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Day in the Life

Dec 26, 1856

Journal Entry

December 26, 1856 ~ Friday

256 A snow storm. It is a cold stormy snowey winter I met in the
Council Chamber & adjourned till monday I called upon President
Young in company with Lorenzo Snow & F. D. Richards we laid before
him several cases of Crime Before him He told us what to do, we all
took a sleigh ride up into City Creek Canyon for some 3 miles & back
we then met in council in the Historian Office a short time. I met
in Council with O. Hyde L. Snow & F D. Richards till 10 oclok. O Hyde told
his travel over the mountains last winter & how near he came freezing
to death

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3301 mentions
Apostle, Family
Richards, Franklin Dewey
2 Apr 1821 - 9 Dec 1899
784 mentions
Apostle
Snow, Lorenzo
3 Apr 1814 - 10 Oct 1901
655 mentions
Apostle, Family
Hyde, Orson
8 Jan 1805 - 28 Nov 1878
670 mentions
Apostle

Events

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December 30, 1856
Members of Territorial Legislature rebaptized (Wilford for the fifth time).
1857
Church membership is 55,236.

Dec 26, 1856