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Day in the Life

Sep 11, 1896

Journal Entry

September 11, 1896 ~ Friday

11 I spent the day in the office The Mining Company
held a Meeting I wrote a Letter to Newton & sent
^ A hand pointing to the right^ $10 to David $5 for Myself & $5 for Owen but the
company had already Gone we had word this
Morning from Wells Farg & Co that they held
Notes against the Presidency of the Church for $60000
that must be paid soon. I wrote to Mrs Wm Woodruff

People

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Woodruff, Abraham Owen
23 Nov 1872 - 20 Jul 1904
593 mentions
Apostle, Family, Missionary
Woodruff, David Patten
4 Apr 1854 - 20 Jan 1937
222 mentions
Family
2 mentions

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President's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah

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Letter from Martha Liming, 11 September 1896

Dallas, Texas. . Rev. Wilford Woodruff. Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Sir: Pardon me for thus ad- dressing you, but a friend and Myself desire to come to Utah if we can obtain employment in Salt Lake City; so I write to you. We are graduate nurses and would be pleased to do either Private or Hospital Work. If you think there would be any opening please let me hear from you. Thanking you in advance, I remain Very respectfully Martha Liming 223 Ross ave. Dallas, Texas

Business/Financial - Account Book, 1889-1898

Letter from Lydia Adelaide Coombs Penniman, 11 September 1896

Mauston Wis Dear Presenident Woodruff, I wish to say, I wrote you some six ^weeks^ ago. have been anxously waiting to here from you I wrote and inclosed stamp, but no answer yet Sence writeing you my dear husband has ^passd^ away from Earth ^the 27 of Aug^ I wrote you that his health was verry poor, but I did not think then he woul^d^ go so soon. We visited Salt Lake City 1892, call at your office in June the 8 or 9 I dont just remember the date I wrote in my last letter to you that my husband ^had^ said

Daybook (13 August 1896 - 14 September 1896)

11 We had word this Morning from Wells Fargo & co that we must pay them Now soon some $60000 [FIGURE] I wrote to Mrs Wm Woodruff & Answered the same {shorthand} some $160,000 payment {shorthand}

Letter from John William Hess, 11 September 1896

Farmington Utah, President Willford Woodruff Dear Brother I write this to inform you that I nead the allowance mad[e] me By the church as President of the Davis Stake of Zion I nead it to ade me in the sopaart of my Famely if you will favorable concider this matter for me I would be verry much Obliged to you I Remain as Ever your Brother in the gosp el John W. Hess

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November 5, 1896
Wilford changes fast day from the first Thursday to the first Sunday of each month.

Sep 11, 1896