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Nov 27, 1895

Journal Entry

November 27, 1895 ~ Wednesday

27. ^[FIGURES]^ I received a Letter from Owen this Morning to Pa Ma
& Blanche which I read & Answered He did not seem to
be well He was overwhelmd with care & work

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Woodruff, Abraham Owen
23 Nov 1872 - 20 Jul 1904
439 mentions
Apostle, Family, Missionary
Woodruff, Emma Smith
1 Mar 1838 - 6 Mar 1912
876 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Winnifred Blanche Daynes
9 Apr 1876 - 2 Apr 1954
237 mentions
Family

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Letter from Frank Joseph Stevens, 27 November 1895
President Wilford Woodruff. P. O. Box B. Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Brother: I beg to acknowledge receipt of call to take a mission to California. I am pleased to accept the call and will arrange my affairs to start on the 11th. day of January 1896, and will be at the Historians Office on the day previous. Your Brother in the Gospel, Frank J. Stevens I take pleasure in endorsing this letter because I believe and feel that Bro Stevens will make a good missionary Your bro in the Gospel Robert McQuarrie Bishop Good J F. S
Letter from Arthur Stayner, 27 November 1895
SALT LAKE CITY, To the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of L.D.S. Dear Brother Woodruff, Bro Cannon and Bro Smith Nothing but circumstances of extra ordinary stress could induce me to again open up the subject concerning which I now write you. I have never, even in part, recovered the total sacrifice of property which my labors in the development of the Sugar industry called for, and I am today entirely destitute of everything in the shape of means. I do not own a foot of land save only a grave yard lot. I do not pretend to claim that this position is the result of worldly wise prudence and ordinary selfish consideration; I do not say such risks are not reprehensible; I only know that, however foolish and unwise censorious men may deem it, the condition exists. The only question which has ever troubled me is, as the French say "is the game worth the candele?" I thought it was and while I never really doubted it, yet at times it has appeared a grave question. I was confident that certain fixed conditions could be deduced, and that white sugar could be made here at from 3 3/8¢ & 3 3/4¢ per lb net cost. I have waited patiently for this to be done, and I have not waited in vain. The circumstances under which I now approach you and ask for

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Nov 27, 1895