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Mar 1, 1859

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March 01, 1859 ~ Tuesday

March 1^st 1859 This is my birth day I am 52 years
old this day I was born on the 1^st day of March 1807
thus I have lived over half a centaury I pray the
Lord to preserve me through ~~through~~ the present year & in
all time to come and enable me to be useful during the rem-
ainder of my days and fill me with wisdom & understa-
nding and preserve me from all presumptious sins and
unwrighteousness, that I may stand approved in the sight
of God & my Brethren which I ask in the name of Jesus Christ Amen

It is a warm plesant morning the sun shines bright &
warm upon about 1 foot of snow. Joseph Young called
into the office & we conversed upon the dedication of the
Temple & the dedication Prayer which Joseph Young offered
I spent most of the day looking up Fills [files] of Papers I met
with the committee in the evening on the Business of the
Provo Branch of the D.A. & M. society I was unwell in
the evening

Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society

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March 1st 1859 This is my birth day I am 52 years [FIGURE] old this day I was born on the 1st day of March 1807 thus I have lived over half a centaury I pray the Lord to preserve me through through the present year & in all time to come and enable me to be useful during the rem- ainder of my days and fill me with wisdom & understa- nding and preserve me from all presumptious sins and unwrighteousness, that I may stand approved in the sight of God & my Brethren which I ask in the name of Jesus Christ Amen

~ Wilford Woodruff

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