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-Mathews McNeil-Mills-Nichols-Oak-Pemberton-Phillips-Plymale-Shipp-Smith-White-Wier GOLDENGOLDINGOLDINGGOULDENGOULDINGOULDINGGOLDENGOLD ============================================================