Today In Mormon History

[Heber C. Kimball] After dark I went to the River and Baptized Sarah [Ann Whitney] and Si[s]ter Winchester. [already baptized] [Kimbal...

Patriarchal Blessing of Rhoda Reid given by William Smith ... to this end [d]ear sister, I seal thee up unto eternal life, and also seal upo...

Patriarchal Blessing for Ann B. Peterson (deceased) given to Mary Ann Peterson (proxy) by William Smith ... A blessing by Wm Smith Patriarc...

The REPUBLICAN ADVOCATE in Batavia, New York publishes the text of a speech in defense of Freemasonry: "He [Enoch] also caused a triang...

Mormon.org is revamped to showcase profiles of LDS members, which are then highlighted in the new I'm a Mormon media campaign. [Wikip...

[Leonard Arrington] Floyd O'Neill and [Greg] Thompson from the University of Utah Western Study Center came in my office this morning...

[J. Reuben Clark] During evening (7:00) Mr. and Mrs. Reed Benson and Mr. Mark Benson called at President Clark's home and saw his lib...

[James E. Talmage] Attended Council meeting of the First Presidency and Twelve. Today I learned that during my absence I have been appoin...

THE RETURN, an RLDS publication, publishes a letter by Emma [Smith] Bidamon, Joseph Smith's widow: "I always feel a peculiar satisf...

[Heber J. Grant] I think more of the confidence of my friends than I do of all the other successes that have attended my labors [Diary...

Anti-Mormon party wins SLC school election In another devastating blow to Mormon independence, on July 15, the anti-Mormon party wins ...

[Wilford Woodruff] [Manti] A Company of 50 men went out to try to overtake & punish the Indians who were killing the people. Col Warr...

[Brigham Young] The Lord would open the Earth & swallow up such Cities as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, & other great Cities of th...

.... At the close of the meeting President Snow nominated his two Councellors. Diminicus Carter was first Councellor. The people did not all...

[Brigham Young] The Lord in his wisdom has appointed our location in the midst of Israel [Indians], which is a astounding miracle. How ma...

[Wilford Woodruff] During the Evening we were visited with A terrible Thunder storm. The lightning struck all around us & while the t...

WESTERN WORLD, published in Warsaw Illinois reports that some residents of Hancock had begun to complain of "petty depredations... such...

USA TODAY reports: "A Bountiful, Utah man discovered that his wife of 3 1/2 years is a man who is now jailed on charges he ran up $40,0...

[Francis M. Lyman] [Oak Creek] I spoke much of Statehood and equal suffrage also of the improvements that should be made to emphasize the...

The election of a board of school trustees for Salt Lake City, under the new law, resulted in the election of eight "Liberals" and...