Church-wide reformation includes rebaptizing, restructuring and recommitment to principles and covenants. First "home missionaries" introduced (precursor to ministering program).
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
August 15, 1856 ~ Friday
15th President Young rode up City Creek Canyon in the morning
spent the day in the office reading History. I read an Article in the [working]
Farmer concerning the cultivation of the Black bury [blackberry] esspecially
the Lawton black bury the best in the known world they measure
3 or 4 inches in circumference & more than 600 burries have been
raised on the latarels of a single stem. Can we not get someone
in the states to send us some of the roots or seeds this berry was
named after Mr Lawton by the American Institute of New
York as he was the man who first found it by the rode side or in
his field whare it originated no one knows. we had a vary
hard shower of rain & hail in the afternoon. Presidents Young &
Kimball came in & we red History to them & D. H. Wells Mrs Woodruff
& phebe & Susan spent the night in the harvest field or about it
also Father Woodruff they got thoroughly soaked with rain
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Woodruff, Aphek, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
580 mentions
Family
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3438 mentions
Apostle, Family
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
800 mentions
Apostle
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1456 mentions
Apostle
Snow, Phebe Amelia Woodruff
4 Mar 1842 - 15 Feb 1919
341 mentions
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Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1581 mentions
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Scholes, Susan Cornelia Woodruff
25 Jul 1843 - 6 Oct 1897
360 mentions
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6 mentions
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Wilford helps dedicate baptismal font beside unfinished Salt Lake City Temple in Salt Lake City.
First baptisms administered in baptismal font; members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles rebaptized (4th rebaptism for Wilford).