Footnotes
JS, Journal, 29 June 1842; “Clayton, William,” in Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:718.
Jenson, Andrew. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 4 vols. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901–1936.
“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.
See the full bibliographic entry for JS Collection, 1827–1844, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
Richards, Journal, 1–6 July 1842; “To the Eastern Churches,” Times and Seasons, 1 June 1842, 3:814.
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.
Willard Richards, [Nauvoo, IL], to Jennetta Richards Richards, [Richmond, MA], 26 Feb. 1842, Jennetta Richards Richards, Collection, CHL.
Richards, Jennetta Richards. Collection, 1842–1845. CHL.
Bennet, for example, had defended JS and the Saints in a letter to the New York Herald written under the pseudonym “Cincinnatus.” (James Arlington Bennet [Cincinnatus, pseud.], “The Mormons,” New York Herald, 16 May 1842, [2].)
Richards, Jennetta Richards. Collection, 1842–1845. CHL.
For more information on John C. Bennett’s conduct in Nauvoo, see Letter to the Church and Others, 23 June 1842.
Richards, Journal, 7 Aug. 1842.
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.
By 15 August 1842, the two were in Pittsburgh, where they met with apostle John E. Page. (Letter from John E. Page, 15 Aug. 1842.)
James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald, had been appointed aide-de-camp in the Nauvoo Legion with the rank of brigadier general in May 1842. Bennett lampooned the appointment in his newspaper, stating sarcastically, “There’s honor—there’s distinction—there’s salt and greens for a modest, simple, calm, patient, industrious editor.” (“Rising in the World,” New York Herald, 13 Aug. 1842, [2].)
New York Herald. New York City. 1835–1924.
Bennet served as an officer in the United States Artillery during the War of 1812. “Had he remained in the service,” one newspaper article declared in 1842, “he would by this time, most likely, have been a General officer.” (Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, 1:211; “Military and Scientific,” Wasp, 11 June 1842, [3].)
Heitman, Francis B. Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, From Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903. 2 vols. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903.
The Wasp. Nauvoo, IL. Apr. 1842–Apr. 1843.
Bennet had apparently given books to John C. Bennett “on the presumption that he would in his own name present them for the benefit of the Temple.” According to JS, Bennett had placed the books in JS’s store, telling him that when they were sold, the money was to be given to James Arlington Bennet, not donated for the construction of the temple. In a letter written just a few days after this one, James Arlington Bennet asked JS to retain the books “in you[r] hands for the present.” (Letter from James Arlington Bennet, 16 Aug. 1842; JS, Nauvoo, IL, to James Arlington Bennet, New Utrecht, NY, 8 Sept. 1842, JS Collection, CHL.)
Just a few days after this letter was written, Bennet expounded on this idea, stating that JS had already been maligned in the newspapers prior to Bennett’s allegations: “What Gen. J. C Bennett is now saying in the papers is nothi[n]g more than what was common report before throughout this whole community. . . . you therefore have lost not a whit of ground by it.” (Letter from James Arlington Bennet, 16 Aug. 1842.)