Today In Mormon History

[Lorenzo Snow] There could be no objection to the wife revealing to her husband her new name outside of the temple, but it is at all lik...

In city, talk with Pres[ident]. [Lorenzo] Snow on plural marriages. He said there cannot be a plural marriage solemnized in this church with...

B. H. Roberts writes a letter to church leaders: "My Dear Brethren: - I submit to the authority of God in the brethren. While I can not...

... I am directed to say that the late El der Newton Daniel Hall and his two wives are approved for further blessings. This does not include...

[Wilford Woodruff] I came home in the Evening of the 16 & found Brother Edward Tullidge raving mad. He was at the City Hall in the ha...

[General Young] Brigham Young followed and advised to have the logs so close that arrows could not be shot into the fort. ... Also the n...

Brigham Young writes: "I attended the solemn assembly, and with my brethren of the Twelve, received my washings and anointings, and was...

William Smith is born at Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont, the eighth child and sixth living son of Joseph Sr. and Lucy Smith. Joseph Sr. r...

First broadcast of HBO's Big Love, a series about Mormon fundamentalists in Utah. The LDS Church criticizes the show for not differentia...

[Leonard Arrington] Earl Olson said that in the meeting between him and Elder [G. Homer] Durham and Elders [Gordon B.] Hinckley and [Boyd...

The first non-English-speaking stake is organized at The Hague in the Netherlands, which is also the first stake in continental Europe. [...

President Heber J. Grant presents a copy of the Book of Mormon in braille to Helen Keller, a well-known advocate for the deaf and the blind.

Provo's DAILY HERALD reports that in a poll of 3000 Provo residents, forty-eight percent favored either outright repeal major modificati...

Lorenzo Snow begins serving his sentence, for polygamy, in the Utah Territorial Penitentiary. Two physicians write to the prison authorities...

Sister Eliza R. Snow Smith and Zina had prayers at the Altar to day <[that?] against the enemies of the Church as a representative of the...

The Ship "George W. Bourne" arrives in New Orleans with a shipload of Mormon converts from England including two sisters who were ...

"He counseled the brethern to buy up the Lamanite children as fast as they could and educate them and teach them the gospel so that no ...

At 6 Pm Pres Young and H Kimble & Richards in council in the historians Tent where a challenge of a duel on yesterday was reported the f...

Martin Harris arrives in Painesville from Palmyra and testifies in a hotel bar. "Every idea that he advanced, he knew to be absolutely ...

"... The first idea of a "Book," was doubtless suggested to the Smiths by one Walters, a juggling fortune-teller, who made t...