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Day in the Life

Mar 1, 1860

Journal Entry

March 01, 1860 ~ Thursday

[FIGURE] March 1st 1860 This is my Birth day I am 53 years old this day
I feell [feel] sensative when I look at these figures, truly how short is
life like a weavers shuttle it soon passes. Man should strive diligently
to make his life useful. He should speak the truth, live honestly,
practice virtue, and set an example generally worthy of imitation
and ever keep in mind that it will pay no man to defraud
his Neighbor, or break the Commandments of God.

I spent most of the day in the endowment House assisting in the
Endowments we gave Endowments to 24, 7 men 17 women H C K
Presided in the labor of the day President B Young attended to the
sealing I attended Orson Pratts lecture upon Natural History & Philosophy
treating upon the motion of Bodies which was quite interesting

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3301 mentions
Apostle, Family
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1402 mentions
Apostle
Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
1037 mentions
Apostle

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Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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1860
Church membership 61,000; population of Utah Territory 40,273, population of 33 United States 31,443,000.

Mar 1, 1860