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Day in the Life

Dec 19, 1889

Journal Entry

December 19, 1889 ~ Thursday

19. We had a snow storm 2 inches I signed 24 Recommends
I received 15 Letters. I wrote 4 Letter To Sarah Newton
Phebe & Susan, I met in the Prayer Circle, John W
Young spoke upon our affairs at Washington

I spent the night at the farm

People

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Young, John Willard
1 Oct 1844 - 11 Feb 1924
318 mentions
Apostle
Woodruff, Newton, b. 1863
3 Nov 1863 - 21 Jan 1960
153 mentions
Family
Snow, Phebe Amelia Woodruff
4 Mar 1842 - 15 Feb 1919
340 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Sarah Brown
1 Jan 1834 - 9 May 1909
701 mentions
Family
Scholes, Susan Cornelia Woodruff
25 Jul 1843 - 6 Oct 1897
359 mentions
Family

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Washington, D.C., United States
Woodruff Farm, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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Letter from Charles Colville, 19 December 1889
Sir I am desired by His Excellency the Governor General to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 21st November relative to certain newspaper despatches to the accuracy of which you wished to take exception. I am Sir Your obt: servent: Charles Colville Captain Your: Genl`s: Secy: Mr, Wilford Woodruff Salt Lake City Utah United States.
Letter to John Daniel Thompson McAllister, 19 December 1889
Salt Lake City, U. T. Pres. J. D. T. McAllister, St. George. Dear Brother: Under date of the 4th of Oct, Brother Bleak wrote you a letter con- cerning the dividends on the Woolen Factory property. We inclosed that letter a short time since to the Presiding Bishopric to learn from them respecting it. We have received a reply, which we inclose, and which we would like you to return to us after you have mastered its contents. Let us know what you have to say upon this subject, in order that we may decide as to the proper disposition to make of the amounts mentioned in the letter. With kind regards, Your Brethren, Wilford Woodruff Geo. Q. Cannon Jos. F. Smith
Letter from Nils Nelson, 19 December 1889
Kristianstad President Wilford Woodruff! Dear Brother! I have this day, received a letter from Brother Geo. Reynolds about the R. S. King Publishing House complaining about me for not remitting to them a sum of $51.cts and in reply I will say that the[y] have not come up to their agrements with me by long ways. I did work for that House and sold books for them for several hundred dollars and they have given me a written promise that I should have 5% more for my laber than I ever got. and I have their bills and letters to prove it by. they allso charged me more for the Books than they

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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 19, 1889