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Day in the Life

Feb 27, 1850

Journal Entry

February 27, 1850 ~ Wednesday

[FIGURE]
27th I went into Boston with Brothers Heywood & woolley & see them
pick out their goods their hard ware was at Charles Scuddar
&c 33 & 35 Granite Block pearl street Boston, & crockery at
Mellen & Co No 16, 18, 20 Merchants Row, Boston I spent the rest of
the day in writing I wrote 3 Letters to J. G. Hardy M Pevey
[FIGURE] & Lewis

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Woolley, Edwin Dilworth
28 Jun 1807 - 14 Oct 1881
113 mentions
Missionary
Heywood, Joseph Leland
1 Aug 1815 - 16 Oct 1910
71 mentions
45 mentions
13 mentions
4 mentions

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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

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And they are full of Alarm concerning the doings of Congress it has become A hotbed of political warfare and most all parties are looking for the exploding of the union the war spirit is increasing in the hearts of the people And deep judgment awaits the people nation, the hearts of men are failing them for fear of those things that are coming on the Earth, the Lord has said that in his fury he would vex the Nation And He is about to fulfill it.
~ Wilford Woodruff
I felt the spirit of God like fire shut up [in] my bones as I spoke upon the things of the kingdom of God
~ Wilford Woodruff

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1850
Church membership 51,839; population of Utah Territory 11,380; population of United States 23,192,000.

Feb 27, 1850