Today In Mormon History

[Rudger Clawson] On Friday, I was in meeting with the Presidency and Twelve all day on a matter that it would not be wise to name in my jour...

[Apostle Rudger Clawson] Brigham City. Clear and cool, with snow during the night. Upon taking up the morning paper, I read a notice of the ...

[Apostle John Henry Smith] I mailed the Sheffield Daily Telegraph to all of Utah papers and my wives. I weighed on one pair of scales tonigh...

G A. Smith related a Circumstance of a Mr Woodson who has got possession of the Land upon which the Temple Block stands in Jackson Co Missou...

Sunday School organized by Richard Ballantyne. [Source: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Chronology of Church History, http:/...

Patriarchal Blessing of Joseph Smith, Jr., given by Joseph Smith, Sr. stated "thou shalt stand on Mount Zion when the tribes of Jacob c...

At a family blessing meeting, Joseph Sr. refers to his and Lucy's firstborn dead son (Lucy later remembered this child as a daughter) an...

"Joseph Smith, Senior, a Patriarch, and President of the high Priesthood" gives his first patriarchal blessings as an ordained pat...

Abner Cole's Palmyra Reflector announces that it will publish selections from the Book of Mormon in future editions . The Reflector was ...

[George F. Gibbs] Word has come to this office, from quite a reliable source, to the effect that your counselor, Brother Borkman, has the id...

Those conducting the Smoot hearing sought to have the L.D.S. Church produce temple records and even records of the temple ceremonies. [In a ...

[Apostle Marriner Merrill] I went to Logan [Utah] to see about Temple affairs as I was Summoned to Washington [D.C.] on Tues[day] Morninging...

Brother [Thomas] Taylor complained now, as he has complaind before, and that bitterly, that he had on two former occasions arranged to sell ...

[President Wilford Woodruff] 8 Sunday I spent the day at the House reading & writing. We are passing through a strange portion of our Hi...

[Apostle Abraham H. Cannon] Father briefly mentioned two cases with which he was familiar where men were killed in a violent way for the rea...

... We have heard it rumored about, that some at least, and probably many, are making their calculations to remove back to Kirtland next sea...

Mark William Hofmann born in Salt Lake City, Utah. [Source: Whittaker, David J., The Hofmann Maze, A Book Review Essay with a Chronology ...

[George F. Richards diary, Dec. 7, 1949] I went to the temple at 11:00 a.m. and assisted Elder Jos[eph] Fielding Smith, administered Second...

President McKay at my desk 4:00 to 4:15 p.m. discussing contract with Preston Nibley regarding writing and compensation to Brother Nibley fo...

[Apostle Heber J. Grant] [At meeting of Presidency and Apostles] The question had been presented whether it was the proper thing for [unruly...