Webster's Dictionary's definition of "affair" (1830).

Joseph records William McLellin's 1832 excommunication.

1835 D&C declares that the Church believes in monogamy.

Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery have a vision in the Kirtland temple; Elijah bestows the sealing keys.

Marriage record of Solomon Custer and Fanny Alger in November 1836.

Joseph informs the council that "a matter" involving Cowdery had not been "satisfactorily settled."

Cowdery calls Joseph's relation with Alger a "dirty, nasty, filthy scrape/affair."

Council minutes on the relationship between Joseph Smith and Fanny Alger.

Elders' Journal says Mormons do not "believe in having more wives than one."

Rigdon refers to "a real drunken scrape" involving Cowdery and Granger.

Brewer claims that Joseph had "unlawful intercourse" with "a young orphan girl."

Pottawattamie High Council minutes mentions Oliver Cowdery's rebaptism.

R. Miller mentions O. Cowdery's rebaptism by Hyde in November 1848 in a letter to H. Sabey.

O. Pratt officially introduces polygamy to the public.

Butler writes that McLellin robbed the Smith home while Joseph was in prison.

1860 U.S. Census lists "Fanny Ouster" as 42 years old.

Millennial Star reviews McLellin's excommunication and hostilities toward the Saints.

F.D. Richards records that Joseph Noble "performed the first sealing ceremony in this Dispensation" between Joseph and Louisa Beaman.

Lightner claims Joseph was commanded Joseph to practice polygamy in July 1834.

Stenhouse claims W.W. Phelps taught that Joseph learned polygamy from the Egyptian papyrus.

Deseret News prints Samuel Alger's obituary.

E. Webb recounts the Joseph/Alger sealing.

A.E. Young provides an overview of the Joseph/Alger relationship.

Emma Hale Smith denies that Joseph practiced polygamy.

Anti-polygamy periodical recounts the Joseph/Alger relationship.

Susa Young Gates quotes Joseph Smith in 1835 claiming to have authority to marry others.

Helen Mar Kimball Whitney says that plural marriage was revealed to Joseph in 1831; was commanded by an angel to practice it.

Braden says that Joseph "practiced polygamy in Kirtland," "committed fornication," and seduced "an orphan girl."

Hawley recalls John Alger saying Alger was "seald" to Joseph.

Holbrook reports that Alger was a "spiritual wife" of Joseph's.

C. Webb describes the Fanny Alger/Joseph relationship as a sealing and states that Fanny Alger was pregnant.

Eliza R. Snow lists Fanny Alger and others as one of "Joseph Smith's Plural wives."

Mary Ann Frost Pratt recalls the conversion of her sister Olive Frost to plural marriage and her marriage to Joseph.

Newspaper interviews Eliza R. Snow about plural marriage; she mentions the angel with a sword commanding Joseph to practice polygamy.

Martin Harris quoted about Joseph's "improper proposals" to Alger.

Winchester talks about Joseph's "licentious conduct" during the Kirtland period.

Official Declaration 1 of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Lucy Walker recalls that Joseph saying he learned the "principle of plural marriage" in 1831.

W. Woodruff discontinues plural marriage, naming revelation and opposition as the reason.

L. Hancock recalls that Joseph told him to take Alger to Missouri.

Alger sealed by proxy to Joseph Smith in 1899.

Benjamin Johnson recalls being told that Joseph and Fanny were "spied upon & found together"; calls Fanny Joseph's "first plural wife."

M. Hancock recounts the marriage of Alger and Joseph.

Lightner says Joseph was commanded to begin plural marriage in 1834 [?] and was threatened by an angel.

Leroli C. Snow provides late account of Emma Hale Smith pushing Eliza R. Snow down the stairs.

Todd Compton speculates that Fanny Alger may have miscarried.

S. Faulring provides an overview of O. Cowdery's rebaptism in November 1848.

Richard Lyman Bushman explains the possible background for the 1835 "Article of Marriage."

Study finds that marriage age gaps rose between 1850 and 1880; gaps ranged from 4 to 7 years on average.

Brian C. Hales concludes that the story of Emma Smith pushing Eliza Snow down the stairs is likely "folklore."

Don Bradley dates the discovery of the Smith-Alger marriage between April-September 1836.

Brian and Laura Hales argue that the Alger/Smith marriage took place in 1835-36.

Alice Merrill Horne hears the story of Eliza R. Snow's sexual assault in Missouri.

Craig Foster provides data on regional marriage ages between 1850-1880.

Ugo Perego reports on how DNA results rule out Josephine Lyon as Joseph Smith's daughter.

Find a Grave Website lists Fanny Alger's birthdate as September 30, 1816.

Joseph Smith Papers Website list 1818 as Fanny Alger's birthyear.

The Joseph Smith Papers identifies May 28, 1843 as sealing date for Joseph and Emma Hale Smith.