Footnotes
See John W. Clark to Oliver Granger, Power of Attorney, Quincy, IL, 15 Apr. 1839; William Marks to Oliver Granger, Power of Attorney, 7 May 1839, Hiram Kimball, Collection, CHL.
Kimball, Hiram. Collection, 1830–1910. CHL.
Obituary for Oliver Granger, Times and Seasons, 15 Sept. 1841, 2:550; see also Letter to Oliver Granger, 4 May 1841; and Letter to Oliver Granger, 30 Aug. 1841.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Horace Hotchkiss, one of JS’s creditors, recounted that Galland was reportedly on his way west and had not delivered to Hotchkiss land deeds meant to cover the church’s debt. (Letter from Horace Hotchkiss, 24 July 1841.)
Minutes, Kirtland, OH, 22–24 May 1841, in Times and Seasons, 1 July 1841, 2:458; Historian’s Office, Obituary Notices of Distinguished Persons, 10.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Historian’s Office. Obituary Notices of Distinguished Persons, 1854–1872. CHL. MS 3449.
Minutes and Discourse, 1–5 Oct. 1841, italics in original. McBride was in Nauvoo until mid-December, when he set out for Kirtland to attend to church business. (Reuben McBride, Kirtland, OH, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 3 Jan. 1842, JS Collection, CHL; Baugh, “Reuben McBride, First Proxy,” 255.)
Baugh, Alexander L. “‘Blessed Is the First Man Baptised in This Font’: Reuben McBride, First Proxy to Be Baptized for the Dead in the Nauvoo Temple.” Mormon Historical Studies 3, no. 2 (Fall 2002): 253–261.
Babbitt, who had been appointed to preside over the stake in Kirtland alongside or in place of Granger, was disfellowshipped from the church at the October 1841 general conference in Nauvoo for teaching “doctrine contrary to the revelations of God and detrimental to the interest of the church.” (Minutes and Discourse, 1–5 Oct. 1841; JS to Reuben McBride, Power of Attorney, Nauvoo, IL, 2 Nov 1841, in JS Letterbook 2, pp. 213–214.)
Though Granger did not appear to have an organized corpus of financial papers that could be transferred to McBride, Granger apparently did have papers and obligations that required McBride’s attention as an agent of the church. (Reuben McBride, Kirtland, OH, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 3 Jan. 1842, JS Collection, CHL; see also William Clayton, Copy of Promissory Notes, 8 July 1842, JS Office Papers, CHL.)
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