Footnotes
JS, Journal, 29 June 1842; “Clayton, William,” in Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:718; Clayton, History of the Nauvoo Temple, 18, 30–31.
Jenson, Andrew. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 4 vols. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901–1936.
Clayton, William. History of the Nauvoo Temple, ca. 1845. CHL. MS 3365.
Willard Richards, Journal, 9 Aug. 1844; “Conference Minutes,” Times and Seasons, 1 Nov. 1844, 5:693; see also Minutes, Times and Seasons, Dec. 1839, 1:30.
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Andrus and Fuller, Register of the Newel Kimball Whitney Papers, 24; Wilkinson et al., Brigham Young University, 4:255.
Andrus, Hyrum L., and Chris Fuller, comp. Register of the Newel Kimball Whitney Papers. Provo, UT: Division of Archives and Manuscripts, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Wilkinson, Ernest L., Leonard J. Arrington, and Bruce C. Hafen, eds. Brigham Young University: The First One Hundred Years. Vol. 4. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1976.
Footnotes
See Receipt from Reynolds Cahoon, 11 Feb. 1841; and Brigham Young et al., “Baptism for the Dead,” Times and Seasons, 15 Dec. 1841, 3:625–627.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Phebe Carter Woodruff wrote to her husband, Wilford, that church leaders “proposed building the Lord’s house by tytheing the people.” (Phebe Carter Woodruff, Lee Co., Iowa Territory, to Wilford Woodruff, Manchester, England, 6–19 Oct. 1840, digital scan, Wilford Woodruff, Collection, CHL; see also Proclamation, 15 Jan. 1841.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Collection, 1831–1905. Digital scans. CHL. Originals in private possession.
Church members sent their temple donations to JS in his capacity as the church’s trustee-in-trust. (See, for example, Historical Introduction to Receipt from Reynolds Cahoon, 11 Feb. 1841.)
— | $40.08 |
Int from Jany 1st/42 to June 1/43.— 17 mos. | 6.84 |
$46.92 |
This enclosure would have been separated from the letter and sent to the Nauvoo temple committee; it is apparently not extant.
Shumaker had been living in Nauvoo, where he operated a blacksmith shop, since at least 1842. He was part of a group who petitioned the Nauvoo City Council to open Knight Street east of the temple lot, perhaps hoping that increased traffic around the temple would bring business into his shop. (A. W. Whitney et al., to Nauvoo City Council, Petition, 25 Feb. 1843; Book of Assessment, 1842, Third Ward, [25]; Book of Assessment, 1843, Third Ward, 26, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL; Leonard, Nauvoo, 144.)
Nauvoo, IL. Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 16800.
Leonard, Glen M. Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, a People of Promise. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book; Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2002.