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Day in the Life

Dec 2, 1858

Journal Entry

December 02, 1858 ~ Thursday

2nd we had a cold night & we have a cold morning and
it remained extremely could through the day I spent the day
through in the office Journalizing & scraping I spent the evening
with President Young & the regency in reading the first Book
in the Deseret Alphabet {alphabet} Thare were present B.
Young D. H. Wells O. Hyde W. Woodruff G. A. Smith E. T. Benson
F. D. Richards Samuel Richards Hosea Stout G. D. Watt R L.
Campbell Wm Willis, & Brother Schonefeld we were dismissed
at 10 oclok

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3299 mentions
Apostle, Family
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
773 mentions
Apostle
Schoenfeld, Edward
8 Mar 1832 - 29 Sep 1914
4 mentions
Benson, Ezra Taft
22 Feb 1811 - 3 Sep 1869
366 mentions
Apostle
Richards, Franklin Dewey
2 Apr 1821 - 9 Dec 1899
782 mentions
Apostle
Smith, George Albert
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
1376 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Watt, George Darling
18 May 1812 - 24 Oct 1881
119 mentions
Stout, Hosea
18 Sep 1810 - 2 Mar 1889
48 mentions
Hyde, Orson
8 Jan 1805 - 28 Nov 1878
669 mentions
Apostle
Campbell, Robert Lang
21 Jan 1825 - 11 Apr 1874
107 mentions
Missionary
Richards, Samuel Whitney
9 Aug 1824 - 26 Nov 1909
104 mentions
12 mentions

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Historian's Office, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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December 1858
Wilford serves ninth term as member of Territorial Legislature.

Dec 2, 1858