Nov 15, 2021
by Howard Collett
Mark Pollmann has recently joined the Wilford Woodruff Papers Foundation as our Chief Technology Officer. Mark is passionate about data, technology, and making new things, and loves to learn about the history of how things came to be. “This is a fun project for me,” said Mark. “In reading and learning about Wilford Woodruff through his journals, I can identify with his sense of numbers. Being a statistician, I relate to tracking the transactions of life, like the number of l ...
Oct 27, 2021
by Jennifer Ann Mackley
We are participants in the work of God and responsible for the choices we make in relation to all He has blessed us with.
In the third article of faith, Joseph Smith stated, “We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.” All mankind … those yet to be born, those who have passed beyond the veil, and those now living into whose hands blessings, privileges, and powers have been mercifully given.
Oct 13, 2021
Transcribing and publishing documents sounds like a simple procedure . . . a knowledgeable individual carefully reads an original document and simply types the letters and words into a text document, right?
Oct 10, 2021
by Steven C. Harper
“Her name is Sarah Emma Woodruff,” Wilford, a proud, new father, wrote in his journal. He penned, “She was born July 14th, 1838 at half past five oclock in the morning,” then prayed, “O Lord prepare her for thyself.” Thirty-one-year-old Phebe Carter, the baby’s petite mother, had married Wilford shortly after he returned from a mission in Tennessee and Kentucky, in the spring of 1837 at Kirtland, Ohio, where she was teaching school.
Sep 23, 2021
The Wilford Woodruff Papers released over 830 pages of new documents in September, including letters from Wilford Woodruff’s British mission in 1839–1840, over 120 pages of notes for Wilford’s autobiography and testimony, and 680 pages of his journal entries covering July 1845–December 1853.
Sep 13, 2021
As 1834 dawned, the Latter-day Saints in Missouri were “exiles in a land of liberty.” A mob had driven them from the land they legally owned and inhabited—land the Lord had consecrated (D&C 52:2, 57, 58:57, 103:22). The Missouri Saints sent Parley Pratt to Kirtland, Ohio to seek counsel from the Prophet Joseph Smith. He probably carried a letter informing Joseph that Missouri Governor Daniel Dunklin was willing to help the Saints regain their land, but he would not maintain a militia to defend them indefinitely. Would eastern Saints come to the aid of Zion?
Jul 15, 2021
by Jane Clayton Johnson
By Jane Clayton Johnson During the final days of December 1833, twenty-six-year-old Wilford Woodruff, began his first journal as a new convert. He titled his first entry, “The First Book of Wilford.” Wilford had a divine calling to keep a record. In the preamble of his first journal he writes, “It is at once beneficial and instructive to the reflecting mind to review the past with candor and rightly consider the present and be in perfect readiness for that which is to come.&r ...
by Hovan Lawton
By Hovan Lawton, Editorial Assistant In early 1838, Phebe Woodruff and other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were passing through very challenging times. The collapse of the Kirtland Safety Society banking system had brought financial hardship to the Saints, causing some to turn against Joseph Smith and call him a fallen prophet. Just two years earlier, the Saints had unitedly celebrated the dedication of the Kirtland Temple. Kirtland had been a place of holiness wher ...
by Kristy Wheelwright Taylor
This picture includes members of our Autobiography Transcription Team and they know how to get the job done. These ladies work in pairs to complete the second level of document verification (2LV), which means that one of them reads the original document while the other reads the transcription to check for errors. They also do transcription and subject links, which allow you to click on names and places in the documents on the website and learn more about who Wilford interacted with and where t ...
Jul 12, 2021
Wilford Woodruff met Colonel Solomon Copeland in April 1835 while preaching in Paris, Henry County, Tennessee. On April 21st he records, “Preached at the house of Col Soloman Copeland Henry Co Tennessee Mrs Copeland was healed by the laying on of hands.” They continued their friendship during Wilford’s mission to the Southern States, and the Copelands hosted Wilford dozens of times as he rode his preaching circuit through Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama. Nine years later, ...
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