Sunday I met with my Quorum in the morning & attended
meeting at the bowery Br T. B. Broderick preached in the fore-
noon & Wm Clayton in the afternoon followed by H. C. Kimball
I met with Brother John Taylor for prayer He prayed & I
was mouth
~ Monday
11 I spent the day watering garding, & putting on a roof on back ketching
I attended the meeting of the gardners club
~ Tuesday
12 I spent most of the day in setting out straybury beds
~ Wednesday
13 I went down to my farm in the forenoon. I met with the
two Agricultural Boards in the Evening. we turned over all the
former Business to the old Board to settle all there own Accounts
I went to the printing office at 10 oclok & herd the Telegraph
dispatches read which contained much News another Battle fought
three thousand killed. President Lincoln had suspended the writ
of Habeus Corpus through the United States. Stoped all Emigration
from the U. S. to other countries, or from one state to another the
guerillas have captured Indipendance Jackson Co & Liberty
Clay County. 700000 men have been called to arms in the
North in two months
~ Thursday
14 I set out a strawbury in the morning & spent the afternoon in
the office Journalizing
~ Friday
15 I spent most of the day in the garden
~ Saturday
16. I spent the forenoon at home & the afternoon in the office the Endowment House we gave Endowm[en]ts to 45 D. H. Wells sealed
22 couple & W. Woodruff 10 couple. I met with the Board of the Agri-
cultural society
~ Sunday
17 Sunday I met with my Quorum in the morning, & attended
meeting in the Tabernacle in the forenoon Brother Savage preached inand
was follow by Joseph Young. Governor Harding was on the stand
President Young Preached at Farmington followed By G. A. Smith
& several others I did not attended meeting in the afternoon I
met with John Taylor in the Evening I prayed & John Taylor was mouth
~ Monday
18 I spent the forenoon at home I met with the Presidency
and Twelve in the afternoon to appoint a list of missionaries to England
we then visited the Temple Block & then the Theater
~ Tuesday
19 I spent most of the day in the garden
~ Sunday
Aug 10, 1862
Sunday I met with my Quorum in the morning & attended
meeting at the bowery Br T. B. Broderick preached in the forenoon & Wm Clayton in the afternoon followed by H. C. Kimball
I met with Brother John Taylor for prayer He prayed & I
was mouth
~ Monday
11 I spent the day watering garding, & putting on a roof on back ketching
I attended the meeting of the gardens club
~ Tuesday
12 I spent most of the day in setting out straybury beds
~ Wednesday
13 I went down to my farm in the forenoon. I met with the
two Agricultural Boards in the Evening. we turned over all the
former Business to the old Board to settle all there own Accounts
I went to the printing office at 10 oclok & herd the Telegraph
dispatches read which contained much News another Battle fought
three thousand killed. President Lincoln had suspended the writ
of Habeus Corpus through the United States. Stoped all Emigration
from the U.S. to other countries, or from one state to another the
guerillas have captured Indipendance Jackson Co & Liberty
Clay County. 700000 men have been called to arms in the
North in two months
~ Thursday
14 I set out a strawbury in the morning & spent the afternoon in
the office Journalizing
~ Friday
15 I spent most of the day in the garden
~ Saturday
16. I spent the forenoon at the
Endowment House we gave Endowments to 45 D. H. Wells sealed
22 couple & W. Woodruff 10 couple. I met with the Board of the Agricultural society
~ Sunday
17 Sunday I met with my Quorum in the morning, & attended
meeting in the Tabernacle in the forenoon Brother Savage preachedand
was follow by Joseph Young. Governor Harding was on the stand
President Young Preached at Farmington followed By G. A. Smith
& several others I did not attended meeting in the afternoon I
met with John Taylor in the Evening I prayed & John Taylor was mouth
~ Monday
18 I spent the forenoon at home I met with the Presidency
and Twelve in the afternoon to appoint a list of missionaries to England
we then visited the Temple Block & then the Theater
"Journal (January 1, 1860 – October 22, 1865)," August 10, 1862 - August 19, 1862, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed November 22, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/qjK2