Day in the Life

Nov 4, 1856

Journal Entry

November 04, 1856 ~ Tuesday

4th President J. M. Grant F. D. Richards met with me at the
Historians office & we assigned the Missionaries their various fields of
of Labour through this city

At 2 oclok President B. Young called into the office Dimmock Huntington
called into the office with Pintets & anothe Indian. President Young question
Him with regard to some accusations made By Dr Hurt against some men
in Filmore. President Young said that Dr Hurt had laboured Hard to
find fault against this people in order to have sumthing to write to washington
A Young man came in by the name of George W. Hughs who had
came from the Army & been baptized offered himself as a missionary
to teach the young people. President Grant gave him good council
& he went his way. The Presidency, The Twelve, the seventies
the High Priests, the Bishops with their Council all met in
the social Hall & President Brigham weighedYoung ^weighed^ the whole of
Keys crossed them in the scales of the Celestial Law of God & there were
but vary few that weighed clear in evry point President
Young taught the people good doctrin & in a fatherly spirit
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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3440 mentions
Apostle, Family
Huntington, Dimick Baker
26 May 1808 - 1 Feb 1879
30 mentions
Richards, Franklin Dewey
2 Apr 1821 - 9 Dec 1899
816 mentions
Apostle
Hurt, Garland
abt. 1820-1903
15 mentions
1 mention
Grant, Jedediah Morgan
25 Feb 1816 - 1 Dec 1856
280 mentions
Apostle, Zion's Camp
2 mentions
Native American

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6th Presidents Kimball & J M Grant called into the Historians office & conversed upon principle Brother Kimball said that any man that was faithful in the priesthood would have all the blessings He could imagin or think in his heart and when Father Joseph Smith was on his dying bed I asked him to bless me so it might be written as he had blessed me several times & it was not written but Father Smith told me to write down every thing that I could think of in my heart or imagin & he would sign it & it should come to pass but He said a man must keep the Commandments of God
~ President Kimball

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Letter to Orson Pratt, 4 November 1856
Dear Brother O. Pratt Although it is the 4th of November the Eastern mail has not arrived, and thinking the California mail would be safer than the Eastern, under McGraw and Co. we write you by it. On the 4th ult. Elders Franklin D. Richards, Joseph A. Young, William H. Kimball, George D. Grant, Daniel Spencer, John Van Cott, James Ferguson, C. H. Wheelock, N. H. Felt, William C. Dunbar, James McGaw, J. D. T. McAllister, and C. G. Webb, arrived all in good health. The October Conference was numerously attended, it is estimated that at least 12 thousand persons assembled in the Bowery, and were addressed by most of the returned missionaries, with much spirit and energy. Capt Croft's company from the Cherokee nation arrived on the 11th ult: On the 13th ult. The First Presidency with a small company started East to meet the emigration, but while on East Kanyon Creek Prest. Young was taken so severly ill that the company was obliged to return. On the 25th ult. The Rev C. R. Van Emmons, a missionary from the Bible Society arrived with about a Ton and a half of Bibles for sale and distribution At 9 A. M. on the 31st Brothers Gideon D. Gibbs and Horace Newell arrived with an express from Bro Willie's company
Autobiography Volume 3 circa 1865-1866
On the the Presidency the Twelve the Seventies the High Priests and the Bishops with their councils all met at the Social Hall and President Young weighed the whole of them in the scales of the celestial law of God and there were but very few that weighed clear in every point. President Young taught the people good doctrine and in a fatherly spirit. The Presidency and Twelve and others met in council

Events

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October 2, 1856
First baptisms administered in baptismal font; members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles rebaptized (4th rebaptism for Wilford).
December 30, 1856
Members of Territorial Legislature rebaptized (Wilford for the fifth time).
1857
Church membership is 55,236.

Nov 4, 1856