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,
227
Law, Jane Silverthorn,
94–95
,
103
,
117–118
,
264
Law, Richard,
98
Law, William,
130
,
239
,
264–265
appearance of,
94
breakaway church of,
29
,
103–104
Carthage jailhouse lynching and,
208
excommunication of,
123
Expositor
affair and,
109–111
,
113
,
117–118
,
122
Nauvoo inner circle and,
95–96
plurality of gods and,
29
politics and,
69–70
polygamy and,
29
,
94–98
,
99–100
,
103
,
105
priesthood endowment ritual and,
26
Smith, Joseph succession and,
236
Smith, Joseph surrender and,
156
Law, Wilson,
56
,
95
,
100
,
130
,
239
,
264
excommunication of,
123
Expositor
affair and,
109–111
,
113
,
117–118
Nauvoo inner circle and,
96
polygamy and,
103
,
105
Lawrence, Sarah and Maria,
48
,
88
,
105
Lee, Ann,
15
,
239
Lee, John D.,
241
Lee, Robert E.,
76
Legionnaires.
See
Nauvoo Legion
Liberty, Mo.,
38
,
89
Lightner, Adam,
81
,
83
Lightner, Mary Rollins,
221n
Lincoln, Abraham,
42
,
43–44
,
59–60
,
136
,
140
,
210
,
227
,
262
,
265
Linder, Usher,
227
Little, Sidney,
44
Littlefield, Lyman,
219–222
Lomax, Robert,
262
,
263
Lovejoy, Elijah,
119
Luke, Gospel writer,
7
Lundwall, N. B.,
262
The Lyceum.
See
Council of Fifty
Lyon, Windsor,
91–92
Mace, Wandle,
37
,
57
,
152
MacKenzie, William Lyon,
95
MacKenzieites,
95
Macomber, John,
186
Madison, Phoebe,
102
,
112
Maid of Iowa
,
155
,
164
Manchou, Rajah,
246
Manning, Jane,
48
Markham, Stephen,
152
,
163
,
176
,
180
Marks, William,
97
,
192–193
,
232
,
233–234
,
235
,
236
,
248
,
250
,
251
Masonry.
See
Freemasonry
Massachusetts,
4
,
123
,
156n
,
199
,
213
Matthews, D. W.,
142
Matthews, Robert,
86
,
243
McDonough County,
44
,
146
,
171
McDonough County Union Dragoons,
155
,
158–160
,
163
,
174
,
175
Methodism, Methodists,
15
,
19
,
139
Mexico,
32
,
33
Militarism,
63
,
64
Militias.
See
Carthage Greys militia
;
McDonough county Union Dragoons
;
Nauvoo Legion
Miller, George,
45
Miller, Reuben,
247
Miller, William,
15
Millerites,
7
Missionary work,
21
Missouri,
1
,
2
,
8
,
35
,
36
,
45
,
55
anti-Mormon activity in,
36–37
,
49
,
71–74
,
115–120
,
127–128
,
141
,
197–198
,
236
,
274
Extermination Order of 1838 and,
2
,
36–37
,
67
,
81
Mormon expulsion from,
2
,
8
,
31
,
148
,
238
,
260
Mormon War and,
36–37
reparations case for dispossessed Mormon property in,
31
,
67
,
73
,
95
Smith, Joseph imprisonment in,
2–3
,
68
,
89
,
96
,
117
,
234
,
236
,
251
Missouri Compromise of 1820,
36
Missouri Republican
,
212
Mohammed, Prophet,
8
Monroe, James,
234
Montrose, Iowa,
1
,
28
,
151
,
154n
,
252
Moore, George,
75
Morgan, Lucinda,
26
,
156
Morgan, William,
26
,
156
,
194
Morley, Isaac,
175
Mormon curse,
263
Mormon War of 1838,
31
,
36–37
,
197
Mormonism, Mormons
alcohol use and,
6
,
39
,
46
,
60
baptism of the dead and,
21
,
25
crime and,
72–74
criticism of,
55–77
financial troubles and,
36
founding of,
13
freemasonry and,
25–28
heaven and,
21
,
24
iconography of,
27
militarism of,
63
,
64
missionary work of,
21
,
35
persecutors of,
55–77
plurality of gods and,
21
,
29
,
83
political ambitions of,
62
politics and,
66–71
polygamy and,
9
,
21
,
79–105
,
113–115
,
233
rituals and ceremonies of,
5
,
21
,
25
,
26–28
,
47–48
,
56
,
83
,
196–197
,
209
,
234
,
256
,
257
,
260
,
260n
rival threats to,
243–251
secrecy and,
5
,
26–27
,
28
,
33
,
64
slavery and,
9
,
30
,
36
,
41
,
119
Smith, Joseph succession and,
231–257
social ethic of,
9
symbols of,
9
theology of,
9
,
20
,
88
,
98
,
116
,
120
,
234
,
281
as true religion,
15
See also
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormonism in All Ages
(Turner),
72
Mormonism Unvailed
(Howe),
13
Moroni, Angel,
16–17
,
17fig
,
18
,
88
,
243–244
Morris, Benjamin Franklin,
23
,
71–72
Morse, Justus,
73
Morse, Samuel,
199
Moses,
52
,
56
,
84
,
246
Napoleon,
250
National Intelligencer
,
246
National Reform Party,
30
Native Americans,
19
,
38
,
84
Nauvoo, Illinois,
20
,
28
,
46fig
,
48
city charter of,
43–45
,
60
,
71
,
110
,
117
court proceedings in,
22–23
court system in,
44–45
,
105
culture in,
46
disease in,
39
economy of,
40
,
46–47
,
74–75
eleventh birthday celebration in,
55–59
founding of,
5
government of,
5
,
75
growth of,
45–48
,
74–75
,
139
layout of,
45–46
militia in,
43
,
44
Mormon migration to,
21
,
38–40
Smith, Joseph as chief justice of,
22–23
,
44–45
,
125
Smith, Joseph as mayor of,
21
,
23–24
,
44
,
99
tourists in,
51–52
as Zion,
40
Nauvoo, University of,
44
Nauvoo Charter,
43–45
,
60
,
71
,
110
,
117
Nauvoo Expositor
,
112fig
destruction of,
116–125
,
138–150
founding of,
109–111
Nauvoo Charter and,
110
plurality of gods and,
132–133
polygamy and,
110–111
,
113–115
See also
Carthage jailhouse lynching
Nauvoo High Council,
115
Nauvoo Legion,
5
,
9
,
44
,
56

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