Footnotes
The committee to build the House of the Lord was established in May 1833 and was later “appointed to take the oversight of the building of the House of the Lord.” In addition to collecting funds for temple construction, by summer 1835, the committee was also operating a store to supply clothing and other goods to the workers building the House of the Lord. (Minutes, 4 May 1833; Minutes, 6 June 1833; “Cahoon, Carter & Co.,” Northern Times [Kirtland, OH], 9 Oct. 1835, [4].)
Northern Times. Kirtland, OH. 1835–[1836?].
Editorial, LDS Messenger and Advocate, Apr. 1835, 1:107–108.
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
A 25 November 1834 revelation had appointed Cowdery to this position. (Revelation, 25 Nov. 1834 [D&C 106].)
Letter to Quorum of the Twelve, 4 Aug. 1835. Prior to Carter and Smith’s fund-raising trip, the newly called Twelve Apostles, Bishop Edward Partridge, and Isaac Morley had travelled in the region. Cowdery did not deny that the Twelve had held a conference in Freedom on 22 and 23 May 1835 or that Partridge and Morley preached to the Freedom branch on 21 June 1835; his complaint was that they had failed to emphasize fund raising for the House of the Lord. (Record of the Twelve, 22–23 May 1835; Editorial, LDS Messenger and Advocate, July 1835, 1:153; Partridge, Diary, 21 June 1835.)
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
Partridge, Edward. Diaries, 1818 and 1835–1836. Edward Partridge, Papers, 1818–1839. CHL. MS 892, box 1, fds. 1–2.
Minutes, 26 Sept. 1835; JS, Journal, 16 Jan. 1836. In response to the Twelve’s complaints, Cowdery offered a public apology, stating that the apostles had indeed delivered the message concerning donations. (Cowdery, Diary, 5 Mar. 1836; “Notice,” LDS Messenger and Advocate, Feb. 1836, 2:263.)
Cowdery, Oliver. Diary, Jan.–Mar. 1836. CHL. MS 3429. Also available as Leonard J. Arrington, “Oliver Cowdery’s Kirtland, Ohio, ‘Sketch Book,’” BYU Studies 12 (Summer 1972): 410–426.
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
Carter returned at the latest by 17 August 1835, when he attended a general assembly of the church in Kirtland. (Minutes, 17 Aug. 1835.)
The terms court and council often overlap in usage. The use of court here is appropriate since the council was undertaking a judicial process, or convening as a court, setting these proceedings apart from other meetings where the high council undertook other duties and actions. “Court” could also refer to the presiding authority at the proceedings, which was JS. (Minutes, 28–29 Sept. 1835.)
See James 5:15.
A global cholera pandemic had swept through New York in 1832 but had subsided by the time Carter and others visited the East. Smaller epidemics of the disease struck in 1834 and 1835 at various points along the eastern seaboard, the gulf coast of Louisiana, and the Erie Canal, including New York. (Pyle, “Diffusion of Cholera,” 59–65; Woodworth, Cholera Epidemic of 1873, 564–593; Bowron, Observations on the Origin and Causes of Malignant Cholera, 21–24.)
Pyle, G. F. “The Diffusion of Cholera in the United States in the Nineteenth Century.” Geographical Analysis 1 (Jan. 1969): 59–75.“Clan C. Additional Facts about Persons Recorded in the Grant Family History.” Grant Family Magazine 1, (June 1900): 621–635.
Woodworth, John M. The Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United States: The Introduction of Epidemic Cholera through the Agency of the Mercantile Marine; Suggestions of Measures of Prevention. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1875.
Bowron, John S. Observations on the Origin and Causes of Malignant Cholera. New York: Charles S. Francis, 1835.