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Day in the Life

Feb 2, 1882

Journal Entry

February 02, 1882 ~ Thursday

2 [FIGURES] I met in council this Morning with the Presidency
Twelve & others to take into consideration the importance of
appointeing committees to get up a collection of facts concerning
our condition and affairs in Utah Territory & Present the
same to Congress to rebut the lies that are flooding Congress
against us both by speeches of Priest's & Editors A committee
was appointed & sub committees to thake this matter in hand
I am still quite poorly with a severe cold upon my lungs
I saw my Brother Azmon Woodruff wife on board of the
cars for Ogden, & North Ogden to Bring Betsey Alvord
down to Salt Lake to spend her last days with her relatives
I furnished Elizabeth with $6 to pay the Expenses

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Woodruff, Azmon, b. 1802
29 Nov 1802 - 14 Jan 1889
350 mentions
Family
Alvord, Betsey Cossett
19 Jan 1806 - 5 Feb 1884
100 mentions
Family
30 mentions
Family

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Ogden, Weber County, Utah Territory
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory
Utah Territory

Events

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March 24, 1882
First Presidency counsels men to live with "only one wife under the same roof."
April 1882
Sixth Constitutional Convention for Utah held; Congress rejects petition for statehood on February 23, 1883.

Feb 2, 1882