Day in the Life

Dec 28, 1858

Journal Entry

December 28, 1858 ~ Tuesday

28th I attended the Legislature Kirk Anderson sent a
copy of the valley tan to each member &of the council
& we found it lying on our desks it was moved & carried
that they all be gathered up & returned to the secretary
W Woodruff & B F Johnson was Appointed said committee
At the adjournment of the council we called upon
the secretary the Govornor was present I informed
the secretary that we had come as a committee to wait
upon him to say that we had found the valley tan on our
desk & we now returned them to the secretary not out of
any disrespect ofto the secretary of the message but considering
that the Editor of the Valley Tan had taken an ungentle-
manly course which was calculated to stir up strife bet[we]en
the people & the Government Hence we did not wish to tak
it. Mr Hartnet said He had not any thing to do with it
it was kirk Andersons doings about this time Anderson


came in cursing & swareing said that He had heard the
dambedst tirade of abuse against him in the House & he would
be dambed if he did not have the Hide of some of them. several
in the House spoke vary plain upon the subject such as Clawson
Cummings & O Hyde which kirk Anderson herd Mr Hartnet
went with us to the Social Hall on the way we met H B Clawson
& others as a committee from the House going to return their
papers to the secretary I informed him Mr Hartnet said
He had Nothing to do with it they were then returned
to Kirk Anderson. I called upon the President a short time
I spent the evening at Brother Churches with A O Smoot
S M Blair & Joseph Horm & Townsend & their wives

People

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Smoot, Abraham Owen
17 Feb 1815 - 6 Mar 1895
583 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
74 mentions
Johnson, Benjamin Franklin
28 Jul 1818 - 18 Nov 1905
32 mentions
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3438 mentions
Apostle, Family
Clawson, Hiram Bradley
7 Nov 1826 - 29 Mar 1912
130 mentions
Townsend, James Foss
20 Feb 1808 - 2 Apr 1886
91 mentions
16 mentions
Horne, Joseph
17 Jan 1812 - 27 Apr 1897
49 mentions
5 mentions
Hyde, Orson
8 Jan 1805 - 28 Nov 1878
693 mentions
Apostle
Blair, Seth Millington
13 Mar 1819 - 17 Mar 1875
70 mentions

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Social Hall, 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 28, 1858