Today in Mormon History - Oct 06

[Brigham Young] --6-- I was very sick. Elders Kimball, Richards and Woodruff laid hands upon me, and I recovered. (1)
-- 170 years ago today - Oct 6, 1841

[1st Presidency Changes] David O. McKay Henry D. Moyle Hugh B. Brown (Third Counselor) Death of J. Reuben Clark, Jr. (2)
-- 50 years ago today - Oct 6, 1961 - 12 October 1961

First Presidency testifies plural marriages had ceased, and that cohabitation was discontinued.

Church authorities and lay members, familiar with the private sanctioning of plural marriages, were probably very surprised when they read the testimony of their leaders before the Master in Chancery, as Woodruff, Cannon and Smith all testified that not only had polygamy ceased, but cohabitation had discontinued and that the Manifesto also applied to Mexico and Canada. ( Quinn, LDS, p 50 ) Woodruff pointedly stated that the Manifesto applied both within as outside of the United States, in an attempt to get the government to return the church's confiscated property. (Van Wagoner, p. 154.) (3)
-- 120 years ago today - Oct 6, 1891


1 - Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1801-1844, ed. Elden Jay Watson (Salt Lake City: Smith Secretarial Service, 1968).
2 - Wikipedia, First Presidency (LDS Church), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Presidency_(LDS_Church)#Chronology_of_the_First_Presidency
3 - Tungate, Mel, Mormon Polygamy, http://www.tungate.com/polygamy.htm

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