Today In Mormon History

The Tennessee legislature passed a law, forbidding the teaching of polygamy in that State. [Source: Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]

The Saints encamped on the Casas Grandes river, Mexico, were ordered to leave the State of Chihuahua, in fifteen days. [Source: Jenson, A...

The Black Hawk Indian War was the longest and most destructive conflict between pioneer immigrants and Native Americans in Utah History. The...

Appointed attorney to collect the perpetual Emmigrating Fund debts of all those who are about to leave the Territory without paying and comm...

Lorenzo Snow returns to Nauvoo and brings tithing he has collected consisting of money and in-kind donations including a six-pound cannon. ...

[Wilford Woodruff] I preached at Wm. Simons at H[ans?] Cross to a vast mass of human beings & not a quarter of the people could not get ...

W. W. Phelps, an anti-Masonic newspaper publisher, buys a Book of Mormon. He later meets Joseph, determines to join the Church, is thrown in...

[Brigham Young Jr.] By reason of being senior apostle in the Quorum I act as president but there has not been the slightest acknowledgement ...

Pres. Cannon said that in case Brother Reed Smoot is ordained an apostle, it is his privilege to see the Lord Jesus, if he so desires and s...

Apostle Rudger Clawson. ... Record of non tithe payers is kept as never before. It shows--High Priests not converted. Elder had not given t...

I had my father adopted to the prophet Joseph Smith. I would have been sealed to my father, but as my sisters who were in the church were no...

[Brigham Young] He had a revelation to give concerning the lawyers that counsel for lucre and for gain, and that lead men into litigation fo...

President Brigham Young said he would give the mind and will of the Lord concerning the Latter-day Saints in their temporal life, which was ...

President Brigham Young than addressed the Bishop in a vary interesting manner Concerning there office. ... Among his remarks He said that ...

[General Conference] Prest. Young asked: Is there a person called that has not been baptized? Joseph Hollingshead, is it not time that your ...

[Brigham Young] When hands were laid upon a gentile to impart the Holy Ghost it would produce spasms, and if a gentile would continue faithf...

[Brigham Young] If the '"old fogies'" take a little tobacco, a little whisky, or a little tea and coffee, we wish you boys...

Illinois governor Thomas Ford writes to Brigham Young advising him on what to do after the Illinois Legislature had revoked Nauvoo's cit...

Gordon B. Hinckley and J. Willard Marriott Jr. (LDS businessman) interviewed by Tom Brokaw on Today show. [Source: Sherry Baker: Mormon M...

Ezra Taft Benson complained to BYU's president that "many of our political science and economics teachers are teaching false doctri...