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Hosea Stout Journals
February 3, 1848
Summary: Stout conducts business with
police; "The Defenders of Nauvoo" have a celebration party.
Journal entry: Thurs Feb. 3rd 1848. Around
as usual. The police committee have all returned having near one
hundred dollars in goods, clothing and money. I was engaged with
them till late at night. Those who were in the battle of Nauvoo
in the fall of 1846, had a party today styled "The Defenders of
Nauvoo" at C. C. Bolton's house. They had a high time some being
very high. Cold N. wind in evening.
Source: On
the Mormon Frontier: The Diary of Hosea Stout
- 1844-1861 Volume I - Edited by Juanita Brooks. Permission to
use excerpts granted by Utah State Historical Society and the
University of Utah Press.
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