Wilford arrives in Boston to attend convention; nominate Joseph Smith for President of the United States.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
August 04, 1844 ~ Sunday
Sunday, 4th We all arived here almost exhausted
with fatigue, being 48 48 hours in the stage without
stoping ownly to take our meals & over a rough road
we stoped for the day and night at the America
House, washed up, changed our clothing & spent
most of the day abed trying to get some rest.
I walked out through the day evening in the town
to take a view of Galena, it is built in the side
of a mountain on the bank of the river a rough
place. I should judge about 3000 inhabitents the
buildings generally small some good houses. I
dreamed during the night of seeing Br Asahel
at farmington Ct at fathers house
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Woodruff, Aphek, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
580 mentions
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Woodruff, Asahel Hart, b. 1814
11 Apr 1814 - 18 Oct 1838
219 mentions
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Wilford attends Jeffersonian Democracy Convention in Boston to nominate Joseph Smith.
Work on the Nauvoo Temple resumes.
Wilford returns to Nauvoo with other members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
Meeting where majority of Church members sustain the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles as governing body of the Church.
Wilford accepts call to preside over the European Mission for one year.
Wilford and Phebe baptized in Mississippi River for deceased relatives.
