The Federal Bankruptcy Act, passed the preceding Aug, goes into effect. Six and one-half weeks later, on Apr 18, Joseph Smith and his brothers Hyrum and Samuel declare themselves insolvent before the county commissioner's court and file petitions to be certified bankrupt by the United States District Court for Illinois. (1)
-- 1842. February 2
(Moses Thatcher) : Born in Sangamon County, Illinois. His family migrated to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. Two years later, touched with the gold fever, they moved to Sacramento, California, where his father operated an "eating house." (2)
-- Feb 2, 1842
Moses Thatcher, LDS apostle, missionary, businessman, and politician was born in 1842 near Springfield, in Sangamon County, Illinois, on 2 February 1842, the son of Hezekiah and Alena "Alley" Kitchen Thatcher. (3)
-- Feb 3, 1842
The petition of Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon for membership in the Masonic order is reported favorably by an investigative committee of the Grand Lodge in Quincy, Illinois. Masons in Nauvoo, including long-time Mason Hyrum Smith, had recently began organization of the Nauvoo Lodge which is installed Mar 15. (1)
John Taylor and Wilford Woodruff appointed to take charge of the printing office [per Brigham Young]. (4)
Taylor, John: Appointed associate editor of the Times and Seasons 3 February 1842. (5)
[Wilford Woodruff] Appointed business manager of Times and Seasons, Mormon church's official news periodical (6)
-- Feb 4, 1842
Joseph Smith records: "closed a contract with Ebenezer Robinson for the printing office-also the paper fixtures, bookbindery, and stereotype foundry, by proxy, namely, Willard Richards, cost between 7,000 and 8,000 dollars." Robinson, who was ordered to sell his printing business to the Church by a revelation, records that he got $6,600 of which he consecrated $4,561.91 to the building of the Nauvoo Temple. Brigham Young called the price paid Robinson "exorbitant." "The reason I paid such a price, was [because] the Prophet directed the Twelve to pay him whatever he asked." The difference between "7,000 and 8,000 dollars" that was paid and $6,600 that Robinson received was, evidently, commission given to the sales agent. (1)
-- Feb 5, 1842
Joseph Smith's disaffected private secretary accuses him of trying to create "a system of hereditary tyranny." By his death Joseph Smith had made general authorities of his father, his brothers Hyrum and William, his uncle John Smith, and his first cousin George A. Smith. (1)
-- Feb 6, 1842
[Emma] Birth of unnamed stillborn son. (7)
Son of Joseph and Emma Smith born and died. (4)
[Lucy Mack Smith] Stillborn son of Joseph and Emma. (8)
[Lucy Mack Smith] Emma gives birth to a stillborn son, her eighth biological child and seventh son. He is not named. (9)
Footnotes:
1 - This Day in Mormon History, http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html
2 - Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons
3 - Utah History Encyclopedia: Moses Thatcher, http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/t/THATCHER%2CMOSES.html
4 - Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology"
5 - Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985
6 - Kenny, Scott (editor), Wilford Woodruff's Journals 1833-1898, Chronology Signature Books, Midvale, Utah
7 - Emma Smith, Woman of Faith, http://emmasmithmormon.com
8 - Proctor, Scott and Maurine Jensen, editors, History of Joseph Smith by His Mother: Revised and Enhanced
9 - Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, 2001, Signature Books
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