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Day in the Life

Dec 12, 1889

Journal Entry

December 12, 1889 ~ Thursday

12 I went to the Gardo Emma was better this morning
I signed 22 Recommends I receivd 17 Letters I
wrote 15 Letters 11 public & to David Sylvia sent $5
& Thompson & Atkins I met with the Bank Board and
several other parties I spent the night at the farm

People

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Woodruff, David Patten
4 Apr 1854 - 20 Jan 1937
222 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Emma Smith
1 Mar 1838 - 6 Mar 1912
987 mentions
Family
Thompson, Sylvia Melvina Woodruff
14 Jan 1862 - 7 Aug 1940
135 mentions
Family
173 mentions
Thompson, William Henry
1 May 1838 - 3 Apr 1922
263 mentions
Missionary

Places

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

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Letter to William Atkin, 12 December 1889
Salt Lake U. T. Wm Atkin Dear Brother Your Letter of the 1 is Before me and in the midst of a Meeting I attempt to write a few to you though I have not much News to write ownly that the Devil is not Dead in Salt Lake if it is in Atkinville and the political pot is Boiling and Earth & Hell are [assisted] to overthrow Zion but God Reigns still & we have to trust in him You may have Read in the Herald an interview which the corresspondant of the St Lewis Democrat But I want to say you must not beleive all you Read in the papers about
Letter from R. S. King Publishing House, 12 December 1889
San Francisco, 188[9] Pres. Wilford Woodruff, Box B., Salt Lake City. Dear Sir; We are in receipt of a letter from Mr. Geo Reynoolds, Secy. in reply to ours regarding Mr. Nelson's account. We desire to state that Mr. Nelson has never claimed that he did not owe this bill; in fact, we have a letter in our possession after he reached Sweden, acknowledging the account, and requesting us to wait two or three ye years before he would pay it. Now, you will at once recognize the injustice of such a request, and as we intimated in our last letter, we do not feel warranted in waiting any longer, before taking action in the matter. We belong to a Protective Bureau and turn over all accounts after they become long over-due to them. We herewith enclose you a letter for Mr. Nelson, which we wish you would kindly forward, that he may know just what steps we are taking. The matter now rests in the hands of the Bureau and they will act as they see fit. Trusting how ever, that we may have a speedy settlement of the account, as we have certainly been very leinient in waiting so long and patiently, we remain, Yours very truly, R. S. KING PUB. HOUSE.
Religious - Official Manifesto on Plural Marriage, 12 December 1889
ISSUED . ALSO THE OFFICIAL DECLARATION OR MANIFESTO BY President Wilford Woodruff Prohibiting Further Plural Marriages, and Its Adoption by the General Conference, October 6, 1890. THE DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY.

Events

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November 24, 1889
Wilford receives revelation on politics and polygamy; will not trade religion for statehood.
1890
Church membership 188,000; Utah Territory 210,779; population of 44 United States. 62,948,000.

Dec 12, 1889