Agent
Summary
A specific church office and, more generally, someone “entrusted with the business of another.” Agents in the church assisted other ecclesiastical officers, especially the bishop in his oversight of the church’s temporal affairs. A May 1831 revelation instructed that an agent “be appointed by the voice of the church”; Sidney Gilbert received this appointment in June 1831. Gilbert’s duties included helping the bishop purchase lands in Missouri and distributing these lands to church members. He was also instructed to operate the church’s storehouse in Missouri. In August 1831, Newel K. Whitney was appointed as an agent for the church in Ohio and was responsible for raising money for land purchases and for keeping the storehouse in Kirtland. In 1832, Gilbert and Whitney were both appointed agents of the United Firm. Other individuals were periodically assigned duties as agents; Joseph Smith Sr., for example, was told in October 1831 to be the “Lord’s agent” in managing Frederick G. Williams’s farm. At the 6 April 1843 church conference, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles were given authority to act as agents for the Nauvoo temple and Nauvoo House.
Links
- Elders’ Journal, November 1837
- Accounts Payable, 1 February–19 April 1838
- Agreement with George W. Robinson, 30 April 1839
- Agreement with Mead & Betts, 2 August 1839
- Agreement with Oliver Granger, 29 April 1840
- Appendix: Report of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 4 March 1840
- Authorization for Oliver Granger, 13 May 1839
- Authorization for Oliver Granger, 6 May 1839
- Authorization for Stephen Markham, 27 May 1839
- Bond from Horace Hotchkiss, 12 August 1839–A
- Charges against Missouri Conference Preferred to Joseph Smith, circa March 1832
- Deed to Samuel F. Whitney, 8 July 1838
- Land Patent, 7 September 1838–B
- Letter from Edward Partridge, 13–15 June 1839
- Letter from Hyrum Smith, 2 January 1840
- Letter from Isaac Galland, 24 July 1839
- Letter from Samuel Bent and George W. Harris, 23 September 1840
- Letter from William Perkins, 29 October 1838
- Letter of Introduction from John Howden, 27 October 1838
- Letter of Introduction from Sidney Rigdon, 9 November 1839
- Letter to Edward Partridge and Others, 14 January 1833
- Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson County, Missouri, 21 April 1833
- Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson County, Missouri, 25 June 1833
- Letter to Father Bigler, 27 May 1839
- Letter to George W. Harris, 24 May 1839
- Letter to Horace Hotchkiss, 28 July 1840
- Letter to Hyrum Smith and Nauvoo High Council, 5 December 1839
- Letter to John C. Bennett, 8 August 1840
- Letter to John Corrill and the Church in Missouri, 4 September 1837
- Letter to Newel K. Whitney, 24 May 1839
- Letter to the Presidency in Kirtland, 29 March 1838
- Minutes and Discourse, 3–5 October 1840
- Minutes and Discourse, 6 March 1840
- Minutes, 1 September 1831
- Minutes, 15 March 1838
- Minutes, 17 September 1837–A
- Minutes, 17 September 1837–B
- Minutes, 2 April 1833
- Minutes, 23 June 1834
- Minutes, 27 October 1839
- Minutes, 3 July 1840
- Minutes, 4 June 1833
- Minutes, 4–5 May 1839
- Minutes, 6 April 1838
- Minutes, 7 November 1837
- Minutes, circa 1 May 1832
- Note, 16 September 1835
- Notice, circa Late August 1837
- Pay Order to Edward Partridge for William Smith, 21 February 1838–A
- Pay Order to Newel K. Whitney for George Miller, 18 September 1840
- Pay Order to Newel K. Whitney for “Mrs. Young,” 15 June 1840
- Power of Attorney to Hyrum Smith, 5 September 1837
- Power of Attorney to Oliver Granger, 27 September 1837
- Proclamation, 15 January 1841
- Receipt from Sarah Burt Beman, 26 January 1839
- Receipt from Timothy Clark, October 1838
- Receipt from Wesley Williams, 5 September 1839
- Recommendation for Oliver Granger, 1 November 1839
- Recommendation for Samuel Bent and George W. Harris, between circa 17 and circa 28 July 1840
- Recommendation from Nauvoo High Council, 27 October 1839
- Report of Agents, circa 30 January 1841
- Revelation, 11 September 1831 [D&C 64]
- Revelation, 12 November 1831 [D&C 70]
- Revelation, 20 March 1832
- Revelation, 23 April 1834 [D&C 104]
- Revelation, 26 April 1832 [D&C 82]
- Revelation, 3 November 1831 [D&C 133]
- Revelation, 30 August 1831 [D&C 63]
- Revelation, 4 December 1831–A [D&C 72:1–8]
- Revelation, 8 July 1838–E [D&C 117]
- Revelation, 8 March 1833 [D&C 90]
- Statement of Account from Hitchcock & Wilder, between 9 July and 6 November 1838
- Statement of Account from John Howden, 29 March 1838
- Statement of Account from Perkins & Osborn, circa 29 October 1838
- Statement, circa 1 November 1839–A