism pushed the father's work farther away from the home, with the result that the mother now took over the father's former role of final responsibility for the children's education and for their moral and religious training (Bloch, 113). According to women's historian Linda Kerber, the growing market economy and "industrial technology reshaped the contours of domestic labor" (7). Even though the Revolutionary War would accelerate that shift, the initial impetus came from the changing economic scene. The second half of the eighteenth century had seen a slowly evolving shift of responsibilities within the American family. Lucy Mack was born on July 8, 1775, in Gilsum, New Hampshire, during an era of political, economic, and social change. She is noted for writing the memoir, Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations and was an important leader of the movement during Joseph's life. Lucy Mack Smith (J– May 14, 1856) was the mother of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
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