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Day in the Life

Jul 24, 1856

Journal Entry

July 24, 1856 ~ Thursday

23 & 24 Presidents Young Kimball & Grant & a large company
of saints went to the Lake in big Cotton wood canyon to Celebrate the
24th of July the account is published in the Deseret News of July 30th
I was lame with the Rheumatism my men are getting up my Hay

People

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3301 mentions
Apostle, Family
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1402 mentions
Apostle
Grant, Jedediah Morgan
25 Feb 1816 - 1 Dec 1856
271 mentions
Apostle

Places

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Big Cottonwood Canyon, Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 3
On the and of July Presidents Young Kimball and Grant and a large company of Saints went to the Lake in Big Cottonwood Kanyon to celebrate the Twenty Fourth of July in commemoration

Events

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Sep 1856 - April 1857
Church-wide reformation includes rebaptizing, restructuring and recommitment to principles and covenants. First "home missionaries" introduced (precursor to ministering program).

Jul 24, 1856