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Kimball, Heber Chase
Biography
14 June 1801–22 June 1868. Blacksmith, potter. Born at Sheldon, Franklin Co., Vermont. Son of Solomon Farnham Kimball and Anna Spaulding. Married Vilate Murray, 22 Nov. 1822, at Mendon, Monroe Co., New York. Member of Baptist church at Mendon, 1831. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Alpheus Gifford, 15 Apr. 1832, at Mendon. Ordained an elder by Joseph Young, 1832. Moved to Kirtland, Geauga Co., Ohio, 1833. Participated in Camp of Israel expedition to Missouri, 1834. Ordained member of Quorum of the Twelve by Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, and Martin Harris, 14 Feb. 1835, at Kirtland. Served mission to the East with Quorum of the Twelve, 1835. Served mission to eastern U.S., 1836. Stockholder in Kirtland Safety Society. Presided over first Latter-day Saint missionaries to Great Britain, 1837–1838. Moved to Far West, Caldwell Co., Missouri, 1838. Worked closely with Brigham Young and others in supervising removal of Latter-day Saints from Missouri, 1838–1839. Present at Far West temple site, 26 Apr. 1839, when members of Quorum of the Twelve formally began their missionary assignment to Great Britain. In removing from Missouri, initially located at Quincy, Adams Co., Illinois, and then at Commerce (later Nauvoo), Hancock Co., Illinois, June 1839. Served mission with Quorum of the Twelve to Great Britain, 1839–1841. Member of Nauvoo City Council, 1841–1845. Member of Nauvoo Masonic Lodge. Participated in plural marriage during JS’s lifetime. Served mission to eastern U.S., 1843. Labored on Nauvoo temple. Admitted to Council of Fifty, 11 Mar. 1844. Joined exodus from Illinois into Iowa Territory, Feb. 1846. Member of Brigham Young pioneer company to Salt Lake Valley; arrived July 1847. Sustained as first counselor to Brigham Young in First Presidency at what became Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, 27 Dec. 1847. Elected lieutenant governor in provisional state of Deseret. Served in Utah territorial legislature. Died at Salt Lake City.
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- History, 1838–1856, volume A-1 [23 December 1805–30 August 1834]
- History Draft [6 August 1838–30 December 1839]
- History Draft [1 January–31 December 1840]
- History, 1838–1856, volume C-1 [2 November 1838–31 July 1842]
- John Whitmer, History, 1831–circa 1847
- City Charter: Laws, Ordinances, and Acts, July 1842
- Elders’ Journal, August 1838
- Elders’ Journal, July 1838
- Elders’ Journal, November 1837
- Elders’ Journal, October 1837
- Times and Seasons, 1 April 1842
- Times and Seasons, 1 August 1842
- Times and Seasons, 1 July 1842
- Times and Seasons, 1 March 1842
- Times and Seasons, 1 September 1842
- Times and Seasons, 15 April 1842
- Times and Seasons, 15 August 1842
- Times and Seasons, 15 July 1842
- Times and Seasons, 15 June 1842
- Times and Seasons, 15 October 1842
- Times and Seasons, 15 September 1842
- Times and Seasons, 16 May 1842
- Times and Seasons , 2 May 1842
- Account of Hearing, 8 May 1844 [ F. M. Higbee v. JS–A on Habeas Corpus ]
- Account of Hearing, 8 May 1844, Copy [ F. M. Higbee v. JS–A on Habeas Corpus ]
- Account of Meeting and Discourse, 18 June 1842
- Account of Meeting and Discourse, 5 January 1841, as Reported by William P. McIntire
- Account of Meeting, 15 July 1842
- Account of Trial, 26 April 1844 [ City of Nauvoo v. C. L. Higbee et al. ]
- Account with the Church of Christ, circa 11–29 August 1834
- Addenda Notes [1835]
- Agreement with Ira Bond, 25 June 1836
- Agreement, 4 January 1838
- Agreement, Henry G. Sherwood and Others with Justin Butterfield, 16 December 1842
- Agreement, Henry G. Sherwood and Others with Justin Butterfield, 16 December 1842, Copy
- Appendix 2: Council of Fifty, Minutes, 27 February 1845
- Appendix 3: Discourse, circa 4 July 1838
- Appendix 3: Orson Hyde, Statement about Quorum of the Twelve, circa Late March 1845
- Appendix 4: Council of Fifty, Roll, 22 April 1845–27 December 1846
- Appendix 5, Document 2. Draft Notes, March and April 1842
- Appendix 5, Document 3. Draft Notes, December 1842
- Appendix 5: Council of Fifty, Minutes, 13 January 1846
- Appendix: Wasp, Extra, 27 July 1842
- Appointments of Shadrach Roundy and Others, 9 September 1842, Draft
- Authorization for Brigham Young, 1 June 1843
- Authorization for Heber C. Kimball, 1 June 1843
- Authorization, 27–31 May 1843, Draft
- Blessing to Heber C. Kimball, 14 February 1835
- Blessing to Sarah Ann Whitney, 23 March 1843
- Bond from Heber C. Kimball, 27 April 1844
- Bond, 27–31 May 1843, Draft
- Certification of Deed, 12 March 1844
- Charges against Joseph Smith Preferred to Bishop’s Council, 29 May 1837
- Committee Appointments, 11 February 1843
- Committee Appointments, 22 January 1842–B
- Committee Appointments, 22 January 1842–B, as Published in Times and Seasons
- Committee Appointments, circa 19 May–circa August 1842
- Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 1, 10 March 1844–1 March 1845
- Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845
- Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 3, 6 May 1845–13 January 1846
- Declaration, 21 June 1834
- Discourse, 13 April 1843, as Reported by Willard Richards
- Discourse, 18 June 1842
- Discourse, 19 December 1841, as Reported by Wilford Woodruff
- Discourse, 27 February 1835–A, as Reported by Oliver Cowdery
- Discourse, 27 June 1839, as Reported by Wilford Woodruff–A
- Discourse, 7 April 1842–C
- Discourse, 7 November 1841, as Reported by Wilford Woodruff
- Discourse, between circa 1 and circa 15 March 1843
- Docket Entry, 12 May 1844 [ F. M. Higbee v. JS–A on Habeas Corpus ]
- Docket Entry, circa 4 February 1843 [ State of Illinois v. Goddard et al. on Habeas Corpus ]
- Doctrine and Covenants, 1844
- F. G. Williams & Co. Account Book, October 1833–November 1835
- H. Smith & Co. Ledger, July–November 1836
- Historian’s Office, Martyrdom Account
- History Draft [1 January–21 June 1844]
- History Draft [1 January–30 June 1842]
- History Draft [1 January–31 December 1841]
- History Draft [1 March–31 December 1843]
- History Draft [1 January–3 March 1843]
- History Draft [1 July–31 December 1842]
- History Draft [21 June–8 August 1844]
- History, 1834–1836
- History, 1838–1856, volume B-1 [1 September 1834–2 November 1838]
- History, 1838–1856, volume C-1 Addenda
- History, 1838–1856, volume D-1 [1 August 1842–1 July 1843]
- History, 1838–1856, volume E-1 [1 July 1843–30 April 1844]
- History, 1838–1856, volume F-1 [1 May 1844–8 August 1844]
- Index to Nauvoo City Council Minute Book–A
- Index to Nauvoo City Council Minute Book–B
- Instruction on Priesthood, between circa 1 March and circa 4 May 1835 [D&C 107]
- Instruction, 9 February 1843 [D&C 129], as Reported by Willard Richards
- Introduction to E. Smith Administratrix of the Estate of JS
- John Corrill, A Brief History of the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1839
- Joseph Smith’s Store Daybook A, January–July 1842
- Journal, 1832–1834
- Journal, 1835–1836
- Journal, 1839
- Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 1, 21 December 1842–10 March 1843
- Journal, December 1841–December 1842
- Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 2, 10 March 1843–14 July 1843
- Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 3, 15 July 1843–29 February 1844
- Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 4, 1 March–22 June 1844
- Journal, March–September 1838
- Kirtland Elders’ Certificates
- Kirtland Safety Society Bank Stock Ledger, 18 October 1836–12 June 1837
- Kirtland Safety Society Daybook, circa 4–16 January 1837
- Letter from Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball, 12 September 1842
- Letter from Brigham Young and Willard Richards, 5 September 1840
- Letter from Brigham Young, 23 October 1843
- Letter from Brigham Young, 7 May 1840
- Letter from Caroline Youngs Adams, circa 15 January 1843
- Letter from Clark Leal, 19 May 1842
- Letter from Don Carlos Smith, circa Late May 1838
- Letter from Elias Higbee, 20 February 1840–A
- Letter from Elias Higbee, 9 March 1840
- Letter from Emma Smith, 7 March 1839
- Letter from Erastus Snow, 11 April 1842
- Letter from Erastus Snow, 22 June 1842
- Letter from George J. Adams and David Rogers, 11 October 1842
- Letter from George J. Adams, 21 April 1842
- Letter from George J. Adams, 23 February 1843
- Letter from George W. Henry, 18 July 1841
- Letter from Harrison S. White, 10 May 1843
- Letter from Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde, between 22 and 28 May 1838
- Letter from Heber C. Kimball and Others, 25 May 1840
- Letter from Heber C. Kimball, 9 July 1840
- Letter from Henry A. Cyrus, 1 May 1843
- Letter from James Adams, 27 April 1843
- Letter from James B. Nicholson, 25 January 1842
- Letter from Jedediah M. Grant, 17 August 1843
- Letter from John Vance, 28 January 1842
- Letter from John E. Page, 2 May 1843
- Letter from John E. Page, 8 August 1842
- Letter from John P. Greene, 18 March 1843
- Letter from John Taylor, 3 February 1841
- Letter from John Vance, 1 November 1841
- Letter from John M. Bernhisel, 18 August 1841
- Letter from Levick Sturges and Others, 30 January 1842
- Letter from Lyman Wight and Heber C. Kimball, 19–24 June 1844
- Letter from Orson Hyde, 11 June 1844
- Letter from Orson Hyde, 17 April 1841
- Letter from Orson Hyde, 9 June 1844
- Letter from Parley P. Pratt, 2 September 1842
- Letter from Parley P. Pratt, 22 November 1839
- Letter from Parley P. Pratt, 4 December 1841
- Letter from Parley P. Pratt, between 23 and 27 September 1842
- Letter from Parley P. Pratt, 24 October 1841
- Letter from Thomas Rawcliff, 24 May 1843
- Letter from Unidentified Author, 29 August 1842, Extract
- Letter from Wilford Woodruff and Jonathan H. Hale, 18 September 1837
- Letter from Wilford Woodruff and Others, 9 March 1838
- Letter from William Griffey, 18 May 1843
- Letter from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, 28 March 1836
- Letter from “Old Fifty,” 15 October 1842
- Letter of Introduction from H. King, 31 August 1843
- Letter of Introduction from James Adams, 9 November 1839
- Letter to Brigham Young, 17 and 20 June 1844
- Letter to Church Leaders in Geneseo, New York, 23 November 1833
- Letter to Edward Partridge and the Church, circa 22 March 1839
- Letter to Emma Smith and the Relief Society, 31 March 1842
- Letter to Emma Smith, 18 May 1834
- Letter to Emma Smith, 23 June 1844
- Letter to Emma Smith, 4 June 1834
- Letter to Heber C. Kimball and Brigham Young, 16 January 1839
- Letter to Isaac Galland, 11 September 1839
- Letter to Jennetta Richards Richards, 23 June 1842
- Letter to John Corrill and the Church in Missouri, 4 September 1837
- Letter to John Thornton and Others, 25 June 1834
- Letter to John M. Bernhisel, 3 August 1841
- Letter to Lyman Wight and Others, 16 August 1834
- Letter to Oliver Granger, between circa 22 and circa 28 July 1840
- Letter to Orson Hyde and John E. Page, 14 May 1840
- Letter to Orson Hyde and Orson Pratt, 13 May 1844
- Letter to Orson Hyde, 25 May 1844
- Letter to Orson Hyde, 7 April 1834
- Letter to Parley P. Pratt and Others, 12 June 1842
- Letter to Presendia Huntington Buell, 15 March 1839
- Letter to Quorum of the Twelve, 4 August 1835
- Letter to Quorum of the Twelve, 15 December 1840
- Letter to Stephen Post, 17 September 1838
- Letter to Vilate Murray Kimball, 2 March 1841
- Letter to the Church and Others, 23 June 1842
- Letter to the Church and Others, 23 June 1842, as Published in Times and Seasons
- Letter to the Church in Caldwell County, Missouri, 16 December 1838
- Letter to the Saints in Kirtland, Ohio, 19 October 1840
- Letter to “All the Saints in Nauvoo,” 1 September 1842 [D&C 127]
- Letter, Justin Butterfield to Charles B. Penrose, 17 December 1842
- Letterbook 2
- License for Heber C. Kimball, 30 March 1836
- License for William Somerville, 1 September 1842
- List of Members, Council of Fifty, May 1844
- List of Members, Council of Fifty, probably between 25 April and 3 May 1844
- Location of the Twelve Apostles, circa 20 June 1844
- Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1845
- Map of Kirtland City, between circa 6 April and 18 May 1837
- Marriage Certificate for Henry Hoyt and Irena Elizabeth Lincoln, 21 August 1842
- Marriage Certificate for Ira E. Lincoln and Mary E. Beecher, 21 August 1842
- Marriage Certificate for Joseph Holbrook and Hannah Flint, 1 January 1843
- Marriage Certificate for Thomas Bateman and Elizabeth Ravenscroft, 23 March 1843
- Marriage Certificate for Wiley H. Holden and Mary Jane Emett, between 11 and 19 May 1843
- Memorandum, 2 October 1841
- Memorial to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 28 November 1843
- Memorial to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, circa 16 December 1843–12 February 1844, Draft
- Memorial to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, circa 16 December 1843–12 February 1844, Thomas Bullock First Copy
- Memorial to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, circa 16 December 1843–12 February 1844
- Minute Book 1
- Minute Book 2
- Minutes and Discourse, 1–5 October 1841
- Minutes and Discourse, 2 May 1835, as Reported by William E. McLellin–A
- Minutes and Discourse, 2 May 1835, as Reported by William E. McLellin–B
- Minutes and Discourses, 27 February 1835, as Reported by Oliver Cowdery
- Minutes and Discourses, 5–7 October 1839
- Minutes and Discourses, 6 May 1844
- Minutes and Discourses, 6–7 April 1843, as Reported by Willard Richards
- Minutes and Discourses, 6–7 April 1844, as Published in Times and Seasons
- Minutes and Discourses, 6–8 April 1842
- Minutes and Discourses, 7–8 March 1835
- Minutes, 10 August 1844
- Minutes, 10 August 1844, Extract, Published in Nauvoo Neighbor
- Minutes, 10 February 1843
- Minutes, 10 June 1843
- Minutes, 10 June 1843, Draft
- Minutes, 11 March 1844
- Minutes, 13 April 1838
- Minutes, 13 May 1844
- Minutes, 14 December 1844
- Minutes, 14 December 1844, Extract, as Published in Nauvoo Neighbor
- Minutes, 14 February 1835
- Minutes, 14 September 1844
- Minutes, 15 January 1842
- Minutes, 15–16 March 1842
- Minutes, 16 December 1843
- Minutes, 16 December 1843, Extract
- Minutes, 16 August 1841
- Minutes, 17–18 February 1842
- Minutes, 18 December 1841
- Minutes, 18 December 1841, Extract, as Published in Times and Seasons
- Minutes, 19 April 1843
- Minutes, 2 January 1836
- Minutes, 20 January 1843
- Minutes, 21 December 1843
- Minutes, 21 December 1843, Partial Draft
- Minutes, 21 March 1844
- Minutes, 22 January 1842, Extract, as Published in Times and Seasons
- Minutes, 22 July 1842, as Published in Times and Seasons
- Minutes, 22 July 1842, as Published in Wasp
- Minutes, 23 June 1834
- Minutes, 23 October 1841
- Minutes, 25 February 1843
- Minutes, 26 April 1835
- Minutes, 27 May 1843
- Minutes, 28–29 August 1834
- Minutes, 28–29 September 1835
- Minutes, 29 April 1844
- Minutes, 29 April 1844, Extract, as Published in Nauvoo Neighbor
- Minutes, 29 November 1843
- Minutes, 3 September 1837
- Minutes, 30 October 1841, Copy
- Minutes, 4 September 1841
- Minutes, 4–5 May 1839
- Minutes, 5 April 1844
- Minutes, 5 March 1842
- Minutes, 6 May 1839
- Minutes, 6–8 May 1844 [ F. M. Higbee v. JS–A on Habeas Corpus ]
- Minutes, 7 November 1837
- Minutes, 7–8 April 1838
- Minutes, 9 March 1844
- Minutes, 9 November 1844
- Minutes, 9 November 1844, Draft
- Minutes, 9 September 1842
- Minutes, Discourse, and Blessings, 14–15 February 1835
- Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 1841–1845
- Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, February 1844–January 1845
- Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, February–December 1841
- Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, January–November 1842
- Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, November 1842–January 1844
- Nauvoo Marriage Record, February 1842–January 1846
- Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book
- Note, circa 24 May 1839
- Notice, 11 May 1842
- Notice, 9 July 1842
- Notice, circa 1 December 1842
- Notice, circa 15 July 1842
- Oath from Heber C. Kimball, 25 February 1843
- Oaths from Nauvoo City Officers, 30 October, 1 and 13 November 1841
- Pay Order, Daniel Spencer and Willard Richards to William Clayton for Orson Pratt and Others, 10 February 1845
- Pay Order, Daniel Spencer and Willard Richards to William Clayton for Orson Pratt and Others, 10 February 1845, Draft
- Pay Order, Willard Richards to William Clayton for Hyrum Smith and Others, 15 February 1844
- Pay Order, Willard Richards to William Clayton for Hyrum Smith and Others, 4 December 1843
- Petition from Thomas Rich and Others, 23 February 1842
- Petition to George O. Tompkins, between 9 and 15 March 1839 [ State of Missouri v. Gates et al. for Treason ]
- Proclamation, 15 January 1841
- Promissory Note to John Brassfield, 16 April 1839
- Receipt from Samuel Musick, 14 July 1838
- Recommendation for Brigham Young, 3 June 1839
- Recommendation for Heber C. Kimball, 3 June 1839
- Recommendation for Heber C. Kimball, between 2 and 13 June 1837
- Record of the Twelve, 14 February–28 August 1835
- Report from Lewis Robison, circa 14 January 1843
- Report of Committee, 11 November 1843–A
- Report of Committee, 11 November 1843–B
- Report of Committee, 14 December 1844
- Report of Committee, 14 January 1843
- Report of Committee, 16 December 1843
- Report of Committee, 21 December 1843
- Report of Committee, 5 March 1842–B
- Report of Committee, 9 April 1842–C
- Report of the First Presidency, 4 October 1840
- Resignation from George A. Smith, circa 10 August 1844
- Resignation of Fees from Heber C. Kimball, 17 February 1842
- Resolutions of the Boston Conference, 12 March 1843
- Resolutions, circa 23 August 1834
- Resolutions, circa 23 August 1834, as Published in The Evening and the Morning Star
- Revelation Book 2
- Revelation, 11 April 1838 [D&C 114]
- Revelation, 12 January 1838–C
- Revelation, 12 July 1843 [D&C 132]
- Revelation, 17 April 1838
- Revelation, 19 January 1841 [D&C 124]
- Revelation, 22 June 1834 [D&C 105]
- Revelation, 23 July 1837 [D&C 112]
- Revelation, 27 July 1842
- Revelation, 8 July 1838–A [D&C 118]
- Revelation, 9 July 1841 [D&C 126]
- Revised Articles of Agreement for the Kirtland Safety Society, circa March 1837
- Revised Committee Appointments, 11 February–circa 10 June 1843, as Recorded in Nauvoo City Council Minute Book
- Revised Committee Appointments, 11 February–circa 10 June 1843
- Revised Minutes and Discourses, 23 April-circa 8 May 1843, Willard Richards Draft
- Revised Minutes and Discourses, 23 April–circa 8 May 1843, First Printed Draft
- Revised Minutes and Discourses, 23 April–circa 8 May 1843, James Sloan and John Taylor Draft
- Revised Minutes and Discourses, 23 April–circa 8 May 1843, Third Printed Draft
- Revised Minutes and Discourses, 23 April–circa 8 May 1843, William Clayton Draft
- Revised Minutes and Discourses, 23 April–circa 8 May 1843
- Rules of Order for Nauvoo City Council, 22 January 1842
- Sidney Rigdon, Appeal to the American People, 1840
- Sidney Rigdon, Appeal to the American People, 1840, Second Edition
- Statement of Account from Albert P. Rockwood, circa 13 April 1844
- Summons to Nauvoo City Marshal, 5 March 1844
- The Book of the Law of the Lord, Book A
- The Book of the Law of the Lord, Book B
- Trial Report, 12–15 May 1844 [ F. M. Higbee v. JS–A on Habeas Corpus ]
- Trial Report, 12–15 May 1844, as Published in Times and Seasons [ F. M. Higbee v. JS–A on Habeas Corpus ]
- Trustees Land Book A, 11 September 1839–30 April 1842
- Trustees Land Book B, 4 August 1842–8 December 1845
- “Church History,” 1 March 1842
Heber C. Kimball Circa 1850, photograph likely by Marsena Cannon or Lewis W. Chaffin, copy by George Edward Anderson (courtesy L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT).
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