Today In Mormon History

[Brigham Young Jr.] Had some strange experiences today. After meeting in the Temple, Pres. Snow held reception for Ken. news men at Beehive....

Joseph Smith, father of the Prophet, came from Merrimac River, N.H., and first settled in Palmyra, but in 1819 removed to this place. He was...

[Helen Mar Kimball] A few days after their return to Nauvoo the Prophet's brother Don Carlos Smith died, and being an officer in the leg...

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Twenty-six-year-old Don Carlos Smith, Joseph's youngest brother, dies in Nauvoo. He was the editor of the Times and Seasons and became s...

James Gordon Bennett diary entry, Geneva, New York (sixteen miles southeast of the Smith farm near Palmyra): Joseph Smith Sr. a healer and ...

[Heber J. Grant, Letter to Matthias F. Cowley] "None of the Quorum saw fit to inform me of yours and Bro[ther]. John W [Taylor]'s r...

"At 7 30 P.M. went to High Priests (Sic) Quorum Meeting and listened to a very interesting talk by brother Samuel Richard, the last of ...

[Brigham Young] He further remarked that the Government would have to acknowledge the independence of the Southern Confederacy, and after a ...

[Leonard Arrington] Word has come to us that Elder [G. Homer] Durham is working out a policy on "conflict of interest" in the Hist...

Brigham Young's office journal records: " In the evening Pres[ident] Wells read to the President a part of the life of Senator Step...

The newly renovated Smith Family Cemetery in Nauvoo, Illinois, is dedicated. The cemetery contains the graves of Joseph, Emma, and Hyrum Smi...

[Leonard Arrington] I have learned today the true story of the cricket and seagull episode in Mormon history in 1848. It is well known that ...

The Christian Broadcasting Network, founded and run by Pat Robertson, began broadcasting over the radio. [Cline, Austin, History of American...

[Leonard Arrington] ... I had always wanted to ask about President Romney's sister who became a Catholic nun. How did that happen? What ...

[Charles W. Penrose] At Pres[iden]ts office & B[isho]ps office. Note from [Josiah] Rogerson about his M/s [manuscript] on Mountain Meado...

At St. Charles, Idaho, George Q. Cannon reports "having seen the Bear Lake Monster or something of that kind this evening while strolli...

Groundbreaking for adobe Tabernacle on Temple Square. [Timeline of Wilford Woodruff's Life in the Context of US and Church History, http...

[Wilford Woodruff marriage] Sarah Elinore [Elinor or Eleanor] Brown. She was eighteen, Wilford was thirty-nine. They were divorced four wee...

[Wilford Woodruff marriage] Mary Carolyn [Caroline] Barton. Thomas Alexander refers to her as a teenager. She and Wilford Woodruff divorced...