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Day in the Life

Jan 20, 1877

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January 20, 1877 ~ Saturday

20. I spent the day writing and the Evening at President Youngs

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1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877

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Church membership reaches 115,065.

January 1, 1877

Wilford, , and dedicate portions of .

January 9, 1877

First baptism for the dead administered in font.

January 11, 1877

First proxy endowments administered in this dispensation in .

January 11, 1877

First proxy sealings and first sealings and endowments for the living in .

January 14, 1877

asks Wilford and others to write out the temple ceremonies.

January 16, 1877

Wilford administers second anointing to the first couple in the .

February 7, 1877

Wilford administers second anointing by proxy for the first time in the .

February 23, 1877

Wilford receives revelation authorizing proxy ordinances for his family by non-relatives.

In honor of Wilford's 70th birthday, 154 women serve as proxies in ordinances for his deceased female relatives.

inaugurated as 19th President of 38 United States.

Wilford sealed to by her father .

Jan 20, 1877