Day in the Life

Feb 23, 1882

Journal Entry

February 23, 1882 ~ Thursday

23rd I spent the day mostly in the office writing I attended the
council in the Evening and it was voted for the Legislature to get
a Joint Resolution passed to appoint a committee of both Houses
Keys crossed A crown to organize a State Government & ask for Admission into
the union Remarks were mad by Presidet Taylor & Erastus
Snow
He said we should claim of the Government Evry right
that the Constitution gave us and if the Nation rejected us
they must bear the Blame of it this was our duty as a matter
of History & to our children & to Posterity

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Snow, Erastus
9 Nov 1818 - 27 May 1888
691 mentions
Apostle
Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1944 mentions
Apostle

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

Feb 23, 1882