Today in Mormon History - Sep 21

[President Wilford Woodruff Journal] 21 I signed 25 Recommends. I received 12 Letters. We set apart John Henry Smith to Dedicate prayer Circle Rooms in Arizona And Seal Young people in Marriage who were not able to go to the Temple. We also Blessed him & John Morgan to go on a Mission to Arizona on a preaching tour. (1)
-- 120 years ago today - Sep 21, 1891

[Hinckley] Along with 27 other religious leaders, attended a private prayer meeting for President George W. Bush at the White House (2)
-- 10 years ago today - 2001 21-Sep

Brigham Young's "destroying angel" William A. "Wild Bill" Hickman falls down and accidentally shoots himself in the liver when his gun discharges. He lives for twenty-two more years and omits this incident from his memoirs that are written before his execution. (3)
-- 150 years ago today - Sep 21, 1861


1 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
2 - LDS Newsroom, Time line of Significant Events as President, http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/time-line-of-significant-events-as-president
3 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com

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