Today In Mormon History

Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith was continually engaged in translating the book of Abraham and arranging a grammar of the Egyptian language as ...

Edmund Bosley is excommunicated for failing to raise $2,000 as promised. [Source: Kenney, Scott, Saints Without Halos, "Mormon Histo...

At Utah Democratic convention, "women are delegates in about equal number with men." [Source: On This Day in Mormon History, ht...

[Wilford Woodruff] I spent 4 hours at the Council House with Presidt Taylor J. F. Smith & A Carrington in hearing a Case of seduction ...

[Brigham Young] [W]hen this world was first made it was in a close proximity to God. When man sinned it was hurled millions of miles away f...

Apostle Ezra T. Benson preaches in Provo: "I have a little Indian boy and girl, and certainly it is repugnant to my feelings to have to...

LDS poet Carol Lynn Pearson writes in her journal: "I've read every scripture regarding woman that is mentioned in the standard wor...

[David O. McKay] ... Brother 'J' is right in classifying adultery as a heinous sin, but he is wrong in saying that 'a person can...

[Brigham Young Jr.] Pres[iden]ts [George Q.] Cannon & [Joseph F.] Smith came in at 11 a.m. Business was transacted. Document of successi...

[Rudger Clawson] ... A letter from Elder David H. Cannon, pres. [of the] St. George Temple, was read by the clerk. In speaking of ordinance ...

[Franklin D. Richards] Br[other] Ben Lloyd informs me that John H. Smith has been sowing the seeds of discontent with Sisters ZD Young &...

In England missionary and future apostle John Henry Smith dreams "that Prest. J[oseph] F. Smith and I and some others took tea with the...

At meeting of First Presidency and Twelve, "Apostle M. W. Merrill related a dream or vision given to Brother [Samuel] Roskelly in the L...

[Brigham Young Jr.] Excellent meetings and I am sure that the Quorum is thoroughly united. It seems a little difficult for the brethren to d...

It was moved and carried that Pres. Snow be asked to provide a suitable receptacle for church relics and that the same as fast as gathered b...

DESERET NEWS favorably reports lynching of horse-thief A.B. Baker by possee deputized to arrest him. He is "buried by those who thus me...

[Wilford Woodruff] 11th Elder L. Hardy was sick. I laid Hands upon him & He was Healed. I had two Teamsters whose names was Graham. Thei...

[David O. McKay] President Smith, in conversation regarding the B.Y.U. Presidency, expressed himself as looking with disfavor upon the appoi...

[George Albert Smith] "I have prayed to the Lord for deliverance from my affliction..." [Source: Journals of George Albert Smit...

Apostle Brigham Young read from a report furnished by Elder Geo. Reynolds, as follows: the number of converts (adult) made by the 1900 elder...