Here's that address someone just requested. B. Massey -----Original Message----- From: Jim Golden <jgolden1@planttel.net> To: ILHANCOC-L@rootsweb.com <ILHANCOC-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, June 23, 2000 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [ILHANCOC] MILLER AND OTHER MORMANS >Go to: >http://deseretbook.com/ >and search for Nauvoo. >You will find several books on the history of Nauvoo. There is also a Visitor's >Center in Nauvoo that will have some pamphlets on the area. > >Jim > >Virginia Weiss wrote: > >> SHIRLEY, several years ago BYU published a series of booklets of Mormon >> history in the Illinois area. I have just one of them and unfortunately >> right now it is out of print. Perhaps you could persuade them to reprint. >> >> Your Bishop George Miller is mentioned briefly several times. >> >> Volume 23, Summer 1983, Number 3 >> >> George Miller (1794-1850), a carpenter by trade, was born in Orange County, >> Virginia. He was ordained a bishop in 1841, and second bishop in the church >> behind Newel K. Whitney in 1844. He was one of the members of the Nauvoo >> House Association and the Agricultural and Manufacturing Association; he was >> a colonel in the Nauvoo Legion and was president of the Nauvoo high priests. >> He headed the mission to the Wisconsin pineries to cut timber for Nauvoo >> construction. >> >> The Nauvoo high priests were presided over by George Miller, William Show, >> and Noah Packard ... from the Times and Seasons vol. 6 pg. 870 -- 15 April >> 1845. >> >> On 14 January 1845 at a meeting, several persons were nominated for >> membership in the City Council. George Miller was nominated to be a >> Councillor. I haven't found any reference to his being elected. >> >> VIRGINIA > >-- >Jim Golden -- Tifton, GA -- The Friendly City >============================================================ >Homepage: http://sites.netscape.net/jpgolden/homepage >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- > >You don't know who you are until you know who you are from! >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- > >Researching: Adams-Allen-Benge-Bickley-Biggs-Boyd-Branson-Campbell-Cathey >Christison-Dean-Foster-George-Golden-Green(e)-Henson-James-Lee-Lowrey-Mathe ws >McNeil-Mills-Nichols-Oak-Pemberton-Phillips-Plymale-Shipp-Smith-White-Wier >GOLDENGOLDINGOLDINGGOULDENGOULDINGOULDINGGOLDENGOLD >============================================================ > >