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Day in the Life

Aug 12, 1887

Journal Entry

August 12, 1887 ~ Friday

12 [FIGURES] 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
[FIGURES] 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
210 mentions
Apostle
Young, Brigham (Jr.)
18 Dec 1836 - 11 Apr 1903
540 mentions
Apostle
Beebe, Clara Martisha Woodruff
23 Jul 1868 - 29 Dec 1927
381 mentions
Family
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
773 mentions
Apostle
Woodruff, Emma Smith
1 Mar 1838 - 6 Mar 1912
874 mentions
Family
Snow, Erastus
9 Nov 1818 - 27 May 1888
640 mentions
Apostle
Lyman, Francis Marion
12 Jan 1840 - 16 Nov 1916
240 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, John Henry
18 Sep 1848 - 13 Oct 1911
258 mentions
Apostle
Jaques, John
7 Jan 1827 - 1 Jun 1900
439 mentions
Taylor, John Whittaker
15 May 1858 - 10 Oct 1916
137 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Smith, Joseph Fielding
13 Nov 1838 - 19 Nov 1918
3567 mentions
Apostle
Snow, Lorenzo
3 Apr 1814 - 10 Oct 1901
655 mentions
Apostle, Family
Merrill, Marriner Wood
25 Sep 1832 - 6 Feb 1906
97 mentions
Apostle
370 mentions
Apostle
Woodruff, Sarah Brown
1 Jan 1834 - 9 May 1909
694 mentions
Family
170 mentions

Places

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

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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
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
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