Wikimedia Commons: File:United States of America vs James J. Strang, Elias Rice, Orrin Hill, Warren Post, William Hull, George Miller, Asa B. Fields, John Brown, David Brown, Jonathan Pierce, Isaac Pierce, - DPLA - 039c60d13ab05a88df5573442a5af48e (page 98).jpg. Author: U.S. District Court for the Southern (Detroit) Division of the Eastern District of Michigan. 4/30/1894. Credit: This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by National Archives at Chicago as part of a cooperation project. The donation was facilitated by the Digital Public Library of America . Record in source catalog DPLA identifier: 039c60d13ab05a88df5573442a5af48e National Archives at Chicago identifier: 242845894. Date: 1851-01-01/1851-12-31. Description page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_of_America_vs_James_J._Strang,_Elias_Rice,_Orrin_Hill,_Warren_Post,_William_Hull,_George_Miller,_Asa_B._Fields,_John_Brown,_David_Brown,_Jonathan_Pierce,_Isaac_Pierce,_-_DPLA_-_039c60d13ab05a88df5573442a5af48e_(page_98).jpg. Description: This file consists of the criminal case against residents of Beaver Island, Michigan for obstructing the U.S. mail and assaulting a mail carrier. The main defendant, James J. Strang, was a religious leader of the Mormon religion, former politician, and self-proclaimed monarch.
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern (Detroit) Division; National Archives
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- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern (Detroit) Division; National Archives
- Collection
- Federal court case files — NARA via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons
- Date
- 1851
- Original
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- Copy taken
- 2026-08-09
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- an article in this archive
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“United States v. James J. Strang and others, 1851: obstructing the mail”. 1851. U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern (Detroit) Division; National Archives. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/extract/us-v-strang-1851-mail-obstruction/. copy retrieved 2026-08-09.
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