Today In Mormon History

[We]could see the auxiliaries running the Church as it were. . . . We had no Priesthood board but they had large and talented and powerful ...

A First Presidency letter authorizes young men to be ordained to the office of elder at age eighteen, no longer limiting the elder's off...

[James E. Talmage] [Talmage's reasons for not attending a dance:] [...] 1-One must know how to dance: I do not; 2-one must wear a...

The First Presidency and apostles vote privately that John T. Caine be a candidate for Utah's delegate to Congress. Three hours later th...

[Council of Fifty] ... Recorder [George Q.] Cannon spoke on the necessity of having a committee to instruct delegates as to who to vote f...

Brigham Young writes his son Brigham Jr.: "It is now going on two years and a half since I have used a particle of tobacco. . ."

[Lorenzo Snow] "It is much more difficult for wives to learn than it is for husbands, because women have not the degree of light and...

Mormon Missionary Orson Hyde, after visiting a group he calls "Cochranites" describes them in his journal as having a "Wonder...

[David O. McKay Office Journal] In Council meeting this morning I referred to the attempted expansion in Huntsville by the Catholics; tha...

[Heber J. Grant] In one of my conversations with him [i.e., Presiding Patriarch Joseph F. Smith] he told me that President Smith's wi...

145th Field Artillery regiment departs Utah for duty in the "Great War" (World War I). Nearly all of its 1,300 to 1,500 officers a...

[John Nuttall] It was represented that there are five large windows needed [for the Salt Lake Temple] which will cost $1500.00 each. Bro[...

[Heber J. Grant] Since the Th I have kept pencil mems. from which to write up my journal, as I have not had time to attend to it each day...

(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...

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

[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 Miss...

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

[Nathan Willis] About two years since, Smith pretended to have been directed, in a dream, or vision, to a certain spot located between th...

[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 brough...

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