[Wilford Woodruff] Serves another mission in the eastern United States. (1)
-- Jun 1, 1844
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith wrote a letter to Joel Hamilton Walker of Boston, Massachusetts. (2)
-- Jun 2, 1844
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith was visited by John C. Calhoun Jr. and his brother Patrick, sons of John C. Calhoun, a senator from South Carolina who Joseph had met in Washington, D.C., in February 1840 and was now a candidate for United States president. (2)
-- Jun 4, 1844
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith sent a letter to Abijah Tewksbury of Boston, Massachusetts. (2)
-- Jun 7, 1844
Only issue of Nauvoo Expositor published; three days later the press was declared a nuisance and destroyed by the Nauvoo City Council. (3)
The only issue of the Nauvoo Expositor is published by men angry with Joseph Smith and the Church. It is highly critical of Smith and his doctrines and practices. (4)
[Lucy Mack Smith] Robert Foster calls on Joseph, but Joseph refuses to talk to him privately. The first issue of the Nauvoo Expositor appears. 8 June 1844 Saturday: Joseph and the city council meet (also Monday, the 10th), pass an ordinance against libel, declare the Expositor a nuisance, and order Marshal John P. Greene to destroy the press and scatter the type. He does so by 8:00 P.M. Monday. There is an immediate outcry. (5)
-- Jun 10, 1844
Nauvoo, Illinois. The Nauvoo City Council passed an ordinance declaring the Nauvoo Expositor a public nuisance, and Joseph Smith, as mayor, agreed to have that newspaper destroyed. (2)
-- Jun 11, 1844
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith wrote a proclamation that was published in the Nauvoo Neighbor regarding the promulgation of false statements injurious to the people of Nauvoo. (2)
-- Jun 12, 1844
Charles A. Foster, a co-publisher of the Nauvoo Expositor, reports that the destruction of the Expositor printing press two days earlier was carried out by several hundred people and the building the machine was housed in was damaged. The city marshal contradicts him, claiming that the destruction was carried out in an orderly fashion. The building stands for at least ten more years. (4)
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith was arrested by officers from Carthage and charged with riot for the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor, and he went before Justice Aaron Johnson in Nauvoo on a writ of habeas corpus and was acquitted. (2)
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith wrote a letter to Washington Tucker of Eldorado, Arkansas. (2)
-- Jun 13, 1844
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith received the report that a mob of about 300 was assembled at Carthage, Illinois, and was ready to attack Nauvoo. (2)
-- Jun 14, 1844
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith wrote to Thomas Ford, governor of Illinois, explaining the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor printing press. (2)
-- Jun 15, 1844
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith was at home examining Benjamin Wests painting Death on the Pale Horse, which had been in his reading room for three days. (2)
-- Jun 16, 1844
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith gave a sermon in the grove east of the Nauvoo Temple about the Godhead. (2)
Footnotes:
1 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Utah
2 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
3 - Hemidakaota, "Church Chronology from 1800-2000," http://www.lds.net/forums/scripture-study-forum/12108-church-chronology-1800-2000-part-1-a.html#post214550
4 - Wikipedia, 19th Century (Mormonism), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century_(Mormonism)
5 - Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, 2001, Signature Books
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