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Day in the Life

Jan 31, 1890

Journal Entry

January 31, 1890 ~ Friday

31. I signed 2 Recommends I wrote 1 Letters I received
6 Letters I received 1 Letter from David I met
with the Beck Mine Comp {Not a pleasant meeting}

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Woodruff, David Patten
4 Apr 1854 - 20 Jan 1937
217 mentions
Family

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Letter from Peter Larson, 31 January 1890
President Wilford Woodruff. Dear Sir, I received your letter in which you requested me to take a mission to Scandinavia, unless I presented a reasonable excuse. I have postponed answering, thinking perhaps I could arange things so as to accept the call; but I am somewhat in debt, and have both of my sons attending the B. Y. College. I have tried hard to borrow money to pay my debts; but all attempts have failed. Therefore if I could be permited to remain at home a little longer, so that my sons can attend school another term, they
Letter from George Teasdale, 31 January 1890
My beloved Brother Woodruff, Your kind favor of the 8th, inst came to hand and was read with peculiar feelings. All that you intended was fulfilled, and my heart was filled with comfort, and tears of pure joy spontaneously flowed from the effects of my overflowing joy. I honestly felt all I wrote to you. I sup- pose these painful lessons in life are necessary to keep us humble and child- like before the Lord and not get lifted up in the vain imaginations of our own insufficiency. Had Galbraith been what he seemed to be I would have no need to have ever been sorry I gave him a letter of intro- duction to you, any more than the liberty I had taken which I own was not justi- fiable, J. I. H. has been a worry to me indeed and has cost me about one hun- dred and fifty dollars. I did not feel justified in using church money for him, although he wrote me as if he had claim upon it , so I had to make it a personal affair. By all accounts he had had a sorry time. Surely the way of the transgressor is hard. He is hid up somewhere

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1890
Church membership 188,000; Utah Territory 210,779; population of 44 United States. 62,948,000.

Jan 31, 1890