[Willard Richards]
President Young stated to the assembly that there was no occasion for grumbling, or Quorum of the Twelve explaining among the sisters whose husbands are in the army because they got no more money, for their dear husbands had only sent them about [$]5,000 when they received [$]22,000, and ought to have received it all. That the council had sent C[?] all the way to Santa Fe, and the Battalion had sent only [$]5,000, showing that they had kept about three-fourths of their money for the grog shop. [?] thinking more of them than they did of their dear wives and children would not have been received [?] the Camp of Israel, and what little they have got, if it had not have been for the Twelve, who receive nothing for their trouble or expense in the first payment and now they are going to help themselves.
President Young then spoke. ... The bishops ought to be able to give a description what every man does in the camp. When the bishops and high council don't do their duty, report them and we will deal with them by the high council. You can lead a man to do his duty, see that every man, woman, and child has something to eat. Now go to work and organize your bishops. ...
President Young wishes the 12 high council[men] and 22 bishops to bring one log a piece, 25 feet long, and he would have them put up into a house. Voted that the hands be raised to complete the [mill] race. President Young will have the house built close to his. Voted that every third man be drafted. ...
The Twelve remained in council for about an hour afterwards. Brother Luke Johnson was also with them and stated that all but one who were engaged in mobbing, tarring, and feathering Joseph and Sidney in the town of Hiram, Portage County, New York, had come to some untimely end, and the survivor, Carnot Mowen, had been severely afflicted and was the one who dragged Joseph out of the house by his hair. Dr. Denison prepared the vial for Joseph, supposed to be aqua fortis.
[Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
175 years ago today - Dec 13, 1846
"When a man is found to be a thief," Young tells bishops, "he will be a thief no longer, cut his throat, & thro' him in the River."
[Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]
[Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]
175 years ago today - Dec 13, 1846
President Brigham Young gave the council instructions and in fact reproved them & the Bishops quite sharply for their negligence in not attending to the duty of their office and for working on the Sabath &c, and ordered the following items of business to be attended to forthwith
That map of the city be procured by the next session for the clerk of this council
That the Clerk keep a regular list of the Bishops of the different wards & the wards over which they act.
That the Bishops meet with the Council once a week to receive instruction
That the Council watch over the Bishops with a fatherly care and see that they organize and watch over their respetive Wards and see that none suffer
That the Council instruct the Bishops to have meetings in their several Wards for the men women & children once a week also to instruct them to have schools in their Wards.
He stated that he wanted the Twelve, the Council, & Bishops to search this place as with a lighted candle in their hands and put down all iniquity &c
He had an uncommon portion of the Holy spirit resting down upon him.& was filled with the sublime views of rolling forth this great and mighty work and if the council and Bishops will abide his advice a great and good work will soon be done here
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
That map of the city be procured by the next session for the clerk of this council
That the Clerk keep a regular list of the Bishops of the different wards & the wards over which they act.
That the Bishops meet with the Council once a week to receive instruction
That the Council watch over the Bishops with a fatherly care and see that they organize and watch over their respetive Wards and see that none suffer
That the Council instruct the Bishops to have meetings in their several Wards for the men women & children once a week also to instruct them to have schools in their Wards.
He stated that he wanted the Twelve, the Council, & Bishops to search this place as with a lighted candle in their hands and put down all iniquity &c
He had an uncommon portion of the Holy spirit resting down upon him.& was filled with the sublime views of rolling forth this great and mighty work and if the council and Bishops will abide his advice a great and good work will soon be done here
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
80 years ago today - Dec 12, 1941
[Heber J. Grant]
What little time I have had I had read quite a bit and I have been dumbfounded at the neglect at Pearl Harbor and the loss of a couple of battle ships and the death of Brother Clark's son-in-law, Mervyn S. Bennion, who was commander of the West Virginia. It looks like we were absolutely asleep when the Japanese struck.
... I feel in my heart there was no necessity of having war. It may be that I do him an injustice, but I blame the war on President Franklin D. Roosevelt. I think he had no business to meet Churchill and enter into a contract to join with him against Germany. Roosevelt has spent our money, in my judgment, lavishly to furnish employment, etc, simply, to put it in plain English, to bribe the poor people to vote for him for a third term. I do not think he was any more fit for a third term than any other man who has been the President of our nation. ... About half the Latter-day Saints worship him and the General Authorities of the Church have felt that he was not fit for a third term. The people are greatly divided, much to my sorrow. I did all in my power to keep us from repealing the prohibition act without coming right out and demanding the people vote to retain it. We surrendered ourselves to getting whisky back and we are reaping the reward.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
What little time I have had I had read quite a bit and I have been dumbfounded at the neglect at Pearl Harbor and the loss of a couple of battle ships and the death of Brother Clark's son-in-law, Mervyn S. Bennion, who was commander of the West Virginia. It looks like we were absolutely asleep when the Japanese struck.
... I feel in my heart there was no necessity of having war. It may be that I do him an injustice, but I blame the war on President Franklin D. Roosevelt. I think he had no business to meet Churchill and enter into a contract to join with him against Germany. Roosevelt has spent our money, in my judgment, lavishly to furnish employment, etc, simply, to put it in plain English, to bribe the poor people to vote for him for a third term. I do not think he was any more fit for a third term than any other man who has been the President of our nation. ... About half the Latter-day Saints worship him and the General Authorities of the Church have felt that he was not fit for a third term. The people are greatly divided, much to my sorrow. I did all in my power to keep us from repealing the prohibition act without coming right out and demanding the people vote to retain it. We surrendered ourselves to getting whisky back and we are reaping the reward.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
120 years ago today - Thursday, Dec 12, 1901
The clerk read a letter from ex-bishop Saml. F. Atwood of Kamas, in which he claimed that he had been misrepresented to Pres. Jos. F. Smith. One of the charges was that he had expressed disbelief in the visitation of the Father and Son to Joseph Smith, the prophet, and this, he said, was false. He denied the allegation. Pres. Smith remarked that he had been credibly informed that Bishop Atwood had made this remark, namely, that "God Almighty had bigger business to attend to than to visit the boy Joseph." However, the letter was referred to Pres. Moses Taylor of the Summit Stake for investigation and such proper action as may be necessary.
[Stan Larson (editor), A Ministry of Meetings: The Apostolic diaries of Rudger Clawson, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1993, http://bit.ly/rudgerclawson]
[Stan Larson (editor), A Ministry of Meetings: The Apostolic diaries of Rudger Clawson, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1993, http://bit.ly/rudgerclawson]
125 years ago today - Dec 12, 1896
[Heber J. Grant]
In company with Prest. David H. Cannon, drove to St. George. Bro. Cannon and I had a very pleasant visit, and I was somewhat surprised to have him inform me that many years ago, when he was bishop of one of the wards in St. George, and upon the day that the first wife of Bro. Daniel Seegmiller died, and when my cousin Anthony W. Ivins was but a small boy, that as he, Cannon, was going to the graveyard he rode in a buggy with Apostle Erastus Snow, and that Bro. Snow remarked to him that if Bro. Ivins kept the commandments of the Lord, and did his duty, that the day would come when he would be chosen to be an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
In company with Prest. David H. Cannon, drove to St. George. Bro. Cannon and I had a very pleasant visit, and I was somewhat surprised to have him inform me that many years ago, when he was bishop of one of the wards in St. George, and upon the day that the first wife of Bro. Daniel Seegmiller died, and when my cousin Anthony W. Ivins was but a small boy, that as he, Cannon, was going to the graveyard he rode in a buggy with Apostle Erastus Snow, and that Bro. Snow remarked to him that if Bro. Ivins kept the commandments of the Lord, and did his duty, that the day would come when he would be chosen to be an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
135 years ago today - Dec 12, 1886
[Eliza R. Snow to John Taylor]
I think President [John] Taylor will recollect a young English sis ter in Nauvoo by the name of Hannah Ells. She was sealed to Joseph [Smith] the Prophet before his death. She died in Nauvoo in sister Sarah Kimball's house. I loved her very much * was present at her death. I have had endowments for her. Sister Zina [D. H. Young] is in Logan and will, with your permission, have [the] second anointing for her.
[Eliza R. Snow to John Taylor, Dec. 12, 1886, in Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
I think President [John] Taylor will recollect a young English sis ter in Nauvoo by the name of Hannah Ells. She was sealed to Joseph [Smith] the Prophet before his death. She died in Nauvoo in sister Sarah Kimball's house. I loved her very much * was present at her death. I have had endowments for her. Sister Zina [D. H. Young] is in Logan and will, with your permission, have [the] second anointing for her.
[Eliza R. Snow to John Taylor, Dec. 12, 1886, in Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
140 years ago today - Dec 12, 1881
[James E. Talmage]
I want to do good among the young — probably lecture amongst the Improvement Associations, and encourage the study of nature. I have to give a first lecture on the subject of harmony between Geology and the Bible — a subject upon which so many of our people have mistaken ideas.
[The Journals of James E. Talmage—Excerpts, Compiled by J. Trevor Antley, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dOE6pgN6OkBJIq-X73JGpCdt0p5b8_UdfTfLREz4uTg/]
I want to do good among the young — probably lecture amongst the Improvement Associations, and encourage the study of nature. I have to give a first lecture on the subject of harmony between Geology and the Bible — a subject upon which so many of our people have mistaken ideas.
[The Journals of James E. Talmage—Excerpts, Compiled by J. Trevor Antley, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dOE6pgN6OkBJIq-X73JGpCdt0p5b8_UdfTfLREz4uTg/]
155 years ago today - Dec 12, 1866
Found Dead - Thomas Coleman, generally known as "Nigger Tom," was found about 9 PM last night by the police with a stab in the right breast and his throat cut.
The police were informed by a citizen last night that a negro lay dead near the arsenal, just outside the city wall. Captin Burt, with a squad of men started a search, and by the assistance of lanterns found the body, as stated, just above the arselen. It was immediately recognized as "Tom's." He lay o nhis back, his head westward and his own bowie knife (marked T. Coleman) laying near him. He was evidently killed on Monday night as young boys reported having discovered the body in the afternoon of yesterday. A large sheet of paper, with the following inscription, written with a pencil in large letters, was attached to the body:
"Notice to ALL Niggers! Take Warning!! Leave White Women Alone!!!"
[Salt Lake Daily Telegraph]
The police were informed by a citizen last night that a negro lay dead near the arsenal, just outside the city wall. Captin Burt, with a squad of men started a search, and by the assistance of lanterns found the body, as stated, just above the arselen. It was immediately recognized as "Tom's." He lay o nhis back, his head westward and his own bowie knife (marked T. Coleman) laying near him. He was evidently killed on Monday night as young boys reported having discovered the body in the afternoon of yesterday. A large sheet of paper, with the following inscription, written with a pencil in large letters, was attached to the body:
"Notice to ALL Niggers! Take Warning!! Leave White Women Alone!!!"
[Salt Lake Daily Telegraph]
165 years ago today - Dec 12, 1856
The President [Brigham Young] soon Came in & they gave an account of their procedings while at Fillmore. The snow was two Feet deep on the road a part of the way. They arived at Fillmore monday morning. They met with the Legislature through the day. They organized passed some resolutions & moved the seat of Government to salt Lake City & Adjourned to meet in the Great Salt City on the /18/ day of Dec 1856 & started for home during the evening. They found it vary Cold & snowing nearly all the way home.
On the night of the 3d inst. the night before J M. Grant was buried Mrs Batsheba Smith wife of G. A. Smith dreamed that George A. Smith was dead & that some other person wished to marry her which troubled her mind. On the same night Mrs Rose dreamed that George A. Smith was hung in Washing[ton] by the members of Congress because he was a Mormon.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
On the night of the 3d inst. the night before J M. Grant was buried Mrs Batsheba Smith wife of G. A. Smith dreamed that George A. Smith was dead & that some other person wished to marry her which troubled her mind. On the same night Mrs Rose dreamed that George A. Smith was hung in Washing[ton] by the members of Congress because he was a Mormon.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
175 years ago today - Dec 12, 1846
[Hosea Stout]
This evening word came down from the Omaha hunting party that they had been attacted by the Soui and the whole band killed off except one who made his escape & he thinks another made his escape naked but has not been heard of. It is supposed that about 50 or 60 has been killed.
The Indians hear had just got the news and were making their Lemintations in all their camps[.] They would weep and howl, cry, writhe and twist and make every gesture of sorrow that could be imagined[.] They made such a noise that President Young had them stopt.
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
This evening word came down from the Omaha hunting party that they had been attacted by the Soui and the whole band killed off except one who made his escape & he thinks another made his escape naked but has not been heard of. It is supposed that about 50 or 60 has been killed.
The Indians hear had just got the news and were making their Lemintations in all their camps[.] They would weep and howl, cry, writhe and twist and make every gesture of sorrow that could be imagined[.] They made such a noise that President Young had them stopt.
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
135 years ago today - Dec 11, 1886
The following telegram was received: 'Washington [D.C.] 12/9/86 / to James Jack / ring delegates working very hard. John W. Young & I are forming additional combinations to defeat them. Will need more means, probably ten more; everything made contingent as far as possible. Better to remit five immediately. Answer soon. John T. Caine.' Bro[ther] James Jack was authorized with Bishop W[illiam] B Preston to draw 5000 from the safe. Bro[ther] James Jack was instructed to remit 5000 to John T. Caine as per his telegram ...
[First Presidency Office Journal, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
[First Presidency Office Journal, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
155 years ago today - Dec 11, 1866
Brigham Young Jr. writes in his diary that "a nigger" is found dead in Salt Lake City with this note pinned to his corpse: "Let this be a warning to all niggers that they meddle not with white women."
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
175 years ago today - Dec 11, 1846
The members of the Mormon Battalion have a surprise run-in with wild bulls at a crossing of the San Pedro River. A handful of battalion members are injured as the bulls charge the men, mules and wagons.
In his personal account of the battalion's actions, Col. Cooke records seeing a Cpl. Frost coolly stare down a charging bull and hold his ground: "He aimed his musket very deliberately and only fired when the beast was within 10 paces; and it fell headlong, almost at his feet."
[Mormon Battalion Timeline, Herald Extra, March 25, 2010]
In his personal account of the battalion's actions, Col. Cooke records seeing a Cpl. Frost coolly stare down a charging bull and hold his ground: "He aimed his musket very deliberately and only fired when the beast was within 10 paces; and it fell headlong, almost at his feet."
[Mormon Battalion Timeline, Herald Extra, March 25, 2010]
180 years ago today - Dec 11, 1841
Prescindia D. Huntington, a faithful Mormon and married woman in Nauvoo, was also a polyandrous wife of Joseph Smith. Prescindia married Norman Buell in 1827. Had 2 sons prior to joining in 1836
[Richard S. Van Wagoner. Mormon Polygamy: A History. p. 44; Fawn Brodie. No Man Knows My History. p. 301-302, 437-39, Joseph Smith, Orson and Sarah Pratt- A timeline, http://www.exploringmormonism.com/joseph-smith-orson-and-sarah-pratt-a-timeline/]
[Richard S. Van Wagoner. Mormon Polygamy: A History. p. 44; Fawn Brodie. No Man Knows My History. p. 301-302, 437-39, Joseph Smith, Orson and Sarah Pratt- A timeline, http://www.exploringmormonism.com/joseph-smith-orson-and-sarah-pratt-a-timeline/]
50 years ago today - Dec 10, 1971
Henry B. Eyring is inaugurated as the ninth president of Ricks College.
115 years ago today - Dec 10, 1906
[David O. McKay]
I was very gloomily impressed with Dr. [James E.] Talmage's attitude toward and remarks on the question of Univ[ersity?]. S[unday]. S[chool].and other topics. He was wordy and it seemed to me, (fight the thought as I would) insincere. He must repent or do down spiritually.
[David O. McKay, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
I was very gloomily impressed with Dr. [James E.] Talmage's attitude toward and remarks on the question of Univ[ersity?]. S[unday]. S[chool].and other topics. He was wordy and it seemed to me, (fight the thought as I would) insincere. He must repent or do down spiritually.
[David O. McKay, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
150 years ago today - Dec 10, 1871
Orson Pratt sermon on First Vision: "Here was Joseph Smith, a boy…he was only between fourteen and fifteen years of age…Would he stand forth and bear testimony that he had seen with his own eyesa messenger of light and glory, and that he heardthe words of his mouth as they dropped from hislips and had received a message from the MostHigh, at that early age? And then…to have the finger of scorn pointed at him… 'No visions in our day, no angels come in our day…' and still continue to testify…that God had sent his angel from heaven."
["Journal of Discourses", Vol. 14, p.262, in A Documented History of Joseph Smith's First Vision, http://beggarsbread.org/2013/04/01/a-documented-history-of-joseph-smiths-first-vision/]
["Journal of Discourses", Vol. 14, p.262, in A Documented History of Joseph Smith's First Vision, http://beggarsbread.org/2013/04/01/a-documented-history-of-joseph-smiths-first-vision/]
155 years ago today - Dec 10, 1866
[Wilford Woodruff]
I spent the Evening in President Youngs Office & met with the regency & they voted to adopte pitmans Phonetic letters for our Deseret Alphabet.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
I spent the Evening in President Youngs Office & met with the regency & they voted to adopte pitmans Phonetic letters for our Deseret Alphabet.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
155 years ago today - Dec 10, 1866
African American Thomas Coleman brutally murdered for "meddling with white women"
[http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/Chronology-Pertaining-to-Blacks-and-the-LDS-Church]
[http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/Chronology-Pertaining-to-Blacks-and-the-LDS-Church]
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