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Abiff, Hiram, 32–4, 38, 93
abolitionist movement, 170, 182–3, 222–6, 238–43, 250, 261
Adams, John Quincy, 122–3, 138–9, 192, 243
Adventism (Millerism)
camp meetings, 208–11, 239, 247
and “come-outers,” 211
and Great Disappointment, 256–7
and predicted return of Christ, 18, 18, 62, 168–9, 211, 237–9, 242, 247–50
Sabbatarian Adventists, 182, 257
Second Adventist Association, 208
See also Himes, Joshua; Miller, William
alcohol, 79, 99–101, 165–7, 181–2, 285, 204, 222, 257
Alger, Fanny, 188–9, 198, 230
American Anti-Slavery Society, 225, 242
American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, 242–3
See also abolitionist movement
American Revolution, 6, 15, 17, 40, 77–8, 134, 178, 191
Anthon, Charles, 114
Anti-Masonry
and Book of Mormon, 143
influence on Adventism, 208–9
and Morgan affair, 107, 124–6, 136–7, 147, 174–5, 190–1, 261–2
and politics, 125–6, 129, 136–40, 175, 192–3, 261–2
See also Freemasonry; Weed, Thurlow
apocalypse, 53, 60–2, 184, 209, 238, 257. See also Adventism (Millerism)
Bank of the United States. See Second Bank of the United States
Barnum, Phineas Taylor, 206–11
Bartow, Andrew, 52
Bates, David Stanhope, 81–5, 95–9
Beecher, Catherine, 102
Beecher, Lyman, 101–4, 164, 181–2, 221–3, 243
Bennett, James Gordon, 191, 236
Birdsall, John, 135
Blanchard, Jonathan, 261–2
Boggs, Lilburn, 215–16, 219
Book of Mormon, 150–1, 161–3, 167, 187–8, 227–8
and Hill Cumorah Pageant, 264
and polygamy, 188, 244
publication of, 129–30, 198, 228
Smith’s translating of, 113–17
stories and themes, 140–4, 163, 188
See also Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Brainard, Jeremiah, 50
Brant, John, 178
Brittin, William, 97–8
Brownson, Orestes, 134
Bruce, Eli, 126, 138, 140, 175–6
Bullard, Isaac (the Prophet), 53–5, 57
Bullardites (Pilgrims), 53–5
Burr, Aaron, 15
Calhoun, John C., 32
Calvinism, 12, 43–4, 46–7, 101, 105, 167, 248
camp meetings, 21, 47, 168, 208–11, 239, 247
canal technology and materials, 49–50, 131–5
aqueducts, 96–9, 206, 220
cement, 48, 50–2
limestone, 50–2, 96, 118, 131, 252, 262
stump puller, 50
See also Erie Canal
Champollion, Jean-François, 113–14
Chase, Willard, 93–4
Chesebro, Nicholas G., 67–8, 140
cholera, 167, 183, 186, 214
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
anti-bank, 195
baptism, 117, 130, 148–50, 229
dissenters, 196–9, 244–6, 253
endowments, 194, 232
Hill Cumorah, 92, 95, 127, 129, 141, 173–4, 187, 264
Hill Cumorah Pageant, 264
and Illinois, 217–19
Kirtland Temple, 173, 194–6
lay church officials, 172–3
Melchizedek priesthood, 173
Missouri mob violence and expulsion of Mormons (1838), 214–17
move to Salt Lake City, 260
naming of, 131
and Nauvoo Expositor, 246, 250–1
polygamy (plural marriages), 185, 188–9, 230, 232–5, 243–6, 259–60
priesthood, 173
and Sons of Dan (Danites), 198–9, 215, 253
Urim and Thummim, 93, 116, 229
and Zion, 143, 171–3, 185–6, 197, 219, 237
Zion’s Camp, 186, 194
See also Book of Mormon; Smith, Joseph Jr.
Clay, Henry, 66, 191–2
Clinton, DeWitt, 14–18, 260
death of, 189
elected governor of New York, 33
and Erie Canal Commission and planning, 15–18, 27–8, 31–3, 40, 82
and Erie Canal opening, 158, 160
and Freemasonry, 66, 88, 95, 125
and Morgan affair, 88, 125
political background, 15
removal of Sheriff Bruce, 138, 140
Clinton, George, 15
Clinton, James, 17
Cole, Abner, 130
Cole, Thomas, 144, 212
conversion, religious, 13–14, 46, 60–1, 69–72, 153–5, 164–7
Cowdery, Oliver, 162, 171, 173
and “Article on Marriage,” 188–9
baptisms by, 149–50, 161
disagreements with Smith, 151, 189
excommunication of, 198
and organization of Church of Christ, 131, 149
as second elder, 149
and translation of the Book of Mormon, 115–17, 126–30
Currier, Nathaniel, 210
Darwin, Charles, 118
Deep Cut, 131–5, 159, 206
Deism, 23–5, 229
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Dickinson, Emily, 57
Doniphan, Alexander W., 217
Douglass, Frederick, 261
Dow, Lorenzo, 45–8, 53, 102, 193, 208
du Pont, Éleuthère Irénée, 131
Durand, Asher, 161
Durfee, Lemuel, 89
Dyer, Russell, 123, 136
Eddy, Thomas, 18–19, 27, 75
Edwards, Jonathan, 164
Erie Canal
Act respecting Navigable Communications, An, 33
aqueducts, 30, 96–9
Barge Canal rebuilding, 262–3
Bonus Bill (1817), 32
canal boys (hoggees), 213–14
canal workers, 48–9, 75–7, 98–101, 120–2, 133–4, 204
and commerce, 212–13
Commission, 14–20, 28
construction of, 48–52, 74–7, 95–8, 117–22, 131–5
cost and funding, 32–3, 52, 214
and crime, 214
and daredevil jumping of Sam Patch, 104–9, 133, 144, 146, 165
Deep Cut, 131–5, 159, 206
and employment, 213
enlargement of, 220–1
feeder canals, 96, 220
groundbreaking, 40–1
Hawley’s inspiration and “Hercules” essays, 3–4, 8, 15, 33, 98–9, 158–9
Irondequoit Embankment, 95–6, 122–3, 206
legacy of, 260–1
and Lockport, 120–2, 132–5, 159–60, 204, 206, 212–13, 221, 226, 263
locks, 10–11, 30, 32, 48, 50, 82, 95, 117–22, 131, 134–5, 159, 204, 220, 262–3
Memoir of Durand sketches, 161
and money-digging, 77–9
and Niagara Falls, 2, 9–10, 18, 21–2, 118, 134, 202, 212
opening of, 158–6
and Rochester, 81–3, 85, 96–9, 118, 122, 144–6, 261, 263
route, 3–4, 8–10, 18–19, 26–32
and St. Lawrence Seaway, 263
survey led by Geddes, 8–11
typical journey on, 202–6
See also canal technology and materials
Erie Canal Commission, 14–20, 27–33, 40–1, 48–52, 75–6, 83, 118, 131–2
evangelism, 13, 20, 145–9, 163–6, 173, 180–3, 186–7, 221, 224, 229
Far West, Missouri, 186, 194, 196–8, 215–17
Female Relief Society, 234
Finger Lakes (New York), 3, 25, 97, 193, 220