<P> Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, was dragged from his home during the night of March 24, 1832 by a group of men who stripped and beat him before tarring and feathering him . His wife and infant child were knocked from their bed by the attackers and were forced from the home and threatened . (The infant died several days later from exposure .) Smith was left for dead, but limped back to the home of friends . They spent much of the night scraping the tar from his body, leaving his skin raw and bloody . The following day, Smith spoke at a church devotional meeting and was reported to have been covered with raw wounds and still weak from the attack . </P> <P> In 1851, a Know - Nothing mob in Ellsworth, Maine tarred and feathered Swiss - born Jesuit priest Father John Bapst in the midst of a local controversy over religious education in grammar schools . Bapst fled Ellsworth to settle in nearby Bangor, Maine, where there was a large Irish - Catholic community, and a local high school there is named for him . </P> <P> Tarring and feathering was not restricted to men . The November 27, 1906 Ada, Oklahoma Evening News reports that a vigilance committee consisting of four young married women from East Sandy, Pennsylvania corrected the alleged evil conduct of their neighbor Mrs. Hattie Lowry in whitecap style . One of the women was a sister - in - law of the victim . The women appeared at Mrs. Lowry's home in open day and announced that she had not heeded the spokeswoman and leader . Two women held Mrs. Lowry to the floor while the other two smeared her face with stove polish until it was completely covered . They then poured thick molasses upon her head and emptied the contents of a feather pillow over the molasses . The women then marched the victim to a railroad camp, tied by the wrists, where two hundred workmen stopped work to watch the spectacle . After parading Mrs. Lowry through the camp, the women tied her to a large box where she remained until a man released her . Three of the women involved were arrested, pleaded guilty and each paid a $10.00 fine . </P> <P> A group of black - robed Knights of Liberty (a faction of the KKK) tarred and feathered seventeen members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in Oklahoma in 1917, during an incident known as the Tulsa Outrage . </P>

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