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Sep 8, 1843

Journal Entry

September 08, 1843 ~ Friday

8th I left the Saints at Westfield & took the
rail cares & rode to Boston in the second class
fare was $2.30 arived at Boston at 7 oclok
Distance to Boston 120 miles

On my arival to the city I found Elder G. A
Smith
& another Br waiting for me at the railroad
we carried our trunks to a Brothers & went to
meeting at Boylston Hall Cornor of Boylston
& washington streets here I had the privile [a]gain
of meeting again with some of the Twelve viz
H C Kimball J. E. Page, O. Pratt, & G. A. Smith.

Elder J E Page Addressed the meeting. I
spent the night with Elder Kimball He read
me a letter from his wife which was interesting
may the Lord Bless Joseph give him a victory over
his enemies & support him in evry trial & prepare
the Saints for that which is to come I pray

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Smith, George Albert
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
1380 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1402 mentions
Apostle
112 mentions
Apostle
Smith, Joseph (Jr.)
23 Dec 1805 - 27 Jun 1844
2227 mentions
Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
1037 mentions
Apostle
Kimball, Vilate Murray
1 Jun 1806 - 22 Oct 1867
50 mentions

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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 1
on the arrived at the city of Boston where I found Elder George A Smith and another brother waiting for me at the station. Conference held by The Quorum of the Twelve at at Boston in Boylston Hall Sep. 9th, 1843. There were present of the quorum of the Twelve Brigham Young Heber C. Kimball Parley P. Pratt Orson Pratt John E. Page Willford Woodruff and George A. Smith Elder G. A. Smith opened the Conference by prayer and then President Young called for the business of the meeting after which the churches were represented During this conference there were discourses delivered by all the members of the quorum of the Twelve present their subjects being chiefly upon the gathering building the Temple and kindred matters. It would be too lengthy to give the synopsis of the whole of them as recorded in my daily Journal of the time. The substance of several must suffice.

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Sep 8, 1843