John C. Bennett and plural marriage at Nauvoo

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John C. Bennett material is in three draft chapters. Given their length and difficulty of converting them to wiki format, they are presented here in downloadable PDF.

Chapter #1: John C. Bennett before Nauvoo

• Bennett's checkered career before Nauvoo

Chapter #2: John C. Bennett in Nauvoo

• Bennett's motives
• Source and degree of Bennett's prominence
• Bennett's repeated immoralities and multiple "second chances"
• Sarah Pratt

Chapter #3: John C. Bennett and the Nancy Rigdon episode

• Bennett and prostitution
• Bennett and possible homsexuality?
• Nancy Rigdon
  • Bennett's version
  • Character of Nancy Rigdon
  • Ridgon family version
• Joseph's private visit with Sidney Rigdon
• Bennett's fall from grace
• George W. Robinson and John C. Bennett
• Joseph meets the Rigdon family
• Francis Higbee - post Bennett
• Stephen Markham's affidavit
• Divine intervention?