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Gilbert, Algernon Sidney
INTERIM CONTENT
Bangerter and Black, My Servant Algernon Sidney Gilbert, 1; Backman, Profile, 28.
Comprehensive Works Cited
Bangerter, Geraldine Hamblin, and Susan Easton Black. My Servant Algernon Sidney Gilbert: Provide for My Saints (D&C 57:10). Alpine, UT: G. H. Bangerter, 1989.
Backman, Milton V., Jr., comp. A Profile of Latter-day Saints of Kirtland, Ohio, and Members of Zion's Camp, 1830–1839: Vital Statistics and Sources. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Department of Church History and Doctrine and Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1983.
–29 June 1834.
"Afflicting," The Evening and the Morning Star, July 1834, 176; History of the Church, 2:118; Backman, Profile, 28; Cook, Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 84; Staker, "Thou Art the Man," 115; Bangerter and Black, My Servant Algernon Sidney Gilbert, 57.
The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.
History of the Church / Smith, Joseph, et al. History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Edited by B. H. Roberts. Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1902–1912 (vols. 1–6), 1932 (vol. 7).
Cook, Lyndon W. The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1985.
Staker, Mark L. "'Thou Art the Man': Newel K. Whitney in Ohio." BYU Studies 42, no. 1 (2003): 75–138.
Merchant.
History of the Church, 1:145–146; Staker, "Thou Art the Man," 89, 103; Bangerter and Black, My Servant Algernon Sidney Gilbert, 11, 46; Cook, Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 84; Cannon and Cook, Far West Record, 263.
Cannon, Donald Q., and Lyndon W. Cook, eds. Far West Record: Minutes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1844. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1983.
Born at New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut.
Son of Eli Gilbert and Lydia Hemingway.
Moved to Huntington, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; to Monroe, Monroe Co., Michigan Territory, by Sept. 1818; to Painesville, Geauga Co., Ohio; and to Mentor, Geauga Co., ca. Oct. 1820.
Bangerter and Black, My Servant Algernon Sidney Gilbert, 1, 75; Black, Who's Who in the Doctrine and Covenants, 102; Staker, "Thou Art the Man," 78, 80, 123.
Black, Susan Easton. Who's Who in the Doctrine and Covenants. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1997.
Married Elizabeth Van Benthusen, 30 Sept. 1823, in Chagrin (later Willoughby), Geauga Co.
Staker, "Thou Art the Man," 81; Bangerter and Black, My Servant Algernon Sidney Gilbert, 81.
Moved to Kirtland, Geauga Co., 1826.
Staker, "Thou Art the Man," 82.
Partner with Newel K. Whitney in N. K. Whitney & Co. store at Kirtland, by 1827.
History of the Church, 1:145–146; Staker, "Thou Art the Man," 89, 103; Bangerter and Black, My Servant Algernon Sidney Gilbert, 11; Cook, Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 84.
Appointed elector, 8 Oct. 1827, in Kirtland.
Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spring 1831.
Ordained an elder by JS, June 1831, in Kirtland.
Minute Book 2, 6 June 1831; Bangerter and Black, My Servant Algernon Sidney Gilbert, 55; Cook, Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 84.
Moved to Independence, Jackson Co., Missouri, 1831, and opened a store.
Bangerter and Black, My Servant Algernon Sidney Gilbert, 46, 55; Cook, Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 84; Staker, "Thou Art the Man," 103.
Appointed agent for church, June 1831.
Revelation, 8 June 1831 [D&C 53]; Cook, Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 84.
Ordained a high priest by JS, 26 Apr. 1832, in Kirtland.
Minute Book 2, 26–27 Apr. 1832.
Appointed one of seven high priests to preside over church affairs in Missouri, 26 Apr. 1832.
Minute Book 2, 26–27 Apr. 1832; Revelation, 26 Apr. 1832 [D&C 82]; Bangerter and Black, My Servant Algernon Sidney Gilbert, 55–56.
Member of United Firm, Apr. 1832.
Cook, Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 84.
Served mission to eastern U.S., June–Dec. 1832.
Arrested, 4 Nov. 1833, and imprisoned for seven days at Independence.
Black, Who's Who in the Doctrine and Covenants, 103.
Among Latter-day Saints driven from Jackson Co. into Clay Co., Missouri, Nov. 1833.
Hosted men of Camp of Israel expedition to Missouri, 1834.
Died of cholera near Rush Creek, Clay Co.
History, 1838–1856, volume A-1 [23 December 1805–30 August 1834]
History, 1838–1856, volume C-1 [2 November 1838–31 July 1842]
John Whitmer, History, 1831–circa 1847
Articles and Covenants, circa April 1830 [D&C 20]
Articles and Covenants, circa April 1830, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 20]
Blessing to Newel K. Whitney, 7 October 1835
Book of Commandments, 1833
Charges against Missouri Conference Preferred to Joseph Smith, circa March 1832
Declaration, 21 June 1834
Doctrine and Covenants, 1835
Edward Partridge, History, Manuscript, circa 1839
History, 1838–1856, volume E-1 [1 July 1843–30 April 1844]
John Corrill, A Brief History of the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1839
Journal, 1832–1834
Letter from John Corrill, 17 November 1833
Letter from Edward Partridge, between 14 and 19 November 1833
Letter from John Whitmer, 29 July 1833
Letter from Oliver Cowdery, 28 January 1832
Letter from William W. Phelps, 1 May 1834
Letter from William W. Phelps, 14 November 1833
Letter from William W. Phelps, 27 February 1834
Letter to Edward Partridge and Others, 14 January 1833
Letter to William W. Phelps, 11 January 1833
Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson County, Missouri, 21 April 1833
Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson County, Missouri, 10 August 1833
Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson County, Missouri, 2 July 1833
Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson County, Missouri, 25 June 1833
Letter to Edward Partridge and Others, 10 December 1833
Letter to Edward Partridge, 5 December 1833
Letter to John Thornton and Others, 25 June 1834
Letter to Moses Nickerson, 19 November 1833
Letter to William W. Phelps, 31 July 1832
Letterbook 1
Letters to John Burk, Sally Waterman Phelps, and Almira Mack Scobey, 1–2 June 1835
License for Edward Partridge, circa 4 August 1831–circa 5 January 1832
Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845
Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1845
Memorial to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 28 November 1843
Memorial to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, circa 30 October 1839–27 January 1840
Minute Book 1
Minutes, 1 September 1831
Minutes, 11 September 1833
Minutes, 13–14 January 1833
Minutes, 23 June 1834
Minutes, 26–27 April 1832
Minutes, 4 August 1831
Minutes, 4 June 1833
Minutes, circa 1 May 1832
Note on Ordinations, circa 16 June 1831
Note, 16 September 1835
Order from Newel K. Whitney, 18 April 1834
Parley P. Pratt et al., "'The Mormons' So Called," 12 December 1833
Parley P. Pratt, History of the Late Persecution, 1839
Pay Order to Newel K. Whitney for "Mrs. Young," 15 June 1840
Petition to United States Congress, circa 29 November 1839, Draft
Resolutions of Committee from Lafayette County, Missouri, 23 June 1834
Revelation Book 1
Revelation, 27 February 1833 [D&C 89]
Revelation, 1 August 1831 [D&C 58]
Revelation, 1 March 1832 [D&C 78]
Revelation, 1 November 1831–A [D&C 68]
Revelation, 11 September 1831 [D&C 64]
Revelation, 12 November 1831 [D&C 70]
Revelation, 12 August 1831 [D&C 61]
Revelation, 15 March 1833 [D&C 92]
Revelation, 16 April 1830 [D&C 22]
Revelation, 16 April 1830, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 22]
Revelation, 16–17 December 1833 [D&C 101]
Revelation, 20 July 1831 [D&C 57]
Revelation, 20 March 1832
Revelation, 20 May 1831 [D&C 51]
Revelation, 22 June 1834 [D&C 105]
Revelation, 23 April 1834 [D&C 104]
Revelation, 23 February 1831 [D&C 42:74–93]
Revelation, 27–28 December 1832 [D&C 88:1–126]
Revelation, 31 August 1831
Revelation, 8 July 1838–E [D&C 117]
Revelation, 8 June 1831 [D&C 53]
Revelation, 9 February 1831 [D&C 42:1–72]
Revelation, 9 February 1831, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 42:1–72]
Revelations printed in Evening and Morning Star, January 1835–June 1836
Revelations printed in The Evening and the Morning Star, June 1832–June 1833
Sidney Rigdon, Appeal to the American People, 1840
Sidney Rigdon, Appeal to the American People, 1840, Second Edition
Vision, 16 February 1832 [D&C 76]
"A History, of the Persecution, of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter Day Saints in Missouri," December 1839–October 1840
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