Mark Aldrich was one of five defendants tried and acquitted in Illinois of the murder in 1844 of Joseph Smith, who was the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
11 Facts About Mark Aldrich
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Mark Aldrich was appointed as the first postmaster of Warsaw, serving between 1834 and 1838.
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However, once the Latter Day Saints had settled there, Mark Aldrich raised the rent and imposed a number of restrictions on the Latter Day Saints that had not been foreseen.
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Mark Aldrich was unsuccessful in his attempts to persuade Smith to continue their arrangement.
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Mark Aldrich was a major in command of the Warsaw Independent Battalion of the Illinois State Militia.
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Mark Aldrich was later accused of having directed men under his command to storm Carthage Jail where Smith and his brother were being held in June 1844.
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On October 26,1844, Mark Aldrich was indicted for the murder of the two Smiths.
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Mark Aldrich ran for sheriff of Hancock County in 1846, but lost.
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Mark Aldrich went to California during the gold rush and settled later in Tucson, Arizona.
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In March 1861, Mark Aldrich was chairman of the convention that declared Arizona's secession from the United States at the start of the American Civil War.
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Mark Aldrich was later elected to three terms in the upper house of the Arizona Territorial Legislature; during the 1866 term, he was the body's president.