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Day in the Life

Sep 5, 1887

Journal Entry

September 05, 1887 ~ Monday

Sept 5, 1887
[FIGURES] I received 10 Letters & wrote 20 Letters to Clara
Jaques, Thurber, Farnsworth, Bleak, &c I rece[iv]ed telegram
from J. W. Young & Wilkens I spent the day reading & writing

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47 mentions
83 mentions
Beebe, Clara Martisha Woodruff
23 Jul 1868 - 29 Dec 1927
381 mentions
Family
Bleak, James Godson
15 Nov 1829 - 30 Jan 1918
449 mentions
Jaques, John
7 Jan 1827 - 1 Jun 1900
439 mentions
Young, John Willard
1 Oct 1844 - 11 Feb 1924
299 mentions
Apostle
Farnsworth, Moses Franklin
5 Feb 1834 - 25 Feb 1906
155 mentions

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Letter to Albert King Thurber, 5 September 1887

Elder A. K. Thurber South Scituate, Rhode Island Dear Brother, Your very interesting letter of Aug. 28th has been received and read with much interest. We are glad that you were kindly received by your aged Parents, It certainly must have been a happy meeting with you all. Your journey must have been interesting to you through the South as well as through the North. Your visit to your fathers family, we think was quite timely, as you were enabled to gather a valuable store of information concerning the genealogy of your father. We are pleased with your expression of the public sentiment concerning Utah Statehood, that the public spirit is in favor of it. I have never seen as good a prospect for Statehood as at the present time. We have much to encourage us to labor for that object. You speaking of the religion of the day, It is true

Letter from Henry Chenery White, 5 September 1887

President Wilford Woodruff, Dear Sir: It is in your power to be of great service to a helpless class in the community, a class that more than any other people needs the benefits of an education which areis to fit them for lives of usefulness in this hard world of ours, and I am not without hope from my slight personal acquaintance with your kindness of heart and gentleness of disposition that you will grant the favor which I am going to ask for the sake of the unfortunate children in my care. When the Legislative Assembly of 1884 voted an annual approp- riation of $2000.00 for the education of the deaf mutes in the Territory, no provision was made, probably from an oversight, for the establishment of an institute such as is absolutely necessary for the best development of the Deaf, mentally, morally and socially. The need of such an adjunct to the school was evident to the Board of

Letter from Milando Merrill Pratt, 5 September 1887

Salt Lake City, Utah, . President Wilford Woodruff, Dear Brother: Prof. White, Princi- pal of the Deaf Mute Dep't. of the University called and handed me the enclosed communication and requested me to forward the same to you accompanied by a few lines from myself. Being somewhat familiar with the class of unfortunates of whom he speaks and represents, I take pleasure in responding to his request, feel- ing that if there is any portion of the common wealth who need the sympathy and support of the community, it is certainly those who are deprived of a portion of their senses as these people are. I understand from the last census that there are considerably over one hundred deaf mutes in the Territory. The general school taxes of the Territory does not benefit

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

Sept 5 [FIGURE] I wrote letters to Thurber Bleak ^&^ Farnsworth 15 public letters recd 10 letters 1 from Jesse Moses signed 20 recmds

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

Sep 5, 1887