Today In Mormon History

[Eliza R. Snow to brances of the Relief Society] .... "Should members of the Relief Society go to the Bishops for counsel?" ...

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff] Sister Baldwin was attacked at our house this morning with sum thing like the Cholera. We laid Hands upon her ...

[Joseph Smith Papers project] The Deseret News reports that "[t]he first volumes of the comprehensive compilation of Smith's wri...

Gordon B. Hinckley, President of the LDS Church, dedicates a new monument to the victims of the 1857 massacre. He says, "[The past] can...

[President Heber J. Grant Diary] The First Presidency were together awhile and I told them I thought maybe I ought to go away for a week ...

Harvey Fletcher, later an internationally recognized research scientist and the "father of the stereophonic sound," is born in Pro...

A letter from former Mormon and Godbeite Henry Lawrence appears in the DESERET NEWS explaining the Liberal party's reason for opposing r...

.... The Hale family was greatly exasperated [by Joseph and Emma's "elopement"], and perhaps it would not have been safe for S...

In the evening Pres[ident]. D[aniel]. H. Wells, Orson Hyde, Jno. [John] Taylor, Erastus Snow, Geo[rge]. A. Smith, W[ilford]. Woodruff of the...

[Nauvoo Neighbor] Story: "A Warning to Tobacco Chewers" -- Editorial -- Humorous account of a tobacco chewer falling asleep wit...

Boyd K. Packer, later a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, is born in Brigham City, Utah.

[Heber C. Kimball marriage] wife #3. Ann Alice Gheen, 1827-1879; 5 children: Samuel, Daniel, Andrew, Alice, Sarah (Seckels). [Hatch, C...

ONE HUNDRED YEARS HENCE. 1945. God, through his servants the prophets, has given all men a clue to the future. In view of this, we wer...

The Nauvoo high council releases William Marks as stake president because he favors Rigdon's claim. [Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hi...

Brigham Young (aged 43) marriage to Clarissa Ross (1814-1857) (aged 30) first marriage 4 children; mother of Maria Young Dougall and Willard...

The high council in Clay County meets. ... First elders for Kirtland endowment are nominated. Zion's Camp members are to apply for disc...

Church sends letter to all Priesthood leaders, directing doubting members to a series of essays published in the Gospel Topics section of LD...

CHURCH NEWS article on the "Salamander Letter" explains that the letter's "white salamander" was only Martin Harris...

CHURCH SECTION article "Primary Boys Make Quilts." [On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com...

A Deseret News Church Section article "Primary Boys Make Quilts." [The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Qui...