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Day in the Life

Jan 10, 1857

Journal Entry

January 10, 1857 ~ Saturday

10th I spent the fore part of the day in the office. I started in company
with my family & John Pack & A. O. Smoot to Union Fort we
arived in the fort about 5 oclok & held a meeting in the evening it
was exceding cold several of us spoke we spent the night at
Bishop Richards 12 miles

People

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Smoot, Abraham Owen
17 Feb 1815 - 6 Mar 1895
555 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
Pack, John
20 May 1809 - 4 Apr 1885
31 mentions
Richards, Silas
18 Dec 1807 - 17 Mar 1884
14 mentions

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I spoke of the organ- ization of the Church & the Patriarchal order of the Church & the Blessings given us & exhorted the people to prize the blessings which God had put into their hands & not to treat lightly the Holy things of God.
~ Wilford Woodruff

Events

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

Jan 10, 1857