Footnotes
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.
“Letters to and from the Prophet,” ca. 1904, [4], 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
Congressional Globe, 28th Cong., 1st Sess., p. 575 (1844). Hyde discussed this memorial with congressional representatives from Illinois on behalf of the Council of Fifty between 24 and 26 April 1844. (Letter from Orson Hyde, 25 Apr. 1844; Letter from Orson Hyde, 26 Apr. 1844.)
The postmark date is not entirely legible.
JS, Nauvoo, IL, to Joel Hamilton Walker, Boston, MA, 1 June 1844, JS Collection, CHL.
Joel Walker lived in Belvidere, Illinois, by 1840. (1840 U.S. Census, Belvidere, Boone Co., IL, 145.)
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
Ebenezer Peck married Caroline Walker, Joel Hamilton Walker’s sister, in 1827. Peck was a lawyer and clerked for the Illinois Supreme Court at the time that Walker wrote this letter. (Peacham, VT, Vital Records, 1787–1884, vol. 1, pp. 75–76, 12 Mar. 1827, microfilm 28,654, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Andreas, History of Cook County Illinois, 258–259; see also Peacham, VT, Births, 1895–1930, Marriages, 1799–1950, Deaths, 1799–2001, Births, 1894–1895, 1897–1930, Marriages, 1799–1914, no. 202, 12 Mar. 1827, microfilm 2,257,968, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Andreas, A. T. History of Chicago from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. 3 vols. Chicago: By the author, 1884.
King, Walker & Co. was a hardware firm that went out of business in 1838. (Goodspeed and Healy, History of Cook County Illinois, 2:93.)
Goodspeed, Weston A., and Daniel D. Healy, eds. History of Cook County, Illinois—Being a General Survey of Cook County History. . . . 2 vols. Chicago: Goodspeed Historical Association, 1909.