Today In Mormon History

[Heber J. Grant] Inasmuch as the young people to whom you refer in your letter of September 13 have confessed to you their transgression and...

[Francis M. Lyman] At 2 P.M. met with stake Priesthood meeting. Regular business was attended. I then announced the call of bro[ther] A[ntho...

Incorporation of Perpetual Emigratìng Company by General Assembly of State of Deseret. Before federal government forces its disincorporation...

[Hosea Stout] I met the Eleventh Quorum near the Stand, and then in the afternoon attended meeting.it was a business meeting and all who we...

President Young prophesied on the stand this day that we would have a winter of peace in Nauvoo. -- Nauvoo, Illinois [Source: Willard Ri...

On his deathbed, Joseph Smith, Sr., ordains his son Hyrum as Presiding Patriarch. This would be the last instance of patrilineal ordination ...

Patriarchal Blessing of Phebe Rigdon given by Joseph Smith, Sr. ... I seal thee up unto eternal life, and thou shalt receive an inheritance...

Patriarchal Blessing of Rebecca Williams given by Joseph Smith, Sr. ... I seal thee up unto eternal life, and thou shalt have thy part and ...

Patriarchal Blessing of Sidney Rigdon given by Joseph Smith, Sr. the earth shall tremble before thee, the rivers shall turn out of their co...

Patriarchal Blessing of Frederick G. Williams given by Joseph Smith, Sr. ... But thou shalt be a great man in the earth, and thou shalt be ...

Patriarchal Blessing of Elizabeth Ann Whitney given by Joseph Smith, Sr. on September 14, 1835 ... for thou art bone of his bone and fle...

Newel K. Whitney. (Given by Joseph Smith, Sen.) ... thou art a strange man, and thy ways have been unlike the ways of other men ... [Sou...

Under Joseph Smith's direction and in accordance with instructions in Doctrine & Covenants 25, the high council instructed Emma Smit...

A high council of the First Presidency calls Oliver Cowdery as Church Recorder and decides, "The laborer is worthy of his hire." P...

[Heber C. Kimball] Joins Masonic Lodge, Victor Village, Victor Township, Ontario County, New York. [Source: Kimball, Stanley B. (editor),...

Registration of the Leningrad Branch of the Church was approved by the Council on Religious Affairs of the Council of Ministers in the Sovie...

[Mark Hofmann] admits to Wilding and Syd Jensen that their money had not purchased the "Oath of Freeman" or Dickens manuscript, th...

[David O. McKay] I said [to his counselors] that protests are coming to permitting the use of the Tabernacle for political meetings. We con...

[Henry D. Moyle] Went to Alta Club and very much out of place at a republican meeting of business men. I was invited by Fred Schulter of The...

Pres. Snow spoke of the movement now on foot to build a railroad from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles and said that it looked very much as if ...