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Day in the Life

Dec 18, 1858

Journal Entry

December 18, 1858 ~ Saturday

18th Saturday we rode into Filmore took Breakfast at Broth
Hoyts we then met at the State House Organized the
Legislature with its officers in separate Houses we then
met in Joint Assembly Received the Governors Message through
the Secretary had it read through ^by^ the clerk dissolved the
Joint Assembly, met in separate Houses, excused Absent
members. Passed a Resolution adjourning the Legislature
to the Social Hall in Great Salt Lake City at 10 oclok on
Monday the 27 of Dec we then returned to Brother Hoyts
took Dinner then I met with Lorenzo Snow F. D. Richards

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69 mentions
Richards, Franklin Dewey
2 Apr 1821 - 9 Dec 1899
782 mentions
Apostle
Snow, Lorenzo
3 Apr 1814 - 10 Oct 1901
653 mentions
Apostle, Family
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I told the people to get the spirit of God & follow its dictates & to remember daily their prayers & to pray for the Presidency & all the Authorities of the Church & to pray for the President of the United States & for all men in Author- ity as the spirit of God shall dictate.
~ Wilford Woodruff

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

Dec 18, 1858