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    The Nauvoo Expositor was a newspaper in Nauvoo, Illinois, that published only one issue. Its publication, and the destruction of the printing press ordered...
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    Missouri. In 1844, Joseph Smith ordered the Nauvoo Legion to destroy the Nauvoo Expositor newspaper. Smith was charged with inciting a riot and placed in Carthage...
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    Killing of Joseph Smith (category Nauvoo Legion)
    while awaiting trial in the town jail on charges of treason. The Nauvoo Expositor was a newly-established newspaper published by anti-polygamist ex-Mormons...
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  • Wilson Law (category Nauvoo Expositor publishers)
    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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    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 power...
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    on charges of inciting a riot for ordering the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor, a newspaper critical of Smith which accused him of practicing polygamy...
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  • Charles Ivins (category Nauvoo Expositor publishers)
    early member of the Latter Day Saint movement and a publisher of the Nauvoo Expositor. Ivins was born to Israel Ivins and Margaret Woodward in Burlington...
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  • 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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    accusations at a Nauvoo city council meeting of June 8, 1844. The meeting's purpose was ostensibly to address the Nauvoo Expositor's accusations of Mormon...
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  • the Nauvoo Expositor which detailed Smith's alleged abuse of power. Together with the Nauvoo City Council, Smith ordered the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor...
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    Latter Day Saints History of Nauvoo, Illinois Nauvoo Neighbor Nauvoo Expositor Times and Seasons The Wasp (newspaper) Nauvoo, Alabama – the town was named...
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  • was a "fallen prophet". This group was responsible for printing the Nauvoo Expositor, which was also critical of Smith and polygamy, leading to his death...
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  • Francis M. Higbee (category Nauvoo Expositor publishers)
    became an editor of the Nauvoo Expositor along with his brother Chauncey and several others. The single edition of the Expositor included statements critical...
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  • Robert D. Foster (category Nauvoo Expositor publishers)
    released from his position in the Nauvoo Legion. After his excommunication, Foster became a publisher of the Nauvoo Expositor, which was critical of the church...
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  • dictionary Brantford Expositor, a newspaper in Brantford, Ontario Nauvoo Expositor, a former newspaper in Nauvoo, Illinois Review & Expositor (est. 1904), an...
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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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    Chauncey L. Higbee (category Nauvoo Expositor publishers)
    Nauvoo Expositor, a newspaper critical of church founder Joseph Smith and other church leaders. After Smith ordered the destruction of the Expositor press...
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    following year, after the Nauvoo Expositor criticized his power and such new doctrines as plural marriage, Smith and the Nauvoo city council ordered the...
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    William Law (Latter Day Saints) (category Nauvoo Expositor publishers)
    Day Saints. In this capacity, he published a single edition of the Nauvoo Expositor, the destruction of which set in motion a chain of events that eventually...
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  • Charles A. Foster (Latter Day Saints) (category Nauvoo Expositor publishers)
    conspiracy against his life. In 1844, Foster became a publisher of the Nauvoo Expositor. In a letter to the Warsaw Signal published June 11, 1844, Foster wrote...
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  • aspirations in Nauvoo, Illinois. Criticism of the practice of plural marriage and other doctrines taught by Smith were published in the Nauvoo Expositor. Opposition...
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    June 10 to discuss the matter; The Destruction of the "Nauvoo Expositor"—Proceedings of the Nauvoo City Council and Mayor Bushman, 541. Warsaw Signal, June...
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  • men and women who Joseph Smith initiated into Mormon temple ordinances at Nauvoo, Illinois, which gave them special standing in the early Latter Day Saint...
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    relating to his ordering the destruction of facilities producing the Nauvoo Expositor, a newspaper whose only edition had been critical of the Smiths' religious...
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    to face criminal charges in the destruction of the newspaper, the Nauvoo Expositor. Once there, the Smiths were charged with treason, and Ford allowed...
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  • King Follett Discourse, Kirtland Egyptian Papers, Lectures on Faith, Nauvoo Expositor, Peace Maker (pamphlet), Pearl of Great Price (Mormonism), Sacred text...
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  • inciting a "riot" in the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor. In response, the Municipal Court of Nauvoo dismissed all State charges (despite being a...
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    Fifty and the Nauvoo City Council. In Nauvoo, Phelps spoke out in favor of the destruction of an opposition newspaper, the Nauvoo Expositor. He believed...
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  • Sylvester Emmons (category Nauvoo, Illinois city council members)
    1843 was elected to the Nauvoo City Council despite being a non-Mormon. In 1844, Emmons became editor of the Nauvoo Expositor, which published statements...
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    analysis of the Nauvoo City Council's actions against the Nauvoo Expositor. He opined that while the destruction of the Expositor's printing press was...
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