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Jun 17, 1897

Journal Entry

June 17, 1897 ~ Thursday

June 17th Had a fairly good night, my wife Emma gave me some
attention. Prest. Geo. Q. Cannon's son Preston was taken to St Marys Hospital
this morning and operated upon for appendicitis. I drove to the office
and thence to the Temple where I attended my usual meeting, and afterwards
at the office. Drove home at 4 pm.

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Woodruff, Emma Smith
1 Mar 1838 - 6 Mar 1912
928 mentions
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Cannon, George Quayle
11 Jan 1827 - 12 Apr 1901
2144 mentions
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Letter from Fred W. Crockett, 17 June 1897
Logan, Utah, . President Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear brother: Yours of the 15th inst is before me. In reply I will say that I accept the call for a mission to the Northern States. Will be ready to start on the date mentioned in your letter if nothing happens to make it impossible for me to do so. Your brother in the Gospel, F. W. Crockett Logan, Utah. P.O. Box 47. C J Larsen Bishop.
Letter from Ludwig Ernest Fuerbringer, 17 June 1897
St. Louis, Mo., . President W. Woodruff, Salt Lake City. Sir: Kindly excuse me for troubling you. I would like to have the exact words of your edict against polygamy. Will you, please, have me informed, in what work and where and at what price I could get it? Also have the price of the "Book of Mormon" stated. Is the "Handbook of Mormonism" published by your organization and at what price? I am writing in the interest of truth. Respectfully, L. Fuerbringer.
Letter from Charles Ellis, 17 June 1897
Salt Lake City, . To the First Presidency, of the Church of Jesus Christ, Salt Lake City, Gentlemen: In May, 1892, when I was in the East obtaining use of the columns of papers in New York, Boston and Chicago for the publication of matter that should cause a halt in the determination of public opinion to have the "Mormon" voters of Utah disfranchised, as had been done in Idaho, a despicable and malicious story was started in this city to the effect that I was exhausting the expletives of the language of the country in abusing, and lying about, the Mormon people. When I returned I was met with frowns from people who had looked upon me as a friend. When I discovered the cause I traced it to the daughter of an apostle now living and her husband. I went to the woman, her husband not being in the city, and she ad- mitted that I could not have been the man she had seen and heard abusing her people. She said she had told the story widely here & in her father's home. I asked her to do what she could, in justice to me, to undo the wrong she had done & she absolutely refused. I wrote to her father asking him for my sake to deny the infamous story, but he never replied. That story is still alive & thousands believe it while many are in doubt. It has caused me untold harm & infinite distress. On the last saturday of December, 1892, the President of this stake in a priesthood meeting instructed those present that I was disemminating "infidelity" in my lectures & people should be warned against me. Subsequently he admitted to me that he had done so, but did not, as I requested him to do,

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Jun 17, 1897