[Apostle John Henry Smith Diary] Provo
I bought a dictionary, grammar, reader, and speller for my boy. I paid my taxes and got George [Albert Smith] some shoes.
[Source: Jean Bickmore White (editor), Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1990, http://bit.ly/johnhenrysmith]
165 years ago today - Sep 7, 1847
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 7th The camps were all busy this morning in preparing to leave. I saw my oxen that father And Armstrong has. My Durham ox was failing fast. The rest looked as though they would stand it through well. I left the Knealy Horse with Br Smoot & the Benbow Horse with Thomas Benbow. Br Porter wished me to keep his horse & bring him on in the spring. Br Dewey wished me to bring him a Cow for what I owed him if I could. Br Porter wished me to help on his sons War[nor?] if I could. Father wanted me to see Dr Cannon in winter Quarters.
After the many request made I bid fare well to Br & Sister Smoot Father Woodruff & all the Camps. Many wished to be remembered to Mrs Woodruff. The Camps moved on to the west & we moved east.
The springs that we camp on were near the pass. As we Started it commenced snowing & was cold. We passed over the Cornelian table or valley at the Pass & travled 12 mile & camped on the sweet water in company with John Taylors company and also Br Hunter Company.
The ground was coverd with snow which continued to fall untill evening. I took supper with Br Shirtliff. This Hundred prepared A feast for the whole Pioneer Camp & furnished A table Here in the wilderness In the most splendid manner for one hundred persons. More than that Number eat at the table & were filled with roast, & Broiled Beef, pies, Cakes, Bisket Butter, Peach sauce, Coffee, tea, Shugar, & a great variety of good things.
In the evening the camp had a dance but the quorum of the Twelve met in Council at Br Shirtleff tent & transacted such business as Came before them. It was a Cold frosty night. The case of Br Benbow was brought up & He was discharged from any further obligation to Agnes Benbow. Distance of the day ( I wrote A letter to Br [-]). 14 miles. I recieved 10 letters while on this Journey.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
After the many request made I bid fare well to Br & Sister Smoot Father Woodruff & all the Camps. Many wished to be remembered to Mrs Woodruff. The Camps moved on to the west & we moved east.
The springs that we camp on were near the pass. As we Started it commenced snowing & was cold. We passed over the Cornelian table or valley at the Pass & travled 12 mile & camped on the sweet water in company with John Taylors company and also Br Hunter Company.
The ground was coverd with snow which continued to fall untill evening. I took supper with Br Shirtliff. This Hundred prepared A feast for the whole Pioneer Camp & furnished A table Here in the wilderness In the most splendid manner for one hundred persons. More than that Number eat at the table & were filled with roast, & Broiled Beef, pies, Cakes, Bisket Butter, Peach sauce, Coffee, tea, Shugar, & a great variety of good things.
In the evening the camp had a dance but the quorum of the Twelve met in Council at Br Shirtleff tent & transacted such business as Came before them. It was a Cold frosty night. The case of Br Benbow was brought up & He was discharged from any further obligation to Agnes Benbow. Distance of the day ( I wrote A letter to Br [-]). 14 miles. I recieved 10 letters while on this Journey.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
85 years ago today - Sep 07, 1927
Philo T. Farnsworth makes the first electronic television transmission at his laboratory in San Francisco, California.
[Source: The Woodland Institute 'On This Day Historical Database,' http://www.woodlandinstitute.com]
[Source: The Woodland Institute 'On This Day Historical Database,' http://www.woodlandinstitute.com]
155 years ago today - Sep 7, 1857
The Fancher wagon train from Arkansas, bound for California, is attacked at dawn at Mountain Meadows in southern Utah. The emmigrants form a defensive position and launch a counterattack quickly killing two Paiute Indians. John D. Lee watches the battle and later commented on the situation, "Now we knew the Indians could not do the work, and we were in a sad fix." Before the attack the Fancher party's cattle (which had earlier been promised to the Paiutes by Brigham Young) had been driven off. In the afternoon the battle becomes a standoff. Stake President Isaac Haight, former bodyguard of Joseph Smith, decides to send James Holt Haslam on horseback to Brigham Young for instructions.
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
145 years ago today - Sep 7, 1867
[Brigham Young Sermon] After meeting the Twelve met in Council & President Young & All voted to Appoint Joseph Fielding Smith the Son of Hyrum Smith to be one of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the Place of Amasa Lyman who was Cut off from the Quorum for Preaching Heresy in doing away with the Blood of Jesus Christ as an Atonement for the Sins of the world. -- Logan, Utah [Wilford WoodruffÂ's Journal. 9 Vols. Scott G. Kenney, ed. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1983-85. 6:362]
[Source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
[Source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
100 years ago today - Sep 6, 1912
Utah Power and Light Company incorporates in Maine with at least one general authority on its board since then.
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
170 years ago today - Sep 6, 1842
Joseph Smith writes a long letter further discussing baptisms for the dead and eternal sealings needed to create a "welding link between fathers and their children back to Adam. He encourages Church members: "Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward? Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory! (See D&C 128.)
[Source: Hales, Brian C., Joseph Smith's Polygamy: History and Theology, 2 vols., Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2011 (www.JosephSmithsPolygamy.com)]
[Source: Hales, Brian C., Joseph Smith's Polygamy: History and Theology, 2 vols., Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2011 (www.JosephSmithsPolygamy.com)]
20 years ago today - Sep 6, 1992
- Bryan Waterman, who had written a summary about the controversy surrounding Mother in Heaven for STUDENT REVIEW in Jul/Aug 1992, is called in by his stake president, Allen Bergin, on the instructions of Elder Malcolm Jeppsen (of the Second Quorum of Seventy) who wanted Bryan interviewed immediately and also at the end of the semester. Bergin, had been supplied with a photocopy of the article highlighted in yellow. Bryan, expresses some concern in the second interview about the creation of a file on him that contained only "narrowly focused" material on controversial topics, says he has "misgivings about the nature of the `confidential files" maintained on church members.
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
30 years ago today - Sep 05, 1982
U.S. President Ronald Reagan honors the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on its fiftieth anniversary of continuous weekly broadcasts with CBS Radio Network.
[Source: The Woodland Institute 'On This Day Historical Database,' http://www.woodlandinstitute.com]
[Source: The Woodland Institute 'On This Day Historical Database,' http://www.woodlandinstitute.com]
15 years ago today - Sep 5, 1997
Mormon singer and actress Shawn Southwick marries CNN broadcast interviewer Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Ziegler). Shawn Southwick (aka Shawn Engemann) is known to Mormon audiences as original cast member of "Saturday's Warrior" and as cover model for Jack Weyland's popular, LDS novel CHARLEY. It is her second marriage and King's sixth. King publicly refers to her repeatedly as "a devout Mormon." Their first child, Chance Armstrong King, is born Mar 9, 1999. LDS president Gordon B. Hinckley appears as sole guest on King's hour-long interview program, "Larry King Live" on Sept. 8, 1998 and again on Dec. 24, 1999. Hinckley appears a third time on Sept. 14, 2001 and a fourth on Dec 26, 2004. King refers to Hinckley on the air as "The prophet."
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
100 years ago today - Sep 5, 1912: Thursday
President Smith said he left with others on Saturday morning for Iosepa Colony [Utah]. Reached there in time to attend the morning meeting. The gathering was in honor of the 28th anniversary of the settlement of the colony. The music rendered by the Hawaiian string band was the best he had ever heard anywhere. The house was crowded, many standing. Among the speakers was a young Samoan student of the Brigham Young University, who delivered a very remarkable oration. His subject was the mission of the Prophet Joseph Smith. At the close of the morning meeting the congregation, consisting of all the members of the colony, and about fifty from Grantsville, repaired to the new bowery and partook of a feast. After the feast outdoor games were indulged in and a musical concert was given at night. The natives, President Smith said are getting along better and are more contented than ever before, they have good crops and their store is doing very well. The ratio of children born in the colony is far ahead of any Hawaiian colony on the Pacific, one woman has had as many as thirteen children, eight of whom are living. ...
[Source: First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
[Source: First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
155 years ago today - Friday, Sep 4, 1857
8:00 am: Fancher party leaves Parowan
4:00 pm: Fancher party arrives at Cedar City
5:00 ?: Higbee attempts to arrest Fancher party members
5:00: Lee returns to Harmony with Big Bill and Moquetus
"The emigrants entered the valley on Friday." They ask Carlos Shirts for advice, and he recommended the spring at the south end of Mountain Meadows.38
Camp at MM? -- "Thus, on the Monday morning subsequent to the Friday, 4th or 5th September, the day they camped at the spring, the Indians commenced firing upon them, and continued daily until and during the eighth day of their encamping."39 Forney.
David Tullis (who was living at Hamblin's) told Jacob Forney, "The company passed by the house on Friday, September 2nd or 3rd, towards evening."
[Source: Mountain Meadows Massacre timeline, Will Bagley]
4:00 pm: Fancher party arrives at Cedar City
5:00 ?: Higbee attempts to arrest Fancher party members
5:00: Lee returns to Harmony with Big Bill and Moquetus
"The emigrants entered the valley on Friday." They ask Carlos Shirts for advice, and he recommended the spring at the south end of Mountain Meadows.38
Camp at MM? -- "Thus, on the Monday morning subsequent to the Friday, 4th or 5th September, the day they camped at the spring, the Indians commenced firing upon them, and continued daily until and during the eighth day of their encamping."39 Forney.
David Tullis (who was living at Hamblin's) told Jacob Forney, "The company passed by the house on Friday, September 2nd or 3rd, towards evening."
[Source: Mountain Meadows Massacre timeline, Will Bagley]
Sep 4, 1877
Met with 9 of the 12 [apostles] and with counsellors John W. Young & Daniel H. Wells at 10 a.m. in Endowment House a Comfortable and retired place.
Came to an understanding on the question of responsibility and authority to guide the Church was determined and settled to devolve upon the Twelve the 2 Counsellors assisting, and John Taylor was sustained as president of the Twelve & Counsel. [Franklin D. Richards, Diary]
[John Taylor would be set apart as the president of the church in 1880 when the First Presidency would be reorganized]
[Source: Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1893]
Came to an understanding on the question of responsibility and authority to guide the Church was determined and settled to devolve upon the Twelve the 2 Counsellors assisting, and John Taylor was sustained as president of the Twelve & Counsel. [Franklin D. Richards, Diary]
[John Taylor would be set apart as the president of the church in 1880 when the First Presidency would be reorganized]
[Source: Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1893]
25 years ago today - Sep 4, 1987
A letter from the First Presidency announced the discontinuance of the International Mission. Responsibility for its areas reverted to the respective area presidencies of the Church.
[Source: Church News: Historical Chronology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58765/Historical-chronology-of-The-Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Latter-day-Saints.html]
[Source: Church News: Historical Chronology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58765/Historical-chronology-of-The-Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Latter-day-Saints.html]
175 years ago today - Sep 3, 1837
Book of Mormon witness Martin Harris, discontented after the collapse of the Kirtland Anti-Banking Society, is dropped from the Kirtland High Council. He and his family remain in Kirtland when most Saints emigrated to Missouri or Nauvoo. He later says: "I never did leave the Church, the Church left me." Also on this day Apostles Luke S. Johnson, Lyman Johnson, and John F. Boynton are disfellowshipped by the Kirtland High Council.
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
170 years ago today - Sep 3, 1842
Sheriff comes to Nauvoo to arrest Joseph Smith; Smith escapes and goes into hiding.
[Source: Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology"]
[Source: Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology"]
150 years ago today - Sep 3, 1862
[Brigham Young Sermon] Br. Brigham spoke. Showed that the Gospel was laid down in the old and new testament as plain as the map of a City. Said that the power of the Priesthood was a perfect system of Government in the Heavens and on the Earth when Jesus should come and dwell with his Saints. Said he wished the Saints to learn one thing'"that weaknesses were not sins unless committed with at intent to do wrong and it was not right for us to judge or accuse our brethren until we were certain and knew that they intended to a wrong thing. Spoke of the rebellion in heaven'"the third part being cast down to this earth said their punishment was that of not being permitted to have tabernacles of flesh neither in this time nor in the time to come. -- Summit Creek, Utah [Diary of Charles Lowell Walker. Andrew Karl Larson, ed. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1980. 19]
[Source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
[Source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
125 years ago today - Sep 2, 1887
Wilford Woodruff notes the cost for the yet uncompleted Manti Temple: "Total up to date $890,662.95. Almost one half of this Expense was in Moving a Mountain to get a place to build a Temple on." Brigham Young had said that the site had been chosen by Moroni.
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
135 years ago today - Sep 2, 1877
At Brigham Young's funeral "18,000 people by actual Count passed through the Tabernacle to visit the Body of President Young and several thousand were not Counted. It is estimated that 25,000 took their last fare well of the honored dead."
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
80 years ago today - Sep 02, 1932
Elder J. Golden Kimball is killed in an automobile accident while returning to Salt Lake City from a vacation in California.
[Source: The Woodland Institute 'On This Day Historical Database,' http://www.woodlandinstitute.com]
[Source: The Woodland Institute 'On This Day Historical Database,' http://www.woodlandinstitute.com]
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