Today In Mormon History

[Leonard Arrington] A little more information on the Lavina [Fielding Anderson] firing episode. After the appearance of the "leak"...

Missionary work recommences in Chile, some 104 years after Elder Parley P. Pratt had left the country following an unsuccessful attempt to e...

Heber J. Grant writes to a stake president with instructions: "Send each and every recommend direct to the President, not by the hand o...

The church's storage vaults in the granite mountains of Little Cottonwood Canyon are dedicated, which vaults are intended to withstand n...

[Marion G. Romney] "... President McKay also submitted the same of Hugh B. Brown as a counselor in the Presidency to help the Presidenc...

First Presidency supports plan to persuade U.S. Army to send its "colored contingents" to California rather than to Utah. At its s...

The PROVO HERALD reports: "Dancing of a standard far worse than anything permitted in New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles [was] witnessed...

Mormon Carl Badger, reflecting on Church leaders' testimony in the recently completed Reed Smoot Hearings writes to a relative: "I ...

[Brigham Young] 'When br. woodruff remarked that just so long as the devil lives he will oppose the saints, the question came to my mind...

[Brigham Young] "When the sermon is published it will be then revelation. This earth was created expressly for the people come dwell on...

[Brigham Young] "... Take, for instance, the gift of tongues; years ago in this Church you could find men of age, and seemingly of expe...

[Brigham Young] "I have seen a prophet and apostles who are perfect in their calling yet they are subject to all weaknesses of man, if ...

[David O. McKay] " ... President Tanner mentioned that at the meeting of the Council referred to on June 9, the Brethren had mentioned ...

The first shipment of the Welfare Plan foodstuffs and essential commodities arrives in Geneva, Switzerland, for distribution to Mormons in w...

[David O. McKay] 11:00'A. Richard Peterson regarding selling beer in grocery stores: by officers prominent in Church affairs. For exampl...

[William Henry Smart] 'This evening from about 9-30 to 12 O.C[lock], my wife and I attended to the second part of the ordinance of secon...

President Lorenzo Snow promised Messrs. Taylor and Wagner, both colored, who are trying to build a church for the colored people that when s...

Mormon missionaries are tried for preaching. Apostle David W. Patten and future apostle Wilford Woodruff (hereafter Woodruff), among the mis...

[Rudger Clawson] Pres. [Lorenzo] Snow arose and said, I desire to bear my testimony. I know that Jesus lives. Many of you who are here tonig...

[Brigham Young Jr.] "I have been called or order for teaching that Priesthood is "Divine Authority" and when a Deacon is orda...

[Abraham O. Woodruff] Pres[iden]t. [Lorenzo] Snow after the singing of a hymn arose and said: 'He The Savior Lives and I know it! Many o...

[Wilford Woodruff] June 20, 1876 Glory Hallalulah for this days for in spite of the Devil through the Blessing of God I have had the privile...

A lady from Fort Leavenworth told Brother Lewis that [former Missouri governor] Boggs started with a company of emigrants for Oregon, heard ...

Patriarchal Blessing of Jacob Chamberlain given by Joseph Smith, Sr. ... Thou shalt go to Zion and possess the things of this life: thou sha...

Patriarchal Blessing of Lucia Louisa Leavitt given by Joseph Smith, Sr. ... Thou shalt teach the daughters of the Lamanites and instruct the...

Patriarchal Blessing of Oliver Snow given by Joseph Smith, Sr. ... Thou shalt live to see the tribes come in from the North ... Thou salt se...

Joseph Smith was acquitted in a trial before the Court of Common Pleas at Chardon, on a charge of assault and battery brought by his brother...

Look magazine publishes Gordon B. Hinckley's response to an article, "The Mormons: We Are a Peculiar People," one of his earli...

[First Presidency letter] To Bishoprics of Wards, Dear Brethren: At the Stake Clerks' meeting, held during the late general conference,...

$250. was paid to Fred W. Clemons in payment of the old hand press on which the first edition of the Book of Mormon was printed; said press ...

James Murdock writes to the CONGREGATIONAL OBSERVER of his interview with William Smith, LDS Apostle and brother of Joseph Smith: "Abou...

Lorenzo Snow is baptized in the Chagrin River near Kirtland, Ohio. (He is twenty-two years and two months old.)

Wilford Woodruff writes that "A state's warrant was issued against D[avid] W. Patten, Warren Parrish and Wilford Woodruff, . . . El...

Book of Mormon witnesses Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, John Whitmer, Apostle Lyman E. Johnson, and Mormon editor William W. Phelps flee for...

[Joseph Smith] Starts for Missouri to designate the -"land of Zion.-" [Highlights in the Prophet's Life, Ensign, June 1994]

Colesville saints inquire of Joseph being poor and without farmland. Section 54 of the D&C is revealed in response. Newel Knight is ap...

[Hosea Stout] Law Suit before probate on an examination[.] People vs William Camp et al. for kidnapping a Negro Dan. The case commenced Mond...

Sarah Lawrence, polygamous widow of Joseph Smith, formally divorces Heber C. Kimball. Two years later she marries Joseph Mount who "had...

Time magazine publishes its list of the twenty-five most influential Americans. Among those noted is Steven R. Covey (a former BYU professor...

[George F. Richards] "Talked with Bro[ther]. C[harles]. R. McBride after meeting about a matter of a private nature about which I had a...

[Anthony W. Ivins] "Sunday 2 P. M. Jos, C. Bently. Present authorities. Bro. H. Pratt made short remarks. Said an effort was being made...

A contingent headed by Apostle John Henry Smith and future apostle Anthony W. Ivins meets in Mexico City with Mexican President Porfirio Dia...

With approval from President Wilford Woodruff, Second Counselor Joseph F. Smith seals Lillian Hamlin by proxy to the deceased David H. Canno...

[James E. Talmage] Talmage attends the Annual Meeting of the Microscopical Society of London. To his surprise, Talmage is called upon to add...

[James E. Talmage] "[...] if I would give way to selfish feelings I would today almost register a vow that I would not serve in the B. ...

The new Republican Party Platform brought polygamy into the national political debate regarding slavery. It argued that since the Constituti...

Patriarchal blessing of Esther Smith Fuller given by Joseph Smith, Sen. ... "I seal the blessing of God on thy children: ... while you...

Patriarch Joseph Smith Senior gives blessings to Amos B. Fuller: "Thy years shall be many for thou shalt stand on the Earth and proclai...