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Ernest Mahan Papers, (1930s)

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Biographical Note:

Ernest Mahan was born July 25, 1898, in West Baden Springs, Indiana, to Andrew and Rena Mahan. On April 22, 1923 Mahan married Maurine Mendenhall at her parents’ home in Yorktown, Indiana. Thereafter Mahan attended the University of Indiana and received a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree. Transferring to the University of Wisconsin, Mahan earned a doctorate degree in United States history in 1930.

From 1917—1920 Mahan taught at the elementary school in West Baden Springs. He served as principal of the Senior High School (1920-1921) in Galveston, Indiana, and one year each in the same position at Mount Summit, Indiana, and Williamsburg, Indiana. During 1924—1928, Mahan worked as principal of the Senior High School in Centerville, Indiana. After teaching one summer session in the State Teachers College at Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1930 Mahan was appointed as assistant professor of Social Science at the Kansas State Teachers College (now Pittsburg State University).

Mahan was appointed to the rank of associate professor in 1931, professor in 1932 and in 1939, he became head of the department. In 1945 Mahan became Dean of Instruction and Head of the Department of Social Science. He resigned as Dean of Instruction in 1959, but continued to teach full-time until his retirement in 1968, and thereafter, served as an adjunct for several years.

During Mahan’s life he was a member and elder of the Pittsburg First Presbyterian Church. His professional memberships included the Kiwanis Club, Phi Alpha Theta fraternity, the Kansas State Historical Society, the National Education Association, the American Association of School Administrators, the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, the Kansas History Teachers Association, the Kansas Educators Club, and the American Association of University Professors. Mahan contributed numerous articles to the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Dictionary of American History, The Historian, and The Educational Leader. Ernest Mahan died in Kansas on September 14, 1985.

Source: Roberts, Randy, Curator of Special Collection at Pittsburg State University. Pittsburg State University, The Ernest Mahan Collection: http://library.pittstate.edu/spcoll/ndxmahan.html

Provenance:

During August of 1989 the papers in this collection were loaned to USU Special Collections & Archives for the purpose of making photocopies. The original papers remain in private possession.

Scope & Content Note:

This ten-box collection consists of the extensive research papers of Ernest Mahan, compiled during the 1930s while preparing a biography on Joseph Smith, Jr. For unknown reasons the biography was never completed.

Box 1 contains biographical sources for early LDS publications. Boxes 2—7 contain Mahan’s research notes. Boxes 8—10 consist of an array of early LDS publications and correspondence, legal documents, and various notes taken by Mahan.

Inventory:

Box 1: Biographical references.
Fd 1: Biographical notes on contemporaries of Joseph Smith Jr.
Fd 2: Miscellaneous biographical references.
Fd 3: Finding aids for material on Mormon history.
Fd 4: Addresses of various research correspondents consulted by Mahan.
Fd 5: Newspaper clippings on Mormonism from the 1930s.
Fd 6: “Things done,” notes on research objectives completed.
Fd 7: Bibliographical references to books used for research by Mahan, A—C.
Fd 8: Bibliographical references to books used for research by Mahan, D—G.
Fd 9: Bibliographical references to books used for research by Mahan, H—L.
Fd 10: Bibliographical references to books used for research by Mahan, M—P.
Fd 11: Bibliographical references to books used for research by Mahan, Q—Sm.
Fd 12: Bibliographical references to books used for research by Mahan, Sn—Z.
Fd 13: Bibliographical references to periodicals used for research by Mahan, A—P.
Fd 14: Bibliographical references to periodicals used for research by Mahan, Q—Z.
Fd 15: Bibliographical references to newspapers used for research by Mahan.
Fd 16: Bibliographical references to Mormon publications used for research by Mahan.
Fd 17: Bibliographical references to manuscripts used for research by Mahan.
Fd 18: Bibliographical references to public documents used for research by Mahan.
Fd 19: “Things to do,” notes on research objectives yet to be accomplished.
Fd 20: Bibliographical references to books recently published at the time of Mahan’s research.
Fd 21: Bibliographical references to books and pamphlets on Mormonism published during the lifetime of Joseph Smith Jr.
Fd 22: Bibliographical references to Mormon memoirs and autobiographies used for research by Mahan.
Fd 23: Bibliographical references to periodical literature used for research by Mahan.
Fd 24: Bibliographical references to “general” newspapers used for Mahan’s research.
Fd 25: Bibliographical references to “special” newspapers used for Mahan’s research.
Fd 26: Bibliographical references to Mormon publications used for Mahan’s research.
Fd 27: Bibliographical references to manuscripts used for Mahan’s research.
Fd 28: Bibliographical references to illustrations relating to Joseph Smith Jr. and early Mormonism.
Fd 29: Bibliographical references to general sources on Mormonism.
Fd 30: Miscellaneous research notes.
Fd 31: “Current problems”

Box 2: Research notes

Fd 1: Notes on the Smith Monument.
Fd 2: Notes on the birth of Joseph Smith Jr.
Fd 3: Notes on the paternal ancestry of Joseph Smith Jr.
Fd 4: Notes on Robert Smith.
Fd 5: Notes on Samuel Smith II.
Fd 6: Notes on Asael Smith.
Fd 7: Notes on Joseph Smith Sr.
Fd 8: Notes on the maternal ancestry of Joseph Smith Jr.
Fd 9: Notes on the ancestry of Joseph Smith Jr.
Fd 10: Notes on the boyhood of Joseph Smith Jr.
Fd 11: Notes on the members of Joseph Smith Sr. family.
Fd 12: Notes on the socioeconomic status of the Joseph Smith Sr. family in Palmyra, New York.
Fd 13: Notes on the death of Alvin Smith.
Fd 14: General notes on Joseph Smith Sr. family.
Fd 15: Notes on the personality traits of Joseph Smith Jr.
Fd 16: Notes on Joseph Smith Jr.’s involvement with money digging.
Fd 17: Notes on the religiosity of the Joseph Smith Sr. family.
Fd 18: Notes on the New York environment of Joseph Smith Jr.
Fd 19: Notes on the Book of Mormon.
Fd 20: Notes on early suggestions of the origins of the Book of Mormon.
Fd 21: Notes on the first visions of Joseph Smith Jr.
Fd 22: Notes on Joseph Smith Jr.’s obtaining of the Book of Mormon plates.
Fd 23: Notes on the translation of the Book of Mormon.
Fd 24: Notes on the life of Martin Harris.
Fd 25: Notes on the publication of the Book of Mormon.
Fd 26: Notes on the content of the Book of Mormon.
Fd 27: Notes on external evidences regarding the Book of Mormon.
Fd 28: Notes on Charles Anthon.
Fd 29: Notes on the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon.
Fd 30: Notes on the Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon.
Fd 31: Notes on the Spaulding Manuscript.
Fd 32: Notes on Sidney Rigdon’s relationship to the Book of Mormon.
Fd 33: Notes on internal evidences regarding the Book of Mormon.
Fd 34: Notes on sales of the Book of Mormon.
Fd 35: Notes on the economic condition of the Joseph Smith Sr. family.
Fd 36: Notes on the marriage of Joseph Smith Jr. to Emma Hale.
Fd 37: Notes on Joseph Smith Jr.’s stay in Pennsylvania.
Fd 38: Notes on Joseph Smith Jr.’s move to Fayette, New York.
Fd 39: Notes on the South Bainbridge trial of Joseph Smith Jr.
Fd 40: Notes on the LDS Church’s experience in Colesville.
Fd 41: Notes on the Book of Mormon characters.
Fd 42: Notes on the Kinderhook Plates.
Fd 43: Notes on Professor Rafinesque.
Fd 44: Notes on the origination of the Church of Jesus Christ.
Fd 45: Notes on the form of church organization.
Fd 46: Notes on early sermons and converts to Mormonism.
Fd 47: Notes on the first conference of the Church of Jesus Christ.
Fd 48: Notes on the earliest opposition to Mormonism.

Book 3: Research notes continued.

Fd 1: Historical notes, miscellaneous.
Fd 2: Notes on the Book of Mormon.
Fd 3: Notes on the “Parchment of John.”
Fd 4: Notes on the “Prophecy of Enoch.”
Fd 5: Notes on the Book of Moses.
Fd 6: Notes on The Holy Scriptures.
Fd 7: Notes on the Book of Joseph.
Fd 8: Notes on the Book of Commandments.
Fd 9: Notes on the “Record of John.”
Fd 10: Notes on the Book of Enoch.
Fd 11: Notes on the Doctrine and Covenants.
Fd 12: Notes on the Book of Abraham.
Fd 13: Notes on the “History of the Descendents of Ham.”
Fd 14: Notes on Aaron’s writings.
Fd 15: Notes on the “Egyptian Dictionary.”
Fd 16: Notes on The Pearl of Great Price.
Fd 17: Notes on the journal of Joseph Smith Jr.
Fd 18: Notes on Ohio.
Fd 19: Notes on the Mormon move to Ohio.
Fd 20: Notes on Waterloo.
Fd 21: Notes on Colesville.
Fd 22: Notes on Mormon beginnings in Ohio.
Fd 23: Notes on the environment of Ohio.
Fd 24: Notes on church activities.
Fd 25: Notes on the character of Mormons.
Fd 26: Notes on Joseph Smith Jr.’s translation of the Bible.
Fd 27: Notes on rival prophets.
Fd 28: Notes on Mormon morals.
Fd 29: Notes on Mormon politics.
Fd 30: Notes on anti-mormonism.
Fd 31: Notes on “sectarianism.”
Fd 32: Notes on violence in Ohio.
Fd 33: Notes on the Kirtland Safety Society.
Fd 34: Notes on the Kirtland Temple.
Fd 35: Notes on the Mercantile House.
Fd 36: Notes on law suits involving Joseph Smith Jr.
Fd 37: Notes on Ohio and Missouri.
Fd 38: Notes on church organization.
Fd 39: Notes on church doctrine and practice.
Fd 40: Notes on the “Word of Wisdom.”
Fd 41: Notes on church growth.
Fd 42: Notes on domestic missions.
Fd 43: Notes on foreign missions.
Fd 44: Notes on immigration.
Fd 45: Notes on church dissension in Ohio.
Fd 46: Notes on education.
Fd 47: Notes on Mormon morals.
Fd 48: Notes on traits of Joseph Smith Jr.
Fd 49: Notes on the Joseph Smith Jr. family.
Fd 50: Notes on the Ohio activities of Joseph Smith Jr.

Box 4: Research notes continued.

Fd 1: Notes on economics.
Fd 2: Notes on Jackson County, Missouri.
Fd 3: Notes on the Lamanite mission.
Fd 4: Notes on Independence, Missouri.
Fd 5: Notes on the gathering to Zion.
Fd 6: Notes on Joseph Smith Jr.’s 1831 trip to Missouri.
Fd 7: Notes on the Zion Temple.
Fd 8: Notes on the Zion city plan.
Fd 9: Notes on the Indians.
Fd 10: Notes on slavery.
Fd 11: Notes on Zion’s camp.
Fd 12: Notes on the church in Clay County.
Fd 13: Notes on the church’s last years in Missouri.
Fd 14: Notes on Mormon settlements.
Fd 15: Notes on Caldwell County.
Fd 16: Notes on Daviess County.
Fd 17: Notes on other Missouri counties.
Fd 18: Notes on the Danites.
Fd 19: Notes on anti-mormonism.
Fd 20: Notes on anti-mormonism in Caldwell County.
Fd 21: Notes on the 4th of July, 1838.
Fd 22: Notes on the “gathering storm.”
Fd 23: Notes on Haun’s Mill Massacre.
Fd 24: Notes on the surrender at Far West, Missouri.
Fd 25: Notes on anti-mormonism in Daviess County, Missouri.
Fd 26: Notes on Carroll County.
Fd 27: Notes on the government and militia.
Fd 28: Notes on Mormon prisoners in Missouri.
Fd 29: Notes on Joseph Smith Jr.’s trip to Independence, Missouri.
Fd 30: Notes on Joseph Smith Jr.’s stay in Independence, Missouri.
Fd 31: Notes on Joseph Smith Jr.’s trip to Richmond, Missouri.
Fd 32: Notes on Joseph Smith Jr.’s stay in Richmond, Missouri.
Fd 33: Notes on Liberty, Missouri.
Fd 34: Notes on Gallatin, Missouri.
Fd 35: Notes on Boone County, Missouri.
Fd 36: Notes on relief monies.
Fd 37: Notes on the end of the Mormon experience in Missouri.
Fd 38: Notes on the Mormon removal to Illinois.
Fd 39: Notes, retrospective on Missouri.
Fd 40: Notes on legislative investigation.

Box 5: Research notes continued.

Fd 1: Notes on the cost of the Mormon War in Missouri.
Fd 2: Notes on the murderers of Joseph Smith Jr. and Hyrum Smith.
Fd 3: Notes on the arrest of Joseph Smith Jr. and Hyrum Smith for riot.
Fd 4: Notes on the custody taken of Joseph Smith Jr. and Hyrum Smith for treason.
Fd 5: Notes on the Smith brothers’ time in Carthage Jail.
Fd 6: Notes on Governor Ford’s measures at Carthage, Illinois.
Fd 7: Notes on Governor Ford’s trip to Nauvoo, Illinois.
Fd 8: Notes on the troops of Warsaw, Illinois.
Fd 9: Notes on the attack on Carthage Jail.
Fd 10: Notes on the manner of the murderers of Joseph Smith Jr. and Hyrum Smith.
Fd 11 Notes on Carthage, Illinois’ aid to the victims.
Fd 12: Notes on excitement in Carthage, Illinois.
Fd 13: Notes on excitement in Warsaw, Illinois.
Fd 14: Notes on Governor Ford’s measures.
Fd 15: Notes on the return of the bodies of Joseph Smith Jr. and Hyrum Smith.
Fd 16: Notes on the burials of Joseph Smith Jr. and Hyrum Smith.
Fd 17: Notes on the responsibility of Governor Ford.
Fd 18: Notes on the reaction of Mormons to the Smith murders.
Fd 19: Notes on outsiders’ reactions to the Smith murders.
Fd 20: Notes on Nauvoo, Illinois after the murders.
Fd 21: Notes on the prosecution of the assassins of Joseph Smith Jr. and Hyrum Smith.
Fd 22: Notes on the assassins of the Smiths.
Fd 23: Notes on the fate of the assassins of the Smiths.
Fd 24: Notes on the significance of the Smith murders.
Fd 25: Notes on the Mormon entrance to Illinois.
Fd 26: Notes on public sentiment in Missouri.
Fd 27: Notes on Mormon poverty and charity.
Fd 28: Notes on Nauvoo, Illinois social life.
Fd 29: Notes on Mormon morals.
Fd 30: Notes on liquor in Nauvoo, Illinois.
Fd 31: Notes on thieving in Nauvoo, Illinois.
Fd 32: Notes on counterfeiting in Nauvoo, Illinois.
Fd 33: Notes on church growth in Nauvoo, Illinois.
Fd 34: Notes on domestic missions.
Fd 35: Notes on foreign missions.
Fd 36: Notes on Mormon immigration.
Fd 37: Notes on church doctrine.
Fd 38: Notes on internal dissensions.
Fd 39: Notes on the question of succession in the church presidency.
Fd 40: Notes on the question of removal from Nauvoo, Illinois.
Fd 41: Notes on the city of Nauvoo, Illinois.
Fd 42: Notes on the incorporation of Nauvoo, Illinois.
Fd 43: Notes on the city plan and growth of Nauvoo, Illinois.
Fd 44: Notes on the official structure of Nauvoo’s city government.
Fd 45: Notes on Nauvoo city regulations.

Box 6: Research notes continued.

Fd 1: Notes on law enforcement in Nauvoo, Illinois.
Fd 2: Notes on the movement to repeal the Nauvoo City Charter.
Fd 3: Notes on the Nauvoo Temple.
Fd 4: Notes on the Nauvoo Legion.
Fd 5: Notes on the Danites.
Fd 6: Notes on causes of anti-mormonism.
Fd 7: Notes on John C. Bennett.
Fd 8: Notes on the amount of anti-mormonism.
Fd 9: Notes on anti-mormon militia expeditions.
Fd 10: Notes on anti-mormon mob violence.
Fd 11: Notes on the Nauvoo Expositor.
Fd 12: Notes on relations with Missouri.
Fd 13: Notes on the attempted assassination of Governor Lilburn J. Boggs.
Fd 14: Notes on the question of treason.
Fd 15: Notes on kidnappings.
Fd 16: Notes on Freemasonry in Nauvoo, Illinois.
Fd 17: Notes on education in Nauvoo, Illinois.
Fd 18: Notes, miscellaneous on Joseph Smith Jr. and Nauvoo, part 1.
Fd 19: Notes, miscellaneous on Joseph Smith Jr. and Nauvoo, part 2.
Fd 20: Notes on Nauvoo economics.
Fd 21: Notes on Nauvoo politics, part 1.

Box 7: Research notes continued.

Fd 1: Notes on Nauvoo politics, part 2.
Fd 2: Notes on polygamy, part 1.
Fd 3: Notes on polygamy, part 2.
Fd 4: Notes on the power and position of Joseph Smith Jr.
Fd 5: Notes on the personality of Joseph Smith Jr.
Fd 6: Notes on Smith family relations.
Fd 7: Notes, miscellaneous on Mormonism in Nauvoo.
Fd 8: Notes on the city of Nauvoo, Illinois.
Fd 9: Notes on the Nauvoo Charter.
Fd 10: Notes on the Nauvoo Temple.
Fd 11: Notes on spiritual wives.
Fd 12: Notes on church dissension.
Fd 13: Notes on Mormon thieving.
Fd 14: Notes on counterfeiting.
Fd 15: Notes on the Mormon mob.
Fd 16: Notes on the sheriff’s activities.
Fd 17: Notes on miscellaneous causes of anti-mormonism.
Fd 18: Notes on the amount of anti-mormonism.
Fd 19: Notes on groups within the Mormon controversy.
Fd 20: Notes on public meetings.
Fd 21: Notes on anti-mormon mobs.
Fd 22: Notes on militia activities.
Fd 23: Notes on peace negotiations.
Fd 24: Notes on the Mormon expulsion from Illinois.
Fd 25: Notes summarizing Mormon difficulties.
Fd 26: Notes on Nauvoo’s “new citizens.”
Fd 27: Notes on politics.
Fd 28: Notes on economics.
Fd 29: Notes, retrospection.

Box 8: Research papers: notes, correspondence, photographs, publications, and other.

Fd 1: Miscellaneous letters of Joseph Smith Jr.
Fd 2: Manuscript, “Some Observations on Early Mormon History,” By Ernest Mahan.
Fd 3: June 17, 1933 statement by the First Presidency of the LDS church on polygamous fundamentalists.
Fd 4: Painesville Telegraph, March, 22, 1831.
Fd 5: Wayne Sentinel, September 29 and October 6, 1824.
Fd 6: Tucker, Origin, pp. 12—18.
Fd 7: Tucker, Origin, pp. 21—26.
Fd 8: Tucker, Origin, pp. 50—54.
Fd 9: Statement by J. W. Peterson.
Fd 10: Life of Thurlow Weed, pp. 358—359.
Fd 11: Rochester Daily Advertiser & Telegraph, 3:878
Fd 12: Painseville Telegraph, 2:39
Fd 13: Painseville Telegraph, 2:31
Fd 14: Painseville Telegraph, 2:22
Fd 15: The Reflector, various notes.
Fd 16: Tucker, Origin, pp. 287—291.
Fd 17: Cowdery, Renunciation, pp. 1—4.
Fd 18: Boone County Circuit Court Book C, various notes.
Fd 19: Spaulding Story Re-examined, pp. 11—12.
Fd 20: Crummine, Washington County, Pennsylvania, pp. 431
Fd 21: Crummine, Washington County, Pennsylvania, pp. 425—438
Fd 22: Arbaugh, Revelation in Mormonism, p. 230.
Fd 23: Tucker, Origin, pp. 81—82.
Fd 24: Quincy Whig, June 8, 1839.
Fd 25: Chicago Tribune, March 27, 1886.
Fd 26: Boston Recorder, April 19, 1838.
Fd 27: “Last Testimony of Martin Harris.”
Fd 28: Clark, Gleanings by the Way, pp. 233—238.
Fd 29: Shook, True Origins, pp. 132—135.
Fd 30: Tucker, Origin, pp. 42—45.
Fd 31: Tucker, Origin, pp. 126—127.
Fd 32: Boone County Circuit Book C, various notes.
Fd 33: Executive Records of Illinois, various notes.
Fd 34: Missouri Documents, p. 61.
Fd 35: Boone County Circuit Book C, pp. 222—223.
Fd 36: Gentry, Bench and Bar of Boone County, Missouri, pp. 207—210.
Fd 37: Missouri Documents, p. 89
Fd 38: William Smith to Joseph Smith III, October 19, 1883.
Fd 39: William Clayton to Madison M. Scott, November 11, 1871.
Fd 40: Deseret Evening News, May 20, 1886.
Fd 41: Eliza Maria Partridge Lyman to Joseph Smith III, November 19, 1871.
Fd 42: Affidavits of Eliza Maria Partridge Lyman.
Fd 43: Affidavits of Almira N. Johnson.
Fd 44: Affidavit of Orson Hyde, September 15, 1869.
Fd 45: Statement of Joseph A. Kelting.
Fd 46: History of Joseph Smith, Book E, pp. 1984—1985.
Fd 47: History of Joseph Smith, Book E, pp. 1931.
Fd 48: Joseph Smith Jr. to Brother Marks, November 21, 1843.
Fd 49: Emma Smith Bidamon to Joseph Smith III, October 11, 1866.
Fd 50: William Smith to Joseph Smith III
Fd 51: Boston Investigator, February 12, 1845.
Fd 52: The Return, 3:28—30.
Fd 53: Times and Seasons, 5:598—99.
Fd 54: Times and Seasons, 5:56—63.
Fd 55: Times and Seasons, 5:563—64.
Fd 56: Times and Seasons, 5:566.
Fd 57: Deseret Evening News, March 7, 1894.
Fd 58: Statement of William M. Thompson, August 23 (no year)
Fd 59: Memo regarding the Nauvoo Neighbor and the Millennial Star, September 7, 1937.
Fd 60: Ernest Mahan to Charles Scribner’s Sons Inc., June 27, 1938.
Fd 61: Joseph Smith to Newel K. Whitney and family, August 18, 1842.
Fd 62: List of resources housed in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Fd 63: “Polygamy and Mormon/Government relations.”
Fd 64: “Last Testimony of Sister Emma,” Saints’ Herald, 26:289—90.
Fd 65: Manuscript Found, introduction.
Fd 66: William Clayton to Brigham Young, May 30, 1843.
Fd 67: Kirtland Temple cards.
Fd 68: Pictures (painting) of Joseph Smith Jr., Emma Smith, and the Nauvoo Temple.
Fd 69: Pamphlet on the Auditorium in Independence, Missouri.
Fd 70: Miscellaneous photographs and clippings.
Fd 71: Research correspondence—includes letters from LDS and RLDS (Community of Christ) historical departments.
Fd 72: Research notes.
Fd 73: Information on the Spaulding manuscript.
Fd 74: Missouri Documents, pp. 72—75, 97, 152, and 156.
Fd 75: Missouri Intelligencer and Boone’s Liet Advertiser, March 8, 1834.
Fd 76: Missouri Intelligencer and Boone’s Liet Advertiser, November 7, 1833.
Fd 77: Missouri Intelligencer and Boone’s Liet Advertiser, December 21, 1833.
Fd 78: Missouri Laws 1838, pp. 314—315.
Fd 79: Evening and Morning Star, 2:348—349.
Fd 80: Evening and Morning Star, 2:228—229.

Box 9: Research papers: notes, correspondence, publications, and other.

Fd 1: Evening and Morning Star, 2:227—228.
Fd 2: The Return, 2:210.
Fd 3: Times and Seasons, 6:912, 915
Fd 4: Times and Seasons, 6:1072—74.
Fd 5: Times and Seasons, 6:1059.
Fd 6: Times and Seasons, 6:1108.
Fd 7: Evening and Morning Star, 2:6—7.
Fd 8: Pratt, Late Persecutions, pp. 75 ff.
Fd 9: Times and Seasons, 6:248 ff.
Fd 10: The Return, 2:206—12.
Fd 11: Times and Seasons, 1:5—6.
Fd 12: Times and Seasons, 6:801.
Fd 13: Book of John Whitmer, pp. 86—87.
Fd 14: Millennial Star, 16:523—24.
Fd 15: Times and Seasons, 4:274—75.
Fd 16: Missouri Senate Journal, November 17, 1840.
Fd 17: Millennial Star, 11:329 ff.
Fd 18: Millennial Star, 11:313—14.
Fd 19: Millennial Star, 11:266.
Fd 20: Millennial Star, 18:550—52.
Fd 21: Missouri Documents, pp. 162—68.
Fd 22: Notes on the trial of those accused in the murders of Joseph Smith Jr. and Hyrum Smith.
Fd 23: Lee, John D., The Mormon Menace, p. 99.
Fd 24: Swartzell, Mormonism Exposed, various notes.
Fd 25: Missouri Intelligence and Boone’s Liet Advertiser, November 30, 1833.
Fd 26: Painesville Telegraph, 2:26.
Fd 27: The Return, 2:234 ff.
Fd 28: Deseret News, November 9, 1854.
Fd 29: Millennial Star, 16:152—53.
Fd 30: Times and Seasons, 6:1017—18.
Fd 31: Messenger and Advocate, 1:162—63.
Fd 32: Messenger and Advocate, 3:441—42.
Fd 33: Millennial Star, 9:708—11.
Fd 34: Pratt, Late Persecutions, pp. 68 ff.
Fd 35: Pratt, Late Persecutions, pp. 191 ff.
Fd 36: Times and Seasons, 2:321—22.
Fd 37: Statement of Jonathan Summer.
Fd 38: Sangamo Journal, October 8, 1845.
Fd 39: Reports made to the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Illinois, various notes.
Fd 40: Quincy Whig, September 23, 1846.
Fd 41: Quincy Whig, September 16, 1846.
Fd 42: Sangamo Journal, October 8, 1846.
Fd 43: Quincy Whig, July 22, 1846.
Fd 44: Quincy Whig, May 6, 1846.
Fd 45: Quincy Whig, September 24, 1845.
Fd 46: Quincy Whig, October 15, 1845.
Fd 47: Geauga County, Ohio Deed Record, various notes.
Fd 48: Painesville Telegraph, p. 146.
Fd 49: Messenger and Advocate, 3:443.
Fd 50: Painesville Telegraph, 1:46.
Fd 51: Times and Seasons, 2:417—18.
Fd 52: Sangamo Journal, July 15, 1842.
Fd 53: 22 Federal Cases, pp. 373—80.
Fd 54: Saints’ Herald, August 15, 1936.
Fd 55: Hancock County Deed Record, Book K, various notes.
Fd 56: Hancock County Deed Record, Book K, various notes.
Fd 57: Hancock County Deed Record, Book I, various notes.
Fd 58: Bilderback, Masonry and Mormonism, pp. 67 ff.
Fd 59: Jeffersonian Republican, July 23, 1842.
Fd 60: S. B. Fleak to Governor Thomas Reynolds, July 12, 1842.
Fd 61: S. B. Fleak to Governor Thomas Reynolds, October 5, 1842.
Fd 62: S. B. Fleak to Governor Thomas Reynolds, September 6, 1842.
Fd 63: Jeffersonian Republican, May 14, 1842.
Fd 64: Committee of Investigaion to Governor Thomas Reynolds, May 13, 1842
Fd 65: Tyler, Concise History, pp. 31 ff.
Fd 66: “Samuel and Arthur” to Governor Thomas Reynolds, April 5, 1841.
Fd 67: Tyler, Concise History, p. 15 ff.
Fd 68: “Revised Laws of the Nauvoo Legion,” pp. 4—5.
Fd 69: Joseph Smith Jr. to Emma Smith, June 27, 1844.
Fd 70: Sidney Rigdon to Joseph Smith Jr., July 1, 1842.
Fd 71: The Mormons, or Knavery Exposed, pp. 12—15.
Fd 72: Correspondence between Joseph Smith Jr., James A. Bennett, John C. Calhoun, and John Wentworth (various notes).
Fd 73: Burnett, Recollections, pp. 52—68.
Fd 74: Lake County Common Pleas Journal, pp. 432—35.
Fd 75: Joseph Smith Jr. to Emma Smith, October 13(?), 1832
Fd 76: Times and Seasons, 6:786—87.
Fd 77: Joseph Smith Jr. to Emma Smith, November 9, 1839.
Fd 78: Joseph Smith Jr. to Emma Smith, May 18, (year unknown)
Fd 79: Joseph Smith Jr. to Emma Smith, June 23, 1844.
Fd 80: Day Book of Newel K. Whitney’s Kirtland Store, pp. 195—96.

Box 10: Research papers: notes, correspondence, publications, and other.

Fd 1: Joseph Smith Jr. to John E. Page, April 9, 1842.
Fd 2: Clay County Circuit Court Record Book, 4:228.
Fd 3: Notes on justice in Hancock County, Illinois.
Fd 4: John Corril to “Samuel and Arthur”, undated.
Fd 5: Joseph Smith’s Record Book, March 1834.
Fd 6: Correspondence concerning Mahan finding a possible fake letter in the archive of the LDS Church.
Fd 7: Hyde, Orson, Speech Delivered Before the High Priest Quorum in Nauvoo, April 27, 1845.
Fd 8: Schroeder, Joseph Smith’s Politics, various notes.
Fd 9: Cleveland Daily Gazette, May 19, 1835.
Fd 10: Notes on lawsuits filed against Mormons in Kirtland.
Fd 11: Quincy Whig, February 4, 1846.
Fd 12: Joseph Smith Jr. to Emma Smith, November 12, 1838.
Fd 13: Joseph Smith Jr. to Emma Smith, November 4, 1838.
Fd 14: J. A. Bennett to Joseph Smith Jr., February 20, 1843.
Fd 15: Thomas Carlton to (?) Joseph Smith Jr., June 30, 1842.
Fd 16: Notes on the personality traits of Joseph Smith Jr.
Fd 17: Quincy Whig, July 23, 1842.
Fd 18: Quincy Whig, August 6, 1842.
Fd 19: Quincy Whig, October 18, 1843.
Fd 20: Governor Carlton to Emma Smith, September 7, 1842.
Fd 21: J. M. Bernhisel to “Brother,” October 8, 1842.
Fd 22: Nauvoo Neighbor, May 1, 1844.
Fd 23: James A. Bennett to Joseph Smith Jr., September 1, 1842.
Fd 24: Times and Seasons, December 15, 1841.
Fd 25: Warsaw Signal, various notes.
Fd 26: Liberty Tribune, October 12, 1883.
Fd 27: Quincy Whig, July 10, 1844.
Fd 28: Times and Seasons, April 15, 1845.
Fd 29: Times and Seasons, July 1, 1842.
Fd 30: Joseph Smith Jr. to Lawyer Brown, June 27, 1844.
Fd 31: Times and Seasons, January 15, 1845.
Fd 32: Times and Seasons, August 1, 1842.
Fd 33: Times and Seasons, January 1, 1846.
Fd 34: Times and Seasons, February 11, 1845.
Fd 35: S. A. Buyers to Ernest Mahan, March 16, 1937, and various notes.

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