Footnotes
JS, Journal, 13 Dec. 1841 and 21 Dec. 1842; Orson Spencer, “Death of Our Beloved Brother Willard Richards,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 16 Mar. 1854, [2].
Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.
“Obituary of Leo Hawkins,” Millennial Star, 30 July 1859, 21:496–497.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
“Letters to and from the Prophet,” ca. 1904, [2], 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
“Statement of Sister Smith respecting the History of Eli P. Magin,” Obituary Notices and Biographies, CHL; Benjamin Ellsworth, Palermo, NY, 18 Oct. 1840, Letter to the Editors, Times and Seasons, 15 Nov. 1840, 2:219.
Obituary Notices and Biographies, 1854–1877. CHL.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
“Mormonism,” Times and Seasons, 15 May 1843, 4:206; Morison and Smith, History of Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1:187.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Morison, George Abbot. History of Peterborough, New Hampshire. Vol. 1, Narrative. Rindge, NH: Richard R. Smith, 1954.
Morison and Smith, History of Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1:187–190; Barney, “Joseph Smith and Nauvoo Portrayed,” 165–169. In a March 1842 letter to JS, Maginn described his recent visit to Massachusetts and noted the growth of the church in New England, including the Peterborough congregation, which had thirty-six members at the time. (Letter from Eli Maginn, 22 Mar. 1842.)
Morison, George Abbot. History of Peterborough, New Hampshire. Vol. 1, Narrative. Rindge, NH: Richard R. Smith, 1954.
Barney, Ronald O. “‘A Man That You Could Not Help Likeing’: Joseph Smith and Nauvoo Portrayed in a Letter by Susannah and George W. Taggart.” BYU Studies 40, no. 2 (2001): 165–179.
See Hatch, Democratization of American Christianity, 113–122.
Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
“List of Agents,” Times and Seasons, 15 Feb. 1842, 3:702. Maginn’s surname is misspelled “Maginy” in the list.
| J Saunders. C[harles] W. Thompson, one year | $ 4.00 |
| E. W. Clark, W. M. Powers, Six Months | 2.00 |
| $ 6.00 |
A 14 April 1842 entry in the Book of the Law of the Lord indicated that twenty of the forty-five dollars was Maginn’s personal “consecration,” or tithing, to be used for the Nauvoo temple. The remaining twenty-five dollars was presumably subscribers’ payments for the Times and Seasons. In prefacing Maginn’s 22 March 1842 letter, the editor of the Times and Seasons noted that Maginn had “forwarded twenty four dollars subscription money, and twenty dollars for the temple.” (Book of the Law of the Lord, 109; Eli Maginn, Salem, MA, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 22 Mar. 1842, in Times and Seasons, 2 May 1842, 3:778.)
The “Record of Abraham” refers to the beginning of the publication of the Book of Abraham, which was introduced in the Times and Seasons as “A TRANSLATION Of some ancient Records that have fallen into our hands, from the Catecombs of Egypt, purporting to be the writings of Abraham.” The initial portions of the Book of Abraham (along with an illustration that included explanations of its elements) were printed in the 1 March 1842 issue of the Times and Seasons. (“A Fac-simile from the Book of Abraham. No. 1” and “A Translation,” Times and Seasons, 1 Mar. 1842, 3:703–706 [Abraham, facsimile 1; 1:1–2:18], emphasis in original.)
This reflects ongoing efforts to acquire the necessary funds to build the Nauvoo temple. Saints often sent donations to Nauvoo or gave them to proselytizing missionaries. A letter to the Saints from the Twelve Apostles printed in the 2 May 1842 issue of the Times and Seasons encouraged all church members to donate, praising those who had “given their all” and rebuking the wealthy who had “left the Lord’s House untouched.” (Brigham Young et al., “An Epistle of the Twelve,” Times and Seasons, 2 May 1842, 3:767; see also Letter from Alphonso Young, 6 May 1842; and Times and Seasons, 1 June 1842, 3:814.)
See Mark 12:41–44; and Luke 21:1–4.
The textile factories operated by the Boston Manufacturing Company, started by Francis Lowell, made Lowell a major center of manufacturing. (Dublin, Women at Work, 14–20; Bender, Toward an Urban Vision, 21–51.)
Dublin, Thomas. Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826–1860. 2nd ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
Bender, Thomas. Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1975.
Constructed in 1830 and in use by the city until 1892, the Lowell city hall housed both local government offices and a public hall where various political, social, and religious meetings were held. (Fitzsimons, “Walking Tour of Downtown Lowell,” [7]; Industries of Massachusetts, 71.)
Fitzsimons, Gray. “Walking Tour of Downtown Lowell: Antislavery in the Spindle City, 1830–1860.” Mar. 2009. Guide for Module 5 of Spring 2009 Leadership in America: Dilemmas and Opportunities course. College of Education, University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Accessed 6 May 2019. http://gse.uml.edu/atah/pdf/GrayWalkingTour.pdf.
Industries of Massachusetts: Historical and Descriptive Review of Lynn, Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill, Salem, Beverly, Peabody, Danvers, Gloucester, Newburyport, and Amesbury, and Their Leading Manufacturers and Merchants. New York: International, 1886.
Here, Maginn was probably referring to Jacob Knapp, a traveling Baptist preacher in the New England area whose style of speaking was described as “sledge-hammer” preaching. According to Knapp’s autobiography, he was in Lowell in the spring of 1842. (Knapp, Autobiography, 136–140; Hatch, Democratization of American Christianity, 134.)
Knapp, Jacob. Autobiography of Elder Jacob Knapp. New York: Sheldon, 1868.
Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
See Matthew 3:12; and Jeremiah 23:28.
George Bryant Gardner, a Peterborough resident who joined the church in 1841, used similar language in describing his conversion: “I burst those bands and was baptized by Elder Eli P. Maginn, on Monday, November 20, 1841, in the Cantocook River.” (McConkie and McConkie, George Washington Taggart, 2.)
McConkie, Forrest Rick, and Evelyn Nichols McConkie. George Washington Taggart, Member of the Mormon Battalion: His Life and Times and His Wives Harriet Atkins Bruce, Fanny Parks, Clarissa Marina Rogers, and Their Ancestors, 1711–1901. Fort Duchesne, UT: Jennie’s Family Histories, 1997.
That is, the Twelve Apostles and JS’s counselors in the First Presidency.