Guide to the James Jesse Strang Collection

Yale University LibraryBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Guide to the James Jesse Strang Collection

WA MSS 447

by Matthew Daniel Mason

October 2019

P. O. Box 208330New Haven, CT [email protected]

http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/

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James Jesse Strang collectionWA MSS 447

Table of Contents

Collection Overview ....................................................................................................................................................... 3Requesting Instructions ................................................................................................................................................. 3Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................................ 3Immediate Source of Acquisition ................................................................................................................................ 3Custodial History ....................................................................................................................................................... 3Conditions Governing Access ..................................................................................................................................... 4Conditions Governing Access ..................................................................................................................................... 4Preferred Citation ....................................................................................................................................................... 4Processing Information .............................................................................................................................................. 4Related Materials ....................................................................................................................................................... 4

James Jesse Strang (1813-1856) .................................................................................................................................. 4Charles Jesse Strang (1851-1916) ................................................................................................................................ 5Milo Milton Quaife (1880-1959) ................................................................................................................................. 5Scope and Contents ....................................................................................................................................................... 5Arrangement .................................................................................................................................................................. 6Collection Contents ....................................................................................................................................................... 7Series I: James Jesse Strang and Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) Collection, 1832–1869 ..................................... 7Basic Early Documents ........................................................................................................................................... 7Personal Papers .................................................................................................................................................... 11Church Archives ................................................................................................................................................... 17General Correspondence ...................................................................................................................................... 19Dale L. Morgan, The Strang Manuscripts ............................................................................................................... 37Additions ............................................................................................................................................................. 37

Series II: Charles Jesse Strang Papers, 1871–1898 ................................................................................................. 38Research Files ...................................................................................................................................................... 38Scrapbook Fragments ........................................................................................................................................... 39Transcriptions ...................................................................................................................................................... 39Correspondence .................................................................................................................................................... 40

Series III: Milo Quiafe Papers, 1870–1947 ............................................................................................................ 42Research Files ...................................................................................................................................................... 42Interviews ............................................................................................................................................................ 46Transcriptions ...................................................................................................................................................... 47Correspondence .................................................................................................................................................... 48

Series IV: Visual Resources, 1870–1943 ................................................................................................................. 53Original Photographs and Prints .......................................................................................................................... 53Copy Photographs ............................................................................................................................................... 55Portraits ........................................................................................................................................................... 55Documents and Publications ............................................................................................................................ 55

Selected Search Terms ................................................................................................................................................. 57


Collection Overview

REPOSITORY: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript LibraryP. O. Box 208330New Haven, CT [email protected]://beinecke.library.yale.edu/

CALL NUMBER: WA MSS 447

TITLE: James Jesse Strang collection

DATES: 1832-1947

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 6.8 linear feet (15 boxes)

LANGUAGE: In English.

SUMMARY: Collection that documents and explores the life of religious leader, politician and self-proclaimed monarch James Jesse Strang and the development of the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites).

ONLINE FINDING AID: To cite or bookmark this finding aid, please use the following link: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.strangco

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To order reproductions from this collection, please send an email with the call number, box number(s), and folder number(s) to [email protected].

Key to the container abbreviations used in the PDF finding aid:

b. boxf. folder

Administrative Information

Immediate Source of AcquisitionJames Jesse Strang and Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) Collection series, gift of William Robertson Coe, 1951.

Charles Jesse Strang Papers, Milo Quiafe Papers, and Visual Resources series, gift of Charles Eberstadt, 1956.

Custodial HistoryCharles Jesse Strang, a son of James Jesse Strang, compiled most of the material in this collection, which after his death in 1916 passed to his brother Clement James Strang, who then gave the material to Milo Milton Quaife. Quaife drew on the material for his book, Kingdom of St. James (New Haven,

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Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1930). Quaife sold the material, probably between 1948 and 1951, to the bookseller Edward Eberstadt & Sons, which hired Dale L. Morgan to describe it in an item-level catalog, The Strang Manuscripts, in 1951. The bookseller then sold the material to William Robertson Coe, who gave it to Yale University in 1951. Charles Eberstadt from the firm then gave the remaining material in this collection as a gift in 1956.

Conditions Governing AccessThis collection is open for research.

James J. Strang's "Letter of Appointment": Restricted material. A reference surrogate has been substituted inBox 1, folder 4. For further information consult the appropriate curator.

Conditions Governing AccessThe James Jesse Strang Collection is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.

Preferred CitationJames Jesse Strang Collection. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Processing InformationThis material is open for research.

In 1993, library staG used optical character recognition to transcribe the item-level titles and numerical designations created in 1951 by Dale L. Morgan in his description of "The Strang Manuscripts" for the firm of Edward Eberstadt & Sons.

In 2019, the processing archivist reviewed, corrected, and expanded on this transcription to reflect current archival practice and added descriptions for the Charles Jesse Strang Papers, Milo Milton Quiafe Papers, and Visual Resources. Morgan's original typescript description accompanies the collection in Box 3.

Related MaterialsJames Jesse Strang Journal (WA MSS S-186). Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

James Jesse Strang Letterbook (WA MSS S-187). Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

James Jesse Strang Diary (WA MSS S-188). Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Order of the Illuminati Covenant (WA MSS S-189). Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

James Jesse Strang (1813-1856)James Jesse Strang was an American religious leader, politician and self-proclaimed monarch. In 1844 he claimed to be the appointed successor of Joseph Smith as leader of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Strang founded what became known as the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites). In addition to his ecclesiastical calling, Strang served one full term and part of a second as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives, 1853-1856, assisting in the organization of Manitou County. He was also at various times an attorney, educator, temperance lecturer, newspaper editor, Baptist minister, correspondent for the New York Tribune, and amateur scientist. He died from bullet wounds he sustained from an assassination in July 1856.

Charles Jesse Strang (1851-1916)Charles Jesse Strang was the son of James Jesse Strang and Elvira Eliza Field Strang Baker (1830-1910). He was the editor and publisher of the Charlevoix Journal in Charlevoix, Michigan, 1883-1890, as well as postmaster in Charlevoix in 1887. He wrote about his father in "Beaver Island and Its Mormon Kingdom" in J. C. Wright, The Ottawan: A Short History of the Villages and Resorts Surrounding Little Traverse Bay(Lansing, Michigan : R. Smith & Co., 1895), 63-68.

Milo Milton Quaife (1880-1959)Milo Milton Quaife was a historian, archivist, editor, and author of Michigan and the Great Lakes region. Born in Nashua, Iowa, he received his education at Grinnell College and the University of Missouri and his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1908. He taught at the Lewis Institute in Chicago, Wayne University and the University of Detroit. He served as superintendent of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin from 1914 until 1920, as well as Secretary and Editor of the Burton Historical Collection at the Detroit Public Library from 1924 until he retired in 1947.

Quaife was an editor of the Wisconsin Magazine of History from its founding in 1917 to 1922, as well as managing editor of Mississippi Valley Historical Review from 1924 to 1930, and editor the Lakeside Classics Series, an imprint of The Lakeside Press, from 1916 to 1959. Quaife also authored more than 100 works including his work about James Jesse Strang, Kingdom of St. James (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1930)

Quaife died in an automobile accident on September 1, 1959.

Scope and ContentsThe James Jesse Strang Collection documents and explores the life of religious leader, politician and self-proclaimed monarch James Jesse Strang and the development of the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites).

James Jesse Strang and Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) Collection, 1832-1869, (Series I) represents the bulk of the material in the collection. It consists of more than 550 items that relate to the early life of Strang as well as his founding of what became known as the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) and through his death in 1856. It includes substantial examples of his correspondence as well as church documents. The correspondence includes the "letter of appointment," June 18, 1844, attributed to Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which Strang and his followers believed designated him as the successor to Smith.

Charles Jesse Strang Papers, 1871-1898, (Series II) consists of material collected by Charles Jesse Strang about his father, James Jesse Strang and the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites).

Milo Milton Quiafe Papers, 1870-1947, (Series III) consists of material, 1870-1947, collected by Quaife for his book, Kingdom of St. James (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1930). Significant portions of the early material in this series were likely initially collected by Charles Jesse Strang, circa 1870-1916, and augmented afterward by the collecting of his brother Clement James Strang.

Visual Resources, 1870-1943, (Series IV) consists of original photographs and prints as well as copy photographs of portraits, documents, and publications related to James Jesse Strang and the development of the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites).

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ArrangementOrganized into four series: I. James Jesse Strang and Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) Collection, 1832-1869. II. Charles Jesse Strang Papers, 1871-1898. III. Milo Milton Quiafe Papers, 1870-1947. IV. Visual Resources, 1870-1943.

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Series I: James Jesse Strang and Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) Collection


Collection ContentsSeries I: James Jesse Strang and Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) Collection, 1832–1869

This series consists of material, 1832-1869, that documents the life of religious leader, politician and self-proclaimed monarch James Jesse Strang and the development of the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites). Material related to the early life of Strang include a fragmentary diary and miscellany. Remaining material covers the period after Strang joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in February 1844 as well as his founding later that year of what became known as the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) and through his death in 1856. It includes substantial examples of his incoming correspondence and drafts of his outgoing correspondence as well as church documents including branch and conference reports. The incoming correspondence includes the "letter of appointment," June 18, 1844, attributed to Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which Strang and his followers believed designated him as the successor to Smith.

Gift of William Roberston Coe, 1951.

Series I is organized into six subseries: Basic Early Documents; Personal Papers; Church Archives; General Correspondence; Dale L. Morgan, The Strang Manuscripts; and Additions.

Container Description Date

Basic Early Documents

This subseries includes material, 1832-1855, related to the early life of James Jesse Strang as well as the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites).

Arranged sequentially by numbers assigned in Dale L. Morgan, The Strang Manuscripts (1951).

b. 1, f. 1 1. James Jesse Strang manuscript autobiography, 1813-1825

Includes a note, unsigned, by Charles Jesse Strang.

1855

b. 1, f. 2 2. James Jesse Strang manuscript diary

See James Jesse Strang, Diary, WA MSS S-188.

Removed from collection for separate housing and catalog description by library staG, circa 1995.

1832 November 11-1835 June 24

b. 1, f. 3 3. James Jesse Strang notebook undated

b. 1, f. 4 4. Joseph Smith, attributed, "Letter of Appointment"

Letter ostensibly written by Joseph Smith to James Jesse Strang from Nauvoo, Illinois, and published by Strang in the Voree Herald, January 1846, as well as in his The Diamond: Being the Law of Prophetic Succession and a Defense of the Calling of James J. Strang as Successor to Joseph Smith(Voree, Wisconsin, 1848) and The Prophetic Controversy: A Letter from James Strang to Mrs. Corey (St. James, Michigan, 1854). Accompanied by an unsigned note from a child of Strang.

Photostat copy.

Restricted material. A reference surrogate has been substituted in folder 4. For further information consult the appropriate curator.

1844 June 18

b. 1, f. 5 5. James Jesse Strang manuscript memoranda 1844 July-August

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b. 1, f. 6 6. John E. Page, Charles B. Thompson, Jehiel Savage, Increase Van Deusen, Moses Smith, et al., manuscript testimony before the High Council, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 April 6

b. 1, f. 7 7. James Jesse Strang manuscript fragment for publication in Voree Herald 1846 summer

b. 1, f. 8 8. Jehiel Savage manuscript charges preferred against Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and Parley P Pratt for usurpation and other misdeeds, nine specifications being made

1846 April 6

b. 1, f. 9 8a. James Jesse Strang manuscript charges setting forth seven counts against the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for trial before the High Council, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 April 6

b. 1, f. 10 9. James Jesse Strang autograph letter signed, Ottawa, Illinois, to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

1846 January 13

b. 1, f. 11 10. John E. Page autograph letter signed, Nauvoo, Illinois, to Jesse James Strang

1846 February 1

b. 1, f. 12 11. Brigham Young letter signed, Nauvoo, Illinois, to churches in Ottawa, Illinois

1846 January 24

b. 1, f. 13 11a. Orson Hyde, attributed, manuscript against the claims of Jesse James Strang

circa 1846 January

b. 1, f. 14 12. Charles Greenwood autograph letter signed, Boston, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang

1850 September 5

b. 1, f. 15 13. William Smith autograph letter signed, Nauvoo, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 March 17

b. 1, f. 16 14. Reuben Miller autograph letter signed, Nauvoo, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 February 15

b. 1, f. 17 15. James C. Brewster autograph letter signed, Springfield, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 March 15

b. 1, f. 18 16. Benjamin Chapman autograph letter signed, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 March 24

b. 1, f. 19 17. P. Matteson autograph letter signed, Elizabeth, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Ottawa, Illinois

1846 April 2

b. 1, f. 20 18. John Greenhow statement for the Voree Herald 1846 October

b. 1, f. 21 19. Dennis Chidester autograph letter signed, Milford Centre, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 March 13

b. 1, f. 22 20. James W. Pugh autograph letter signed, Cincinnati, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 March 23

b. 1, f. 23 21. James Jesse Strang, Manuscripts of two items published in the Voree Herald

1846 April-May

b. 1, f. 24 22. James Jesse Strang, Draft of letter, Ottawa, Wisconsin Territory, to James Smith at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1846 April 22

Basic Early Documents (continued)

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b. 1, f. 25 22a. James Smith autograph letter signed, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 May 16

b. 1, f. 26 23. Calvin B. Childs autograph letter signed, Black River, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 April 26

b. 1, f. 27 24. John Cook Bennett autograph letter signed, Cincinnati, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 April 2

b. 1, f. 28 25. James Jesse Strang manuscript articles prepared for publication in theVoree Herald

1846

b. 1, f. 29 26. Lucy Smith copy letter to Almon W. Babbitt, Joseph L. Heywood, and John Solomon Fullmer as well as a copy of their letter to her

1846 March 22

b. 1, f. 30 27. William Smith autograph letter signed, Knoxville, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 December 7

b. 1, f. 31 27a. William Smith autograph letter signed, Knoxville, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 December 14

b. 1, f. 32 27b. William Smith autograph letter signed, Knoxville, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang

1846 December 25

b. 1, f. 33 28. James Jesse Strang manuscript memorandum 1846

b. 1, f. 34 29. Esther Ormsby autograph letter signed, Waterloo, Wisconsin Territory, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 May 17

b. 1, f. 35 30. Isaac Paden autograph letter signed, Knoxville, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang

1846 May 17

b. 1, f. 36 31. James Jesse Strang draft of letter, Voree, Wisconsin Territory, to "Sister" 1846 May 23

b. 1, f. 37 32. Reuben Miller autograph letter signed, Norway, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Ottawa, Illinois

1846 May 24

b. 1, f. 38 33. John Cook Bennett autograph letter signed, Plymouth, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 June 2

b. 1, f. 39 33a. John Cook Bennett autograph letter signed, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

circa 1846 March

b. 1, f. 40 33b. John Cook Bennett autograph letter signed, Cincinnati, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 March 23?

b. 1, f. 41 33c. John Cook Bennett autograph letter signed, Cincinnati, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 March 27

b. 1, f. 42 34. George J. Adams autograph letter signed, Cincinnati, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 March 27

b. 1, f. 43 34a. George J. Adams autograph letter signed, Lewisburg, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 June 3

b. 1, f. 44 34b. George J. Adams autograph letter signed, Lewisburg, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 June 20


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b. 1, f. 45 35. John E. Page autograph letter signed, Elgin, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 July 6

b. 1, f. 46 36. Samuel Moore Reeve autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 July 12

b. 1, f. 47 37. Louisa Sanger? autograph letter signed, Ottawa, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

Probably Mary Louisa Sanger (1813-1877), a convert of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in September 1843. She initially supported the claims of James Jesse Strang, but broke with him by 1849.

1846 July 15

b. 1, f. 48 37a. Louisa Sanger? autograph letter signed to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

circa 1846 November

b. 1, f. 49 38. Manuscript minutes of the High Council, Voree, Wisconsin Territory, about the character and conduct of John Cook Bennett

1846 October 4

b. 1, f. 50 38a. John Cook Bennett manuscript extracting from the Times and Seasons, June 15, 1842, page 830, the notice of his withdrawal from the Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints) on May 11, 1842

circa 1842 June

b. 1, f. 51 39. Willard GriOth manuscript statement, Voree, Wisconsin Territory 1846 October 23

b. 1, f. 52 40. James Jesse Strang, William Marks, John Cook Bennett, and William Smith manuscript statement by the presiding oOcers of the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) regarding the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

circa 1846 October

b. 1, f. 53 41. James Jesse Strang draft of revelation deposing Sidney Rigdon 1846 October 18

b. 1, f. 54 42. Ebenezer Page autograph letter signed, Antwerp, New York, to James Jesse Strang

1846 November 3

b. 1, f. 55 43. James Blanchard autograph letter signed, Oquawka, Illinois, to William Smith at Knoxville, Illinois

1846 November 6

b. 1, f. 56 43a. William Smith autograph letter signed, to James Jesse Strang, regarding James Blanchard autograph letter signed, Oquawka, Illinois, to William Smith at Knoxville, Illinois

1846 -1847

b. 1, f. 57 44. James Jesse Strang manuscript defining districts of the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) in Illinois

circa 1847 January

b. 1, f. 58 45. Peter Hess autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 December 14

b. 1, f. 59 46. Reuben Miller autograph letter signed, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 December 23

b. 1, f. 60 47. Notes about from a discourse by Reuben Miller against James Jesse Strang

circa 1846 July 24

b. 1, f. 61 48. James Jesse Strang manuscript refutation of Reuben Miller's discourse against him

1846 July 25

b. 1, f. 62 49. James Jesse Strang manuscript "Reubenism" circa 1846 October

b. 1, f. 63 50. James Jesse Strang manuscript plan for arches of Voree Temple circa 1847


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b. 1, f. 64 51. James Jesse Strang Manuscript plan for Voree Temple circa 1847

b. 1, f. 65 52. James Jesse Strang manuscript article, "Brighamism," for publication in the Voree Herald in October 1846

circa 1846 October

b. 1, f. 66 53. John E. Page autograph letter signed, Kings Mill, Illinois to John Greenhow, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1847 January 23

b. 1, f. 67 54. Lester Brooks autograph letter signed, Laporte, Ohio, to James M. Adams, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1847 January 12

b. 1, f. 68 55. Louisa Sanger? autograph letter signed, Ottawa, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin

1849 August 19

b. 1, f. 69 56. Charles Durkee autograph letters signed, Washington, District of Columbia, to James Jesse Strang as well as Charles Edward Habicht, autograph letter signed, New York City, to Charles Durkee, Washington, District of Columbia

1850 January 4-13

b. 1, f. 70 57. Wilford WoodruG autograph letter signed, Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, to John William Grierson, Washington, District of Columbia

1850 January 11

b. 1, f. 71 58. John William Grierson autograph letter signed, Washington, District of Columbia, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1850 January 22

b. 1, f. 72 59. Enos Goodrich autograph letter signed, Goodrich, Michigan, to Charles E. Stuart

1853 March 7

Personal Papers

This subseries includes personal papers of Strang, including draft letters, writings, and family correspondence, 1841-1865. The material provides documentation the relations between Strang and his wives and extended family as well as about the development of the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites).


b. 1, f. 73 60. James Jesse Strang draft letter, Voree, Wisconsin Territory, to John Cook Bennett as well as James Jesse Strang draft letter, Voree, Wisconsin Territory, to G. J. (George Jones) Adams

1846 May 5

b. 1, f. 74 61. James Jesse Strang draft letter, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory, to I. A. Hopkins

1846 December 21

b. 1, f. 75 62. James Jesse Strang autograph letter signed, Racine, Wisconsin, to Benjamin G. Wright, Voree, Wisconsin, as well as Benjamin G. Wright, autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Racine, Wisconsin

1849 June 13-15

b. 1, f. 76 63. Edmund B. (Edmund Burke) Fairfield autograph letter signed, Spring Arbor, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 July 30

b. 1, f. 77 63a. James Jesse Strang draft letter, Voree, Wisconsin, to Edmund B. (Edmund Burke) Fairfield, Spring Arbor, Michigan

1849 August 11

b. 1, f. 78 64. James Jesse Strang draft of letter, Racine, Wisconsin, to Frank Cooper 1849 September 1


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b. 1, f. 79 65. James Jesse Strang draft letter, Baltimore, Maryland, to M. Lindley 1849 November 13

b. 1, f. 80 66. John Ursbruck autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1849 November 17

b. 1, f. 81 66a. James Jesse Strang draft letter, Baltimore, Maryland, to John Ursbruck, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1849 November 20

b. 1, f. 82 67. James Jesse Strang draft letter, Baltimore, Maryland, to Andrew J. Graham, Parma, Michigan

1843 November 19

b. 1, f. 83 68. James Jesse Strang draft letter, Baltimore, Maryland, to Peter Hess, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1848 November 20

b. 1, f. 84 69. James Jesse Strang draft letter, Baltimore, Maryland, to Amos Lowen 1849 November 21

b. 1, f. 85 70. Peter Hess autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1849 November 22

b. 1, f. 86 70a. James Jesse Strang draft of letter, Baltimore, Maryland, to Peter Hess 1849 November 23

b. 1, f. 87 71. James Jesse Strang draft letter, Baltimore, Maryland, to Lorenzo Dow Hickey

1849 December 10

b. 1, f. 88 72. James Jesse Strang draft letter, Baltimore, Maryland, to James Monroe Cook, Baltimore, Maryland

1850 January 16

b. 1, f. 89 73. James Jesse Strang draft letter, Baltimore, Maryland, to Mary Abigail Content Perce Strang

1850 January 25

b. 1, f. 90 74. James Jesse Strang autograph letter signed, Saint James, Michigan, to Clement Strang and Abigail James Strang, Cherry Creek, New York

1851 May 19

b. 1, f. 91 74a. James Jesse Strang note to Mary Abigail Content Perce Strang, Saint James, Michigan

circa 1851 May 19

b. 1, f. 92 75. James Jesse Strang draft letter to a woman undated

b. 1, f. 93 76. James Jesse Strang draft opinion on the validity of the marriage of Brother Andrews and Sister Andrews

undated

b. 1, f. 94 77. James Jesse Strang draft of a patriarchal blessing on Zimri Butterfield at Voree, Wisconsin

1849 August 28

b. 1, f. 95 78. James Jesse Strang draft of a patriarchal blessing on Albert Newell Hosmer

1849 November 27

b. 1, f. 96 79. James Jesse Strang manuscript memorandum 1846?

b. 1, f. 97 80. James Jesse Strang manuscript commandment undated

b. 1, f. 98 81. James Jesse Strang manuscript commandment undated

b. 1, f. 99 82. James Jesse Strang manuscript draft of an introduction for a series of articles on the State of Deseret

Probably in the hand of Elvira Eliza Field Strang Baker.

circa 1850 January

Personal Papers (continued)

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b. 1, f. 100 83. James Jesse Strang manuscript minutes of a sermon circa 1850 July

b. 1, f. 101 84. James Jesse Strang manuscript notes on debate with Briggs about the "Existence of God"

1849 January 16

b. 1, f. 102 85. James Jesse Strang autograph letter to John Cook Bennett 1850 January 25

b. 1, f. 103 86. James Jesse Strang manuscript notes on Biblical kings circa 1849 December

b. 1, f. 104 87. James Jesse Strang manuscript constitution for the Reformed Temperance Society

circa 1849 December

b. 1, f. 105 88. James Jesse Strang manuscript notes on debate with McCabe about Mormonism

circa 1849

b. 1, f. 106 89. James Jesse Strang manuscript notes for sermon or debate on the Deluge, Baltimore, Maryland

1849 December 9

b. 1, f. 107 90. James Jesse Strang manuscript lecture notes on Mormonism as well as anonymous notes hostile to Joseph Smith and James Jesse Strang

circa 1849

b. 1, f. 108 91. James Jesse Strang manuscript note on "Of Compromises" circa 1850

b. 1, f. 109 92. James Jesse Strang (?) Notes evidently made in the Michigan legislature during the progress of a debate. (185?).

1853-1856 July

b. 1, f. 110 93. Walworth County District Court, Wisconsin Territory, manuscript certification James Jesse Strang "as minister of the Gospel"

1846 June 13

b. 1, f. 111 94. James W. Bartholf autograph letter signed of introduction for James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory, to George Thompson, Batavia, New York

1846 July 27

b. 1, f. 112 95. Hairwork presented to James Jesse Strang, Rutland Hollow, New York, by Lucy Waldo, Olive Scott, Lucretia Wait, Mary Ann Barker, and Jane Brown

1847 June 23

b. 1, f. 113 96. Racine County District Court, Wisconsin Territory, manuscript registration of ordination for James Jesse Strang

1843 August 18

b. 1, f. 114 97. "I. Snort" manuscript facetious lawsuit filing of "C. P. Burns" versus James Jesse Strang

circa 1849 February 16

b. 1, f. 115 98. James Jesse Strang manuscript poem, "I love thee" circa 1845-1848

b. 1, f. 116 99. Justice Court Ellington, New York, manuscript assignment of promissory note in case of Reuben Penhollow versus William L Pau to James Jesse Strang and his discharge

1841 June 2-1845 September 20

b. 1, f. 117 100. James Jesse Strang manuscript notes on debate with Seth W. Chandler about "Is man by nature depraved"

1841 October 2

b. 2, f. 118 101. Henry D. Grant manuscript decision in debate on "the veto power of the President" at Ellington Lyceum, Ellington, New York

1841 November 6

b. 2, f. 119 102. James Jesse Strang manuscript notes from debate on "were the Europeans justifiable in taking possession of this continent without purchase from the aborigines" at Ellington Lyceum, Ellington, New York

1841 November 20


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b. 2, f. 120 103. James Jesse Strang manuscript notes related to lecture on geology and astronomy

1842 June 30

b. 2, f. 121 104. James Jesse Strang manuscript contract between him and James Beardsley at Ellington, New York

1842 January 13

b. 2, f. 122 105. James Jesse Strang manuscript accounts ledger sheets 1843 February 16-June 3

b. 2, f. 123 106. R. B. Clark manuscript bill submitted to James Jesse Strang, Clear Creek, New York

1853 May 20

b. 2, f. 124 107. D. Benedict autograph letter signed, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to Pearce, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1843 March 10

b. 2, f. 125 108. James Jesse Strang draft letter, Randolph, New York, to M. Strohr, Hanover, New York

1843 June 27

b. 2, f. 126 109. Samuel A. Brown autograph letter of introduction for James Jesse Strang signed, Westfield, New York, to Henry Brown, Chicago, Illinois

1843 August 16

b. 2, f. 127 110. James Jesse Strang manuscript brief of arbitration and award of suit involving Horatio Hill and Ebben HIll

undated

b. 2, f. 128 111. Manning J. Hannaman autograph letter signed, Knoxville, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1847 February 25

b. 2, f. 129 112. Andrew Calhoun manuscript power of attorney, Burlington, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang to act for him in a demand against Joseph Pease

1849 February 16

b. 2, f. 130 113. Mary Abigail Content Perce Strang autograph letter, Cherry Creek, New York, signed to James Jesse Strang, New York City

1849 November 4

b. 2, f. 131 114, 115, and 116. Mary Abigail Content Perce Strang autograph letters, Cherry Creek, New York, to James Jesse Strang, New York City and Baltimore, Maryland

Letters adhered together.

1849 November 10-1850 January 9

b. 2, f. 132 117. Abigail James Strang and Myraette Abigail Strang Losee autograph letter signed to James Jesse Strang and Mary Abigail Content Perce Strang

circa 1850 May

b. 2, f. 133 118. Abigail James Strang and Myraette Abigail Strang Losee autograph letter signed, Cherry Creek, New York to James Jesse Strang and Mary Abigail Content Perce Strang

1850 November 1

b. 2, f. 134 119. Abigail James Strang and Myraette Abigail Strang Losee autograph letter signed, Cherry Creek, New York to James Jesse Strang and Mary Abigail Content Perce Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin

circa 1851 June 23

b. 2, f. 135 120. Myraette Abigail Strang Losee autograph letter signed, Cherry Creek, New York to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 May 5

b. 2, f. 136 121. Myraette Abigail Strang Losee autograph letter signed, Cherry Creek, New York to James Jesse Strang, Villanova, New York

1846 August 20

b. 2, f. 137 122. Arad Losee and Myraette Abigail Strang Losee autograph letter signed, Cherry Creek, New York to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 December 8


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b. 2, f. 138 123. Myraette Abigail Strang Losee autograph letter signed, Cherry Creek, New York to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1847 May 13

b. 2, f. 139 124. Abigail James Strang and Myraette Abigail Strang Losee autograph letter signed, Cherry Creek, New York to James Jesse Strang and Mary Abigail Content Perce Strang, Saint James, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 November 20

b. 2, f. 140 125. David Amaziah Strang and Myraette Abigail Strang Losee autograph letter signed, Cherry Creek, New York to James Jesse Strang and Mary Abigail Content Perce Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory, as well as Baptist Church of Randolph New York dismissal of James Jesse Strang and Mary Abigail Content Perce Strang

1845 May 4-July 23

b. 2, f. 141 126. David Amaziah Strang autograph letter signed, Randolph, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 August 11

b. 2, f. 142 127. David Amaziah Strang autograph letter signed, Kinzua, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1848 May 28

b. 2, f. 143 128. David Amaziah Strang autograph letter signed, Kinzua, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 June 24

b. 2, f. 144 129. J. N. James autograph letter signed, Jamesville, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Saint James, Beaver Island, Michigan

1851 January 8

b. 2, f. 145 130. Polly James autograph letter signed, Jamesville, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin, as well as Frank Cooper autograph letter signed James Jesse Strang, and James Jesse Strang draft letter Baltimore, Maryland, to Polly James

1849 August 26-December 24

b. 2, f. 146 131. John Dennison autograph letter signed, Hagerstown, Maryland, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 March 13

b. 2, f. 147 132. John Dennison autograph letter signed, Alden, New York, to James Jesse Strang

1849 July 11

b. 2, f. 148 133. "Mary Jane" autograph letter, Ligonier, Indiana, to Elizabeth Strang 1864 January 1

b. 2, f. 149 134. Autograph letter to "Cousin" circa 1865

b. 2, f. 150 135. Lydia Brown Perce autograph letter signed, Morris, Illinois, to Mary Abigail Content Perce Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 September 20

b. 2, f. 151 136. Edward Learned autograph letter signed, West Troy, New York to James Jesse Strang

1849 April 9

b. 2, f. 152 137. J. Williams autograph letter signed, Brookline, Massachusetts, to Joseph N. Bacon, Newton, Massachusetts, as well as Joseph N. Bacon, autograph letter signed, Newton, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1848 April 12-13

b. 2, f. 153 138. Samuel G. Perce autograph letter signed, Dundee, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang

1850 May 5

b. 2, f. 154 139.Samuel G. Perce autograph letter signed, Chicago, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang

1850 February 10

b. 2, f. 155 140. Samuel G. Perce autograph letter signed, Belvidere, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang

1850 June 5


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b. 2, f. 156 141. W. E. Perce autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, BuGalo, New York

1849 September 18

b. 2, f. 157 142. W. L. Perce autograph letter signed, Elgin, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1847 January 18

b. 2, f. 158 143. W. S. Perce, Jr., autograph letter signed, Green River, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 June 3

b. 2, f. 159 144. W. L. Perce, autograph letter signed, Green River, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 June 3

b. 2, f. 160 145. W. S. Perce, Jr., autograph letter signed, Green River, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang

1850 November 10

b. 2, f. 161 146. Elvira Eliza Field Strang (writing as Charles J. Douglass) autograph letter signed, Baltimore, Maryland, to James Jesse Strang

1850 February 4

b. 2, f. 162 147. Elvira Eliza Field Strang (writing as Charles J. Douglass) autograph letter signed, Baltimore, Maryland, to James Jesse Strang

1850 February 7

b. 2, f. 163 148. F. Merryweather autograph letter signed, Nashville, Tennessee, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 November 29

b. 2, f. 164 149. John E. Page autograph letter signed, Saint Charles, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1847 January 1

b. 2, f. 165 150. Increase Van Dusen autograph letter signed, Syracuse, New York, to James Jesse Strang in care of J. B. Wheeland, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1847 January 3

b. 2, f. 166 151. John W. Crane autograph letter signed, Knoxville, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1847 January 9

b. 2, f. 167 152. Autograph letter, Lockport, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1847 March 26

b. 2, f. 168 153. Increase Van Dusen autograph letter signed, New York, Jun 18, 1849, to James Jesse Strang

1849 June 18

b. 2, f. 169 154. John E. Page manuscript objections to points of doctrine taught by James Jesse Strang

1849 August 26

b. 2, f. 170 155. James Jesse Strang autograph letter signed, Baltimore, Maryland to Increase Van Dusen, New York City , as well as Increase Van Dusen, autograph letter signed, New York City, to James Jesse Strang

1849 December 21-circa 1850 January

b. 2, f. 171 156. George J. Adams, attributed, autograph letter, to James Jesse Strang 1850 July-October

b. 2, f. 172 157. Anson W. Prindle autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1849 November 14

b. 2, f. 173 158. Gilbert Watson autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Washington, District of Columbia

Accompanied by photostats and typescript related to a cipher in the letter.

1850 January 7

b. 2, f. 174 159. Louisa Sanger? autograph letter signed, Ottawa, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang

1850? April 18


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b. 2, f. 175 160. Louisa I. Adams autograph letter signed, to George J. Adams. 1850?

Church Archives

This subseries consists of material from the development of the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites), 1843-1850. Includes papers related to the organizations, such as the "Order of Illuminati" secret society and the collectivist Associated Order of Enoch as well as church trials, including proceedings against William Smith. A document also provides a roster of church members that witnessed the coronation of Strang as the "King of Zion" at Saint James, Beaver Island, Michigan, on July 8, 1850.


b. 2, f. 176 161. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints record of the Chatham Branch, Chatham, Ohio

1843–1845

b. 2, f. 177 162. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites). Record of organization of Chicago Branch, Chicago, Illinois

1846 May 10

b. 2, f. 178 163. John Cook Bennett manuscript portion of the ritual of the "Order of the Illuminati"

circa 1846 July 6

b. 2, f. 179 164. John Cook Bennett autograph letter signed, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory, to James Jesse Strang, Boston, Massachusetts

1846 August 15

b. 2, f. 180 165. John Cook Bennett autograph letter signed, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory, to James Jesse Strang, Boston, Massachusetts

1846 August 18

b. 2, f. 181 166. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) record of the organization of the Philadelphia Branch, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1846 September 2-6

b. 2, f. 182 167. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) minutes of conference at Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 October

b. 2, f. 183 168. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) proceedings of trial of Collins Pemberton before the High Council at Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 October 25

b. 2, f. 184 169. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) manuscript depositions of Nelson R. Johnson and Levenna Johnson at Voree, Wisconsin Territory, related an alleged saddle theft by Benjamin Ellsworth

1846 November 3

b. 2, f. 185 170. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) resolutions of the Boston Branch, Boston, Massachusetts

1847 February 1

b. 2, f. 186 171. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites), Associated Order of Enoch, manuscript resolution regarding the acquisition of credit in the name of the order, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1848 June 10

b. 2, f. 187 172. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites), Associated Order of Enoch, manuscript resolution regarding labor of children and family members

1848 September 9

b. 2, f. 188 173. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites), Associated Order of Enoch, manuscript order regarding clothing and removal of Lyman Reynolds form the association

1848 September 23

b. 2, f. 189 174. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites), Associated Order of Enoch, report of the committee on clothing

1848 September 23


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b. 2, f. 190 175. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites), Associated Order of Enoch, Committee on Accountabilities, manuscript report

1848 September 23

b. 2, f. 191 176. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites), Associated Order of Enoch, manuscript minutes, "City of Enoch," Wisconsin

1849 December 26

b. 2, f. 192 177. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites), Associated Order of Enoch, manuscript depositions in John W. Archer versus James J. Strang and John Cole, Walworth County, Wisconsin, Justice of the Peace Court

Includes depositions by Finley Page, Spaulding Deloss, Andrew J. Parris, Asa C. Field, Joseph Ketchum, and Walter Ostrander.

1849

b. 2, f. 193 178. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites), Associated Order of Enoch, attributed, manuscript tally sheet with 29 names

undated

b. 2, f. 194 179. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites), Associated Order of Enoch, attributed, manuscript report of the building committee concerning receipts and expenditures for the year October 6, 1847 to October 5, 1848

1848 October 5

b. 2, f. 195 180. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites), John C. Gaylord versus William Smith, trial proceedings

circa 1847 April

b. 2, f. 196 181. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites), John C. Gaylord versus William Smith, testimony by Sarah Ellsworth taken by James Jesse Strang

1847 April 23

b. 2, f. 197 182. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites), John C. Gaylord versus William Smith, manuscript questions put to B. C. Ellsworth by John C. Gaylord and William Smith

circa 1847 April 23

b. 2, f. 198 183. John W. Crane financial report on the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) 1847 September 26

b. 2, f. 199 184. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) subscription lists for the building of the Temple and the Tower of Strength on the Hill of Promise, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

circa 1847

b. 2, f. 200 185. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) diagrams, possible plat maps undated

b. 2, f. 201 186. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites), New York Branch, New York City, proceedings regarding Lorenzo D. Hickey and Increase Van Dusen

circa 1849 September

b. 2, f. 202 187. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) manuscript minutes of discourses at the conference at Beaver Island, Michigan, including remarks by George J. Adams and James Jesse Strang

1850 July 2-3

b. 2, f. 203 188. Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) roster of church members that witnesses to "the crowning of the King of Zion" at Saint James, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 July 8

Church Archives (continued)

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General Correspondence

This subseries consists of correspondence, 1841-1869, by prominent individuals related to the development of the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites). Correspondents includes President George J. Adams, John Cook Bennett, Lester Brooks, Dennis Chidester, Samuel Graham, James M. Grieg, Alden Hale, Peter Hess, Lorenzo Dow Hickey, Andrew G. Jackson, Amos Lowen, William Marks, Jesse Nichols, Isaac Paden, Ebenezer Page, Stephen Post, William Smith, and Gilbert Watson.


b. 2, f. 204 189. Samuel Abbott autograph letter signed, Mackinac Island, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang

1850 May 2

b. 2, f. 205 190. G. V. Ackert autograph letter signed, Black River, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1850 March 28

b. 2, f. 206 191. G. V. Ackert autograph letter signed, Clayton, New York, to James Jesse Strang

circa 1850 April


1850 September 24


1851 July 29

b. 2, f. 209 194. Daniel M Adams autograph letter signed to James Jesse Strang circa 1846

b. 2, f. 210 195. George J. Adams autograph letter signed, Lewisburg, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory, for publication in Voree Herald

1846 July 6

b. 2, f. 211 196. George J. Adams autograph letter signed, Dayton, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Kirtland, Ohio

1846 August 3

b. 2, f. 212 197. George J. Adams autograph letter signed, Dayton, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 August 3

b. 2, f. 213 198. George J. Adams manuscript account of service performed by George J. Adams, E. J. Moore, and Eli Steele

1848

b. 2, f. 214 199. George J. Adams autograph letter signed, Wilmington, Delaware, to James Jesse Strang, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1849 November 1

b. 2, f. 215 200. George J. Adams autograph letter signed, New York City, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1849 December 3

b. 3, f. 216 201. D. R. Whipple autograph letter signed, Washington, District of Columbia, to George J. Adams

1849 November 29

b. 3, f. 217 202.George J. Adams autograph letter signed, New York City, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1849 December 5

b. 3, f. 218 203. George J. Adams autograph letter signed, Boston, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang

1849 December 11

b. 3, f. 219 204. George J. Adams autograph letter signed, Boston, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1849 December 22

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1850 January 15


1850 January 17


1850 January 26

b. 3, f. 223 208. George J. Adams autograph letter signed, Boston, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang

1850 Janaury 31

b. 3, f. 224 209. George J. Adams autograph letter signed to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1850 February 10

b. 3, f. 225 210. George J. Adams autograph letter signed, Baltimore, Maryland, to James Jesse Strang

1850 February 18

b. 3, f. 226 211. George J. Adams autograph letter signed, Baltimore, Maryland, to James Jesse Strang, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1850 March 1

b. 3, f. 227 212. George J. Adams autograph letter signed, on steamer Michigan near Mackinaw City, Michigan to James Jesse Strang, Saint James, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 August 1

b. 3, f. 228 213. George J. Adams autograph letter signed, on steamer Michigan near Mackinaw City, Michigan to Louisa Isabel Pray Adams, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 August 1

b. 3, f. 229 214. Hazen Aldrich autograph letter signed, Willoughby, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 April 14?

b. 3, f. 230 215. M. M. Aldrich manuscript copy of letter signed, Beaver Island, Michigan, to Samuel Graham

Manuscript copy by Elvira Eliza Field Strang

1849 November 23

b. 3, f. 231 216. S. Alexander autograph letter signed, BuGalo, New York, to James Jesse Strang

1854 November 22

b. 3, f. 232 217. S. Alexander autograph letter signed, Chicago, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang

1855 April 6

b. 3, f. 233 218. Naomi Alvord autograph letter signed, Far West, Missouri, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 April 20

b. 3, f. 234 219. C. W. Appleton autograph letter signed, New Bedford, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1849 December 17

b. 3, f. 235 220. Mary Appleton autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to George J. Adams at Baltimore, Maryland

1849 November 22

b. 3, f. 236 221. Lois Austin autograph letter signed, Beaver Island, Michigan, to Samuel Graham, Boston, Massachusetts, and then endorsed to James Jesse Strang

1849 November 20

b. 3, f. 237 222. Elisha Barton autograph letter signed, West Jersey, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang

1850 November 11

General Correspondence (continued)

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b. 3, f. 238 223. George H. Benedict autograph letter signed, Southport, Wisconsin Territory, May 15, 1846, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 May 15


1846 March 20


1846 March 25?


1846 March 29


1846 March 31


1846 April 6


1846 April 14

b. 3, f. 245 230. John Cook Bennett autograph letter signed, steamer Michigan and postmarked from Cincinnati, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 April 18?

b. 3, f. 246 231. John Cook Bennett autograph letter signed, Plymouth, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 May 27

b. 3, f. 247 232. John Cook Bennett autograph letter signed, Plymouth, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 June 12

b. 3, f. 248 233. John Cook Bennett autograph letter of introduction signed, Voree, Wisconsin Territory, for Jesse James Strang to General James Arlington Bennet.

1846 July 29

b. 3, f. 249 234. John Cook Bennett autograph letter signed, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory, to James Jesse Strang, New York City

1846 August 11

b. 3, f. 250 235. John Cook Bennett autograph letter signed, Burlington, Wisconsin, Aug 20, 1846, to James Jesse Strang, Boston, Massachusetts

1846 August 20

b. 3, f. 251 236. John Cook Bennett autograph letter signed, Plymouth, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin

1849 December 13

b. 3, f. 252 237. John Cook Bennett autograph letter signed, Plymouth, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1850 January

b. 3, f. 253 238. John Cook Bennett autograph letter signed, Plymouth, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang

1850 May 29


1850 November 25


1851 March 31

b. 3, f. 256 241. Samuel Bennett autograph letter signed, Williamsburg, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1849 December 11


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b. 3, f. 257 242. Samuel Bennett autograph letter signed, Williamsburg, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1850 March 12

b. 3, f. 258 243. Silas Bennett autograph letter signed, Belvidere, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 April 23

b. 3, f. 259 244. James Blakeslee autograph letter signed, Batavia, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 October 4

b. 3, f. 260 245. H. Boardman autograph letter signed, Grand Traverse Bay, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 September 16

b. 3, f. 261 246. Alfred Bonney autograph letter signed, Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 April 11

b. 3, f. 262 247. Daniel F. Botsford, Nancy Botsford, and John Alston manuscript deposition

circa 1847 January

b. 3, f. 263 248. Daniel F. Botsford autograph letter signed, Chicago, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1847 January 9

b. 3, f. 264 249. Daniel F. Botsford autograph letter signed, Chicago, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1847 January 12

b. 3, f. 265 250. Daniel F. Botsford autograph letter signed, Chicago, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang

1847 January 29

b. 3, f. 266 251. Daniel F. Botsford autograph letter signed, Chicago, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1847 May 20

b. 3, f. 267 252. Samuel Boutiker autograph letter signed, New Trenton, Iowa, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1847 May 10

b. 3, f. 268 253. Thomas W. Braidwood autograph letters signed, Harpers Ferry, Virginia, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1849 December 3-16

b. 3, f. 269 254. Thomas W. Braidwood autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1850 January 3

b. 3, f. 270 255. Thomas W. Braidwood autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1850 January 9

b. 3, f. 271 256. Thomas W. Braidwood autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang

1850 January 24

b. 3, f. 272 257. Lester Brooks autograph letter signed, Laporte, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 May 8

b. 3, f. 273 258. Lester Brooks autograph letter signed, Ravenna, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1847 March 14

b. 3, f. 274 259. Lester Brooks autograph letter signed, BuGalo, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1849 August 17

b. 3, f. 275 260. Lester Brooks autograph letter signed, BuGalo, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Boston, Massachusetts

1850 March 20

b. 3, f. 276 261. Hiram P. Brown autograph letter signed, Fulton, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Washington, District of Columbia

1850 January 19


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b. 3, f. 277 262. Hiram P. Brown autograph letter signed, Fulton, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1850 February 16

b. 3, f. 278 263. Hiram P. Brown autograph letter signed, Fulton, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1850 May 21

b. 3, f. 279 264. Hiram P. Brown autograph letter signed, Oswego, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 August 29

b. 3, f. 280 265. Hiram P. Brown autograph letter signed, Koshkonong, Wisconsin, to Mary Abigail Content Perce Strang, Elgin, Illinois

1851 August 6

b. 3, f. 281 266. George Brownson autograph letter signed, Chicago, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 March 27

b. 3, f. 282 267. George Brownson autograph letter signed, JeGerson, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 July 29

b. 3, f. 283 268. George Brownson autograph letter signed, LandoG, New Hampshire, and Frank Cooper, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang

1849 November 15-December 9

b. 3, f. 284 269. George Brownson autograph letter signed, Portland, Maine, to James Jesse Strang

1849 December 27

b. 3, f. 285 270. George Brownson autograph letter signed, Theresa, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 May 27

b. 3, f. 286 271. George Brownson autograph letter signed, Mackinac Island, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1851 July 19

b. 3, f. 287 272. Julia Bulkley autograph letter signed, Brownhelm, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 August 19

b. 3, f. 288 273. Hunt F. Butler autograph letter signed, Saint Charles, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1847 April 27

b. 3, f. 289 274. Zimri Butterfield autograph letter signed, Chicago, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1841 August 8

b. 3, f. 290 275. Thomas Cahoon autograph letter signed, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 May 7

b. 3, f. 291 276. A. B. Calkins autograph letter signed, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Washington, District of Columbia

1850 February 25

b. 3, f. 292 277. James Canney autograph letter signed, New York City, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 June 16

b. 3, f. 293 278. James Canney autograph letter signed, New York City, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 November 18

b. 3, f. 294 279. Alonzo Cheeseman autograph letter signed to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1851 July 28

b. 3, f. 295 280. George H. Cherevoy autograph letter signed, New York City, to James Jesse Strang, Washington, District of Columbia

1850 January 17

b. 3, f. 296 281. Dennis Chidester autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1849 November 6


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b. 3, f. 297 282. Dennis Chidester autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Washington, District of Columbia

1849 November 16

b. 3, f. 298 283. Dennis Chidester autograph letter signed, Voree, Mar 28, 1850, to James Jesse Strang

1850 March 28

b. 3, f. 299 284. Dennis Chidester autograph letter signed, Mackinac Island, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 November 12

b. 3, f. 300 285. Lurena Clark autograph letter signed, Cass, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 June 26

b. 3, f. 301 286. Anna Cole autograph letter signed to James Jesse Strang 1851 April 3

b. 3, f. 302 287. John Cole autograph letter signed, Elizabeth, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Washington, District of Columbia

1850 January 10

b. 3, f. 303 288. Frederic Freeman autograph letter signed Barre, Michigan, and endorsed by John S. Comstock to James Jesse Strang

1849 March 3

b. 3, f. 304 289. John S. Comstock autograph letter signed, Springport, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 April 22

b. 3, f. 305 290. John S. Comstock autograph letter signed, Springport, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 July 1

b. 3, f. 306 291. John S. Comstock autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Washington, District of Columbia

1849 November 28

b. 3, f. 307 292. D. Cooley autograph letter signed, Washington, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 May 23

b. 3, f. 308 293. M. Copeland autograph letter signed, "Norvoo," Franklin County, Alabama, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin

1849 April 3

b. 3, f. 309 294. A. Cowles autograph letter signed to James Jesse Strang, with endorsement by Strang.

Probably written by Austin Cowles (1792-1872), a leader and hymnwriter of the early Latter Day Saint movement.

circa 1846 April

b. 3, f. 310 295. Sarah T. Crawford autograph letter signed, Brownville, Maine, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 November 30

b. 3, f. 311 296. Asa Curtis autograph letter signed, Armada, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 April 20

b. 3, f. 312 297. Theodore Curtis autograph letter signed, Saint Louis, Missouri, to John Greenhow, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1847 March 14

b. 3, f. 313 298. Mary Demary autograph letter signed, probably western New York, to James Jesse Strang

circa 1849-1850

b. 3, f. 314 299. James Densmore autograph letter signed, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846? July 24

b. 3, f. 315 300. A. Derrough autograph letter signed, Cincinnati, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 July 4


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b. 4, f. 316 301. A. Derrough autograph letter signed, Cincinnati, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, New York City.

1846 August 20

b. 4, f. 317 302. William R. Dixon autograph letter signed, Quincy, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 July 15

b. 4, f. 318 303. Joel Draper autograph letter signed, Northingwillemburg/Lewiston, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 March 14

b. 4, f. 319 304. George W. Duncan autograph letter signed, Bowling Green, Indiana, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1850 March 31

b. 4, f. 320 305. Charles Durkee autograph letter signed, Washington, District of Columbia, to James Jesse Strang

1846 December 25

b. 4, f. 321 306. Charles Durkee autograph letter signed, Washington, District of Columbia, to James Jesse Strang

1854? January 31

b. 4, f. 322 307. D. W. Elmore autograph letter signed, Asylum, Elgin, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang.

1846 May 21

b. 4, f. 323 308. George England autograph letter signed, Ilion, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 June 15

b. 4, f. 324 309. Samuel G. Flagg autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang

1850 February 4

b. 4, f. 325 310. Nathan Foster autograph letter signed, Koshkonong, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Washington, District of Columbia

1849 November 26

b. 4, f. 326 311. Joseph George autograph letter signed, New Bedford, Massachusetts, to George J. Adams at Boston, Massachusetts

1850 January 15

b. 4, f. 327 312. D. S. Gibbs autograph letter signed 1846 May 25

b. 4, f. 328 313. Jacob Gibson autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 April 10

b. 4, f. 329 314. Jacob Gibson autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 June 25

b. 4, f. 330 315. M. M. Gillett autograph letter signed, Mackinaw City, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1851 August 6

b. 4, f. 331 316. J. D. Gossick autograph letter signed, Racine, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang

1853 March 23

b. 4, f. 332 317. A. J. Graham autograph letter signed, Albion, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Washington, District of Columbia

1850 January 22

b. 4, f. 333 318. Marietta Graham autograph letter signed, Waukegan, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 August 11

b. 4, f. 334 319. Marietta Graham autograph letter signed, Washington Island, Wisconsin

1849 October 18

b. 4, f. 335 320. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Leroy, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1848 January 15


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b. 4, f. 336 321. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Bath Mills, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 January 23


1849 February 6


1849 March 19

b. 4, f. 339 324. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Albion, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 June 26

b. 4, f. 340 325. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Springport, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 July 31

b. 4, f. 341 326. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Lapeer, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang

1849 August 7

b. 4, f. 342 327. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Albion, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 August 16

b. 4, f. 343 328. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Boston, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1849 November 20


1849 November 22

b. 4, f. 345 330. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Salem, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1849 November 22

b. 4, f. 346 331. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Boston, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang

1849 December 15


1849 December 22


1850 January 1

b. 4, f. 349 334. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Albany, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1850 January 16

b. 4, f. 350 335. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Albany, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1850 February 7

b. 4, f. 351 336. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Williamsburg, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Washington, District of Columbia

1850 February 13

b. 4, f. 352 337. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, New York City, to James Jesse Strang, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1850 February 28

b. 4, f. 353 338. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Williamsburg, New York, to James Jesse Strang

1850 March 1

b. 4, f. 354 339. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, BuGalo, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Williamsburg, New York

1850 March 7

b. 4, f. 355 340. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Attica, New York, to James Jesse Strang, New York City

1850 March 13


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b. 4, f. 356 341. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, BuGalo, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Albany, New York

1850 March 21

b. 4, f. 357 342. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Parma, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, BuGalo, New York

1850 March 30

b. 4, f. 358 343. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Parma, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 July 20

b. 4, f. 359 344. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Chicago, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 October 28

b. 4, f. 360 345. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Parma, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang

1851 July 14

b. 4, f. 361 346. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Parma, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Detroit, Michigan

1851 July 8

b. 4, f. 362 347. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Parma, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang

1851 July 10

b. 4, f. 363 348. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Parma, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1851 July 27

b. 4, f. 364 349. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Parma, Michigan, to Elizabeth McNutt

1851 July 30

b. 4, f. 365 350. Samuel Graham autograph letter signed, Parma, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Mackinac Island, Michigan

1851 August 24

b. 4, f. 366 351. Charles Greenwood autograph letter signed, Boston, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 July 1

b. 4, f. 367 352. James M. Greig autograph letter signed, New Brighton, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 December 29

b. 4, f. 368 353. James M. Greig autograph letter signed, New Brighton, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin

1849 March 29

b. 4, f. 369 354. James M. Greig autograph letter signed, Troy, Beaver Island, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, New York City

Includes an extract from Thomas W. Braidwood, autographed letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, written October 17, 1846, as well as James M. Greig autograph letter signed, Troy, Beaver Island, Michigan, to Thomas W. Braidwood.

1849 November 16

b. 4, f. 370 355. James M. Greig autograph letter signed, Troy, Beaver Island, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Washington, District of Columbia

1850 February 28

b. 4, f. 371 356. James M. Greig autograph letter signed, Beaver Island, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850? August 26

b. 4, f. 372 357. John W. Grierson autograph letter signed, Akron, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang

1851 April 30

b. 4, f. 373 358. Stephen GriOth autograph letter signed, Maumee, Ohio, to the Church of Latter-day Saints at Beaver Island, Michigan

1849 November 11


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b. 4, f. 374 359. Alden Hale autograph letter signed to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1848 May 13

b. 4, f. 375 360. Alden Hale autograph letter signed, Lowell, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang

1848 December 2

b. 4, f. 376 361. Alden Hale autograph letter signed, Lowell, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 January 1

b. 4, f. 377 362. Alden Hale autograph letter signed, North Bay, New York, to James Jesse Strang

1849 April 13

b. 4, f. 378 363. Alden Hale autograph letter signed to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 April 16

b. 4, f. 379 364. Alden Hale and Reuben T. Nichols autograph letter signed, Alexander, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 April 19

b. 4, f. 380 365. Alden Hale autograph letter signed, Burlington, Wisconsin, to William Skimmins, Boston, Massachusetts

1850 March 7

b. 4, f. 381 366. J. C. Hall autograph letter signed, BuGalo, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 September 23

b. 4, f. 382 367. O. H. Harvey autograph letter signed, Hampton, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 April 28

b. 4, f. 383 368. Richard Hill? and Elizabeth Hill?, Eagle, Wisconsin, autograph letter signed to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1850 September 22

b. 4, f. 384 369. David Heath autograph letter signed, Cleveland, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1851 July 22

b. 4, f. 385 370. Henry P. Herron autograph letter signed, Kirtland, Ohio, to John E. Page or Jehiel Savage at Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 May 31

b. 4, f. 386 371. Peter Hess autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1849 August 13

b. 4, f. 387 372. Peter Hess autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, New York City

1849 October 23

b. 4, f. 388 373 and 374. Peter Hess autograph letters signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang


1849 December 4-12

b. 4, f. 389 375. Peter Hess autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, New York City.

1849 October 24

b. 4, f. 390 376. Peter Hess and Amos Lowen autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang

1849 December 25

b. 4, f. 391 377, 378, and 379. Peter Hess autograph letters signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang


1850 January 2-19

b. 4, f. 392 380. Peter Hess and Thomas Gale autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jan 17, 1850, to "Brother Hosmer"

1850 January 17


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b. 4, f. 393 381. Peter Hess autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang

1850 February 13

b. 4, f. 394 382. Peter Hess autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, BuGalo, New York

1850 April 3

b. 4, f. 395 383. Lorenzo Dow Hickey autograph letter signed, Armada, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 September 26-October 11

b. 4, f. 396 384. Lorenzo Dow Hickey and Andrew G. Jackson autograph letters signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang

1849 December 6

b. 4, f. 397 385. Lorenzo Dow Hickey autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1849 December 12

b. 4, f. 398 386. Lorenzo Dow Hickey autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

circa 1849 December 24

b. 4, f. 399 387. Lorenzo Dow Hickey autograph letter signed, Lapeer, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 April 13

b. 4, f. 400 388. Lorenzo Dow Hickey autograph letter signed, Lapeer, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 August 14

b. 4, f. 401 389. Thomas R. Hicks autograph letter signed, New Britain, Connecticut, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1847 January 16

b. 4, f. 402 390. Abigail D. Holmes autograph letter signed, Georgetown, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 October 6

b. 4, f. 403 391. Isaiah A. Hopkins autograph letter signed, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 November 28

b. 4, f. 404 392. Isaiah A. Hopkins letter by George E. Dau, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 December 28

b. 4, f. 405 393. Isaiah A. Hopkins autograph letter signed, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang

1849 July 26

b. 4, f. 406 394. Lydia Hubbard autograph letter signed, Chenango, New York, to James Jesse Strang

1850 August 14

b. 4, f. 407 395. Len Hubbell autograph letter signed, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 July 12

b. 4, f. 408 396. William L. Hughey autograph letter signed, Galena, Illinois, to John E. Page, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 June 28

b. 4, f. 409 397 and 398. Andrew G. Jackson autograph letters signed, Philadelphia to James Jesse Strang as well as 399. Andrew G. Jackson autograph letter signed, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, to Thomas Braidwood at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


1849 November 22-1850 January 3

b. 4, f. 410 400. Andrew G. Jackson autograph letter signed, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, to Peter Hess.

1849 December 31

b. 5, f. 411 401. Andrew G. Jackson autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1850 January 24


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b. 5, f. 412 402. Andrew G. Jackson autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, New York City.

1850 March 15

b. 5, f. 413 403. J. W. Jenks autograph letter signed, Ossining, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 April 16

b. 5, f. 414 404. J. W. Jenks autograph letter signed, Ossining, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 October 24

b. 5, f. 415 405. John Jordan autograph letter signed, Saint Charles, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 November 30

b. 5, f. 416 406. Andrew Ketchum autograph letter signed, Perry, Indiana, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1850 August 18

b. 5, f. 417 407. Joseph R. Ketchum autograph letter signed, Oswego, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 November 9

b. 5, f. 418 408. Absalom Kuykendall autograph letter signed, Crescent City, Iowa 1860 February 5

b. 5, f. 419 409. Ansel Lake autograph letter signed, Milo, Illinois to Dennis Chidester 1850 May 28

b. 5, f. 420 410. Ansel Lake autograph letter signed, Compton, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Lansing, Michigan

1851 June 11

b. 5, f. 421 411. Mary Leatherbury autograph letter signed, Allensville, Indiana, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 April 13

b. 5, f. 422 412. Edward Learned autograph letter signed, Troy House, Albany, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Delaware Hosue, Albany, New York

1850 April 13

b. 5, f. 423 413. M. Lindley autograph letter signed, Baltimore, Maryland, to George J. Adams at Baltimore, Maryland

1849 November 15

b. 5, f. 424 414. M. L. Lockwood autograph letter signed, Vienna, Michigan, James Jesse Strang, Detroit, Michigan

1851 June 15

b. 5, f. 425 415. Amos Lowen autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, New York City

1849 October 22

b. 5, f. 426 416. Amos Lowen autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1850 January 1

b. 5, f. 427 417. Amos Lowen autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang

1850 January 10

b. 5, f. 428 418. Amos Lowen autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 June 22

b. 5, f. 429 419. Amos Lowen autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang

1850 October 5


1850 December 7


1851 June 15


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b. 5, f. 432 422. John Macauley autograph letter signed, Galena, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 June 24

b. 5, f. 433 423. John Macauley autograph letter signed, Galena, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 July 15

b. 5, f. 434 424. John Macauley autograph letter signed, Galena, Illinois, to Francis Cooper, Voree, Wisconsin

1850 June 21

b. 5, f. 435 425. R. W. McClelland letter signed , Washington, District of Columbia, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1855 June 19

b. 5, f. 436 426. H. D. McCulloch autograph letter signed, Saint James, Beaver Island, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang

1855 November 13

b. 5, f. 437 427. William Marks autograph letter signed, Shabbona Grove, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1847 May 23

b. 5, f. 438 428. F. Merryweather autograph letter signed, Springfield, Kentucky, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 October 11

b. 5, f. 439 429. F. Merryweather autograph letter signed, Nashville, Tennessee, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 October 25

b. 5, f. 440 430. Isaac B. Meyers autograph letter signed, Euphemia, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Washington, District of Columbia

1849 December 23

b. 5, f. 441 431. Mark Miller autograph letter signed, Racine, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang

1850 September 2


1850 October 1


1850 December 23

b. 5, f. 444 434. E. J. Moore autograph letter signed, Saint James, Beaver Island, Michigan, to Samuel Graham at New York City

1849 October 6

b. 5, f. 445 435. E. J. Moore autograph letter signed, Beaver Island, Michigan, to A. Wadsworth, Grand Traverse, Michigan

1850 June 20

b. 5, f. 446 436. Jack Murray and R.D. R. Murray autograph letter signed, Turtle, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang

1849 July 22

b. 5, f. 447 437. Ebben Nash autograph letter signed, Chicago, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 September 23

b. 5, f. 448 438. Uriah H. Nickerson autograph letter signed, to Reuben Miller, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 March 27

b. 5, f. 449 439. Jesse W. Nichols autograph letter signed, New Bedford, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1847 March 4

b. 5, f. 450 440. Jesse W. Nichols autograph letter signed, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, New York City.

1849 November 10

b. 5, f. 451 441. Jesse W. Nichols autograph letter signed, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1849 December 28


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b. 5, f. 452 442. Jesse W. Nichols autograph letter signed, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1850 January 3

b. 5, f. 453 443. R. T. Nichols autograph letter signed, Chicago, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 July 22

b. 5, f. 454 444. R. T. Nichols autograph letter signed, Clayton, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 December 15

b. 5, f. 455 445. James D. Nixon autograph letter signed, Potosi, Wisconsin, to Elvira Eliza Field Strang (as Charles J. Douglass) Baltimore, Maryland

1850 January 9

b. 5, f. 456 446. T. Nixon autograph letter signed, Chicago, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 May 1

b. 5, f. 457 447. Samuel Northrup autograph letter signed, Alexandria, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin

1846 March 9

b. 5, f. 458 448. Charles O'Malley autograph letter signed, Mackinac Island, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 April 25

b. 5, f. 459 449. Charles O'Malley autograph letter signed, Mackinac Island, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang

1850 April 25

b. 5, f. 460 450. Tully O'Malley autograph letter signed, Mackinac Island, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 May 2

b. 5, f. 461 451. Isaac Paden autograph letter signed, Knoxville, Illinois, to James M. Adams at Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 April 1

b. 5, f. 462 452. Isaac Paden autograph letter signed, Knoxville, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1847 February 19

b. 5, f. 463 453. Angeline Page autograph letter signed 1856 June 6

b. 5, f. 464 454. Ebenezer Page autograph letter signed, Black River, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 October 17

b. 5, f. 465 455. Ebenezer Page and Milo Weston, autograph letters signed, Canton, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 November 28

b. 5, f. 466 456. Ebenezer Page autograph letter signed, Lockport, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1847 January 19

b. 5, f. 467 457. Ebenezer Page autograph letter signed, Attica, New York, to James Jesse Strang, at Washington, District of Columbia

1850 March 7

b. 5, f. 468 458. I. J. Patten autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Washington, District of Columbia

1849 December 3

b. 5, f. 469 459. John C. Peirce autograph letter signed, Boston, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 November 7

b. 5, f. 470 460. John C. Peirce autograph letter signed, Boston, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1851 May 10

b. 5, f. 471 461. Elisha Persons autograph letter signed, Brownhelm, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 April 18


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b. 5, f. 472 462. I. Pierce, autograph letters signed to Lorenzo Dow Hickey and B. Pierce 1861 August 9

b. 5, f. 473 463. Isaac Pierce autograph letter signed, Saint James, Beaver Island, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, New York City

1849 November 6

b. 5, f. 474 464. Andrew J. Porter and A. W. Prindle autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Washington, District of Columbia

1849 December 26

b. 5, f. 475 465. Stephen Post autograph letter signed, Centerville, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 April 20


1849 August 23

b. 5, f. 477 467. Stephen Post autograph letter signed, Centerville, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Washington, District of Columbia

1850 January 27

b. 5, f. 478 468. Stephen Post autograph letter signed, Centerville, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, New York City

1850 March 3


1850 June 7

b. 5, f. 480 470. Edward Preston autograph letter signed, Reisterstown, Maryland, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1849 November 19

b. 5, f. 481 471. Edward Preston autograph letter signed, Westminster, Maryland, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1849 December 5

b. 5, f. 482 472. Edward Preston autograph letter signed, Springport, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 November 12

b. 5, f. 483 473. Erasmus D. Ransom autograph letter signed, Belvidere, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 June 30

b. 5, f. 484 474. William Raunseler? autograph letter signed, Chicago, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1847 January 4

b. 5, f. 485 475. Charles Ridlow autograph letter signed, Beloit, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang

1850 October 21

b. 5, f. 486 476. D. Routzen autograph letter signed, Finley, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1847 March 13

b. 5, f. 487 477. Charles A. Rogers autograph letter signed, New Bedford, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang

1850 March 27

b. 5, f. 488 478. Stratten Rogers autograph letter signed to James Jesse Strang 1851 April 3

b. 5, f. 489 479. William Rose autograph letter signed, Binghamton, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 October 5

b. 5, f. 490 480. Catherine Savage autograph letter signed, Bigelow's Mills, Indiana, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin

1849 January 8

b. 5, f. 491 481. Murry Seaman autograph letter signed, Mackinac Island, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1851 July 20


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b. 5, f. 492 482. Murry Seaman autograph letter signed, Drummond, Michigan, to J. M. Wait and H. G. Hall

1859 November 11

b. 5, f. 493 483. Jesse Seelye autograph letter signed, Savannah, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 December 6

b. 5, f. 494 484. William S. Segar autograph letter signed, Utica, New York, to James Jesse Strang, at Voree.

1846 December 30

b. 5, f. 495 485. Samuel Shaw autograph letter signed, Elgin, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 June 1

b. 5, f. 496 486. George M. Shippen autograph letter signed, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 March 31

b. 5, f. 497 487. David Shook, autograph letter signed, Mount Clemens, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang

1856 May 26

b. 5, f. 498 488. Archelaus Sias, Jr., autograph letter signed, McHenry, Illinois 1849 February 23

b. 5, f. 499 489. John Small autograph letter signed, Alden, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1847 April 8

b. 5, f. 500 490. Wealthy Smith autograph letter signed, Hanover, New York, James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 November 1

b. 5, f. 501 491. William Smith autograph letter signed, Kirtland, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1846 August 20

b. 5, f. 502 492. William Smith autograph letter signed, Knoxville, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 December 2

b. 5, f. 503 493. Frederic Squire autograph letter signed, French Creek, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1850 April 3

b. 5, f. 504 494. Richard Stephens autograph letter signed, Louisville, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 March 8

b. 5, f. 505 495. Richard Stephens autograph letter signed, Louisville, to M. L. Perce at Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1847 March 16

b. 5, f. 506 496. Royal Stone and Zooprevenee? Stone autograph letter signed, Vienna, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 August 19

b. 5, f. 507 497. Abijah R. Tewksbury autograph letter signed, Boston, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1847 April 3

b. 5, f. 508 498. Saul E. Thompson autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, New York City

1846 September 23

b. 5, f. 509 499. Lorenzo Tubbs autograph letter signed, Lodi, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin

1849 May 3

b. 5, f. 510 500. Hiram Tucker autograph letter signed, Antwerp, New York, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 May 15

b. 6, f. 511 501. John Ursbruck autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1849 August 13


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b. 6, f. 512 502. F. A. Utter autograph letter signed, Elkhorn, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 May 16

b. 6, f. 513 503. Lewis Van Buren autograph letter signed, Madison, Indiana, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 March 14

b. 6, f. 514 504. Lewis Van Buren autograph letter signed, Madison, Indiana, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 May 6

b. 6, f. 515 505. J. M. Wait autograph letter signed, Saint James, Beaver Island, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang

1855 December 1

b. 6, f. 516 506. Moore Walker autograph letter signed, New York City, to James Jesse Strang, Washington, District of Columbia

1850 February 2

b. 6, f. 517 507. George Walter autograph letter signed, Kingston, Missouri, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1847 July 11

b. 6, f. 518 508. Gilbert Watson autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, BuGalo, New York

1849 September 19

b. 6, f. 518a 509. Gilbert Watson autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin to James Jesse Strang, New York City, New York

1849 October 7

b. 6, f. 519 510. Gilbert Watson autograph letter signed, Little Woods, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

Adhered to letters 511, 512, and 513.

1849 November 3

b. 6, f. 519 511. Gilbert Watson autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland


1849 November 13

b. 6, f. 519 512. Gilbert Watson autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Washington, District of Columbia


1849 November 30

b. 6, f. 519 513. Alden Hale and Gilbert Watson autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Washington, District of Columbia


1849 December 30-31

b. 6, f. 519a 514. John Cole and Gilbert Watson autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang

1849 December 3

b. 6, f. 520 515. Gilbert Watson autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1850 February 11

b. 6, f. 521 516. Gilbert Watson autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 April 16

b. 6, f. 522 517. Wingfield W. Watson autograph letter to Gilbert Watson. 1862 February 16

b. 6, f. 523 518. D. R. Whipple autograph letter signed, Washington, District of Columbia, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1849 November 21

b. 6, f. 524 519. D. R. Whipple autograph letter signed, Washington, District of Columbia, to A. P. Hosmer at Baltimore, Maryland

Letter adhered to 520.

1849 December 28-29


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b. 6, f. 524 520. D. R. Whipple autograph letter signed, Washington, District of Columbia, to James Jesse Strang

Letter adhered to 519.

1850 January 9


1850 March 11


1850 April 10

b. 6, f. 527 523. D. R. Whipple autograph letter signed, Parkersburg, West Virginia 1869 March 29

b. 6, f. 528 524. David Wilcox autograph letter signed, Shelby, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 April 14

b. 6, f. 529 525. C. Wilkie autograph letter signed, New York City, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1856 June 15

b. 6, f. 530 526. G. Williams autograph letter signed, Detroit, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Washington, District of Columbia

1849 December 3

b. 6, f. 531 527. Samuel Williams autograph letter signed, Newark, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1851 January 26

b. 6, f. 532 528. John H. Wilson autograph letter signed, Baltimore, Maryland, to James Jesse Strang, Baltimore, Maryland

1849 December 26

b. 6, f. 533 529. Alonzo Winsor autograph letter signed, Perry, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory

1846 April 29

b. 6, f. 534 530. Alonzo Winsor autograph letter signed, Perry, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

1846 June 13

b. 6, f. 535 531. Henry Workman autograph letter signed, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1850 February 12

b. 6, f. 536 532. B. G. Wright autograph letter signed, Burlington, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, BuGalo, New York

1849 September 13

b. 6, f. 537 533. B. G. Wright autograph letter signed, Burlington, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, BuGalo, New York

1849 September 18

b. 6, f. 538 534. B. G. Wright autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Washington, District of Columbia

1849 December 8

b. 6, f. 539 535. B. G. Wright autograph letter signed, Voree, Jan 29, 1850. 1850 January 29

b. 6, f. 540 536. B. G. Wright autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, New York City.

1850 February 14

b. 6, f. 541 537. B. G. Wright autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, BuGalo, New York

1850 April 3

b. 6, f. 542 538. B. G. Wright autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 April 17


1850 April 25


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1850 July 16


1850 August 1

b. 6, f. 546 542. Phineas Wright autograph letter signed, Saint Joseph (Propeller), Lake Michigan, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 August 7

b. 6, f. 547 543. Phineas Wright and Nathan Foster autograph letter signed, Koshkonong, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan

1850 August 23

b. 6, f. 548 544. Alvah Yarrington autograph letter signed, Athens, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin

1849 May 11

Dale L. Morgan, The Strang Manuscripts

Typescript volume housed in a spring-back binding that provides an item-level description of material in the James Jesse Strang and Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) Collection created by Dale L. Morgan for bookseller Edward Eberstadt & Sons in 1951. The preface provides a summary as well as a lengthy description of the collection encompassed in Series I as well as a brief biographical sketch of James Jesse Strang.

b. 7 Dale L. Morgan, The Strang Manuscripts 1951

Additions

This subseries comprises original material created by or sent to James Jesse Strang that was identified by the processing archivist in 2019 while reviewing the research files that comprise the Charles Jesse Strang Papers and Milo Milton Quaife Papers series of the collection.

Arranged alphabetically.

b. 6, f. 549 John Cook Bennett autograph letter signed, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory, to James Jesse Strang, Boston, Massachusetts

On verso of handbill advertising the medical services of Bennett in the Burlington, Voree, and the surrounding area July 4, 1846.

1846 September 3

b. 6, f. 550 H. L. Southworth, autograph letter signed, Boston, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory

On verso of prospectus, November 20, 1846, for the Independent Inquirer and the Journal of the Times, a planned newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts, edited by Charles P. Bosson and owned by George J. Adams and H. L. Southworth.

1846 November 18

b. 6, f. 551 Manuscript scrap probably related to United States versus James Jesse Strang

1851 June 7


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Series II: Charles Jesse Strang Papers James Jesse Strang collectionWA MSS 447

Series II: Charles Jesse Strang Papers, 1871–1898

This series consists of material, 1871-1898, collected by Charles Jesse Strang about his father, James Jesse Strang and the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites).

Gift of Charles Eberstadt, 1956.

Series II is organized into four subseries: Research Files, Scrapbook Fragments, Transcriptions, and Correspondence.


Research Files

This subseries consists of research files related to James Jesse Strang and the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) compiled by Charles Jesse Strang, 1875-1890.


b. 8, f. 552 Charles Jesse Strang, Autobiographical sketch circa 1890

b. 8, f. 553 Charles Jesse Strang, "Outline Copy of Sketch of James J. Strang," written for Charles K. Backus

1878

b. 8, f. 554 Elvira Eliza Field Strang Baker and Charles Jesse Strang, "Biographical Sketch of J. J. Strang"

undated

b. 8, f. 555-560V Biographical notes on James Jesse Strang undated

b. 8, f. 561 Record of the wives and children of James Jesse Strang undated

b. 8, f. 562 Typescript extracts

Includes extracts from letters criticizing Charles K. Backus, "An American King," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, March 1882 by Elvira Eliza Field Strang Baker, Charles Jesse Strang, Clement James Strang, Charles J. Grier (formerly known as James Jesse Strang, Jr.), and Eugenie J. Phillips, as well as discrete letters by Wingfield Watson to Henry A. Chaney, August 15, 1877; and Myraette Abigail Strang Losee to Dennison, possibly John Dennison, February 7, 1878.

undated

b. 8, f. 563 James Adams on James Jesse Strang in 1847 undated

b. 8, f. 564 S. Bennett 1875 June

b. 8, f. 565 Beaver Island, Michigan undated

b. 8, f. 566 Clippings about James Jesse Strang and Beaver Island, Michigan

Includes clippings from Detroit Evening News, Lansing Republican, The Saints' Herald, and St. Clair Republican.

1882

b. 8, f. 567 Albert Field and Jane Field interview notes

On ledger sheets that include discrete notes about Joseph Smith and the revelations of James Jesse Strang.

1878 December 26-1880 August

b. 8, f. 568 Gospel Herald newspaper undated

b. 8, f. 569 The Islander newspaper undated

b. 8, f. 570 Book of Jasher undated

b. 8, f. 571 Justice of the Peace Charles M. O'Malley undated

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b. 8, f. 572 Lansing Republican newspaper, 1853-1856 undated

b. 8, f. 573 Mackinac County undated

b. 8, f. 574 Michigan House of Representatives undated

b. 8, f. 575 George Miller on John Cook Bennett undated

b. 8, f. 576 John Edward Page undated

b. 8, f. 577 Polygamy undated

b. 8, f. 578-578G Press descriptions of James Jesse Strang and Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites)

undated

b. 8, f. 579 Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints tracts undated

b. 8, f. 580 Scripture undated

b. 8, f. 581 William Smith undated

b. 8, f. 582 Clement James Strang and information from Black River Falls, Wisconsin 1880 September 2

b. 8, f. 583 Succession undated

b. 8, f. 584 Temperance undated

b. 8, f. 585 United States of America versus James Jesse Strang (1851) undated

b. 8, f. 586 Voree Heraldnewspaper undated

Scrapbook Fragments

This subseries consists of material related to James Jesse Strang and the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) from a disbound and nonextant scrapbook, 1871-1898.

b. 9, f. 587 Frank Cooper undated

b. 9, f. 588 USS Michigan undated

b. 9, f. 589 Clippings about James Jesse Strang and Beaver Island, Michigan 1871–1898

Transcriptions

This subseries consists of undated manuscript and typescript transcriptions of correspondence and documents, 1847-1895, related to James Jesse Strang and the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites).

Arranged chronologically by date of the transcribed material.

b. 9, f. 590 John Esdaile, "Questions to Trinitarians" in A Brief View of the Principal Points in the Trinitarian Controversy (Framlingham, England, 1829)

undated

b. 9, f. 591 James Jesse Strang, A Revelation in Relation to the Indian Mission and the Vision Thereof, in Zion's Reveille, January 14, 1847

Arranged chronologically by date of the transcribed material.

undated

b. 9, f. 592 James Jesse Strang and John E. Page, "Discussion," Voree Herald, July 8, 1847 undated

Research Files (continued)

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b. 9, f. 593 "The policy which has been adopted in regard to the gathering on Beaver Islands . . . ," Voree Herald, July 8, 1847

undated

b. 9, f. 594 "Social Relations," Zion's Reveille, August 12-September 2, 1847 undated

b. 9, f. 595 "A correspondent of the Rochester Daily Democrat. . . ," Voree Herald, September 23, 1847

undated

b. 9, f. 596 James Jesse Strang, "The doctrine of the Trinity . . . ," Voree Herald, August 10, 1848

undated

b. 9, f. 597 "Troubles with the Mormons," Michigan State Journal, July 27, 1853 undated

b. 9, f. 598 Charles K. Backus, Interview with Samuel T. Douglas, June 9, 1877 1882 June 9

b. 9, f. 599 George C. Bates letter signed, Detroit, Michigan, to Detroit Tribune, July 10, 1877

Typescript.

undated

b. 9, f. 600 Watson, Wingfield W., letter to the editor of the Charlevoix Sentinel, July 17, 1877

Typescript.

undated

b. 9, f. 601 Wingfield W. Watson letter to Henry A. Chauncy, 1877 undated

b. 9, f. 602 Wingfield W. Watson letter to Henry A. Chauncy, 1877, extracts undated

b. 9, f. 603 Collected transcriptions and extracts, 1877-1878

Post bound manuscript transcriptions and extracts including a letter by Myraette Abigail Strang Losee to Dennison, possibly John Dennison, February 7, 1878; extracts from an undated paper, "The Mormons of Beaver," by Henry A. Chauncy and read at a meeting of the October Club, Detroit, Michigan; and notes from a letter by Wingfield W. Watson to the editor of the Charlevoix Sentinel, July 17, 1877

undated

b. 9, f. 604 Charles Jesse Strang, "Beaver Island and Its Mormon Kingdom," 1895 undated

b. 9, f. 605 "Charity," "How natural is seems to be for women generally to talk about and slander her sister sex . . . ," undated

undated

Correspondence

This subseries includes draft correspondence by Charles Jesse Strang about his father, James Jesse Strang and the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) as well as incoming correspondence from his brother James J. Strang and church member Wingfield W. Watson. Includes a letter from Peter Mortimer Aldrich to Clement James Strang.

Arranged alphabetically by surname of the creator.

b. 9, f. 606 Peter Mortimer Aldrich autograph letter signed, Salt Lake City, Utah, to Clement James Strang, Sunfield, Michigan

1898 April 1

b. 9, f. 607 R. B. Neal, American Anti-Mormon Association, autograph letter signed, Grayson, Kentucky, to Charles Jesse Strang

1906 November 13

b. 9, f. 608 Sam Scott, copy autograph letter signed, Dowagiac, Michigan, to G. W. Gosline

undated

Transcriptions (continued)

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b. 9, f. 609 Charles Jesse Strang autograph copy letter signed, Charlotte, Michigan, to Lorenzo D. Hickey

1872 October 1

b. 9, f. 610 Charles Jesse Strang autograph draft letter, Lansing, Michigan, to Joseph Smith, III, Plano, Illinois

1878 August 18

b. 9, f. 611 Charles Jesse Strang autograph draft letter, Lansing, Michigan, to The Saints' Herald, Lamoni, Iowa

1882 June 20

b. 9, f. 612 Charles Jesse Strang autograph copy of a letter, Lansing, Michigan, to Wingfield W. Watson

1882 July 23

b. 9, f. 613 Charles J. Strang typescript copy letters signed, Lansing, Michigan, to the Editor, The Saints' Herald, Lamoni, Iowa

1882 July 18-August 1

b. 9, f. 614 Frank W. Strang printed invitation to his birthday party, Lansing, Michigan 1905 October 13

b. 9, f. 615 James J. Strang autograph letter signed, Clifton, Wisconsin, to Charles Jesse Strang

1887 September 29

b. 9, f. 616 Wingfield W. Watson autograph letter signed to Charles Jesse Strang circa 1882

Correspondence (continued)

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Series III: Milo Quiafe Papers James Jesse Strang collectionWA MSS 447

Series III: Milo Quiafe Papers, 1870–1947

This series consists of material, 1870-1947, collected by Milo Milton Quaife for his book, Kingdom of St. James (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1930). Significant portions of the early material in this series were likely initially collected by Charles Jesse Strang, circa 1870-1916, and augmented afterward by the collecting of his brother Clement James Strang.


Series III is organized into four subseries: Research Files, Interviews, Transcriptions, and Correspondence.


Research Files

This subseries chiefly consists of clippings, tear sheets, and tracts as well as research notes, 1870-1947, related to James Jesse Strang and the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites). Includes undated transcripts of dated publications.


b. 10, f. 617 "The 9-Hour Work Day, Lansing Tribune

Includes editorial comment by Charles Jesse Strang as Secretary of the Allied Printing Trades Council.

1898 October 13

b. 10, f. 618 Adams, George J. undated

b. 10, f. 619 "Appeal from the Non-Mormon Women of Utah for the Abolition of Polygamy" and "Mormon and Gentile"

1878 November

b. 10, f. 620 "Auction Block Gets Old Warship," Detroit News 1927 June 20

b. 10, f. 621 Babcock, Bernie, "Removal to Utah and Later Revelations," Part II, "The Story of Mormonism as Revealed by History and as Taught Today," The Ram's Horn

undated

b. 10, f. 622 Backus, Charles K., "An American King," Harper's New Monthly Magazine 1882 March

b. 10, f. 623 Baptism (Plano, Illinois: Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)

undated

b. 10, f. 624 "Beaver Island" circa 1880-1890

b. 10, f. 625 Beaver Island, Michigan 1932 May

b. 10, f. 626 Beebe, Edward Lyman undated

b. 10, f. 627 Bennett, John Cook undated

b. 10, f. 628 "A Bit of History, An Interesting Reminiscence of 'King Strang,'" Detroit Evening News, undated

undated

b. 10, f. 629 The Book of the Law of the Lord undated

b. 10, f. 630 Burlington, Wisconsin 1928 July 28

b. 10, f. 631 Cable, Claude undated

b. 10, f. 632 Cassville, Wisconsin 1914 May 7

b. 10, f. 633 Charlevoix: The Beautiful at the Top of Michigan (Grand Rapids, Michigan: White Printing Company)

circa 1930

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b. 10, f. 634 Charlevoix Sentinel 1870 January 15

b. 10, f. 635 "The Charlevoix Tablet"

Illustrated stationery manufactured by W. H. McCarthy and Company, Charlevoix, Michigan.

circa 1895

b. 10, f. 636 Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) fragment of proceeding against the Council of the Twelve Apostles (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) at Voree, Wisconsin Territory, October 1846

undated

b. 10, f. 637 Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) manuscript collection notes undated

b. 10, f. 638 Corner Stones of "Reorganization"(Chicago, Illinois: Northern States Mission Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)

1909 June 1

b. 10, f. 639 Daring, Hope, "James Jesse Strang," Part V, "Men Famous in Northern Michigan's History, Michigan Christian Advocate

Hope Daring is the pseudonym of Anna K. Johnson (1860-1945).

undated

b. 10, f. 640 Davis, Marion Morse, "Stories of Saint Helena Island," Michigan Historical Magazine

1926 July

b. 10, f. 641 "Declines the Honor," Lansing Republican 1882 August 3

b. 10, f. 642 "During the legislative sessions of 1853-1855," Menominee Herald, undated undated

b. 10, f. 643 Editorial comment on Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) publications inVoree Herald, August 16, 1849

undated

b. 10, f. 644 Farr, Larin, "The Children of Mormon Families," Physical Culture undated

b. 10, f. 645 "The First Iron Warship Built for the American Navy," Rotogravure Picture Section, New York Times

1931 February 8

b. 10, f. 646 "Gunboat Wolverine Turned into Museum"

Discussion of the USS Michigan/USS Wolverine.

1927? July 6

b. 10, f. 647 "Interesting Account of a Trip to the Beaver Island," Post and Tribune, September 19, 1879

undated

b. 10, f. 648 Jordan, Elliot N., "A Reminiscence of the Prophet Strang," Daily Tribune (Salt Lake City, Utah)

1899 July 23

b. 10, f. 649 "'King' in Franklin" circa 1900

b. 10, f. 650 "King J. J. Strang," Christian Weekly

Chiefly a letter to the editor by Charles Jesse Strang.

1906 August 4

b. 10, f. 651 "King J. J. Strang," Christian Weekly 1906 November 10

b. 10, f. 652 "King Strang's Murder," Detroit Evening News 1882 July 7

b. 10, f. 653 "'King' Strang's Wives," Detroit Evening News 1882? February 26

b. 10, f. 654 "Kingdom of Strang," Chicago Record 1893 July 29


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b. 10, f. 655 Kirtland Temple (Independence, Missouri: Herald Publishing House for the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)

undated

b. 10, f. 656 The Latter Day Saints (Mormons): What People of Distinction Say About Them (Chicago, Illinois: Northern States Mission Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)

undated

b. 10, f. 657 Leach, Morgan Lewis, A History of the Grand Traverse Region, Chapters 18-23

Clippings from serial publication in the Grand Traverse Heraldand mounted on ledger sheets with annotations.

1883

b. 10, f. 658 Legler, Henry E., "King Strang's Press: A Bibliographical Narrative," The Literary Collector

1904 June

b. 10, f. 659 "Letter of Joseph Smith to James J. Strang," The Monte Vista Journal 1896 April 18

b. 10, f. 660 The Lĭahōna 1907 May 11

b. 10, f. 661 "Michigan Mormonism," Detroit Evening News 1882 August 22

b. 10, f. 662 "Michigan's Roberts Case," Grand Rapids Herald 1899 December 10

b. 10, f. 663 "Mormon for Credit Only," Detroit Evening News 1887 January 18

b. 10, f. 664 "The Mormon Menace," The Ram's Horn 1904 March 19

b. 10, f. 665 "Mormons and Their Book," The Treasury of Religious Thought 1898 December

b. 10, f. 666 The New Era and Herald of Zion's Watchmen (Voree, Wisconsin Territory), Volume 1, Number 1, January 1847

Typescript.

undated

b. 10, f. 667 "Many of the Mormons are preparing to follow Strang to Voree in Wisconsin . . . ," Wisconsin Herald, May 4, 1846

undated

b. 10, f. 668 Mormon Schism is Forgotten to Honor Founder," Chicago Tribune 1933 July 27

b. 10, f. 669 Nicke, Mabel Delia Brown circa 1934

b. 10, f. 670 Nutting, John D., Mormonism Proclaiming Itself a Fraud (Cleveland, Ohio: Utah Gospel Mission)

Also includes Frank S. Johnson, "Mormon Morals."

1913

b. 10, f. 671 "Our Publications," Northern Islander, January 24, 1856 undated

b. 10, f. 672 "Polygamy is Good Thing for Constantinpole" 1913 August 16

b. 10, f. 673 Quaife, Milo Milton "The Iron Ship," Burton Collection Leaflet 1928 November

b. 10, f. 674 Quaife, Milo Milton "Polygamy at Beaver Island," Michigan Historical Magazine

1921 July-October

b. 10, f. 675 Quaife, Milo Milton The Kingdom of St. James (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1930), press notices and reviews

1930

b. 10, f. 676 "A Recently Discovered Letter from General Lewis to Judge Ross Wilkins,"Detroit News-Tribune

1899 July 23


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b. 10, f. 677 "Reminiscences," Burlington Free Press, November 7, 1906 undated

b. 10, f. 678 "A revelation given to Joseph Smith, April 7, 1841," in Warren Post, "Personal History," undated

undated

b. 10, f. 679 Rich, Ben E., A Friendly Discussion Upon Religious Subjects 1897

b. 10, f. 680 Salisbury, Katherine undated

b. 10, f. 681 Sanders, Charles W., and Samuel J. Pinkney, The School Reader: Second Book(New York: Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman and Company, 1865), pages 151-154.

1865

b. 10, f. 682 Smith, Arthur H., Obituary for Charles Jesse Strang 1916 February

b. 10, f. 683 Smith, Joseph, III, One Wife, or Many (Lamoni, Iowa: Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)

1870?

b. 10, f. 684 "Sol Salisbury, Kin of Mormon Prophet, Dies, 91," Chicago Evening Post? 1927 January 18

b. 10, f. 685 Somers, Amos N., "An American King," National Magazine 1901 May

b. 10, f. 686 Somers, Amos N., "Mysterious Relics of Mormon Impostures" circa 1900

b. 10, f. 687 Somers, Amos N., "The Origin of Mormonism" circa 1900

b. 10, f. 688 Somers, Amos N., "Some Relics of Early Mormon Impostures" circa 1900

b. 10, f. 689 Strang Brothers, Fine Commercial Job Printers

Partnership of Charles Jesse Strang and Clement James Strang at Lansing, Michigan.

circa 1895

b. 10, f. 690 Strang, Charles Jesse, "Beaver Island and Its Mormon Kingdom" in J. C. Wright, The Ottawan: A Short History of the Villages and Resorts Surrounding Little Traverse Bay (Lansing, Michigan : R. Smith & Co., 1895), 63-68.

1895

b. 10, f. 691 Strang, Charles Jesse, Letter to the Editor, The Saints' Herald 1882 August 1

b. 10, f. 692 Strang, James Jesse, and Beaver Island, Michigan undated

b. 10, f. 693 Strang, James Jesse, Covenant, 1846

Typescript from a manuscript volume owned by Henry Albert Denio (1884-1937) through his mother, Evangeline Strang Denio (1853-1915), a daughter of James Jesse Strang and Elizabeth McNutt Strang (1820-1897).

undated

b. 10, f. 694 Strang, James Jesse, diary footnotes undated

b. 10, f. 695 Strang, James Jesse, his children undated

b. 10, f. 696 Strang, James Jesse, his gravesite, Burlington Cemetery, Burlington, Wisconsin

1919

b. 10, f. 697 Strang, James Jesse, his marriage with Elvira Eliza Field Strang Baker undated

b. 10, f. 698 Strang, James Jesse, his wives and descendants undated

b. 10, f. 699 Strang, James Jesse, monument fund 1930


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b. 10, f. 700 Strang, Mary Abigail Content Perce undated

b. 10, f. 701 The Successor in the Prophetic O>ce and Presidency of the Church (Plano, Illinois: Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)

undated

b. 10, f. 702 Swain, Dwight V., "Sultan of the Straits," True 1940 January

b. 10, f. 703 Swift, Ivan, "The Vanished Kingdom," Michigan Historical Magazine 1928 July

b. 10, f. 704 "Tale of King Strang," Chicago News Record 1892 October 22

b. 10, f. 705 United States versus James Jesse Strang as covered by theDetroit Free Press undated

b. 10, f. 706 USS Michigan/USS Wolverine undated

b. 10, f. 707 "Voree," Delavan Republican 1906 January 4-25

b. 10, f. 708 Whitman, L. O., "Reminiscences: Chapter XVIII," Burlington Free Press 1906 November 7

b. 10, f. 709 "Women Saw Mormon Fight" circa 1914

b. 11 (Oversize),f. 710

Ela, Edwin Stanton, "Sketch Showing the early Mormon Settlement Voree Near Burlington, Wisconsin"

1929 June 12


Field, Kate, on Mormonism in New York World 1885


"Michigan Mormonism," Detroit Evening News

Three copies.

1882 August 22


"Mormon Leaders of Four States Convene on Palmyra," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

1947 May 11


Reed Smoot hearings

Press coverage in Chicago Examiner and Chicago Tribune.

1904


Voree, Wisconsin, historical marker dedication 1935 June 19-21


Weiskopf, Victor, Translation of ciphers in the diary of James Jesse Strang 1937 September 25

Interviews

This subseries consists of notes of interviews conducted by Mil0 M. Quaife, 1920-1921, with individuals about James Jesse Strang and the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites).


b. 12, f. 717 James Oscar McNutt interview at Warrens, Wisconsin 1920 May 24

b. 12, f. 718 Charles J. Strang interview at Buchanan, Michigan 1921 February 12

b. 12, f. 719 Wingfield W. Watson interview at Burlington, Wisconsin 1918 December 10-1921 February 3


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b. 12, f. 720 Zenas Huvey Wright interview at City Point, Wisconsin 1920 May 25

Transcriptions

This subseries chiefly consists of undated manuscript and typescript transcriptions chiefly of correspondence, 1846-1920, related to James Jesse Strang and the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites).

Arranged alphabetically by surname of the creator.

b. 12, f. 721 George J. Adams, autograph letter signed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory, April 21, 1849?

undated

b. 12, f. 722 Hazen Aldrich letter fragment to James Jesse Strang, May 21, 1846 undated

b. 12, f. 723 George C. Bates autograph letter signed, Detroit, Michigan, to Millard Fillmore, June 23, 1851

undated

b. 12, f. 724 George C. Bates autograph letter signed, Detroit, Michigan, to John C. Clarke, April 14-June 23, 1851

undated

b. 12, f. 725 George C. Bates autograph letter signed, Detroit, Michigan, to George W. Meeker, Chicago, Illinois, June 22, 1851

undated

b. 12, f. 726 George C. Bates autograph letter signed, Detroit, Michigan, to John J. (John Jordan) Crittenden, Washington, District of Columbia, March 17, 1851

undated

b. 12, f. 727 John Cook Bennett autograph letters signed, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Plymouth, Massachusetts, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory, February 24-March 8, 1846

undated

b. 12, f. 728 Jacob Bump, Leonard Rich, Amos Babcock, and S. B. Stoddard autograph letter signed, Kirtland, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Burlington, Wisconsin Territory, 1846 October 16

undated

b. 12, f. 729 James Canney, clerk, New York City Conference minutes, New York City, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan, June 15, 1850

undated

b. 12, f. 730 A. Cowles autograph letter signed, Kirtland, Ohio, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin, August 24, 1849

undated

b. 12, f. 731 Mary Demary autograph letter signed, Voree, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, Beaver Island, Michigan, August 11, 1850

undated

b. 12, f. 732 Lorenzo Dow Hickey autograph letter signed, Etna, Michigan, to James Jesse Strang or George J. Adams, Baltimore, Maryland, February 5, 18??

undated

b. 12, f. 733 Hyram Jaques autograph letter signed, Brown County, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, April 16, 1848, and James Jesse Strang autograph letter signed to Hiram Jaques, undated

undated

b. 12, f. 734 John E. Page autograph letter signed, Nauvoo, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, March 12, 1846

undated

b. 12, f. 735 Henry Phelps autograph letter signed, Franciscoville, Michigan, to George C. Bates, Detroit, Michigan, March 14, 1851

undated

b. 12, f. 736 A. or H. Ringer autograph letter signed, Greencastle, Pennsylvania, to James Jesse Strang, Voree, Wisconsin Territory, January 1847

undated

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b. 12, f. 737 William Smith letter signed, 1846, and Lucy Smith and William Smith postscript, Nauvoo, Illinois, to James Jesse Strang, May 1846

undated

b. 12, f. 738 James Jesse Strang draft autograph letter signed, LaSalle County, Illinois, to George J. Adams, April 16, 1846

undated

b. 12, f. 739 James Jesse Strang draft autograph letter fragment signed to Hazen Aldrich, undated

undated

b. 12, f. 740 James Jesse Strang autograph letter signed, Saint James, Beaver Island, Michigan, to George C. Bates, August 7, 1851

undated

b. 12, f. 741 James Jesse Strang, autograph letter signed, LaSalle County, Illinois, to John Cook Bennett, April 16, 1846

undated

b. 12, f. 742 James Jesse Strang autograph letter fragment signed to H. G. Hall and Serene H. Hall, undated

undated

b. 12, f. 743 James Jesse Strang autograph letter signed, Saint James, Beaver Island, Michigan, May 1, 1850

undated

b. 12, f. 744 Gilbert Watson autograph letter signed, Waukesha, Wisconsin, to James Jesse Strang, March 5, 1850

undated

Correspondence

This subseries consists of incoming correspondence chiefly related to James Jesse Strang and the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) as well as carbon copies of outgoing correspondence by Mile M. Quaife, 1910-1947.


b. 13, f. 745 Allen, Eva F. 1930 January 12-24

b. 13, f. 746 Auerbach, Herbert S. 1930 May 13-29

b. 13, f. 747 Barton, A. O. 1930 April 3-10

b. 13, f. 748 Berkel, Ernest 1945 June-July 3

b. 13, f. 749 Blencoe, David A. 1943 May 8-19

b. 13, f. 750 Boal, Thomas 1940 October 1-7

b. 13, f. 751 Brown, Charles W. 1924 August 15-September 6

b. 13, f. 752 Burlingham, Jannette 1923 January 12-22

b. 13, f. 753 Burlington Public Library 1928 August 17

b. 13, f. 754 Burton, Clarence M. 1931 April 14

b. 13, f. 755 Child, Alpha 1920 June 21

b. 13, f. 756 Christy, E. May 1929 November 12

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b. 13, f. 757 Davis, Marion Morse 1922 November 3

b. 13, f. 758 Detroit Free Press 1930 April 1

b. 13, f. 759 Detzer, Karl W. 1930 February 1-March 27

b. 13, f. 760 Douglass, Benjamin 1919 October 27-November 1

b. 13, f. 761 Dudgeon, Matthew S. 1930 March 26-May 3

b. 13, f. 762 Ellison, Chester W. 1946 July 1

b. 13, f. 763 Engelbracht, Charles A. 1919 March 29-April 2

b. 13, f. 764 Ewing, Alvin E. 1919 April 9-15

b. 13, f. 765 Fitzpatrick, T. J. 1945 August 22-29

b. 13, f. 766 Flanders, John 1919 November 19

b. 13, f. 767 Flanders, Lloyd A. 1941 November 5-December 11

b. 13, f. 768 Fox, George R. 1919 January 7-March 29

b. 13, f. 769 Fuller, George N. 1918 January 4, 1943 April 24-May 20

b. 13, f. 770 Fulton, Antionette Meinhardt 1931 January 14-1934 January 4

b. 13, f. 771 Funicello, N. A. 1940 July 15-September 10

b. 13, f. 772 Gates, Minnie 1941 January 10

b. 13, f. 773 GorokhoG, Boris I. 1938 March 4-8

b. 13, f. 774 Gould, Anne Stuart 1941 June 14-19

b. 13, f. 775 Hahn, Mannel 1944 October 3

b. 13, f. 776 Heflin, Arnold P. 1938 August 12-25

b. 13, f. 777 Hickey, Joseph 1928 August 13

b. 13, f. 778 Holmes, Fred L. 1930 March 27-April 7


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b. 13, f. 779 Hulett, Otis C. 1929 June 10-1931 April 2

b. 13, f. 780 Hutchins, Earl J. 1946 December 1-1947 August 29

b. 13, f. 781 Jenkins, Paul B. 1930 March 20-1934 January 5

b. 13, f. 782-786 Johnston, Stanley L. 1936 January 21-1946 July 1

b. 13, f. 787 Lewis, Blanche Strang 1944 November 21

b. 13, f. 788 Lewis, Grace Barbara 1928 August 31-1930 April 10

b. 13, f. 789 Library of Congress 1928 March 20

b. 13, f. 790 Martin, Roscoe B. 1929 July 27-1937 September 17

b. 13, f. 791 Martin Samuel H. 1930 April 13-17

b. 13, f. 792 McNutt, James Oscar 1919 October 21-1920 December 22

b. 13, f. 793 Morgan, Dale L. 1940 December 2-1945 October 24

b. 13, f. 794 Morgan, Lucy Louisa 1932 June 27

b. 13, f. 795 Nicholson, Minnie Belle Wait 1922 February 19

b. 13, f. 796 Norton, Alton Ackley 1944 October 18-1945 March 8

b. 13, f. 797 Phillips, Eugenia Jesse Strang 1920 July 15-August 26, 1944 November 13

b. 13, f. 798 Poulson, M. Wilford 1935 August 15-1938 January 4

b. 13, f. 799 Quaife, Donald

Include 13 photographic prints of sites in Burlington, Wisconsin.

1928 August 2

b. 13, f. 800 Ranck, Samuel H. 1930 March 16-April 9

b. 13, f. 801 Rau, Louise 1931 March 16


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b. 13, f. 802 Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Includes letters by Heman Conomon Smith and Heman Hale Smith.

1919 January 7-1930 January 24

b. 13, f. 803 Riegel, Oscar W. 1928 June 11-28

b. 13, f. 804 Rohr, Charles D. 1929 September 24-1930 June 2

b. 13, f. 805 Rose, Philip S. 1919 December 3-6

b. 13, f. 806 Ryman, Elsie D. 1928 November 15-21

b. 13, f. 807 Schmidt, Otto L. 1930 March 11-May 8

b. 13, f. 808 Seaman, J. A. 1940 October 6-18

b. 13, f. 809 Sheldon, Gertrude Eliza Bacon 1930 September 9-11

b. 13, f. 810 Somers, Amos N. 1920 January 13-May 30

b. 13, f. 811 State Historical Society of Wisconsin 1928 March 20-1929 October 30

b. 14, f. 812-815 Strang, Clement James 1920 July 25-1943 July 10

b. 14, f. 816 Strang, George J., also known as George Sage, to Alvin E. Ewing 1910 January 1-1913 March 13

b. 14, f. 817 Strang-McCardell, Hazel 1931 February 26-March 17

b. 14, f. 818 Strohm, Adam 1931 January 7-1932 August 9

b. 14, f. 819 United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan

Includes proceedings of United States versus James Jesse Strang.

1928 May 24

b. 14, f. 820 Waite, Frederick C. 1946 April 14-July 30

b. 14, f. 821 Watson, Wingfield W.

Includes typescripts of many letters.

1919 January 2-1921 November 3

b. 14, f. 822 Weiskopf, Victor 1937 September 1-October 26

b. 14, f. 823 Whitlock, Brand 1930 March 19

b. 14, f. 824 Willis, Jane 1930 April 8-18


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b. 14, f. 825 Wing, Sarah Adelia Wright Strang 1920–1921

b. 14, f. 826 Wright, Mary Jane Nott 1919 September 15-1921 October 16

b. 14, f. 827 Yale University Press 1929 November 14-1930 May 6

b. 14, f. 828 Young, Levi E. 1930 February 18


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Series IV: Visual Resources James Jesse Strang collectionWA MSS 447

Series IV: Visual Resources, 1870–1943

This series consists of visual resources, 1870-1943, related to James Jesse Strang and the Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites). It consists of original photographs and prints as well as copy photographs of portraits, documents, and publications. The material was collected by Milo Milton Quaife for his book, Kingdom of St. James (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1930) and likely includes images initially collected by Charles Jesse Strang, circa 1870-1916, and augmented afterward by the collecting of his brother Clement James Strang.


Series IV is organized into two subseries: Original Photographs and Prints, and Copy Photographs.


Original Photographs and Prints


b. 15, f. 829 Beaver Island, Michigan3 photographic postcards

Photography by Edward Lyman Beebe, Kalkaska, Michigan.

circa 1910

b. 15, f. 830 Charlevoix Harbor entrance, Charlevoix, Michigan1 photographic print

Photography by George W. Priest, Charlevoix, Michigan. Includes a receipt for the print.

circa 1920

b. 15, f. 831 Font Lake, near Saint James, Beaver Island, Michigan1 photographic postcard and 1 relief halftone print

Photography by Edward Lyman Beebe, Kalkaska, Michigan.

circa 1930

b. 15, f. 832 Garden of Peace at crest of the Hill of Promise at Voree, Wisconsin1 relief halftone print

Photography by Donald L. Quaife.

1928 July

b. 15, f. 833 Hill of Promise at Voree, Wisconsin1 relief halftone print

Photography by Donald L. Quaife. Mary Louise Quaife is the girl in the image and she stands at location where James Jesse Strang claimed to discover the Voree Plates.

1928 July

b. 15, f. 834 Map of Beaver Island and Charlevoix County, Michigan1 intaglio print

Extracted from Henry B. Ward, "A Biological Examination of Lake Michigan in the Traverse Bay Region" Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska 14 (1896): Plate V.

circa 1895-1900

b. 15, f. 835 Phillips, Eugenia Jesse Strang1 carte-de-visite

Photography by J. D. Vanderberg, Black River Falls, Wisconsin.

1872–1878

b. 15, f. 836 Phillips, Eugenia Jesse Strang1 photographic print

circa 1943

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b. 15, f. 837 Phillips, Eugenia Jesse Strang, and Thomas Henry Phillips residence, 3409 North 27th Street, Tacoma, Washington1 photographic print

Image includes Phoebe Wright Strang and Eugenia Jesse Strang Phillips as well as Thomas Raphael Phillips, Benjamin Wright Phillips, and Theodore Fred Phillips. Verso of print includes an inscription by Clement James Strang.

circa 1900

b. 15, f. 838 Pine River, Charlevoix, Michigan1 photographic postcard and 1 relief halftone print

circa 1920

b. 15, f. 839 Printing oOce of James Jesse Strang at Saint James, Beaver Island, Michigan2 photographic prints


1928 July

b. 15, f. 840 Strang, James Jesse3 planographic prints

Drawing by an unidentified artist.

circa 1900

b. 15, f. 841 Strang, James Jesse8 relief halftone prints

Prints made the Grand Rapids Engraving Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

circa 1920

b. 15, f. 842 Strang, James Jesse, his death site and residence of his parents, Clement Strang and Abigail W. Strang, at Voree, Wisconsin

1928 July

b. 15, f. 843 Strang, James Jesse, his gravesite, Burlington Cemetery, Burlington, Wisconsin2 photographic prints

circa 1920-circa 1930

b. 15, f. 844 Strang, James Jesse, a plaster life mask2 photographic prints and 1 relief halftone print

circa 1920

b. 15, f. 845 Strang, James Jesse, his residence, 1850-1856, at Saint James, Beaver Island, Michigan4 relief halftone prints and 1 intaglio print

Prints made the Grad Rapids Engraving Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

circa 1920

b. 15, f. 846 Strang, Phoebe Wright1 carte-de-visite

Photography by J. D. Vanderberg, Black River Falls, Wisconsin.

circa 1870

b. 15, f. 847 Strang, Phoebe Wright1 cabinet photograph

Photography by Tobias Zweifel, Duluth, Minnesota

circa 1892-1898

b. 15, f. 848 Taylor, John, funerary portrait1 relief halftone print

1915 March

b. 15, f. 849 USS Wolverine2 relief halftone prints

From James Cooke Mills, Our Inland Seas, Their Shipping & Commerce for Three Centuries(Chicago, Illinois: A.C. McClurg and Company, 1910)

1910

b. 15, f. 850 USS Wolverine, Erie, Pennsylvania1 oEset lithograph postcard

Published by S. W. Hauck and Son, Erie, Pennsylvania.

circa 1927

Original Photographs and Prints (continued)

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b. 15, f. 851 USS Wolverine, (formerly USS Michigan), oldest iron gun boat in the world, built in 18431 oEset lithograph postcard

Published by L. C. Schauble, Erie, Pennsylvania.

circa 1930

b. 15, f. 852 Watson, Wingfield W.1 cabinet photograph

Photography by William Boswell, Clare, Michigan

circa 1888

b. 15, f. 853 Watson, Wingfield W., with his daughters, Sarah Watson Willis, Elizabeth Watson Willis, Grace Barbara Watson Lewis, as well as another woman1 photographic print

Photography by Charles E. Clench, Burlington, Wisconsin.

circa 1910

b. 15, f. 854 White River and Mill Pond near Voree, Wisconsin1 relief halftone print


1928 July

Copy Photographs


Portraits


b. 15, f. 855 Chidester, Edward, circa 1860 1942 February

b. 15, f. 856 Strang, Clement, circa 18551 photographic print

Copy photograph of a daguerreotype made by Edward H. Olds, Ogdensburg, New York, and held at the Chicago Historical Society, which identifies the sitter as James Jesse Strang.

circa 1920

b. 15, f. 857 Strang, James Jesse, 18501 cabinet photograph

Copy photograph by Frank Clayton C. Arms, Grand Ledge, Michigan, of a daguerreotype reported made in BuGalo, New York, and owned by Clement James Strang.

circa 1900

b. 15, f. 858 Strang, James Jesse, 1854-18561 photographic print and 1 relief halftone print

Copy photograph of a daguerreotype.

circa 1920

b. 15, f. 859 Wing, Sarah Adelia Wright Strang, and James Phineas Strang, circa 18582 photostats

circa 1920

b. 15, f. 860 Wright, Phineas, circa 18551 photographic print

Copy photograph received by Quaife from Eugenia Jesse Strang Phillips.

circa 1943

Documents and Publications


Original Photographs and Prints (continued)

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b. 15, f. 861 Bennett, John C., The Poultry Book: A Treatise on Breeding and General Management of Domestic Fowls (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1850), title page2 photostats

circa 1925

b. 15, f. 862 Oliver Cowdery, The Epistles of Oliver Cowdery, on the Bringing in of a New Dispensation (Saint James, Michigan: Cooper and Chidester, 1854), title page1 photographic print and 1 relief halftone print

Accompanied by envelope that held a discarded nitrate negative.

1922 January 21

b. 15, f. 863 Smith, Joseph, attributed, autograph letter of appointment signed to James Jesse Strang, June 18, 1844, page 31 photographic negative

Made on Eastman Kodak Company TRI-X 320 sheet film.

circa 1940

b. 15, f. 864 Strang, James Jesse, The Book of the Law of the Lord(Saint James, Michigan: Royal Press, 1851), title page1 photographic print

Accompanied by envelope that held a discarded nitrate negative.

1921 October 26

b. 15, f. 865 Strang, James Jesse, Diary, Pages for January 22-29, 18321 photostat and 1 relief halftone print

circa 1925

b. 15, f. 866 Voree plates1 photographic print and 12 intaglio prints

Also known as "The Record of Rajah Manchou of Vorito" and the "Voree Record."

circa 1930

Copy Photographs > Documents and Publications (continued)

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Selected Search TermsThe following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.

SubjectsMormons -- MichiganMormons -- Wisconsin

Geographic NamesSaint James (Mich.)Voree (Wis.)

NamesAdams, G. J. (George Jones), 1813-1880Bennett, John Cook, 1804-1867Braidwood, Thomas W., 1818-1906Brownson, GeorgeChidester, DennisGraham, Samuel, fl. 1848-1851Greig, James M.Hess, Peter, fl. 1846-1850Hickey, Lorenzo Dow, 1817-1897Post, Stephen, fl. 1849-1850Quaife, Milo Milton, 1880-1959Smith, William, fl. 1846-1847Strang, Charles Jesse, 1851-1916Strang, Clement James, 1854-1944Strang, James Jesse, 1813-1856Watson, GilbertWatson, Wingfield W., 1828-1922Wright, Benjamin G.Wright, Mary Jane Nott, 1848-1927

Corporate BodiesAssociated Order of EnochChurch of Jesus Christ (Strangites)Order of the Illuminati

Acquired FromEberstadt, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1912-1974 , donorCoe, William Robertson, 1869-1955 , donor

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