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[Willard Richards] President Young stated to the assembly that there was no occasion for grumbling, or Quorum of the Twelve explaining am...

"When a man is found to be a thief," Young tells bishops, "he will be a thief no longer, cut his throat, & thro' him ...

President Brigham Young gave the council instructions and in fact reproved them & the Bishops quite sharply for their negligence in not ...

[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 lo...

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....

[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 some...

[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 Ell...

[James E. Talmage] I want to do good among the young — probably lecture amongst the Improvement Associations, and encourage the study of ...

Found Dead - Thomas Coleman, generally known as "Nigger Tom," was found about 9 PM last night by the police with a stab in the rig...

The President [Brigham Young] soon Came in & they gave an account of their procedings while at Fillmore. The snow was two Feet deep on t...

[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 ...

The following telegram was received: 'Washington [D.C.] 12/9/86 / to James Jack / ring delegates working very hard. John W. Young & ...

Brigham Young Jr. writes in his diary that "a nigger" is found dead in Salt Lake City with this note pinned to his corpse: "L...

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 memb...

Prescindia D. Huntington, a faithful Mormon and married woman in Nauvoo, was also a polyandrous wife of Joseph Smith. Prescindia married Nor...

Henry B. Eyring is inaugurated as the ninth president of Ricks College.

[David O. McKay] I was very gloomily impressed with Dr. [James E.] Talmage's attitude toward and remarks on the question of Univ[ersi...

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 ...

[Wilford Woodruff] I spent the Evening in President Youngs Office & met with the regency & they voted to adopte pitmans Phonetic ...

African American Thomas Coleman brutally murdered for "meddling with white women" [ http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/Chronolog...