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[Rudger Clawson] Elder Jno. H. Smith said that Brother Brigham Young, whom he had recently visited, besides being extremely sick, was distr...

[James E. Talmage] According to previous appointment I went by morning train to Logan. During the afternoon I delivered a lecture in the Te...

[George Q. Cannon] Reached Washington early in the morning. ... I received a dispatch from Prest. Taylor stating that my letter had not bee...

[Zebedee Coltrin] "[I] First saw the Prophet Joseph at a prayer meeting at the house of father Morley. He was then a beardless young m...

[Wilford Woodruff] James G Bleak gave an interesting lecture on the life of Joseph Smith. I followed him. There were Baptized in the Temple...

A Far West meeting of the "whole Church in Zion" votes to remove David Whitmer, John Whitmer, and W. W. Phelps from their position...

The Marriott Activities Center at BYU was dedicated. Seating 22,000, it was the largest such arena on any university campus in the United St...

[John Henry Smith] In the evening we had the high Council together and agreed to accept the resignation of Bp. Edward Hunter on account ...

[John Henry Smith] I feel better this morning than I have done for several days. ... 6:30 p.m. we met with the saints. I spoke 50 m...

First ad in the Deseret News for "JACKSON'S BEST SWEET NAVY Chewing Tobacco," which appears directly under a large advertiseme...

Deseret News editorializes that "it is a pity" an LDS father did not succeed in killing his daughter's seducer when the father...

[Wilford Woodruff] In Company with G. A. Smith Jacob Hamblin & Wm. B Maxwell with the 3 Moquitch Indians I visited Presidet Brigham You...

Brigham Young writes to missionaries in Hawaii, "You are all, without regard as to when you were sent, counselled to start for home as ...

The temple site for the Salt Lake Temple is dedicated. [Source: Wikipedia: Chronology of Mormonism, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronolo...

Oliver Cowdery writes to his brothers Warren and Lyman: "The radical principles taught by Messrs. Smith and Rigdon here [are] subversio...

President Thomas S. Monson, a counselor to Presidents Ezra Taft Benson, Howard W. Hunter and Gordon B. Hinckley, was ordained and set apart ...

Amateur historian Lamar Peterson was interviewing Levi Young when he mentions a "strange account of first vision", but says it mus...

[Heber J. Grant] This morning had a chat with David O. McKay and Richard R. Lyman about Emily Smith Stewart and Vilate S. Raille's trou...

Apostle John Henry Smith and one of his two wives "attended a party at which a number of underground people [polygamists in hiding] met...

President Young declared [to the School of the Prophets] that there were witches in the midst of the people by whose influence, suffering an...