Today In Mormon History

At Jacob Hamblin's ranch, 4 miles from the Mountain Meadows killing field, John D. Lee (sleeping on his saddle blanket with his saddle f...

We got in an express this morning saying that there was some 900 troops on the way this side of Laramie & some 12 government Baggage tra...

The first branch is organized in British India at Poonah.

Parley P. Pratt preaches: "At what speed would the Saints travel? We are told that light is the power that governs all things. If the S...

[William Clayton] ...Our bread stuff is now out and we have to live solely on meat the balance of the journey [back to Winter Quarters]. Jo...

(John D. Lee) : Born John Doyle Lee in Kaskaskia, Illinois. He married Agatha Woolsey in 1833 and eventually married eighteen plural wives, ...

[Heber J. Grant] Called on Don B. Colton and talked with him about the second son of Hyrum G. Smith. This son had made a statement to Broth...

Pres. [Joseph F. Smith] Smith incidentally remarked that he had been visited by Pres. A[ngus]. M. Cannon, who complained that a personal dif...

[John Henry Smith] I went up to Ogden to attend the Republican State Convention and was made its chaplain. [Source: Jean Bickmore White ...

St. George, Utah stake leaders proudly report that only 20 percent of its young men smoke tobacco. Apostle Francis M. Lyman preaches to the ...

Members of Parowan's militia participate in killing 120 men, women, and children in Mountain Meadows Massacre. This is largest massacre ...

[Heber J. Grant] At 9:45 met with a committee of five or six of the Apostles, and we discussed the question of appointing a patriarch. It i...

[George Q. Cannon] There was one recommendation which did not strike me favorably, but which I saw the members of the committee favored ver...

[Wilford Woodruff] The Twelve held a Meeting in the Evening at 6 oclok. W Woodruff spoke his feelings. O. Hyde spoke his feelings & sai...

[George Q. Cannon] ... we all partook of some wine punch and cakes... [Source: The Journal of George Q. Cannon, Church Historian's P...

James Holt Haslam arrives in Salt Lake City just after daybreak. Within fifteen minutes he is in Brigham Young's office. He gives Young ...

A revised form for researchers at the LDS Church Historical Department Archives to sign alters the requirement to seek permission for all di...

An entrepreneur purchases the only LDS chapel in Washington D.C. from the Church for $300,000 and the same day, sells the building Sun Myung...

[George Q. Cannon] There was an interchange of views as to the propriety of admitting persons who had not received their endowments into t...

The subject of filling vacancies in the Council of the Twelve and Seventies was considered, and it was decided to notify all the Apostles to...