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[Heber J. Grant] Then President Clark ... said he had talked with some of the political men who believed if the Church were to sign as a ...

Cache [Utah] Confer[ence]. Large assembly. [Francis M.] Lyman preached on Bogus plural marriage. [Charles W. Penrose, Diary]

Mr. Richard C. Evans and Mr. Peter Anderson, ministers of the "Reorganized" church [who did not believe Joseph Smith practiced pol...

[Heber J. Grant] Bro Lyman and I had a long talk this afternoon regarding what a sad and terrible thing the affair with Bro Carrington [e...

Gordon S. Bills and another Elder were mobbed in Lawrence County, Ky. [Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]

[Wilford Woodruff in England] I recieved A Neighbor & N. York Messenger speaking of the mob in Hancock County Illinois against the Sa...

[Nauvoo Temple] The purchase of three lots, making up the southern side of Lot 4 (southeast quarter), begun by Wilford C. Wood, but it to...

In 1905, the agitation of hireling priests and many misguided people was strong against the seating of Apostle Reed Smoot in the United Stat...

The First Presidency of the Church, in the "Thirteenth General Epistle," proposed that the Saints, who emigrated by the P.E. Fund,...

[William Smith] ". . . I heard Brigham Young say, on the stand, that he was glad that Alvine Hodge was killed, . . . And he said fur...

William Smith publishes a lengthy "Proclamation" in the Warsaw Gazette accusing Brigham Young of usurpation and painting a pitiabl...

There is a rumor that Wm. Smith and others are trying to get up an influence with the president of the United States to prevent our going We...

Apostle Brigham Young writes in his journal: "Elder Kimball and I went to Southport, . . . The Patriarch blessed us, and prophecied tha...

Joseph testifies before the high council in behalf of a brother who is accused of beating and whipping his daughter. In the second session, ...

Twelve students (at the invitation of BYU's president) bring their own rock music and demonstrate contremporary "fad dances" f...

After a week of Quorum of the Twelve meetings so secret that no official minutes are kept, apostles John W. Taylor and Matthias F. Cowley wr...

[Apostle John W. Taylor] I hereby tender to you my resignation as a member of the Council of Twelve Apostles, as it is clear to me that I...

[Wilford Woodruff] I commenced this morning to sell some goods which I had on hand. The people crouded Hard around my waggon to buy sugar...

....[Major] Warren stated that when he came in with his troops on Saturday he had writs against the Twelve for "treason" but he co...

B.[righam] Y.[oung:] I am on hand to answer the ends of the law any time'[.] I am informed that Dr. Williams has made an oath about the ...

Oliver Cowdery and Parley P. Pratt arrived in the Mentor, Geauga, OH and went directly to the home of Sidney Rigdon and stayed at his reside...

[Heber J. Grant] .... He [J. Reuben Clark] read to me the editorial of the Salt Lake Tribune of a day or two ago, in which it referred to...

Lamanite Gen[er]al Mtg. 2398 names. 1100 baptisms. 585 Endowed. 100 couple[s] sealed. [Anderson, Elizabeth Oberdick, editor, Cowboy Apost...

"Had a talk with Prest. Jos F Smith and expressed my views as to the necessity of a Republican victory which views he said were quite r...

27 Monday Conference Met at 10 oclok. ... We Closed the Conference with the shout of (Hosannah to God & the Lamb) which was a vary impre...

.... Brother John Henry Smith in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Authority of the Holy Priesthood And Apostleship confered upon...

President Young spoke in the Bowery and urged the Saints to avoid becoming the slaves of merchants. -- SLC Bowery [Journal History of the...

[Wilford Woodruff] The Proclamation of the Twelve Apostles is out of press And we are now sending it to the clergy And circulating it wha...

Apostle Wilford Woodruff, as the officially appointed "Church Historian" recorded the following in his "Historian's Priva...

[Joseph Smith] In the morning I was called to visit at Br[other] Samuel Smith's. His wife was confined an[d] in a verry dangerous sit...

BYU's spokesman announces that university officials have accepted the explanation of mathematics professor John Milo Peterson that only ...

At an adjourned meeting of the Seventies, held in the Bowery, G.S.L. City, it was resolved to build a hall, to be called "The Seventies...

Joseph goes to court in Chardon to contest the case of his brother Samuel, who is accused of avoiding military duty. Joseph feels that they ...

A writ against Hyrum for a debt owed to Alexander McIntyre is returned; the officer failed to find either Hyrum or any attachable property. ...

Public criticism of Joseph F. Smith's remarks that Father Damien of the Hawaiian leper colony was immoral before his death. The LDS chur...

The First Presidency publicly establishes Religion Classes, America's first experiment in separate weeday religious training for public ...

[Brigham Young] Let the people make good improvements, and plant out nice orchards; and try to live here, and then you will have plenty t...

[Joseph Smith] The Lord pour[e]d out his spirit and some glorious things were spoken in the gift of toungs [tongues] and interp[r]eted co...

The Erie Canal officially opens, transforming social and economic relationships in Ohio's Western Reserve. [Mark Lyman Staker, Hearke...

[George Albert Smith] After giving the matter consideration asked Arthur to tell my counselors, President Clark and President McKay, that...

[Thomas A. Clawson] "Bro B.H. Roberts has again attacked Senator Reed Smoot through polaticks (Sic) and is a very bad thing for him....

[John Henry Smith] Salt Lake City The day was spent in the office. Politics is getting exceedingly hot all over the land. T...

[George Albert Smith] at Grays [sanitarium], "had a bad night am very nervous." [Journals of George Albert Smith]

The Historian, Anthon H. Lund met with the Presidency for the purpose of giving a title to the History of the Church now being prepared. It ...

[Anthony Ivins] Today being Sunday we did not travel. [Anderson, Elizabeth Oberdick, editor, Cowboy Apostle: The Diaries of Anthony W....

[Brigham Young] I had a couple of teeth extracted night before last, went out of door soon after and got cold. ... I would try to keep of...

[Anointed Quorum] Male prayer circle at John Taylor's house . [Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Signatur...

[Joseph Smith] "Mr. Goodrich and his lady called to see the ancient records. They also called at Dr. Frederick G. Williams to see th...