Today In Mormon History

George Q. Cannon preaches, "Now I have heard that there are men among us who are professing to cure witchcraft and other evils of that ...

[Ezra Taft Benson] Regarding his father's mission call to Europe, at a church farewell on December 14, 1964 Reed Benson complained th...

[President Heber J. Grant] I made up my mind, after talking to a number of the Brethren yesterday, to recommend at our meeting today that...

[George F. Richards] I had a private conversation with Pres[ident]. Francis M. Lyman in which I expressed the thought that it would be we...

Brothers J. G[olden]. Kimball and J[oseph]. W. McMurrin, of the First Council of Seventies, having been invited to go into business for the ...

[First Presidency Office Journal] A brief synopsis of the Manifesto [regarding blood atonement] of the First Presidency and Twelve was pu...

[Women] RS General President Barbara B. Smith publicly opposes the ERA [Mormon Women's History Timeline, http://www1.chapman.edu/~...

The Church News reports that Mrs. Maria Martinez has been endowed at 114 years of age. By her native name Teoweluy Tetsa, she was among the ...

[Apostle John Henry Smith] Salt Lake City I felt an earthquake about 7 a.m. I attended the funeral of Emily Partridge Smith...

[Apostle Heber J. Grant] [At the funeral of Emily Partridge Young] Brother Joseph F. in his remarks to-day bore a wonderful strong testim...

[Apostle Heber J. Grant] On account of the many disappointments ... to those on the underground it is almost impossible for a person to m...

[Apostle Brigham Young Jr.] Bro[ther] W[oodruff] talked of Gov[ernor] Fords death, and the fulfillment of the curse pronounced upon him b...

[Leonard Arrington] ... Truman Madsen, who is a grandson of Heber J. Grant, mentioned two things about Edwin D. Woolley. Edwin D. Woolley...

[David O. McKay] ... As President Grant is in the East attending to the organization of a Stake in New York, I am taking the liberty of a...

[Post-Manifesto plural marriage] Alvin David Nelson, born at St. Thomas, Nevada, July 7, 1867 Elsinor Johnson, born at Johnson, Utah,...

Official declaration of Church on "Blood Atonement" Capital Punishment, Civil Liberty, Loyalty to the Government of the United Sta...

[Apostle Heber J. Grant] At our meeting this afternoon. We approved of the Manifesto to be signed by the Apostles declaring that there is...

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff] At the Close of the Meeting I was informed that one of my Children was nigh unto death. It had Been sick about...

[Mountain Meadows] Indian Superintendent Forney arrives in Washington, D.C. with the two oldest surviving boys from the massacre. Forney...

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff] 12th Thursday It blew a gale from the South West. We shiped some heavy stern seas. Broke in all the Stern wind...