Today In Mormon History

[Franklin D. Richards] At 10-met with Council of Kingdom [Fifty]. Morning spent reading lengthy minutes & Revelations & adopting th...

(Heber J. Grant) : Accepted as member of the Council of Fifty—its youngest member—just days before the revelation naming him as one of the n...

[Wilford Woodruff] We all Met with a party of Zions Camp. There were some 40 members of Zions Camp preset Out of 205 who went off to Missou...

Missionary (and later president) Lorenzo Snow delivers two ornamentally bound copies of the Book of Mormon to Queen Victoria and Prince Albe...

[Spencer W. Kimball] In the 10 o'clock meeting with the First Presidency and the Council of the 12 the matter of the negro was brought ...

Letter read from Evan A. Borrowman, a stake missionary in the Los Angeles stake, asking questions regarding the Church's attitude toward...

[George Q. Cannon] In the afternoon [of General Conference], the sacrament was administered, and President Woodruff desired me to occupy th...

Brigham Young and his counselors are each sustained as "Prophet, Seer and Revelator." This is the first conference in 1859 which s...

President Young said I wish to present a subject that has never been presented to the public to my knowledge. In ordaining a man into the Q...

[Heber C. Kimball] I had a dreem that I [went on] bord of [a] strong chip in a narrow channel, thare was menny things heaped before it to h...

[Heber J. Grant] At ten attended special Priesthood meeting in the Assembly Hall. President Smith referred to the fact that there were men ...

[George Q. Cannon] ... President Joseph F. Smith, who spoke concerning ... the Word of Wisdom. In speaking upon this he confessed a good de...

[George Q. Cannon] ... we have learned that those of the Twelve against whom there are no indictments may go to Conference in safety. There...

Theodore B. Lewis is the first Civil War soldier and former prisoner to be sustained as a general authority, and he is also the only Confede...

[John Henry Smith] Erastus Snow said that in the Kirtland Temple some of the brethren complained because Don C. Smith was chosen to preside...

Conference ... W Woodruff Spoke 5 M and Exhorted the Saints to present all their wants before the Lord in their Prayer Circles. W Woodru...

President Brigham Young said no man had any business to enquire whether he would apostatize or not, nor should any Latter Day Saint ask what...

[Genral] President B. Young moved that all who had been ordained High Priests and had come to the valley, and were re-baptized, should be r...

President Young spoke on the sin of shedding the blood of Joseph the Prophet, etc, rests upon the nation; the state of Missouri might have r...

[Anthony Ivins] As I noted the exercises of the conference yesterday I wrote the names of the [First] Presidency as they were presented by ...