Find Your Relatives
Find Your Relatives
Images of Wilford's Family

Discover Your Relatives in Wilford Woodruff's Papers

with the help of
Start Here
Wilford Woodruff Papers Wilford Woodruff Papers
About Volunteer Meet the Team Partners Impact Editorial Method
2023 Conference Articles Photos Podcasts Updates Videos Newsroom

Day in the Life

Nov 17, 1887

Journal Entry

November 17, 1887 ~ Thursday

Nov 17, 1887
[FIGURES] I signed 34 Recommends, 38 Letters 227 Public, 11 private I wrote
18 Letters, 13 pubic & 5 Private I wrote to Wilford F S Richards
Jaques, McKenzie & Newton I paid Wilford $20 & Newton 15
G Q Cannon & myself spent the night at Brother Riters

People

Browse people Wilford Woodruff mentioned on this day in his journal.

Richards, Franklin Snyder
20 Jun 1849 - 7 Sep 1934
100 mentions
1966 mentions
Apostle
Jaques, John
7 Jan 1827 - 1 Jun 1900
439 mentions
Woodruff, Newton, b. 1863
3 Nov 1863 - 21 Jan 1960
151 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Wilford (Jr.)
22 Mar 1840 - 9 May 1921
699 mentions
Family
14 mentions

Related Documents

Browse other documents with this same date. These could include pages from Wilford Woodruff's autobiographies, daybooks, letters, histories, and personal papers.

Letter from Alpha Jedde Higgs, 17 November 1887
Salt Lake City, . To President Wilford Woodruff, in reply to letter of Nov. 16th, 1887, requesting me to perform missionary labor in the Southern States. Dear Brother: I am perfectly willing to assist in promulgating the principles of the everlasting Gospel, and shall be ready, per your instructions, to leave this city Tues- day, Dec. 13th, 1887. Awaiting your further orders, I remain Yours truly, A. J. Higgs Millen Atwood Bp 13 Ward With Singer Mfg. Co., City.
Letter from B. G. Peck, 17 November 1887
Camden, N. J., Nov 17th 1887 Bishop Wilfred Woodworth, Dear sir: I have heard you mentioned as a prominent man at Salt Lake City, and would like ^you^ to write to me. I was in Salt Lake City a year ago last summer, and stopped at the Valley House, and was much pleased with the place, and with the people as far as I met them. I had quite a talk with the gentleman who showded visitors about the temple then in course of erection. I am thinking strongly

Events

View selected events in the two months surrounding this date in Wilford Woodruff's life.

Nov 17, 1887