Today In Mormon History

[Heber J. Grant] [In Provo] The name of Bro [apostle] Moses Thatcher was omitted as a counselor to General Superintendent Woodruff. ...

[General Young] Brigham Young first realizes the saints are running on 'Mormon Standard Time' -- "Brethren should be as pr...

[Brigham Young] It has been reported the past week to new comers and news has been sent back that the Twelve command the people and are...

[Wilford Woodruff] .... found it [today] to be the most interesting, important & instructive day of my LIFE. For on this Glorious D...

About this time - Lucy Mack Smith: -At the time a certain young woman, who was living at David Whitmer's uttered a prophecy, which she...

At 4 P.M. he [Pres. Young] preached 120 minutes in my family hall. Said this was the best fort that had ever been built in this territory....

[Brigham Young] In his sermon, when speaking of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, he [Pres. Young] said: Do you know who those people were...

[William Clayton] Went and borrowed A[aron] Farr's ornaments and robe. Then rode with Dr. Richards about 3 miles on the prairie. Th...

[Patriarchal Blessing] Mary Newberry. (Given by Hyrum Smith.) "... Behold I seal upon your head the comforter the second comfo...

[Patriarchal Blessing] James Newberry. (Given by Hyrum Smith.) "... thou art a descendant of Nathan that Prophet, that with bo...

President Wilford Woodruff "spent the day in the office and talked over our Church Debts & how to settle them. F S Richards Just ...

The LDS church receives legal recognition in the Republic of Russia, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs a concert in the Bolshoi The...

[J. Reuben Clark] James Sharp left the following message: He travels throughout the state, meets numerous people, both Mormons and non-...

The First Presidency at their office this morning conversed on the subject of the terrible disaster with awful destruction of life and pro...

Thomas Clawson, brother of Apostle Rudger Clawson, writes: "Held our regular Block Teachers Meeting after the servide. Bro John Woodm...

[Apostle John Henry Smith] The Republican Committee met and adopted an address to the people. Myself, John M. Zane, and Geo. M. Cannon ...

"President Young told Daniel and O. Spencer that he dreamed, asleep or awake, that the Spirit said to him, tell Daniel to gather up w...

Joseph Smith writes to Thomas Sharp, editor of the WARSAW SIGNAL: "SIR-You will discontinue my paper-its contents are calculated to p...

Robert H. Hinckley, former assistant secretary of the U.S. commerce department, chair of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, and vice-pr...

Several apostles "are gravely concerned about the pressures being put on missionaries to baptize to fill a quota of baptisms. . . .Th...