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The last Relief Society meeting in Nauvoo is held. The Relief Society doesn't officially meet for ten years. Emma says "if thier e...

[Wilford Woodruff] .... I Concluded to go & spent the night with Brother Hale & we had an interesting time together in talking ab...

HBO TV program "Big Love," about a Mormon Fundamentalist plural family, shows a dramatization of LDS temple Endowment ceremony. Ph...

[Leonard Arrington] Alice Smith telephoned this afternoon to say that she had changed her mind about the advice she gave me a month or so...

O. Meredith Wilson is appointed as president of the University of Oregon. Other Mormons appointed as university presidents outside of the in...

Thirty-one-year-old Harold Brown arrives in Buenos Aires as the new president of the Argentina Mission. He is a former FBI agent with experi...

[Heber J. Grant] Had a splendid night's sleep and awoke at 4:45. After my usual forty-five minutes of exercises in bed, which I take ...

[Franklin D. Richards] Apostle John W. Taylor is wrestling with an article for publication in the News'-making acknowledgments for hi...

Joseph H. Jackson, R. D. Foster, William and Wilson Law, and Chauncy Higbee hold secret meetings opposing Joseph Smith. [Hales, Brian C.,...

Hyrum Smith, in TIMES AND SEASONS, publicly rebukes the Saints in China Creek, Hancock County: "some of your elders say, that a man hav...

Translation of the Book of Mosiah is complete. [Watson, Elden, Approximate Book of Mormon Translation Timeline, http://www.eldenwatson.ne...

Lucy Harris brings suit against Joseph Jr. at Lyons (NY), during which Martin Harris and others testify. Case dismissed. [Vogel, Dan, Ear...

I attended the regular conference of the Salt Lake Stake, and spoke 50 minutes, principally on Prohibition ... Some of my remarks were rathe...

The First Presidency received a call from Sisters Elmina S. Taylor and Maria Y. Dougall, who bore letters from Sister Susa Young Gates, info...

[Wilford Woodruff] 14 We drove to Lees Ferry and Crossed. I here left Br Johnson who was the ferryman and at home. We then Crossed the M...

Lucian Woodworth a member of the Council of Fifty and Nauvoo House architect, is dispatched to Austin, Texas to begin negotiations with the ...

[Council of Fifty] This day the council was together all day again, and the same subjects continued in discussion: as previously. The nam...

[Benjamin F. Johnson] About this time was organized his private council of Fifty,-the embryo kingdom of God upon the earth-an organizatio...

[Leonard Arrington] Reflections on Dedicatory Service at Logan Temple ... No blacks that I could see, but a few Indians and Japan...

At the First Presidency residence, Wilford Woodruff, George Q. Cannon, Joseph F. Smith, Franklin D. Richards, John Henry Smith, Moses Thatch...