175 years ago today - Feb 4, 1844

[Anointed Quorum]
Sunday evening prayer circle in upper room of Smith's store, second anointing for Cornelius and Permelia Lott. Joseph Smith "made some remarks respecting the hundred and forty-four thousand mentioned by John the Revelator, showing that the selection of persons to form that number had already commenced" .

[Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Signature Books, 1994, Appendex: Meetings and Initiations of the Anointed Quorum, 1842-45, http://amzn.to/origins-power]