Today In Mormon History

McKay learned that his statement on communism was not to be published. Confronting the editor of the Church News, McKay said "Well it s...

[David O. McKay] Attention was called to the application of Sister I--- R------- P----- for permission to do the sealing work in the Temp...

[George F. Richards] We also had an interview in my room with Sister Nellie Taylor widow of [excommunicated apostle] John W. Taylor who m...

Deseret News reports the murder of S. Newton Brassfield on 2 Apr. He legally married a plural wife of an absent Mormon missionary, and the N...

Officially, Governor Cumming was on a leave of absence, but the citizens of Utah knew that his hasty departure meant that he did not intend ...

[Brigham Young] "There are men among us who are passing counterfeit money and have done it all the time since we left Nauvoo, and th...

The son of a previous First Presidency counselor publicly called Ezra Taft Benson "the most divisive influence in the church today....

Replying to Senator Reed Smoot's urgent appeal for an official statement on post-Manifesto polygamy, President [Joseph F.] Smith wired: ...

At Eleven a.m. Presidents Lorenzo Snow and Joseph F. Smith joined us [the apostles]. We agreed to a Rule that we would rise and address the ...

The Daughters of Utah Pioneers was organized April 11, 1901 under the leadership of Annie M. Taylor Hyde (daughter of John Taylor) in Salt L...

Pres. Snow said ... that the church would be relieved of its financial embarrassment, but the land of Zion could only be sanctified to the s...

Stake president and future apostle Francis M. Lyman spends the day studying Buddhism and Confucianism. Four days later he studies Hindu phil...

The President [Brigham Young] had some conversation with Pres- [ident] D.H. Wells about the Signs of the times. They were speaking of the Sp...

[Heber C. Kimball marriage] wife #42. Elizabeth Doty (Cravath Murray Brown), 1808-1889. Mother of Helen Mar's sister-wife, time only....

Joseph Smith and Rigdon rebaptize each other for remission of sins and "renewal of covenants." Church leaders would promote rebapt...

Mormon investors announce they are purchasing Southern Virginia College (SVC), four months after it loses accreditation as a two-year school...

[J. Reuben Clark] [During a telephone conversation with Utah Governor J. Bracken Lee:] Gov. Lee: I said to them [non-members] you are nev...

[Letter on behalf of the First Presidency] "... The hearts of the Brethren bleed with sorrow over the lot of yourself and millions o...

[George F. Richards] "Pres[iden]t Lyman and John Henry Smith especially were emphatic in the denunciation of the actions of those br...

The Oregon Shortline Railroad returned to the Church a check for $2,176.20, the amount charged on the freight for the material used in the r...