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First Presidency and newly apointed apostle Alonzo A. Hinckley agree that Heber J. Grant should ask Los Angeles stake president Leo J. Muir ...

[George Albert Smith et al., Letter to Rudger Clawson and Members of the Council of Apostles] The sub-committee of the Council of the Apostl...

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff] The remainder of Zions Camp had a meeting for the first time since their travels to Mo. in 1834, when they went u...

Brigham Young marries Diana Chase, aged 17 [Source: Exploring Mormonism: Polygamy Timeline, http://www.exploringmormonism.com/polygamy-ti...

[Apostle Rudger Clawson] ... Pres. Snow. Second anointings to be given to faithful brethren. It is not necessary, he said, to wait until the...

Salt Lake stake high council excommunicates elder for having local bishop perform unauthorized plural marriage for him four years earlier. S...

[Apostle Heber J. Grant] I find that in reading over what I have written regarding the conference meetings that I have neglected to state th...

Last time Council of Fifty formally convenes; its last surviving member dies in 1945.

George A. Smith writes to his cousin, Joseph Smith III, identifying nine plural wives of Joseph Smith. [Source: Hales, Brian C., Joseph S...

[Brigham Young Sermon] President Brigham Young adverted to the subjects of Prophets in Israel, and remarked that nearly every man who had sp...

[Brigham Young Sermon] I shall address you this morning upon a subject that is more interesting to me than any other pertaining to the life ...

[Brigham Young Prayer] I pray my Father in heaven to bless you with His Holy Spirit; with grace to help you in every time of need, under eve...

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff] I spent the time diging potatoes Drawing corn & choreing to my tears. [Source: Wilford Woodruff's Jour...

[Wilford Woodruff Letter to Brigham Young] “…Elder Ball has taught as well as Wm [William] Smith the Lowell girls that is not wrong to h...

Brigham Young (aged 43) marriage to Rebecca Holman (1824-1849) (aged 20) first marriage [Source: Wikipedia, List of Brigham Young's W...

Mormon tells Senator Reed Smoot's secretary that "Apostle [Abraham O.] Woodruff told him that a certain number or worthy people had...

Brigham Young from the pulpit tells bishops to give Melchizedek priesthood to eighteen-year-old boys, even if they "have been sowing th...

In what Apostle Wilford Woodruff describes as "the greatest sermon that ever was delivered to the Latter Day Saints since they have bee...

[Brigham Young Sermon] Attended conference, a very interesting conference, for at this meeting President Brigham Young said thus: That Adam ...

Young uses two administrative techniques to circumvent the Nauvoo high council's "equal in authority" rights. First, 400 men a...