Today In Mormon History

The First Presidency and newly appointed apostle Alonzo A. Hinckley agree that Heber J. Grant should ask Los Angeles stake president Leo J. ...

[George Albert Smith et al., Letter to Rudger Clawson and Members of the Council of Apostles] The sub-committee of the Council of the Apo...

[J. Golden Kimball] Was told by Apostle [Francis M.] Lyman that some women thought I was a tyrant because of my speech on Sunday and he r...

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff] The remainder of Zions Camp had a meeting for the first time since their travels to Mo. in 1834, when they wen...

Brigham Young marries Diana Chase, aged 17 [Exploring Mormonism: Polygamy Timeline, http://www.exploringmormonism.com/polygamy-timeline/ ...

[Apostle Rudger Clawson] .... Pres. Snow. Second anointings to be given to faithful brethren. It is not necessary, he said, to wait until...

Salt Lake stake high council excommunicates an elder for having a local bishop perform an unauthorized plural marriage for him four years ea...

[Apostle Heber J. Grant] I find that in reading over what I have written regarding the conference meetings that I have neglected to state...

Last time Council of Fifty formally convenes; its last surviving member dies in 1945.

[Abraham H. Cannon] At 10 a.m. I attended a meeting in the Social Hall with S[eymour] B. Young, John W. Taylor and John Q. [Cannon], and ...

George A. Smith writes to his cousin, Joseph Smith III, identifying nine plural wives of Joseph Smith. [Hales, Brian C., Joseph Smith...

[Brigham Young Sermon] President Brigham Young adverted to the subjects of Prophets in Israel, and remarked that nearly every man who had...

[Brigham Young Sermon] I shall address you this morning upon a subject that is more interesting to me than any other pertaining to the li...

[Brigham Young Prayer] I pray my Father in heaven to bless you with His Holy Spirit; with grace to help you in every time of need, under ...

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff] I spent the time diging potatoes Drawing corn & choreing to my tears. [Wilford Woodruff's Journal: ...

[Wilford Woodruff Letter to Brigham Young] "Elder Ball has taught as well as Wm [William] Smith the Lowell girls that is not wrong t...

Brigham Young (aged 43) marriage to Rebecca Holman (1824-1849) (aged 20) first marriage [Wikipedia, List of Brigham Young's Wives, ht...

[Leonard Arrington] According to a report in the Salt Lake Tribune, some persons connected with Mormon women for ERA [Equal Rights Amendm...

[Leonard Arrington] [Ninety-three-year-old] J. Winter Smith ... said that it is family tradition and lore that when the Smith family were...

General conference is broadcast on television for the first time. [The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New M...