Today in Mormon History - Nov 15

Oliver Cowdery and John Whitmer leave Kirtland, Ohio, for Independence, Missouri, to publish the Book of Commandments, which contains Joseph Smith's revelations. Because of mob action, however, the volume is never completed. (1)
-- 180 years ago today - Nov 15, 1831

[Heber J. Grant Diary] At 5 P.M. called at Wells' & Emily & I took a ride for nearly 2 hours. While riding talked on old times the Wasatch crowd etc. I asked Emily to marry me and got a most decided refusal. I must confess it hurt my pride as well as my feelings to get "set down on" the way I was, but I should have contented myself by not asking. (2)
-- 130 years ago today - Nov 15, 1881

[Nauvoo Temple] The Twelve wrote in an epistle to the Church that the Temple's foundation was laid and the walls of the basement were nearly completed. (3)
-- 170 years ago today - Nov 15, 1841

1 - The Woodland Institute 'On This Day Historical Database,' http://www.woodlandinstitute.com
2 - Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
3 - Brown, Lisle (compiler), Chronology of the Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction of the Nauvoo Temple

170 years ago today - Nov 15, 1841

[Nauvoo Temple] The Twelve wrote in an epistle to the Church that the Temple's foundation was laid and the walls of the basement were nearly completed.

[Source: Brown, Lisle (compiler), Chronology of the Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction of the Nauvoo Temple]

130 years ago today - Nov 15, 1881

[Heber J. Grant Diary] At 5 P.M. called at Wells' & Emily & I took a ride for nearly 2 hours. While riding talked on old times the Wasatch crowd etc. I asked Emily to marry me and got a most decided refusal. I must confess it hurt my pride as well as my feelings to get "set down on" the way I was, but I should have contented myself by not asking.

[Source: Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

180 years ago today - Nov 15, 1831

[General] Oliver Cowdery and John Whitmer leave Kirtland, Ohio, for Independence, Missouri, to publish the Book of Commandments, which contains Joseph Smith's revelations. Because of mob action, however, the volume is never completed.

[Source: The Woodland Institute 'On This Day Historical Database,' http://www.woodlandinstitute.com]

Today in Mormon History - Nov 14

[Oliver Cowdery] Elizabeth Ann Cowdery was born to Oliver and Elizabeth Cowdery in Kirtland, Lake, OH. She died May 09, 1837 in Kirtland. (1)
-- 175 years ago today - Nov 14, 1836

[Apostle Anthon H. Lund Diary] [Conference at Moroni] "We had a nice time with Pres[iden]t Smith after meeting discussing temple matters especially the law of adoption." (2)
-- 120 years ago today - Nov 14, 1891

A collection of Shaker revelations includes "I will anoint them priests and kings"... "The children of the Church of Christ are ... the children of the New Jerusalem, and they are numbered, and their names are written in the Book of Life." ... "I was an angel of Wisdom's delight long ere this earth was formed, or dust was fashioned into man. Many worlds before this I have seen; some bright, and some dark, and some that were empty and void ..." [The Youth's Guide in Zion, and Holy Mother's Promises] (3)
-- 170 years ago today - Nov 14, 1841

1 - Broadhurst, Dale R., Oliver Cowdery Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/Cdychrn1.htm
2 - Diary of Apostle Anthon H. Lund, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
3 - Grunder, Rick, Mormon Parallels: A Bibliographic Source

170 years ago today - Nov 14, 1841

[General] A collection of Shaker revelations includes "I will anoint them priests and kings"... "The children of the Church of Christ are ... the children of the New Jerusalem, and they are numbered, and their names are written in the Book of Life." ... "I was an angel of Wisdom's delight long ere this earth was formed, or dust was fashioned into man. Many worlds before this I have seen; some bright, and some dark, and some that were empty and void ..." [The Youth's Guide in Zion, and Holy Mother's Promises]

[Source: Grunder, Rick, Mormon Parallels: A Bibliographic Source]

120 years ago today - Nov 14, 1891

[Apostle Anthon H. Lund Diary] [Conference at Moroni] "We had a nice time with Pres[iden]t Smith after meeting discussing temple matters especially the law of adoption."

[Source: Diary of Apostle Anthon H. Lund, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

175 years ago today - Nov 14, 1836

[Oliver Cowdery] Elizabeth Ann Cowdery was born to Oliver and Elizabeth Cowdery in Kirtland, Lake, OH. She died May 09, 1837 in Kirtland.

[Source: Broadhurst, Dale R., Oliver Cowdery Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/Cdychrn1.htm]

Today in Mormon History - Nov 13

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] Nov 13 I spent the day in the office looking over scraps. (1)
-- 150 years ago today - Nov 13, 1861

[Wilford Woodruff] Called to write script of temple endowment ceremony (2)
-- 135 years ago today - Nov 13, 1876

The U.S. Air Force promotes Sharla "Kris" Cook, a BYU graduate and native of Utah, to the rank of brigadier general. (3)
-- 15 years ago today - Nov 13, 1996

1 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
2 - Kenny, Scott (editor), Wilford Woodruff's Journals 1833-1898, Chronology Signature Books, Midvale, Utah, http://bit.ly/wwjournal
3 - The Woodland Institute 'On This Day Historical Database,' http://www.woodlandinstitute.com

15 years ago today - Nov 13, 1996

[General] The U.S. Air Force promotes Sharla "Kris" Cook, a BYU graduate and native of Utah, to the rank of brigadier general.

[Source: The Woodland Institute 'On This Day Historical Database,' http://www.woodlandinstitute.com]

135 years ago today - Nov 13, 1876

[Wilford Woodruff] Called to write script of temple endowment ceremony

[Source: Kenny, Scott (editor), Wilford Woodruff's Journals 1833-1898, Chronology Signature Books, Midvale, Utah, http://bit.ly/wwjournal]

150 years ago today - Nov 13, 1861

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] Nov 13 I spent the day in the office looking over scraps.

[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Today in Mormon History - Nov 12

Charles Coulson Rich: Laid claim to eighty acres of land in Caldwell County, Missouri, 12 November 1836. (1)
-- 175 years ago today - Nov 12, 1836

[D and C] Doctrine and Covenants 70: Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, November 12, 1831. HC 1: 235-237. The history written by the Prophet states that four special conferences were held from the 1st to the 12th of November, inclusive. In the last of these assemblies the great importance of the Book of Commandments, later called the Doctrine and Covenants, was considered; and the Prophet refers to it as being -"the foundation of the Church in these last days, and a benefit to the world, showing that the keys of the mysteries of the kingdom of our Savior are again entrusted to man.-"

1-5, Stewards are appointed to publish the revelations; 6-13, Those who labor in spiritual things are worthy of their hire; 14-18, The saints should be equal in temporal things. (2)
-- 180 years ago today - Nov 12, 1831

Woodruff has it both ways

President Woodruff publicly declares that violating the Manifesto by living with polygamous was not allowed, and would result in excommunication. Privately, he tells the Quorum that any man who abandons his plural wives will be dismissed from the church. (3)
-- 120 years ago today - Nov 12, 1891

1 - Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith
2 - Doctrine and Covenants, http://amzn.to/DoctrineandCovenants
3 - Tungate, Mel, Mormon Polygamy, http://www.tungate.com/polygamy.htm

120 years ago today - Nov 12, 1891

[Polygamy] Woodruff has it both ways

President Woodruff publicly declares that violating the Manifesto by living with polygamous was not allowed, and would result in excommunication. Privately, he tells the Quorum that any man who abandons his plural wives will be dismissed from the church.

[Source: Tungate, Mel, Mormon Polygamy, http://www.tungate.com/polygamy.htm]

180 years ago today - Nov 12, 1831

[D and C] Doctrine and Covenants 70: Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, November 12, 1831. HC 1: 235-237. The history written by the Prophet states that four special conferences were held from the 1st to the 12th of November, inclusive. In the last of these assemblies the great importance of the Book of Commandments, later called the Doctrine and Covenants, was considered; and the Prophet refers to it as being -"the foundation of the Church in these last days, and a benefit to the world, showing that the keys of the mysteries of the kingdom of our Savior are again entrusted to man.-"

1-5, Stewards are appointed to publish the revelations; 6-13, Those who labor in spiritual things are worthy of their hire; 14-18, The saints should be equal in temporal things.

[Source: Doctrine and Covenants, http://amzn.to/DoctrineandCovenants]

175 years ago today - Nov 12, 1836

Charles Coulson Rich: Laid claim to eighty acres of land in Caldwell County, Missouri, 12 November 1836.

[Source: Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith]

Today in Mormon History - Nov 11

[Apostle George Albert Smith Journal] (Neuritis) (1)
-- 100 years ago today - Nov 11, 1911

President Joseph F. Smith desires me to draw your attention to the rules governing the recommendations of persons desiring to receive their endowments [in the Endowment House]. Only faithful couples about to be married (or any other marriages,) or couples still bearing children, should receive recommends, with the exception of very aged persons, whose age and infirmities make desirable a departure from the strict observance of the above rule, and then, it should be stated on the recommend, that age or ill health is the reason why it is given. All others will have to wait for their blessings until one of the temples, now in the course of construction, is finished and work commenced therein, or they must go down to the temple at St. George. [George Reynolds to Amos Maycock, Nov. 11, 1881] (2)
-- 130 years ago today - Nov 11, 1881

[Joseph Smith] Revelation is received directing the church to organize presidencies over each quorum in the priesthood . (3)
-- 180 years ago today - Nov 11, 1831

1 - Journals of George Albert Smith
2 - Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship
3 - Wikipedia, Joseph Smith Chronology, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Joseph_Smith,_Jr.

180 years ago today - Nov 11, 1831

[Joseph Smith] Revelation is received directing the church to organize presidencies over each quorum in the priesthood .

[Source: Wikipedia, Joseph Smith Chronology, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Joseph_Smith,_Jr.]

130 years ago today - Nov 11, 1881

[Temple] President Joseph F. Smith desires me to draw your attention to the rules governing the recommendations of persons desiring to receive their endowments [in the Endowment House]. Only faithful couples about to be married (or any other marriages,) or couples still bearing children, should receive recommends, with the exception of very aged persons, whose age and infirmities make desirable a departure from the strict observance of the above rule, and then, it should be stated on the recommend, that age or ill health is the reason why it is given. All others will have to wait for their blessings until one of the temples, now in the course of construction, is finished and work commenced therein, or they must go down to the temple at St. George. [George Reynolds to Amos Maycock, Nov. 11, 1881]

[Source: Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]

100 years ago today - Nov 11, 1911

[Apostle George Albert Smith Journal] (Neuritis)

[Source: Journals of George Albert Smith]