Today In Mormon History

After 24 hours' confinement, Pres. Brigham Young was released from the Utah Penitentiary. [Source: Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]

[Brigham Young] The President believes and practiced the taking of medicine, and it is better to gather up a little catnip and make tea of i...

[Wilford Woodruff] [Alexander Badlam] Brought $2,000 dollars worth of gold dust And He brought me A present of 9 1/2 oz. of gold dust as A p...

It was then proposed that during their present mission, Elder B. Young should open a door to the remnants of Joseph who dwelt among the Gent...

BYU's DAILY UNIVERSE quotes basketball coach Stan Watts's comment on those who protest at BYU basketball games against the Church...

Minutes of the Council of the Twelve and of the First Presidency: Letter from lra N. Hinckley read, stating that a man in Oasis named Church...

... Some busybodies having made it their business to find out how long it took for a recommend left at this office to go to the president, r...

President Brigham Young was this day sentenced to pay a fine & be imprisioned in the Penetentiary for 24 Hours for Contempt of Court By ...

[Brigham Young] Asserted that God will gather all the light and intelligence that is in the world, all the laws of science, all the truths o...

In the Council of Fifty all day. ... The subject of writing letters to the Governor's and a number of other subjects were discussed. Th...

[Spencer W. Kimball] [In response to a comment by Meredith Wilson, dean of the School of Education at the University of Utah, regarding the ...

The pattern of the temple garment was given by revelation to the Prophet Joseph Smith[,] exact date as to month or year unknown. [Source...

[Heber J. Grant] I will be thankful indeed when the time comes that I can live with her [his plural wife Emily] as a wife and in a manner th...

[William Clayton] ...While writing and copying the records of the Kingdom, I was writing these words dropped by Elder H. C. Kimball in the c...

A Presbyterian committee reports that Lucy, Hyrum, and Samuel Smith acknowledged that they had "entirely neglected the ordinances of th...

Thomas S. Ferguson makes a presentation to the LDS First Presidency concerning the New World Archaeological Foundation. Ferguson points out ...

[Spencer W. Kimball] I was much depressed. It was noticeable for Pres. Clark asked me what the trouble was. I told him I was consulting Dr. ...

[Apostle John Henry Smith] St. George ... examined the foundation of the Temple and the Walls. The Mineral is eating away even the bla...

I witnessed another evidence of the far-seeing policy of our President [Brigham Young]. He happened to see some little fellows playing with ...

Conversation changed and fell upon the subject of the unpleasantness which attends marrying women of property, the President [Brigham Young]...