[President Wilford Woodruff Journal] 26 This was a day Appointed for me to have a Meeting with the leading Authorities of the Church & the Temple workers in Celebration of my 87 Birth day instead of the 1 of March. Our Meeting was in the Annex of the Temple.
... We met at the Temple at 1 oclock. We met with 230 person. We had speeches songs and a fe[a]st. It was one of the greatest days of my life.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
The obvious reason for the celebration 3 days earlier on Monday Feb.26th was that March 1st was a Thursday and the day for the regular scheduled meeting of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve in the Temple.
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