Today In Mormon History

[Proposition-8] Fundraising calls by top church officials to high profile Mormons were already underway, according to the former presiden...

Apostle Moses Thatcher is arrested at Logan and charged with unlawful cohabitation.

[Franklin D. Richards] The End[owmen]t. House [is] being painted. It was agreed to place Hon[orable]. Geo[rge]. Q. Cannon in nomination a...

[Brigham Young] ... We also have the privilege of sealing women to men, without a Temple. This we can do in the Endowment House; but when...

The New York Sun carries a description of Joseph Smith. "This Joe Smith must be set down as an extraordinary character, a prophet-hero,...

John N. Sapp, a Danite, estimated their number between 800 and 1000. [Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/hi...

Near the end of his talk [to BYU Faculty], [BYU President Jeffery] Holland said, "I want to make an off-the-record statement" (thi...

[George Q. Cannon] We received the following dispatch from Geo. M. Cannon, Cashier of Zion's Savings Bank. "All nervous. Ba...

[John D. T. McAllister] Gave instruction to give nothing but the proper wording when washing, anointing, etc. Pres[ident] [Brigham] Young...

James Mulholland commences writing for Joseph as his scribe. Joseph begins dictating to him what will become Joseph's six-volume history...

Popular general authority J. Golden Kimball, asleep in the back of the car while returning from a vacation in California, is thrown from the...

[John Henry Smith] It was agred [by the First Presidency and attending apostles] that the Rule made in the past and adhered to by all ...

[George Q. Cannon] I arose about 6 o¿clock. The nurse told me he had been sleeping in the same position all the time. I took hold of his ...

President Woodruff died at the home of [non-member] Col[onel]. Isaac Trumbo, whose guest he was while in San Francisco. He breathed his last...

[Heber J. Grant] In the letter [to Heber M. Wells] I tell of meeting the First Presidency and other friends from Salt Lake, and state tha...

[George Q. Cannon] My son Willard has been suffering from headache for some time, and to-day I noticed that he had considerable fever. I ...

Brother Orson Pratt spoke of the desirability of obtaining the mss. of the Books of Abraham and of Joseph now in Woods Museum, Chicago. Brot...

[Wilford Woodruff] I paid my tithing of Oats Barley & wheat to day then went to the field & spent the day. [Wilford Woodruff...

This meeting was convened by request of Prest. B. Young for the purpose of getting our Brethren who were Merchants to enter into some arrang...

A "Notice of Expulsion" appears in the Lee County Democrat at Ford Madison, Wis., announcing a meeting that was held in Hancock Co...