March 10, 1861 President Young said He did not wish Utah mixed up with the secession movement. He said that when Buchanan sent the armey it was there inten- tion to Hang the Leaders then send thousands of Gentiles here and they intended to rob all this people and take possession of our Houses & lands and they sent Gov Cummings to operate with them. But they got disappointed & it was upon that ground that Governor Cummings told the Forses not to ...

24 ^1860^ I spent the forenoon in the office compiling History the afternoon watering my Garden it is vary hot weather August 25, 1860 ~ Saturday 25 I spent the day compiling History August 26, 1860 ~ Sunday 26th Sunday I spent the forenoon in the office President Young preached in the morning followed by Erastus Snow President Young followed him He followed spoke upon the vision & the different glories in the afternoon I spoke to the people upon the ...

May 8, 1860 ~ Tuesday May 8th 1860 There was quite a Frost on the ground this morning the ground was still white with snow still it will water the Earth & do much good I spent the day in the office President Young called into the office to look at his History with his Brother Phineas. He said that he had got an account of his Family From his sister Fanny he thought he lodged it in the office but we could Find nothing of it ...

Herriman Joseph Hovey Joseph L. Heywood Jacob F. Hutchinson Horace S Eldridge George B. Wallace Joseph W. Johnson Thomas D. Brown, John Lyon Jacob Gates and William Snow Richard Cook Gilbert Clements Levi Richards Aaron F. Farr William Gibson Thomas Grover Joseph Bates Nobles George Woodard

assembled in quarterly Conference at Farmington. There were present of the Twelve Apostles Parley P. Pratt Orson Pratt and Wilford Woodruff; and of other missionaries Lorenzo D Young Gilbert Clements T. D. Brown and Richard Cook. All the missionaries present had a cold and a sore throat and they were all hoarse. It had come on during the last 24 hrs and it was a complaint that was quite general among the people. Many hundreds men women and ...

child in these Valleys knew at 8 years of age that it was necessary that it should be baptized at that period of its life, because it had been taught it by their parents and others. But, he said, was it not for the name of Jesus Christ all our ordinances and administrations would be of non effect and therefore our children should be thoroughly taught concerning Jesus and his history. In the afternoon Gilbert Clements preached and in the evening T.D Brown. On the Sunday Orson Pratt ...