Day in the Life

Jan 22, 1857

Journal Entry

January 22, 1857 ~ Thursday

22 I spent the day in the office looking over the exchanges [scraping]
& reading History President Young had an interview with Mr
Wm Garrish who said that at the time that Drummond made
out his papers vouching for the expenses of his courts for the Govt
to pay Marshall Haywood that at the same time Judge Drummond
wrote for the Government not to pay them. Judge Kinney
done all he could to get the pay made from Government but
He had $1000 paid him for his servieces. Mr Garrish had some
trouble with the Chief clerk at Washington the same man that
Thomas Williams had trouble with

I attended the ward Meeting at the 14th ward. J. V. Long J W Cumings
J. W Johnson Bishop Hoagland, W. Woodruff & Bishop Hunter
all spoke we had a good meeting. I told the people to live their religion
to sustain their Bishop to get the Holy Spirit I spoke against interfer-
eing with a mans family that a mans family was his throne
& kingdom & no man had a right to interfere with him that many
women would spin street yarn & go from House to House & try to
turn away women from their Husbands & stir up strife in family
we had a good meeting

People

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Hoagland, Abraham Lucas
24 Mar 1797 - 14 Feb 1872
86 mentions
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3440 mentions
Apostle, Family
277 mentions
61 mentions
Kinney, John Fitch
2 Apr 1816 - 16 Aug 1902
41 mentions
67 mentions
Heywood, Joseph Leland
1 Aug 1815 - 16 Oct 1910
74 mentions
9 mentions
Williams, Thomas Stephen
2 Jan 1827 - 18 Mar 1860
20 mentions
10 mentions
14 mentions

Places

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Historian's Office, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory
Washington, D.C., United States

Quotes

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I told the people to seek for happiness by doing the works of wrighteousness & not seek for happiness by doing evil for that was contrary to the principle of Salvation as taught by the Lord our God. I exhorted them to live their religion
~ 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 22, 1857