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Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, and Chauncey and Francis Higbee
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel Volume 18 Number 1 Article 8 4-2017 Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, and Chauncey and Francis Higbee Andrew H. Hedges Brigham Young University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/re Part of the Mormon Studies Commons BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Hedges, Andrew H. "Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, and Chauncey and Francis Higbee." Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 18, no. 1 (2017): 88-111. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/re/vol18/ iss1/8 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, and Chauncey and Francis Higbee andrew h. hedges Andrew H. Hedges ([email protected]) is an associate professor of Church history and doctrine at BYU. n 7 June 1844, seven dissenters from The Church of Jesus Christ Oof Latter-day Saints—William and Wilson Law, Francis M. and Chauncey L. Higbee, Robert and Charles Foster, and Charles Ivins—pub- lished the first and only issue of theNauvoo Expositor, a four-page, six-column paper whose purpose was to provide “a full, candid and succinct statement of facts, as they exist in the city of Nauvoo, fearless of whose particular case they apply.”1 Concerned that the paper’s accusations and inflammatory rheto- ric would result in violence against Nauvoo, the city council three days later ordered Joseph Smith, in his capacity as mayor of the city, to “destroy the Nauvoo Expositor establishment as a nuisance.” Joseph passed the order on to Nauvoo city marshal John P. -
Article Grossly Underestimated That Joseph Smith Was Subjected in His Lifetime to “Approximately Thirty Criminal Actions and at Least That Many Civil Suits.” Joseph I
Water Street in Nauvoo. William Law and Wilson Law owned property on Water Street. Photo taken sometime after the Saints left Nauvoo. Courtesy Church History Library. Road to Martyrdom Joseph Smith’s Last Legal Cases Joseph I. Bentley n 1842, Joseph Smith looked back on the events of his life and said, I “Deep water is what I am wont to swim in” (D&C 127:2). This was especially true of his experiences with the law. Starting with his first exposure to the judicial system in 1819, at age thirteen,1 he spent much of his next twenty-five years of life entangled with legal concerns. The Joseph Smith Papers Project team now can count about 220 cases involv- ing Joseph as plaintiff, defendant, witness, or judge. Of those, approxi- mately fifty were criminal cases capable of taking away his liberty, his resources, or, ultimately, his life.2 1. On February 6, 1819, Joseph Smith testified as a witness in Smith v. Hurl- but—a suit brought by his father, Joseph Smith Sr., and older brother Alvin Smith to recover damages for unpaid services rendered to a neighbor in Pal- myra, New York, and to return a span of lame horses. Jeffrey N. Walker, “Joseph Smith’s Introduction to the Law: The 1819 Hurlbut Case,” Mormon Historical Studies 11 (Spring 2010): 117, 129; also Jeffrey N. Walker, “Standing as a Cred- ible Witness in 1819,” in Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith’s Legal Encounters, ed. Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch (Provo, Utah: BYU Studies, 2014), 62. -
Identity Maintenance in the 1844 Latter-Day Saint Reform Sect Robert M
Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU All Graduate Theses and Dissertations Graduate Studies 5-2017 Anatomy of a Rupture: Identity Maintenance in the 1844 Latter-day Saint Reform Sect Robert M. Call Utah State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd Part of the American Studies Commons, and the History of Religion Commons Recommended Citation Call, Robert M., "Anatomy of a Rupture: Identity Maintenance in the 1844 Latter-day Saint Reform Sect" (2017). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 5858. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/5858 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate Studies at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ANATOMY OF A RUPTURE: IDENTITY MAINTENANCE IN THE 1844 LATTER-DAY SAINT REFORM SECT by Robert M. Call A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE in History Approved: _________________________ _________________________ Philip Barlow, Ph.D. Kyle T. Bulthuis, Ph.D. Major Professor Committee Member _________________________ _________________________ Clint Pumphrey Mark McLellan, Ph.D. Committee Member Vice President for Research and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY Logan, Utah 2017 ii Copyright © Robert M. Call 2017 All Rights Reserved iii ABSTRACT Anatomy of a Rupture: Identity Maintenance in the 1844 Latter-day Saint Reform Sect by Robert M. Call, Master of Science Utah State University, 2017 Major Professor: Philip Barlow Department: History Dissent riddled Mormonism almost from the day of its inception. -
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Advisory Board Noel B. Reynolds, chair James P. Bell Donna Lee Bowen Douglas M. Chabries George Handley R. Kelly Haws Involving Readers Robert L. Millet Alan L. Wilkins in the Latter-day Saint Academic Experience Editor in Chief John W. Welch Church History Board Richard Bennett, chair 19th-century history Brian Q. Cannon 20th-century history Kathryn Daynes 19th-century history Gerrit J. Dirkmaat Joseph Smith, 19th-century Mormonism Steven C. Harper documents Frederick G. Williams cultural history Liberal Arts and Sciences Board Barry R. Bickmore, co-chair geochemistry Eric Eliason, co-chair English, folklore David C. Dollahite faith and family life Susan Howe English, poetry, drama Neal Kramer early British literature, Mormon studies Steven C. Walker Christian literature Reviews Board Eric Eliason, co-chair English, folklore John M. Murphy, co-chair Mormon and Western Trevor Alvord new media Herman du Toit art, museums Angela Hallstrom literature Greg Hansen music Emily Jensen new media Gerrit van Dyk Church history Specialists Casualene Meyer poetry editor Thomas R. Wells photography editor Ashlee Whitaker cover art editor STUDIES QUARTERLY BYU Vol. 55 • No. 2 • 2016 ARTICLES 4 From the Editor 8 Road to Martyrdom: Joseph Smith’s Last Legal Cases Joseph I. Bentley 74 Why and How Did Karl G. Maeser Leave Saxony? New Documents Offer New Insights Roger P. Minert and M. Ralf Bartsch 99 By Simple Yet Propitious Means: The Art of Jorge Cocco Santangelo Herman du Toit 115 Visualizing Apostolic Succession Meilan Jin, Iliesa S. K. Delai, and Geoffrey M. Draper 127 Answering for His Order: Alma’s Clash with the Nehors Matthew Scott Stenson 161 “To Dress It and to Keep It”: Toward a Mormon Theology of Work Walker A. -
Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, and Chauncey and Francis Higbee
Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, and Chauncey and Francis Higbee andrew h. hedges Andrew H. Hedges ([email protected]) is an associate professor of Church history and doctrine at BYU. n 7 June 1844, seven dissenters from The Church of Jesus Christ Oof Latter-day Saints—William and Wilson Law, Francis M. and Chauncey L. Higbee, Robert and Charles Foster, and Charles Ivins—pub- lished the first and only issue of theNauvoo Expositor, a four-page, six-column paper whose purpose was to provide “a full, candid and succinct statement of facts, as they exist in the city of Nauvoo, fearless of whose particular case they apply.”1 Concerned that the paper’s accusations and inflammatory rheto- ric would result in violence against Nauvoo, the city council three days later ordered Joseph Smith, in his capacity as mayor of the city, to “destroy the Nauvoo Expositor establishment as a nuisance.” Joseph passed the order on to Nauvoo city marshal John P. Greene, who reported later that evening “that he had removed the press, type—& printed paper—& fixtures into the street & fired them.”2 The following day, 11 June, one of the paper’s publishers, Francis Higbee, went before Thomas Morrison, a Hancock County justice of the peace, and accused Joseph and seventeen other men of having commit- www.solomonspalding.com. ted a riot, “wherein they with force & violence broke into the printing office On 7 June 1844, dissenters from the Church published the first and only issue of the Nauvoo Expositor. of the Nauvoo Expositor and unlawfully & with force burned & destroyed RE · VOL. -
The Life and Contributions of Captain Dan Jones
Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU All Graduate Theses and Dissertations Graduate Studies 5-1977 The Life and Contributions of Captain Dan Jones Rex Leroy Christensen Utah State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Christensen, Rex Leroy, "The Life and Contributions of Captain Dan Jones" (1977). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 847. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/847 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate Studies at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE LIFE AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF CAPTAIN DAN JONES by Rex LeRoy Christensen A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in History Major Profe~r _~_~_ I committee Member Co~ittee Member ,.....---•... Dean of Graduate School UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY Logan, Utah 1977 ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The writer would like to gratefully acknowledge the willing assistance, helpful suggestions and constant encouragement given by Dr. Charles S. Peterson in the preparation of this manuscript. He is also grateful for the assistance and ertcouragement rendered by Dr. F. Ross Peterson and Dr. William L. Furlong. Gratitude is expressed to the staff of the Merrill Library at Utah State University and to the Church Historian's Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. The writer also acknowledges a special appreciation to his wife, Ina Marie, for her patience, and to Kathryn Ipson and J. -
Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet
Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU All USU Press Publications USU Press 2005 Junius and Joseph: Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet Robert S. Wicks Fred R. Foister Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs Part of the History of Religion Commons Recommended Citation Wicks, R. S., & Foister, F. R. (2005). Junius and Joseph: Presidential politics and the assassination of the first Mormon prophet. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press. This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the USU Press at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in All USU Press Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Junius & Joseph Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet Robert S. Wicks and Fred R. Foister Junius and Joseph Joseph Smith as general in the Nauvoo Legion. Engraving after the 1842 portrait by Sutcliffe Maudsley. Courtesy of the Church Archives, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Junius and Joseph Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet Robert S. Wicks and Fred R. Foister Utah State University Press Logan, Utah Copyright © 2005 Utah State University Press All rights reserved Utah State University Press Logan, Utah 84322-7800 www.usu.edu/usupress Manufactured in the United States of America Printed on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wicks, Robert Sigfrid, 1954- Junius and Joseph : presidential politics and the assassination of the fi rst Mormon prophet / Robert S. Wicks and Fred R.