Interim Content
Millikin, Arthur
Biography
9 May 1817–23 Apr. 1882. Clerk, saddler, laborer, baggage master. Born at Saco, York Co., Maine. Son of Edward Millikin and Hannah Andrews. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ca. 1835. Moved to Kirtland, Geauga Co., Ohio, by 1837. Moved to Missouri, 1838. Served as drummer boy at skirmish at Crooked River, near Ray Co., Missouri, 25 Oct. 1838. Moved to Commerce (later Nauvoo), Hancock Co., Illinois. Married JS's sister Lucy Smith, 4 June 1840, at Nauvoo. Appointed second lieutenant in Nauvoo Legion, Apr. 1841. Member of Nauvoo Masonic Lodge. Supported James J. Strang as successor to JS, 1846, at Nauvoo. Moved to Knoxville, Knox Co., Illinois; to Hancock Co., 1850; and to Colchester area, McDonough Co., Illinois, by 1860. Received into Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 8 Apr. 1873. Died at Colchester.
Links
papers
- Bond, Erie Rhodes to Robert D. Foster, 4 March 1841
- Deed to Arthur Millikin, 11 December 1841
- Deed to Lovina Smith and Others, 11 December 1841
- History Draft [1 January–3 March 1843]
- History, 1838–1856, volume D-1 [1 August 1842–1 July 1843]
- Joseph Smith’s Store Daybook A, January–July 1842
- Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 1, 21 December 1842–10 March 1843
- Journal, December 1841–December 1842
- Letter from George Fidler, 23 March 1842
- Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845
- Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1845
- Marriage License and Certificate for Arthur Millikin and Lucy Smith, 3 June 1840
- Minute Book 1
- Minutes, Nauvoo Legion, 9 March 1841
- Nauvoo Registry of Deeds, Deed Record Book A, 1840–1843
- Reflections and Blessings, 16 and 23 August 1842
- The Book of the Law of the Lord, Book A
- Trustees Land Book A, 11 September 1839–30 April 1842
- “A History, of the Persecution, of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter Day Saints in Missouri,” December 1839–October 1840
- Gender
- Male