Today In Mormon History

The Kirtland Temple is designated as a United States Historic Landmark in a public ceremony.

[First Presidency to Lowry Nelson] ... The basic element of your ideas and concepts seems to be that all God's children stand in equal ...

[George Q. Cannon] ... I went to the White House, and after waiting some little time his private secretary, Mr. Porter, saw me and took me ...

[Francis M. Lyman] John W. Taylor. Pres[ident] Smith was the first speaker. He announced that some on[e] of the Twelve was blamable for eng...

The first LDS-operated hospital is Deseret Hospital, founded by the following women: Eliza R. Snow, Emmeline B. Wells, Zina D.H. Young, Jane...

William Clayton writes on the pioneer trail: " In the afternoon Elders [Heber] Kimball, [Willard] Richards, [Ezra T.] Benson and others...

Brigham Young writes to Parley P. Pratt concerning his brother Orson Pratt: "Br Orson Pratt is in trubble in consequence of his wife, h...

Newspapers report that Sarah Kingsley Cleveland had been jailed for passing $390 in notes of the Kirtland Safety Anti-Banking Society, the f...

[J. Reuben Clark] At Mr. Hoover's invitation, I lunched with him today in his suite at the Hotel Utah. We entirely agree on everything....

[George Q. Cannon] Brigham and myself embarked this morning on the splendid steamer Scotia for Liverpool ... During the voyage Brigham and ...

Part of the U.S. Army stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas receives orders to march to Utah territory, assist in removing Brigham Young fro...

[Members of the Mormon Battalion were discharged at Los Angeles, Calif.] During the remainder of their enlistment, some members of the batta...

PHRENOLOGICAL CHART OF ELDER BRIGHAM YOUNG By A. Crane, M.D., Professor of Phrenology PROPENSITIES Amativeness. - 7, F. Very ...

Orson Hyde preaches on board the Garrick. Heber C. Kimball secretly heals a sick child. [Source: Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith C...

The Genealogical Library celebrated the conversion of the last card from its card catalog to computer. [Source: Church News: Historical C...

[George F. Richards] At 6 P.M. attended Pres[ident]. [Francis M.] Lyman's [Prayer] Circle at the temple and was honorably released from...

[John Henry Smith] Salt Lake City The statue to Brigham Young and the Pioneers was completed today. Many of the Delegates to the Tra...

Mormon outlaw Robert LeRoy Parker is arrested on a horse-theft complaint. The arresting officer, Bob Calverly, reports: "I told him I h...

[George Q. Cannon] President Taylor is brighter this morning and more natural, though quite weak. I signed the recommends to the Temple and...

[Wilford Woodruff] 15 I spent this day writing in the office. I sent sister Eliza R Snow A poem the production of my pen directed to hers...