Today in Mormon History - Sep 11

[Abraham H. Cannon Journal] "I was chatting with Pros. Stagner and Donaldson a short time in the morning, and was sorry to hear the complaints they made of Bro. Carrington, They complain of being snubbed and insulted by him very often, and he is indeed a very abrupt man in all his sayings, and it is seldom that he takes the feelings of other persons into consideration; but notwithstanding this, the elders in this mission have no right to criticize his actions, but should rather pray for him." (1)
-- 130 years ago today - Sept. 11th 1881

Hosea Stout, Nauvoo Legion clerk, reports that the Legion totals 1,490 men, and that at a special review Lieutenant General Joseph Smith "delivered a military speech to the troops in his usual energetic style." (2)
-- 170 years ago today - Sep 11, 1841

Counselor Daniel H. Wells tells Grantsville School of the Prophets that "a great many of our young men are abusing themselves by the habit of self-pollution: or self abuse, or as the Bible terms it, Onanism," which he regards as "one great cause why so many of our young men were not married, and it was a great sin, and would lead to insanity and a premature grave." Polygamy is likelier cause for prevalence of bachelorhood in nineteenth-century Utah. First, every national census lists more males than females in Mormon population. Second, 20 - 40 percent of Mormon men marry polygamously which demographically requires bachelorhood in Utah's majority population of males. (3)
-- 140 years ago today - Sep 11, 1871

1 - Abraham H. Cannon Journal Excerpts, http://www.amazon.com/Apostles-Record-Journals-Abraham-1889-1896/dp/B000MFD1K4
2 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
3 - Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower