125 years ago today - Sep 1, 1887

[Apostle Heber J. Grant Diary] After lunch and before our meeting was called to order the officiating for strangers was talked of & Prest. Woodruff stated that the eldest son and so on down had the right to attend to these matters, and that we had no right to do the temple work for other parties except by the consent of those entitled to do it, any more than we had the right to take other peoples [sic] property. ...

[Source: Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]