Day in the Life

Aug 12, 1887

Journal Entry

August 12, 1887 ~ Friday

12 Keys crossed A crown We Met in council 11 Apostles The subject of
a state Government was Discussed W Woodruff G Q Cannon
& Joseph F Smith was appointed a committee to dictate
a certain Branch of it The subject was discussed
at Length


The following Motion was made by Moses Thatcher
and voted by the whole council to Appropriate
Annually in cash the following sums to the following
Persons Wilford Woodruff as President $5000, L Snow $3000
Erastus Snow $3000 F. D. Richards $3000, G. Q. Cannon
$3000, B. Young $3000, Joseph F Smith $3000,
D. H. Wells $3000, M Thatcher $2000, G Teasdale
$2000, F M Lyman $2000 John Henry Smith $2000
John W Taylor $2000 we discussed the propriety of
Baptizing Albert Carrington But the council did not
consider it wisdom it was so decided I signed 35
recommends I received Letters from Jaques Clara Merrill
A hand pointing to the right A folded letter/box and Sarah I wrote Letters to Atkin Sarah & Emma
I spent the night at the office

People

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Carrington, Albert
8 Jan 1813 - 19 Sep 1889
232 mentions
Apostle
Young, Brigham (Jr.)
18 Dec 1836 - 11 Apr 1903
583 mentions
Apostle
Beebe, Clara Martisha Woodruff
23 Jul 1868 - 29 Dec 1927
418 mentions
Family
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
800 mentions
Apostle
Woodruff, Emma Smith
1 Mar 1838 - 6 Mar 1912
1031 mentions
Family
Snow, Erastus
9 Nov 1818 - 27 May 1888
698 mentions
Apostle
Lyman, Francis Marion
12 Jan 1840 - 16 Nov 1916
277 mentions
Apostle
Richards, Franklin Dewey
2 Apr 1821 - 9 Dec 1899
816 mentions
Apostle
Cannon, George Quayle
11 Jan 1827 - 12 Apr 1901
2259 mentions
Apostle
Teasdale, George
8 Dec 1831 - 9 Jun 1907
708 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Smith, John Henry
18 Sep 1848 - 13 Oct 1911
297 mentions
Apostle
Jaques, John
7 Jan 1827 - 1 Jun 1900
449 mentions
Taylor, John Whittaker
15 May 1858 - 10 Oct 1916
157 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Smith, Joseph Fielding
13 Nov 1838 - 19 Nov 1918
4129 mentions
Apostle
Snow, Lorenzo
3 Apr 1814 - 10 Oct 1901
699 mentions
Apostle, Family
Merrill, Marriner Wood
25 Sep 1832 - 6 Feb 1906
162 mentions
Apostle
441 mentions
Apostle
Woodruff, Sarah Brown
1 Jan 1834 - 9 May 1909
707 mentions
Family
175 mentions

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President's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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Letter from Marriner Wood Merrill, 12 August 1887

Prest Wilford Woodruff Dear Brother Nearely one year ago, our records were removed from the Temple, Hence we are over one year behind in the Recording. would you deem it advisable to bring aney portion of those Records back and go on with the recording work. you are aware that we file certificates for the Living Sealings with the county clerk. your councel in this matter will be strictly adhered to hope you are well and ^will^ be preserved from the enemey. your Bro & Colaborer in Zions Cause M. W. Merrill

Letter from Anthony Maitland Stenhouse, 12 August 1887

Dear Messieurs Presidents If any ignorance has failed on this occasion to address you correctly I am not the less persuaded of the spiritual supremacy of the Church whose counsels the Lord in his wisdom hath appointed you to direct. My soul is now in travail. Anxious as I am to enter the fold I confess I have little desire to confront the sensation or the remonstrances that such a step is certain to produce on account of my public position here and my antecedents at home. My desire in short is to be safe amongst you before the storm bursts. The time for martyrdom is when our work is done and when our sufferings can no longer impair the energies required for active duty. I write therefore to propose, if your kindness can so arrange it, to resign my seat in the Parliament of this Province for the primary purpose of taking service in a militia regiment south of the Boundary—a reason that will be sufficiently intelligible to my friends. Accordingly I should be glad to know whether I can have a temporary ^or supernumerary^ commission as lieutenent in the sacred Legion of Nauvoo under the command (as I am firmly convinced) of the God of Battles. Having known nothing of drill since boyhood I may indeed learn slowly but will forget nothing. One of my brothers, as I may here mention, is a Colonel in the British Army. I have no intention of making any secret of my conversion when once in your midst and I am in hopes that by the blessing of God my humble example may be followed by others. Not that I expect to find absolute perfection among all the members of a Church that must be largely recruited

Letter from Andrew Jenson, 12 August 1887

Salt Lake City, Utah, Pres. W. Woodruff Dear Brother! Your favor of the 6th inst. rec'd. I beg leave to say in reply that I did not publish the names referred to without first consulting such persons as would be immediately interested; and in such cases as personal injury would be likely to occur, or where parties themselves did not wish the circumstance of their having been sealed to the Prophet made publice, we have not published them. Most of what I published in this connection has been in print, ^before^ and hence was public property already, and what new matter I added I have not added without counseling with those whose right it is to counsel me, or at least making full explanations of my plan and object, which was simply this: A great number of persons, (among them two of my own brothers) are constantly listening to the Josephites, who claim that the Prophet Joseph never taught nor practised the principle of plural marriage, and they are gaining followers daily, perhaps, on that ground. I have argued, reasoned and

Letter to William Atkin, 12 August 1887

Salt Lake City, Utah, Dear Brother Atkin Your kind Letter of Aug 3 is before me & while waiting for our breakfast this morning I will write a few lines in Answer I find myself vary busy these days as all the work that was upon President Taylor & Council is now upon me to Dectate & Direct in connexion with my Quorum of Council but the Responsibility Rests upon me. There is 11 of the Apostles now together including D H Wells We held meetings yesterday & will to day from 10 o'clok through the day I do not pretend to go to any of my family Asahel & Emma visit me on business occasionally ^[FIGURES]^ Well Hop is dead, shot through the Heart yesterday with 4 Balls Died game as it is called called for Dinner Just before He was shot flung segar out of his mouth Just before the balls hit him The agony is over in this world it is Just begining in the next you will see it all in the D News

Daybook (July - November 1887 and April - October 1888)

Aug 12 [18]87 [FIGURE] wrote letters to Wm Atkin Met at 10 {[shorthand]} F D Richards J F S opened the subject of a state [scc[h]ool] It was discussed signed 15 rechemends 15 total 30

Events

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July 25, 1887
Wilford, as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, becomes the leader of the Church.

Aug 12, 1887