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Day in the Life

Apr 8, 1882

Journal Entry

April 08, 1882 ~ Saturday

Aprail 8. Conference Met at 10 oclok Prayer By D H Wells
Franklin D Richards spoke 62 M[inutes], G Teasdale 21 M[inutes]

Afternoon A M Cannon Prayed Moses Thatcher spoke
one hour & 23 M[inutes]. [FIGURE] At noon I met with 8 of the Quorum
of the Twelve & councoillors D H Wells & Joseph F Smith to take
into consideration the filling of the Quorum of the Twelve At the
first vote the following Persons Received the following number
of votes G Teasdale 2, Wm W Cluff 1, C W Penrose 2
A. M. Cannon 2 Junius F Wells 2 L John Nuttall 1,
D H Wells 5, Jesse N Smith 5. Total 20 At the close
of the Meeting in the Afternoon Meeting we Met at President


Taylors office and Presented to him what we had done but
He prefered to Put it off untill G. Q. Cannon came home
and we voted to do so we Met the Priesthood in the Evening &
the financial report of the Church was read to them & speeches made

People

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Cannon, Angus Munn
17 May 1834 - 7 Jun 1915
185 mentions
Penrose, Charles William
4 Feb 1832 - 16 May 1925
160 mentions
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
773 mentions
Apostle
Richards, Franklin Dewey
2 Apr 1821 - 9 Dec 1899
784 mentions
Apostle
1966 mentions
Apostle
Teasdale, George
8 Dec 1831 - 9 Jul 1907
502 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Smith, Jesse Nathaniel
2 Dec 1834 - 5 Jun 1906
139 mentions
Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1836 mentions
Apostle
Smith, Joseph Fielding
13 Nov 1838 - 19 Nov 1918
3567 mentions
Apostle
Wells, Junius Free
1 Jun 1854 - 15 Apr 1930
84 mentions
Nuttall, Leonard John
6 Jul 1834 - 23 Feb 1905
397 mentions
370 mentions
Apostle
Cluff, William Wallace
8 Mar 1832 - 21 Aug 1915
62 mentions
Missionary

Places

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President's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, 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.

Apr 8, 1882