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NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, June 22, 1844 

* Mormons leader Joseph Smith
* Election campaign for president
* 1st presidential candidate to be killed

It is not known by many today that Joseph Smith, leader of the Latter-Day Saints, ran for president of the United States in 1844.
After several years of harassment... Read full description  

NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, March 25, 1843

* Porter Rockwell - Utah Territory lawman
* Bodyguard and friend of Joseph Smith arrest
* Mormons - Mormonism - Latter Day Saints
* Attempted murder of Governor Lilburn Boggs

 The back page has a small report: "Mormons" noting: "Orrin Porter Rockwell, the Mormon,... Read full description  

NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, Feb. 3, 1844  Pages 2 and 3 contain a lengthy article concerning the Mormons in Nauvoo. Headed: "The Mormons", bits include: "This singular community contrive to make themselves of importance. Numbering as they do many thousand persons, all moving with the perfect devotion at the nod of their prophet, and... Read full description  

NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, Nov. 1, 1845 

* Early Mormons - Mormonism
* Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois

Inside has an address to the anti-Mormon citizens of Hancock (Ill.), submitting copies of a correspondence between a group of citizens and the "twelve" at Nauvoo.
This discusses the removal of the Mormons from the state, including:... Read full description  

NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, April 1, 1843  

* Mormons - Mormonism
* Nauvoo, Illinois hoax ?
* Millerism - Millerites

The back page has what is apparently an "April Fools" report concocted by the normally staid editor, headed: "Nauvoo Abolished". It reports: "In the... Read full description  

NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, July 10, 1841  

* Mormons - Mormonism
* Immigrants to Illinois
* General Alexander Macomb
* United States Army officer

Page 3 has a lengthy account of a loss in the military: "...the melancholy intelligence of the exit of the distinguished ALEXANDER MACOMB,... Read full description  

NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, Aug. 21, 1841

* Mormons - Mormonism
* Toms River & Hornerstown
* Monmouth Co. New Jersey

 Inside has the lengthy: "Veto Message from the President of the United States, Returning, with his Objections, the bill to incorporate the Fiscal Bank of the United... Read full description  

NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, Jan. 31, 1846 

* United States Naval Academy is born
* Brigham Young arrested - Mormons

Near the back is a nice article on the establishment of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, headed: "The Naval School At Annapolis", which includes: "It is generally... Read full description  

NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, March 20, 1847  Near the top of an inside page has a brief yet notable report: "Letters received also state that Col. Cook and the Mormon battalion were 350 miles beyond Santa Fe. They were generally in good health and progressing slowly."
This is a very rare mention... Read full description  

NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, Sept. 26, 1846

* Commodore John D. Sloat
* Mexican-American War
* Claims California for U.S.
* Illinois Mormon War ending
* Nauvoo, Hancock County

 Inside has a very historic article headed: "The Pacific Squadron - Commodore Sloat Takes Possession of... Read full description  

NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, Feb. 8, 1845  

* Nauvoo Charter - Mormons - Mormonsim
* Illinois legislature repeals - post Joseph Smith murder
* Prelude to exodus to Salt Lake City, Utah

The bottom of the front page has a very brief item noting: "Illinois" "The Mormon charter of Nauvoo has been... Read full description  

NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, July 27, 1844

* Mormonism - re. Joseph Smith assassination
* Macon Bolling Allen - 1st black lawyer

 Pages 4 and 5 contain a nearly full-column article on: "The Mormons" focused on driving the Mormons out of Illinois, and a... Read full description  

NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, July 22, 1843 

* Mormons - Mormonism
* Earliest of Brigham Young

The back page has a heading: "The Mormon Prophet" which begins: "The arrest of Joe Smith it appears was in virtue of some new process from Missouri. James Reynolds proceeded to Nauvoo to arrest him, found... Read full description  

NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER Baltimore, April 5, 1823

* Jews and Mormons ?

An inside page has a brief report noting: "...that the society for meliorating the condition of the Jew, are now engaged in a negociation for 20,000 acres of land in the 'Genesee country' for a Jewish colony. Will the Jews work on it?"
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