Day in the Life

Nov 7, 1858

Journal Entry

November 07, 1858 ~ Sunday

7th Sunday I met with my Prayer Circle at 10 oclok
Bishop Hoagland Prayed & J. C. Little was mouth

I called upon President Young & spent most of the day
in his office with him & H. C. Kimball & D. H. Wells G. A. Smith
reading papers which come by the Eastern mail which arived
on saturday the 6th there was but little News except the
Atlantic cable telegraph has sceased to work & 22 more persons


were picked up from the Austria making 90 saved & 510 lost the
yellow fever has raged at an alarming rate over 500 death
daily in New Orleans alone from that desease. An opposit-
ion paper is being published in this city by Kirk Anderson
it is called Kirk Andersons valley Tann The first peace
strikes out against valley poliygamy in strong terms. there
are seting at liberty a thousand or more teamsters at Col
Johnsons camp which are filling our cities & towns
with rowdyism & crime to get up a fuss with the Saints
I met at 6 oclok with the Twelve in the prayer circle at
the Historians Closset Erastus Snow was mPrayed John Taylor
was mouth. I spent the evening with President Young &
D. H. Wells & E. T. Benson & G. A. Smith at the presidents
office
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People

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Hoagland, Abraham Lucas
24 Mar 1797 - 14 Feb 1872
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3435 mentions
Apostle, Family
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
800 mentions
Apostle
Snow, Erastus
9 Nov 1818 - 27 May 1888
695 mentions
Apostle
Benson, Ezra Taft
22 Feb 1811 - 3 Sep 1869
378 mentions
Apostle
Smith, George Albert
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
1433 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1456 mentions
Apostle
Little, Jesse Carter
26 Sep 1815 - 26 Dec 1893
Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1954 mentions
Apostle

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Wilford serves ninth term as member of Territorial Legislature.

Nov 7, 1858