BYU Studies Quarterly Volume 15 Issue 4 Article 7 10-1-1975 Heber C. Kimball and Family, The Nauvoo Years Stanley B. Kimball Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq Part of the Mormon Studies Commons, and the Religious Education Commons Recommended Citation Kimball, Stanley B. (1975) "Heber C. Kimball and Family, The Nauvoo Years," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 15 : Iss. 4 , Article 7. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol15/iss4/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in BYU Studies Quarterly by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. Kimball: Heber C. Kimball and Family, The Nauvoo Years heber C kimball and family the nauvoo years stanley B kimball As one of the triumviritriumvirsof early mormon history heber C kimball led an adventuresome if not heroic life by the time he settled in nauvoo during may of 1839 he had been a black- smith and a potter had married and had five children two of whom had died he had lived in vermont new york ohio and missouri and had left or been driven out of homes in each state he had served fourteen years in a horse company of the new york militia had joined and left the close com- munion baptist church accepted mormonism had gone on four missions including one to england had become an apostle hadbad helped build the temple at kirtland had ded- icated the temple site at