120 years ago today - 120 years - Aug 29, 1893

[President Wilford Woodruff Journal] 29 In Company with my Councillors GQC & J.F.S And the Utah Quire of singers And wife Emma & Daughters Blanch & Alice we went on board of the Cars to start upon our Journey. There were some 2,500 persons Present to see us off. We stoped a short time at Ogden. We Crossed green River in the night. I was not well. I did not sleep last night. I felt quite unwell this morning.

[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

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  1. "our Journey" [to the Chicago World's Fair].

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