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Day in the Life

Dec 23, 1887

Journal Entry

December 23, 1887 ~ Friday

[FIGURES] Dec 23, 1887
I received 5 Letters & wrote Letters to Jaques
Jack, Mary, Elizabeth Browett Atkin.
I spent the day at Abram Cannons In the
Evening I rode through mainstreet & went to Br Heber
M Wells to a carp supper I met about 20 of the Brethren
G Q Cannon & J. F. Smith Mayor Armstrong, Wilkins
Bateman Judge Piper & many others it is the first time I
Ever tasted of carp we all pronounced them good fish
At the close of our supper I rode to the farm & spent
the night 5 Miles

People

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Cannon, Abraham Hoagland
12 Mar 1859 - 19 Jul 1896
119 mentions
Apostle
83 mentions
28 mentions
1840 British Convert, United Brethren
31 mentions
9 mentions
Missionary
1966 mentions
Apostle
Wells, Heber Manning
11 Aug 1859 - 12 Mar 1938
27 mentions
Woodruff, James Jackson
25 May 1847 - 8 Dec 1927
85 mentions
Family
Jaques, John
7 Jan 1827 - 1 Jun 1900
439 mentions
Smith, Joseph Fielding
13 Nov 1838 - 19 Nov 1918
3567 mentions
Apostle
Woodruff, Mary, b. 1867
26 Oct 1867 - 15 Feb 1903
163 mentions
Family
38 mentions
170 mentions

Places

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Woodruff Farm, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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Letter to William and Rachel Thompson Atkin, 23 December 1887

Salt Lake U. T. Dear Brother & Sister Atkin I got Brother Williams Letter of the 16 I was glad to hear from you and that all was well with you. I am thankful to say that I have got over my cold & cough I[t] followed me vary Hard for one Month But I Enjoy vary good health at present My Daughter Clara came from Provo with her Husband to attend Asahels Wedding party and she was taken sick, and went Down to Deaths Door and it looked as though we would loose but by Administration & Nursing she has got up again Wilfords Son Wilford broak his Leg but is doing well now but Julia his Wife is vary sick with Milk Sickness Her left Leg is swoolen as full

Letter to William Atkins, 13 December 1885

Salt Lake U. T. Dear Brother & Sister Atkin I got Brother Williams Letter of the 16 I was glad to hear from you and that all was well with you I am thankful to say that I have got over my cold & cough I[t] followed me vary Hard for one Month But I Enjoy vary good health at present My Daughter Clara came from Provo with her Husband to attend Asahels Wedding party and she was taken sick, and went Down to Deaths Door and it looked as though we would loose but by Administrations & Nursing she has got up again Wilfords son Wilford broak his Leg but is doing well now but Julia his Wife is vary sick with Milk sickness Her left Leg is swoolen as full

Letter from John Mills Whitaker, 23 December 1887

Salt Lake City, . Presidents Wilford Woodruff, Geo. Q. Cannon and Jos. F. Smith. Beloved Brethren: Since the closing of the eastern part of the Historian Office, I have been writing for the "Herald"; and as this is only temporary, and at the sug- gestion of Apostle John W. Taylor, I write to you with a view of getting in the coming Legislature as chief clerk in one of the Houses. This position was not sought by me until a suggestion was made by several of the brethren for me "to try." As there is but little time before the representatives meet, I would be very much pleased if you could in any way aid me in obtaining the position, either by suggestion or your influence and with those appointed to form the Legislature. Hoping to hear from you soon as possible in an encouraging way, I remain as ever Your Brother—John. M. Whitaker 47 S. 1st West

Letter from Ira Nathaniel Hinckley and Joseph Vickery Robison, 23 December 1887

Fillmore City, Utah, . President W. Woodruff and Council of Apostles, Dear Brethren: Some time last Spring or early part of Summer we wrote to the Presiding bishopric in rel- ation to the Millard Stake Academy, asking for an appropriation of $1000.00 to assist us in getting the Academy out of its financial embarrasment. Waiting a long time and receiving no answer, we wrote again to the Presiding Bishopric, and received an ans- wer August 10th, to the effect that our application had been referred to the Council of the Apostles. Not hear- ing any more about it we sometime ago wrote to Bro. F. M. Lyman asking him to try and have the matter come up, thinking, that it might perhaps have been over looked. We have just received Bro. Lymans answer, stating, that our application has been misplaced, and suggesting that we renew the application to your self and Council. The academy is now in its 3rd year of existence. It was organized under the immediet supervision of Prof. Carl G. Maser after the patern of the B. Y. Academy at Provo, by the advise and with the approval of President Taylor and those of the Twelv who were visiting us about that time. We had not a dollar to commence with, and were entirely depending on what could fbe collected on

Letter to John Mills Whitaker, 23 December 1887

Salt Lake City 47 South 1st West-14 ward. W. Woodruff Jos F. Smith + George d. Carman Dec. 23"84, John Mills Whitaker {shorthand}

Dec 23, 1887