Footnotes
Francis Barber Howell began operating a paper mill in Lockport, Ohio, around 1830. (Bidwell, American Paper Mills, 290.)
Bidwell, John. American Paper Mills, 1690–1832: A Directory of the Paper Trade with Notes on Products, Watermarks, Distribution Methods, and Manufacturing Techniques. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2013.
Jessee, “Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” 456, 458; Woodruff, Journal, 22 Jan. 1865.
Jessee, Dean C. “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History.” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971): 439–473.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
“Index to Papers in the Historian’s Office,” ca. 1904, 7, Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Footnotes
During their July meeting, Reynolds assured Miller and Derby that the Missouri charges against JS, based on the 1838 conflict between Latter-day Saints and their neighbors, would not be revived. However, after Lilburn W. Boggs swore an affidavit on 20 July implicating JS in the assassination attempt on Boggs, Reynolds issued a requisition to Thomas Carlin for JS’s arrest and extradition. (JS, Journal, 12 and 24 July 1842; Letter from Calvin A. Warren, 13 July 1842; George Miller, St. James, MI, to “Dear Brother,” 26 June 1855, in Northern Islander, 16 Aug. 1855, [4]; Lilburn W. Boggs, Affidavit, 20 July 1842; Thomas Reynolds, Requisition, 22 July 1842.)
Northern Islander. St. James, MI. 1850–1856.
In his letter to Reynolds, Miller insisted that JS could not have been an accessory before the fact to the attempted assassination of Lilburn W. Boggs because JS had not been in Missouri during the previous three years and was engaged in military drills with the Nauvoo Legion on the day of the attempted assassination. Miller further argued that such an act was contrary to his opinion of JS’s character. (George Miller, St. Louis, MO, to Thomas Reynolds, Jefferson City, MO, 4 Sept. 1842, Records of Governor Thomas Reynolds, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.)
Records of Governor Thomas Reynolds, 1840–1844. MSA.
In 1841 Chambers was appointed governor of Iowa Territory by President William Henry Harrison. Chambers’s predecessor in office, Robert Lucas, had been sympathetic to the plight of JS and the Saints after their expulsion from Missouri. Apparently, sometime after Reynolds sent Chambers a requisition dated 20 August 1842, Chambers issued a warrant for JS’s arrest. He later indicated, however, that the warrant was never served. (Parish, Autobiography of John Chambers, 38; Robert Lucas, Burlington, Iowa Territory, to Martin Van Buren, Washington DC, 22 Apr. 1839, microfilm, Martin Van Buren, Correspondence, 1839–1844, CHL; State of Missouri, Office of the Secretary of State, Commissions Division, Register of Civil Proceedings, vol. A, p. 175; John Chambers, Burlington, Iowa Territory, to John Cowan, [Bald Bluff, IL], 10 Mar. 1843, JS Office Papers, CHL.)
Chambers, John. Autobiography of John Chambers. Edited by John Carl Parish. Iowa City, IA: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1908.
Van Buren, Martin. Correspondence, 1839–1844. Photocopies. CHL. MS 12809. Original at Library of Congress, Washington DC.
JS Office Papers / Joseph Smith Office Papers, ca. 1835–1845. CHL. MS 21600.
Hollister was in Quincy, Illinois, at this time, dispatched there by JS to notify him of any movement by officials to travel to Nauvoo in order to arrest him. In this capacity, Hollister sent a letter dated 1 September 1842 to Clayton informing him of plans to apprehend and extradite JS. (Letter to Emma Smith, 16 Aug. 1842; David S. Hollister, Quincy, IL, to Hyrum Smith, Nauvoo, IL, 12 Aug. 1842; David S. Hollister, Quincy, IL, to William Clayton, Nauvoo, IL, 1 Sept. 1842, JS Office Papers, CHL.)
According to a St. Louis directory published in 1842, Raplee was associated with the St. Louis Exchange at the corner of Second and Prune streets. (Saint Louis Directory, for the Year 1842, 112.)
The Saint Louis Directory, for the Year 1842; Containing the Names of the Inhabitants, and the Numbers of Their Places of Business and Dwellings; with a Sketch of the City of Saint Louis. . . . St. Louis: Chambers & Knapp, 1842.
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See Luke 9:62.
Bennett’s publications and lectures had swayed public opinion against the church in some parts of the United States. For instance, on 15 August 1842, John E. Page wrote to JS from Pittsburgh describing “high anxieties of the public mind concerning Bennets disclosures of the character of the Saints” in that place. (Letter from John E. Page, 15 Aug. 1842.)
It is unknown how many children George and Mary Fry Miller had at this time. In 1831, when their family moved to western Illinois, they had two sons and a daughter. According to the 1842 Nauvoo census, Miller had two sons living in his home: John and Joshua. (Bennett, “George Miller,” 3; Platt, Nauvoo, 77.)
Bennett, Richard E. “‘A Samaritan Had Passed By’: George Miller—Mormon Bishop, Trailblazer, and Brigham Young Antagonist.” Illinois Historical Journal 82 (Spring 1989): 2–16.
Platt, Lyman De. Nauvoo: Early Mormon Records Series, 1839–1846. Vol. 1. Highland, UT, 1980.