HISTORY OF HANCOCK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, 1880

Chapter VI, The Mormon Period, by Thomas Gregg

*The second floor was used for ceremonial purposes prior to the building of the temple in Nauvoo.

"Jackson said if he could get a company of men to suit him, he would go into the frontiers and live by highway robbery; . . . (a quote from a witness during the Nauvoo City Council meeting called to decide what to do with the new newspaper that was exposing Joseph Smith)."

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© 2002, Ken Bowles -- July 31, 2002, Edition

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