Footnotes
See John S. Fullmer, [Nauvoo, IL], to George D. Fullmer, Nashville, TN, 28 Mar. 1841, in Fullmer, Letterbook, 124; Letter to Smith Tuttle, 9 Oct. 1841; and JS, Nauvoo, IL, to Isaac Galland, [Keokuk, Iowa Territory], 17 Jan. 1842, JS Collection, CHL.
Fullmer, John S. Letterbook, 1836–1881. John S. Fullmer Journal and Letterbook, 1836–1881. CHL.
“Obituary of Leo Hawkins,” Millennial Star, 30 July 1859, 21:496–497.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
“Letters to and from the Prophet,” ca. 1904, 1, Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Footnotes
Don Carlos was going to Cincinnati with Ebenezer Robinson to “settle with Mr. Shepherd, and also to lay in a stock of paper and other printing material,” as Robinson later recalled. Don Carlos and Robinson had been coeditors of the Times and Seasons and had also printed a new edition of the Book of Mormon in 1840. (Ebenezer Robinson, “Items of Personal History of the Editor,” Return [Davis City, IA], June 1890, 287.)
The Return. Davis City, IA, 1889–1891; Richmond, MO, 1892–1893; Davis City, 1895–1896; Denver, 1898; Independence, MO, 1899–1900.
Don Carlos Smith, Nauvoo, IL, to Oliver Granger, Kirtland, OH, 14 Feb. 1841, Don Carlos Smith, Letters to Oliver Granger, 1841, CHL.
Smith, Don Carlos. Letters to Oliver Granger, 1841. CHL.
“Death of General Don Carlos Smith,” Times and Seasons, 16 Aug. 1841, 2:503.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Letter to Oliver Granger, 4 May 1841; Letter to Oliver Granger, 30 Aug. 1841. Kirtland lot 8 in block 113 was bonded to Granger’s son Gilbert Granger from Daniel Carter in September 1841, and the bond was transferred to Agnes Coolbrith Smith in March 1842. (Daniel Carter to Gilbert Granger, Bond, Kirtland, OH, 16 Sept. 1841, JS Office Papers, CHL.)
In June 1839 the First Presidency of the church decided to let Don Carlos Smith and Ebenezer Robinson “have the printing press and type” that had been salvaged from Missouri. The two men were commissioned to print a periodical for the church but were allowed to function independently. This arrangement gave them any profits made from the enterprise. (Ebenezer Robinson, “Items of Personal History of the Editor,” Return [Davis City, IA], May 1890, 257.)
The Return. Davis City, IA, 1889–1891; Richmond, MO, 1892–1893; Davis City, 1895–1896; Denver, 1898; Independence, MO, 1899–1900.
In July, Don Carlos wrote to Granger, “I understand that you are the owner of the house and lot that used to be mine,” and offered to give money or Nauvoo property to reimburse Granger for what he had paid for the property. In fact, JS had already commissioned Granger a month earlier to deed Don Carlos’s former house and land in Kirtland to Don Carlos’s wife, Agnes Coolbrith Smith. (Don Carlos Smith, Nauvoo, IL, to Oliver Granger, Kirtland, OH, 11 July 1841, Don Carlos Smith, Letters to Oliver Granger, 1841, CHL; Letter to Oliver Granger, 4 May 1841.)
Smith, Don Carlos. Letters to Oliver Granger, 1841. CHL.
The store referred to is JS’s red brick store in Nauvoo, which JS was preparing to open for business. (Floor Plan for Joseph Smith’s Store, between Feb. and Dec. 1841, Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU; Leonard, Nauvoo, 145.)
Leonard, Glen M. Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, a People of Promise. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book; Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2002.
Don Carlos, along with his coeditor, Ebenezer Robinson, announced a plan to publish a weekly, general-interest newspaper in June 1840. By December they had abandoned the project because of a lack of subscribers. (“Proposals,” Times and Seasons, Apr. 1840, 1:96; Notice, Times and Seasons, 1 Dec. 1840, 2:234; see also Tanner, “Mormon Press in Nauvoo,” 97–98.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Tanner, Terrence A. “The Mormon Press in Nauvoo, 1839–46.” In Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited: Nauvoo in Mormon History, edited by Roger D. Launius and John E. Hallwas, 94–118. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996.