# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helen-mar-kimball
# Generated: 2026-08-31T22:28:39.919Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helen-mar-kimball"
name: "Helen Mar Kimball"
slug: "helen-mar-kimball"
description: "Helen Mar Kimball was one of 30 to 40 plural wives of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. She was sealed in marriage to him when she was 14 years old. After his death when she was 16, she married Horace K. Whitney \"for time\"; Whitney was the brother of another of Smith's wives. She bore eleven children with Whitney, the first three of whom died at, or soon after, birth. Their son, Orson F. Whitney, became an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
tagline: "Wife of Joseph Smith, Jr. (1828–1896)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Helen_Mar_Kimball.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1828-08-22"
deathDate: "1896-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.470092
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  56
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Mar_Kimball"
    title: "Helen Mar Kimball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Mar_Kimball"
    title: "Helen Mar Kimball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5702756"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations