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[George Albert Smith] Stopped at [recently excommunicated apostle] R[ichard] R L[yman] home and talked to Amy and Richards. She is crushed. ...

Heber J. Grant presides at the graveside services held for President Joseph F. Smith. Because of a nationwide influenza epidemic, no public ...

[Thomas A. Clawson Diary] "At 10 A.M. today in a Special Meeting in the Temple of the Council of the Twelve and Presiding Patriarch the...

[Apostle Heber J. Grant Diary] Answd. Miss Winters' letter--Hope some day to make her my wife, although we are comparative strangers tod...

[Orson Pratt Sermon] Our first parents were not mortal when they were placed on this earth, but they were as immortal as those who are resur...

[Anointed Quorum] Prayer circle meeting at Joseph Smith's old house; second anointing for Brigham and Mary Ann Young. Later statements b...

President Boyd K. Packer and Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and Relief Society General President Mary Ellen Smoot...

Edwin and Janath Cannon and Rendell and Rachel Mabey, the first official representatives of the International Mission in West Africa, witnes...

[President Heber J. Grant Diary] I told of John W. Taylor's prophesying on me when I was called to go to Japan. Told of the Miraculous b...

Rafael Lopez, a Mexican desperado, killed J.W. Grant (chief of police at Bingham, Utah,) Otto Wittbeck and Nephi S. Jensen (both of Salt Lak...

[William Clayton Journal] I learned from H[yrum] that E[mma Smith] had power to prevent my being admitted to Joseph's Lodge for the pres...

[Joseph Smith Diary] Gave ... instructions to write a proclamation to the Kings /&c./ of the Earth. ... The Ohio River will be froz...

The California Supreme Court accepted three lawsuits seeking to nullify Proposition 8, but refused to allow couples to resume marrying until...

The first number of the Union Vidette, a bitter anti-Mormon newspaper, was issued at Camp Douglas, Utah. [Source: Jenson, Andrew, Church ...

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] At midnight I was Called up to go down to the farm & visit my daughter Susan who thought her youngest...

[Wilford Woodruff Journal] while sitting by the fireside Sister Lydia Luce a faithful Saint & full of faith related a dream that she had...

The possible date of Alvin Smith's autopsy. [Source: Vogel, Dan, Early Mormon Documents, Appendix B: Chronology, 1771-1831, http://am...

President Joseph F. Smith died six days after his 80th birthday. Because of an epidemic of influenza, no public funeral was held for the Chu...

President [Heber J.] Grant came into the Beehive house yesterday afternoon to inquire as to father’s [i.e., Joseph F. Smith’s] condition...