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The Daily Dispatch: November 16, 1860., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nauvoo, (search)
Nauvoo, A city in Hancock county, Ill., which in 1831 was selected as the gathering-place of the Mormons, but the bulk of the community did not leave Kirtland, O., until 1838. The citizens of Illinois determined to expel these people, and arrested the prophet Joseph Smith in 1844 and carried him to jail, where a mob shot him. Within a few months Brigham Young, his successor, determined to remove the entire community to a site west of the Rocky Mountains. Sixteen thousand Mormons crossed the Mississippi in May, 1846, on their way westward, leaving about 1,000 behind them with instructions to sell the remaining property and join the main body as soon as possible. Nauvoo in 1900 had a population of 1,321. See Mormons.
The Daily Dispatch: November 16, 1860., [Electronic resource], "Thirty-Seven." (search)
Accidental Shooting. --P. Strong, in the Commissary Department of the United States army, was accidentally shot dead at Kearney City, R. T., on Sunday evening, the 11th, by Mr. Mount, a discharged sergeant of the United States Army, who was on his way East from Camp Floyd. The Vote in the Panhandle.--The vote in the Panhandle of Virginia, including Brooke, Hancock, Ohio and Marshall counties, stood Bell, 2,395; Breckinridge, 2,498; Lincoln, 1,396; Douglas, 984--total 7,273; an increase of 2,429 on the vote of '59.