Ulysses S. Grant inaugurated as 18th President of 37 United States.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
April 22, 1869 ~ Thursday
22
I wrote 2 letters to Phebe & I F Carter. It was snowing
Hard & we concluded to stay through the day & hold a meeting
we met at one oclok. President Joseph Young spoke at 61 M[inutes]
George Dunford 25 Minutes G Q Cannon spoke 40 Minutes
we met in the school House in the school of the Prophets
W Woodruff Prayed. President B Young spoke 40 Minutes
H. S. Eldridge spoke 12, then President Young spoke a few Minutes
on the course we should persue in our diet stop eating pork,
use milk eggs fowles & fish. D. H. Wells spoke 15 Minutes
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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3441 mentions
Apostle, Family
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
799 mentions
Apostle
Dunford, George
1822-1891
16 mentions
Cannon, George Quayle
11 Jan 1827 - 12 Apr 1901
2257 mentions
Apostle
Eldredge, Horace Sunderlin
6 Feb 1816 - 6 Sep 1888
142 mentions
Carter, Ilus Fabyan
8 Nov 1816 - 11 Dec 1888
409 mentions
Family
Young, Joseph
7 Apr 1797 - 16 Jul 1881
311 mentions
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1582 mentions
Family
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Transcontinental Railroad completed at Promontory Point, Utah, effectively ending the Church's isolation in Utah.