Letter from Karl Gottfried Maeser, 4 April 1889
Office General Board of Education. .
President Wilford Woodruff.
Dear Brother,
In compliance with your letter of March 2nd, instruc-
ting me to visit the Stake Academies at Salt Lake,
Logan, Brigham, and Ogden, I started on the thus
appointed circuitvisit Thursday, March 21, and
have the honor to submit herewith and subjoined re-
port of the work assigned me.
All necessary appointments in regard to my in-
tended visit having been made with the respective
Stake Boards and Faculties, and having placed my-
self at their disposal for any good they might think
I could do while with them, for the cause of true edu-
cation, I met with the Salt Lake Stake Board of
Education, Thursday, March 21, at 8 P.M. President
Angus M. Cannon presiding, all members of the
Board, and the Principal, Prof. Talmage, present.
During the progress of the meeting, a petition of this
Stake Board to the General Board was called up
again and read. The Secretary stating that it ^had^ had been
duly forwarded a long time ago but no answer had
been returned. The purport of the petition was the
suggestion, upon the advice of the church-attorneys,
that the General Board should take at once proper
steps to in corporate the Stake Board of Education,
as many very important property questions were
involved. It was also stated that difficulties had
arisen in regard to the name of their Academy,
and a majority of the members seemed to favor
the name of Brigham Young Academy, to assure
