26 July 1842. Tuesday

Tuesday 26 Sick. Rode to the farm in the P.M.

27 July 1842. Wednesday

Wednesday 27th At the Grove, listening to the electioneering candidates. After they had got through spake some 314

31 July 1842. Sunday

Sunday 31st In council with Bishops [George] Miller & [Newel K.] Whitney, B[righam] Young, Jno Taylor &c concerning Bishop Knights [Vinson Knight's] sickness. Bro Knights has been sick about a week and this morning he began to sink very fast untill 12 o clock when death put a period to his sufferings.

3 August 1842. Wednesday

August Wednesday 3rd In the city transacting various business-- and in company with General [James] Adams and others.

4 August 1842. Thursday

Thursday 4th In the city learning sword exercise under Col. Brewer from St. Louis 315 and attending various other business. [p.128]

6 August 1842. Saturday

Saturday 6th Went over the river to Montrose to witness the installation of officers of the Rising Sun Lodge,316 Iowa in company with Col. Brewer Gen. [James] Adams &c

7 August 1842. Sunday

Sunday 7th At home all day

314. Nominations for the new county officers were made in Nauvoo two months earlier, and the election was held in August. (JS, Journal, 1 June 1842; "Public Meeting," The Wasp, 4 June 1842, [3].)

315. Joseph Smith III later recalled a "Colonel Brower," who was one of the drill officers engaged. Brower had lost his lower left arm but "was excellent horseman and a skillful swordsman and fencer." (Mary Audentia Smith Anderson, "The Memoirs of President Joseph Smith," Saints' Herald, 1 Jan. 1935, 15.)

316. A Masonic lodge.