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Covert surveillance by BYU-Birch student in the form of either correspondence, classroom questioning, or private meetings to extract "p...

[Stephen L. Richards] President Richards called Clarence Wonnacott at the L.D.S. Hospital relative to the report he had submitted on the Bl...

[George Albert Smith] President Grant said his mind had not yet centered on anyone to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Brother Hyrum...

Edmunds-Tucker Act disincorporates the LDS church, provides for confiscation of its assets and properties, dissolves the Perpetual Emigratin...

[John Nuttle] Bro Woodruff & myself were called to go and see sister Ellen Judd the young lady who drove the team yesterday and who had...

[Wilford Woodruff] I asked President Young what more it would take to ripen the United States. For the Lord Said he would Cut off the wicke...

Utah ratified the 3rd bid for statehood again rejected by the US Congress An election in Utah ratified this 3rd bid for statehood and...

Joseph [Young] stated that he thought 100 pounds [of] provisions very little for each pioneer. Brigham replied he wanted all to stay here w...

Hyrum sells six copies of the Book of Mormon to a peddler and receives as pay ten yards of calico, some cotton cloth, four tin pans, some ot...

Elder Bruce R. McConkie, speaking at a BYU devotional, denounces the "spiritually immature" who "devote themselves to gaining...

David O. McKay dedicates the church's new Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, with half of its cost raised in a "pen...

[Abraham Owen Woodruff] Helen and I attended fast meeting in the Temple. ... At the close of the meeting Helen and I went up stairs to a qu...

[Brigham Young Jr.] Saw Pres[ident] Woodruff & Cannon & Smith who were quite willing I should go into business. The two former were...

[Apostle Marriner W. Merrill] Wednesday. I was arraigned before my Quorum on a charge of defamation of character by Fred Turner of Logan, w...

There was 122 persons got Endowments to day, & 28 Females & 45 men got Endowments for Me, total 73. This was in Commemoration of my ...

The constitutional convention adopted a constitution and memorial to Congress, asking for the admission of Utah into the Union as a State, a...

Mary Ellen Kimball, plural wife of Heber C. Kimball, writes in her diary: "But after I returned home I thought of the instructions I ha...

[Joseph Smith] Paid taxes. to Bagley in the General Business office, for county & State purposes. but refused to pay the taxes on th...

"BYU Denies Campus 'Spy' Story," Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Mar. 1967 [Source: D. Michael Quinn, "Ezra Taft Benson and M...

(March) The age for full-time proselytizing missions is lowered to nineteen for males, while sixteen-year-old boys can serve as full-time la...