• Nauvoo may refer to: Nauvoo, Alabama, town in Walker and Winston Counties Nauvoo, Illinois, city in Hancock County Nauvoo, Tioga County, Pennsylvania...
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    The Nauvoo Temple was the second temple constructed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The church's first temple was completed in Kirtland...
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    Nauvoo (/ˈnɔːvuː/ NAW-voo; from the Hebrew: נָאווּ, Modern: Navu, Tiberian: Nâwû, 'they are beautiful') is a small city in Hancock County, Illinois, United...
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    The Nauvoo Legion was a state-authorized militia of Nauvoo, Illinois, United States from February 4, 1841 until January 29, 1845. Its main function was...
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    Killing of Joseph Smith (category Nauvoo Legion)
    As mayor of the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, Joseph Smith had ordered the destruction of the facilities used to print the Nauvoo Expositor, a newly-established...
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    The Nauvoo Expositor was a newspaper in Nauvoo, Illinois, that published only one issue, on June 7, 1844. Its publication, and the destruction of the printing...
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  • The history of Nauvoo, Illinois, starts with the Sauk and Meskwaki tribes who frequented the area, on a bend of the Mississippi River in Hancock County...
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    Nauvoo is a town on the northwestern edge of Walker County, Alabama, United States, that extends slightly north into southwestern Winston. As of the 2010...
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    Joseph Smith (category Mayors of Nauvoo, Illinois)
    established a new settlement at Nauvoo, Illinois, of which he was the spiritual and political leader. In 1844, when the Nauvoo Expositor criticized Smith's...
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    The Nauvoo House in Nauvoo, Illinois, was to be a boarding house that Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his followers began...
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    The Nauvoo Illinois Temple is the 113th dedicated temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It is the third such temple that...
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    church president, Young led his followers, the Mormon pioneers, west from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Salt Lake Valley. He founded Salt Lake City and served...
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  • Nauvoo is an unincorporated community in Dyer County, Tennessee, United States. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Nauvoo, Tennessee...
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    Emma Smith (category People from Nauvoo, Illinois)
    Smith, the movement's founder. In 1842, when the Ladies' Relief Society of Nauvoo was formed as a women's service organization, she was elected by its members...
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  • Nauvoo–Colusa Community Unit School District 325 is a school district headquartered in Appanoose Township, just east of Nauvoo, Illinois. It serves northwestern...
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  • Wilson Law (category People from Nauvoo, Illinois)
    William, he subsequently became a publisher of the Nauvoo Expositor, a paper critical of Smith. The Nauvoo City Council ordered the press destroyed, ultimately...
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  • Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It was founded in 1842 in Nauvoo, Illinois, United States, and has more than 7 million members in over 188...
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    The Nauvoo Bell, also known as the Relief Society Memorial Campanile, is a bell tower in Salt Lake City's Temple Square, in the U.S. state of Utah. It...
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  • riot after ordering, as Nauvoo's mayor, in conjunction with the City Council, the destruction of the printing press of the Nauvoo Expositor, a local publication...
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  • The University of Nauvoo was a short-lived university in Nauvoo, Illinois. After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints had been expelled from...
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    Store, in Nauvoo, Illinois, to represent "the interior of a temple as circumstances would permit".: 2  The next day, May 4, he introduced the Nauvoo endowment...
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  • Nauvoo Legion is the militia for the city of Nauvoo, Illinois. Nauvoo Legion may also refer to: The Utah Territorial Militia, also called the "Nauvoo...
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  • Christ of Latter Day Saints, and is best known as the architect of the Nauvoo Temple. Weeks was the son of James Weeks, Jr., and Sophronia Fisher and...
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  • leaders declared martial law to protect themselves from mob violence, such as Nauvoo, Illinois, during the Illinois Mormon War, or Utah during the Utah War;...
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    The Nauvoo Neighbor was a weekly newspaper edited and published by Latter Day Saint apostle John Taylor in Nauvoo, Illinois, from 1843 to 1845. While...
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    Utah: Deseret News Press, 75) Van Wagoner, Richard S. "Mormon Polyandry in Nauvoo" (PDF). 18. Retrieved 8 January 2017. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires...
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    John Taylor (Mormon) (category Nauvoo, Illinois city council members)
    politically concerned Nauvoo Neighbor and the Wasp, the predecessor of the Nauvoo Neighbor, for about a year. Taylor was thus the editor of Nauvoo's two main papers...
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    assassination, had served as mayor of Nauvoo, Major General of the Nauvoo Legion, and Chancellor of the University of Nauvoo. Bennett made a number of controversial...
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    Latter-day Saint exiles. Curious about the new settlement in the swampy lands of Nauvoo, Illinois, Browning paid a visit, meeting with the Latter Day Saints president...
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    Utah Territorial Militia (category Nauvoo Legion)
    also known as the Nauvoo Legion was the territorial Militia for the United States Territory of Utah. A predecessor known as the Nauvoo Legion was formed...
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