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Heaven's Ditch

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by Jack Kelly


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  Index

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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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nbsp; Dibble, Orange H., 132

  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

 

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