Footnotes
JS, Journal, 13 Dec. 1841 and 21 Dec. 1842; Orson Spencer, “Death of Our Beloved Brother Willard Richards,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 16 Mar. 1854, [2].
Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.
“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, [2], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
See the full bibliographic entry for JS Collection, 1827–1844, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
Minutes and Discourse, 1–5 Oct. 1841, italics in original.
See, for example, Statement of Account from Perkins & Osborn, ca. 29 Oct. 1838.
Minutes, 4–5 May 1839; Authorization for Oliver Granger, 13 May 1839; see also Agreement with Oliver Granger, 29 Apr. 1840. Granger began acting as a church agent in 1837 and 1838. (See Statement of Account from John Howden, 29 Mar. 1838; Letter of Introduction from John Howden, 27 Oct. 1838; and Letter from William Perkins, 29 Oct. 1838.)
Obituary for Oliver Granger, Times and Seasons, 15 Sept. 1841, 2:550.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Minutes and Discourse, 1–5 Oct. 1841; Power of Attorney to Reuben McBride, 28 October 1841. Though the minutes do not explicitly state the reasons for withdrawing fellowship from Babbitt, they do suggest that he had encouraged eastern Saints to settle in Kirtland (going against the First Presidency’s directive to gather to Nauvoo) and “in many places taught doctrine contrary to the revelations of God and detrimental to the interest of the church.” Babbitt had also previously been accused of disparaging JS and Sidney Rigdon. On 28 October, JS revoked Babbitt’s authority to act as a church agent. (Historical Introduction to Letter to Oliver Granger, between ca. 22 and ca. 28 July 1840.)
“Minutes of a Conference,” Times and Seasons, 1 July 1841, 2:458.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
See Reuben McBride to William Marks, 4 June 1843, copy, CHL; JS, Journal, 15 Sept. 1843; and Reuben McBride to JS, Bill, 6 May 1845, Illinois State Historical Society, Circuit Court Case Files [Cases pertaining to Mormon Residents], 1830–1900, CHL.
McBride, Reuben. Letter to William Marks, 4 June 1843. Copy. CHL.
Illinois State Historical Society. Circuit Court Case Files, 1830–1900. Microfilm. CHL. MS 16278.
Tate, a church member, was a medical doctor who graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in 1840 and lived in Cass County, Illinois, by 1841. He advertised his services in the Nauvoo publication Wasp. (Martin, History of Cass County, 2:767; Perrin, History of Cass County, Illinois, 84; Nauvoo Temple, Record of Baptisms for the Dead, vol. A, p. 160; “H. Tate, M.D.,” Wasp, 3 Dec. 1842, [3].)
Martin, Charles, ed. History of Cass County. 2 vols. Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois, edited by Newton Bateman and Paul Selby. Chicago: Munsell Publishing, 1915.
Perrin, William Henry, ed. History of Cass County Illinois. Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1882.
Nauvoo Temple. Record of Baptisms for the Dead, 1841, 1843–1845. CHL.
The Wasp. Nauvoo, IL. Apr. 1842–Apr. 1843.
Hyrum Smith’s Kirtland home was built on a one-acre lot located approximately two hundred yards south of the Kirtland temple (part of lot 30 in Kirtland Township). (Geauga Co., OH, Deed Records, 1795–1921, vol. 24, p. 124, 4 Nov. 1836, microfilm 20,240, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Possibly church member Harrison Burgess, who was still living in Kirtland in December 1840. (Kirtland Elders Quorum, “Record,” 24 Dec. 1840.)
Kirtland Elders Quorum. “A Record of the First Quorurum of Elders Belonging to the Church of Christ: In Kirtland Geauga Co. Ohio,” 1836–1838, 1840–1841. CCLA.
Likely the Western Reserve Teacher’s Seminary and Kirtland Institute, which was founded in 1838 to train male and female teachers. The institute initially met in the House of the Lord before relocating to the Methodist church. (Alcott, American Annals of Education, for the Year 1838, 429; Mackay and Mackay, “Time of Transition,” 133–134.)
Alcott, William A., ed. American Annals of Education, for the Year 1838. Boston: Otis and Broaders, 1838.
Mackay, Christin Craft, and Lachlan Mackay. “A Time of Transition: The Kirtland Temple, 1838–1880.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 18 (1998): 133–148.
As agents of the church, Oliver Granger and Reuben McBride were authorized to rent out properties church leaders still owned in Kirtland. For example, former church member Joseph Coe reportedly rented JS’s farm in Kirtland during the early 1840s. (JS, Nauvoo, IL, to Joseph Coe, Kirtland, OH, 18 Jan. 1844, copy, JS Collection, CHL.)
Probably church member Ira Oviatt, who lived in Kirtland between 1840 and 1842. (Obituary for Ira Oviatt, Deseret News [Salt Lake City], 15 July 1868, 183; 1840 U.S. Census, Kirtland Township, Lake Co., OH, 92; Kirtland Elders Quorum, “Record,” 11 July 1841; “Alphabetical List of Property Assessed in the Fourth Ward,” 1843, Nauvoo block 148, lot 1, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL.)
Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
Kirtland Elders Quorum. “A Record of the First Quorurum of Elders Belonging to the Church of Christ: In Kirtland Geauga Co. Ohio,” 1836–1838, 1840–1841. CCLA.
Nauvoo, IL. Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 16800.
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Possibly Kirtland church member Otis Hobart, who was sustained as a counselor in the elders quorum presidency in November 1840 and apparently served as clerk of that body through May 1841. (Kirtland Elders Quorum, “Record,” 11 Nov. 1840 and 21 May 1841.)
Kirtland Elders Quorum. “A Record of the First Quorurum of Elders Belonging to the Church of Christ: In Kirtland Geauga Co. Ohio,” 1836–1838, 1840–1841. CCLA.
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Postage in unidentified handwriting; Lyman Cowdery was the postmaster of Kirtland at this time. (U.S. Post Office Department, Record of Appointment of Postmasters, reel 100, vol. 9, p. 211.)
U.S. Post Office Department. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832–September 30, 1971. National Archives Microfilm Publications, microcopy M841. 145 microfilm reels. Washington DC: National Archives, 1977.
Postmark likely written by Lyman Cowdery. (U.S. Post Office Department, Record of Appointment of Postmasters, reel 100, vol. 9, p. 211.)
U.S. Post Office Department. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832–September 30, 1971. National Archives Microfilm Publications, microcopy M841. 145 microfilm reels. Washington DC: National Archives, 1977.