Today In Mormon History

Apostle Harold B. Lee said that Ezra Taft Benson needed "humbling" to serve "properly . . . as a member of the Council of the...

The establishment of the Navaho-Zuni Mission, the first mission in the twentieth century directed only to Native Americans. This is the orig...

[President Wilford Woodruff] I requested my sons their wives and my daughters & their husbands to meet with me this evening at home as ...

[William Clayton] B. Young called me on one side & said he wants to give me some instructions on the priesthood [plural marriage] the ...

I Wilford Woodruff testify that about 7 oclock PM I discoverd a stream of light in the south west quarter of the heavens. The rays of Light ...

A second anti-Masonic convention is held in Le Roy, New York, attended by representatives from the counties of Wayne (Palmyra) and Ontario (...

Craig Jessop, renowned music director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, has resigned from his assignment after over a decade of outstanding se...

In Arizona, the LATTER-DAY SENTINEL reports of 80-year old Marvin Clifford's second baptism. Clifford's church records had been burn...

Apostle Boyd K. Packer gives a speech entitled "To the One" during a twelve-stake fireside at BYU. Although the entire speech deal...

The Nigerian government, through a strongly worded editorial in the NIGERIAN OUT-LOOK, expresses its displeasure at Mormon anti-black practi...

Apostle Reed Smoot is sworn in as member of U.S. Senate. Next Jan the Senate begins three-year hearings to decide if Smoot will be allowed t...

[Franklin D. Richards] After long & careful discussion of the whether to surrender to the Gov[erno]r. the appointing power [of territor...

[Wilford Woodruff] I had one of the most interesting dreams of my life during the night. Most of it was taken from me when I awoke. I fle...

A First Presidency letter absolutely excludes the following persons from the possibility of serving full-time missions: "Individuals wh...

The Salt Lake Tribune reports on a lawsuit filed in February against the LDS church for $28 million. A father blames his LDS bishop for cont...

The Utah Capitol Commission decided to locate the capitol building at the head of North State street on Capitol Hill, Salt Lake City. [So...

[George Q. Cannon in Washington D.C.] ... then came the [anti-polygamy] Frelinghuysen Bill; but Mr. Sarjent of California objected to the c...

Seymour B. Young describes the inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant as U.S. president: "Useless S Grant shits in Washingtons chair." M...

Joseph Smith gives his plans for increasing Mormon control over the area surrounding Nauvoo, "There is a wheel. This is the Hub. We wil...

[Marriage, Emily Patridge to Joseph Smith] Elder Heber C. Kimball officiating. Emily D. Partridge Smith testified that she "roomed...