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Day in the Life

Sep 21, 1887

Journal Entry

September 21, 1887 ~ Wednesday

21 A hand pointing to the right A folded letter/box Received 14 Letters 10 public Private 4, wrote
Letters 3 Public 2 Private signed 23 Recommends to the Temple
23 We heard a report of Franklin S Richards concerning
his visit East Wms & J W Young made a Mistake in
Employing McDonald & Butler we supposed they had Employed
them to Defend the church case before the Courts But we had
to make a New Bargan with them in order to Employ
them for that purpose

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Richards, Franklin Snyder
20 Jun 1849 - 7 Sep 1934
109 mentions
Young, John Willard
1 Oct 1844 - 11 Feb 1924
318 mentions
Apostle
8 mentions
Young, William Goodall
12 Feb 1827 - 15 Apr 1894
8 mentions

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Letter from William Hallam Worthen, 21 September 1887

Mt Carmel President Wilford Woodruff Dear Brother Being called on a mission to the Southern States and to be in Salt lake city on the 10 of next month I do not See how i can be ready by that I am willing to go as soon as i posible can having a big family to provide for both for Bread and clothes and money to raise to go with I ask for time if i can not git ready by the time Set write by return mail to me and oblige I remain respectfully your Brother in the gosple William H Worthen when will the next company go I think the above is all true H. B. M Jolley BP Please give him the time asked for L J n

Letter from Joseph Lyman Mecham III, 21 September 1887

Morgan City Pres Wilford Woodruff Dear Brother: Have received your letter of the 13th ult desiring to know whether I could make it conveinent to go on a mission to New Zealand by the 18th of Oct It will crowed me very much to get ready at so early a date. But I shall endeavor to be ready Your Brother in the Gospel Lyman Mecham Eli Whitear Bishop OK

Letter from George Teasdale, 21 September 1887

President Woodruff and members of the Apostles. Dear Brethren: On my visit to Wales in conversation with Bro. James Lewis he expressed a desire that his son Prest T. D. Lewis of the 16th Ward whose address is 636 1st South St West Salt Lake City, should have the pri velege of a mission to this country. I mention the same for your consideration. In the Barnsley Independent of Saturday 17th inst a paper published in Yorkshire and where quite an excitement occured through some (25) twenty five persons embracing the gospel, there is a letter from Mrs Ford once the wife of the notorious [J]arman I will send you a copy directed to George Reynolds or rather Bro. F. D. Richards at the Historians Office [T]he "news in a nutshell" is the following—"After an inquiry which established the fact that the Mormons are recruited from Switzerland, and that therefore the complaints of the United States Government ar[e] justified, the Federal Council has received from the Berne Cantonal Government a dem- [an]d that any Mormon propaganda in Swit- [zer]land shall be prohibited." I presume this [is] what Prest Schoenfeldt has alluded to and [w]e may expect to hear something more from

Letter to James McKnight, 21 September 1887

Bishop James Mc Knight, Minersville. Dear Brother: Your letter of Sept 2nd concerning your daughter who died some four years ago and left three children, and asking what will be ^the^ best course for you to pursue to carry out her requests, has been received and considered. You say that your daughter was married to a young man named George Rollins, but she had separ- ated from him over a year before she died on account of his dissolute character and course of life &c That he was baptized into the Church when about eight years old, and that they were not sealed by the authority of the Priest- hood and he has not shown any sign of reformation since her death; and at her request and since her death

Events

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

Sep 21, 1887