Thomas Joseph Steed

{{short description|American politician}}

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| birth_place = Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England

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| death_place = Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.

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| resting_place = Farmington City Cemetery

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| children = 10

| parents = Thomas Steed and Charlotte Niblett

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Thomas Joseph Steed (13 December 1826 – 26 June 1910) was an early Mormon pioneer in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.{{Cite web |title=Thomas Steed III {{!}} Church History Biographical Database |url=https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/individual/thomas-steed-1826 |access-date=2023-12-26 |website=history.churchofjesuschrist.org}}{{Cite book |last=Muir |first=Leo Joseph |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UGFEAQAAIAAJ&q=thomas+joseph+steed+1826 |title=A Century of Mormon Activities in California |date=1952 |publisher=Deseret News Press |language=en}} He was a polygamist, and author, with his diary being published posthumously in 1925.{{Cite web |title=The Life of Thomas Steed |url=https://saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu/mii/account/424 |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=Saints by Sea}}{{Cite book |last=Steed |first=Thomas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IlFCAAAAIAAJ |title=The Life of Thomas Steed from His Own Diary 1826-1910 |date=1925 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Lund |first=Anthon Henrik |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V78UAAAAYAAJ&dq=thomas+joseph+steed+1826&pg=RA1-PA85 |title=The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine |date=1913 |publisher=Geneal. Society of Utah |language=en}}

His descendants include a number of people that later formed the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, including Warren Steed Jeffs, Rachel Jeffs, Heleman Jeffs, Lyle Jeffs and Elissa Wall.{{Cite web |date=2022-08-01 |title=New edict purportedly from FLDS leader Warren Jeffs raises alarm |url=https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/new-edict-purportedly-from-flds-leader-warren-jeffs-raises-alarm |access-date=2023-12-26 |website=FOX 13 News Utah (KSTU) |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Singular |first=Stephen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_13JlZQwrM8C&q=Rulon+Jeffs+steed |title=When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought Back |date=2009-07-07 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-1-4299-5788-5 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last1=Steed |first1=Matilda Cecilia Giauque |url=http://archive.org/details/genealogyofsteed00stee |title=Genealogy of the Steed family of Utah from 1860 to 1916 |last2=Meadows |first2=Fanny Louisa Steed |date=1916 |publisher=Farmington, UT : Steed Family Association |others=Harold B. Lee Library}}