Today In Mormon History

In speaking of Geneology & History Presidet Young Said I Care so litle about it in my feelings & spirit that as far as I am Concer...

[Notes from a talk with Bruce R. McConkie concerning Brother McConkie's feelings about Luke 3:38] ... He said that it was a true doctr...

In a letter to Walter P. Monson, president of the church's Eastern States Mission in New York, Joseph F. Smith's First Presidency ...

The case of Lorenzo Snow was argued in the U.S. Supreme Court. [Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]

You have heard what Elder Charles S. Kimball has said this afternoon relative to the general belief of the people in the old countries,...

Joseph F. Smith rules that the Salt Lake temple have daily limits for proxy ordinances: 240 endowments and 1,200 baptisms for the dead. As...

[Wilford Woodruff] When we arose in the morning we still found strong head winds which soon increased to a great Storm & tempest wh...

[Wilford Woodruff] The forepart of this blessing of Orson Pratt ... And we further say unto you that the last official act that yo...

Voted that the Temple be sold both at Nauvoo & Kirtland to ease our burden considering that the Lord designed that the Saints should e...

American Mothers, Inc. names Carolyn M. Shumway, wife of BYU—Hawaii president Eric Shumway, the National Mother of the Year.

[J. Reuben Clark] D[avid] O M[cKay] Talked with him about Hugh Brown'Agreed with Pres Grant and D O M to make his pay $35000 per mo...

Prest. Young attended the 13th Ward meeting, in the course of his remarks about the officers of [the] U.S. coming here he said he hoped if...

Bro. Brigham spoke of the things in the East. Said he hoped they would both gain the victory. Said he had as much sympathy for them as the...

[Wilford Woodruff] I have been a marked victem as an attack for the power of the destroyer from my infancy up to the present day. I hav...

Fifty years after the Church began keeping individual membership records, it completed computerizing membership records worldwide. [Cor...

The ten-month speaking ban on Linda Newell and Val Avery is lifted. The story is carried by UPI and AP, and published in the Tribune and o...

First counselor J. Reuben Clark tells the apostles: "I think it is terrible for any man in the Church to begin to use his Church posi...

[Minutes of the Seventies] My dear President [Heber J.] Grant: ... you gave to the apparent incongruity of the First Council of the...

[Brigham Young] "some of the bishops don't know right from wrong, truth from error, nor a sheep from a jackass and men would g...

Wilford Woodruff records: "President Young while speaking of the Resurrection said that we should Receive the same Bodies that we lay...