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Historic events in New Mormon History on 12/27
1851: Governor Brigham Young officially proclaims 1 January 1852 as "a day of Praise and Thanksgiving.” In 1863 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln does likewise.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1867: School of the Prophets in Salt Lake City votes to boycott "outsiders who are our bitter enemies." On 3 Jan. School votes to boycott all non-Mormon merchants.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1879: Apostle Wilford Woodruff tells stake conference in Snowflake, Arizona, "There will be no United States in the year 1890."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1886: Sarah M. Granger Kimball, counselor in Relief Society general presidency, says that "her brother Lafayette Granger and the late Bishop [George] Miller in conversation once with the prophet Joseph Smith were told by him that when Mary the mother of Jesus was on her way to the hill country she was met by [God] the Father and the Angel Gabriel and the latter performed the marriage between the Father and Mary."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1899: when Salt Lake temple worker Joseph H. Dean visits President Snow at home, he "brot me a glass of wine also and some cake."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1919: Heber J. Grant obtains approval of his counselors to cancel $30,000 in loans he received as apostle from Trustee-in-Trust in exchange for stock.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1995: announcement of temple to be constructed in Monterrey, Mexico. No ground-breaking ceremony occurs by November 1996.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
To see the whole database in chronological order, Click here. Note that I'm not done entering all the information. While most of these facts come from Quinn's book, I'm seeking the primary sources for each, but this will take a long time.
1851: Governor Brigham Young officially proclaims 1 January 1852 as "a day of Praise and Thanksgiving.” In 1863 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln does likewise.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1867: School of the Prophets in Salt Lake City votes to boycott "outsiders who are our bitter enemies." On 3 Jan. School votes to boycott all non-Mormon merchants.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1879: Apostle Wilford Woodruff tells stake conference in Snowflake, Arizona, "There will be no United States in the year 1890."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1886: Sarah M. Granger Kimball, counselor in Relief Society general presidency, says that "her brother Lafayette Granger and the late Bishop [George] Miller in conversation once with the prophet Joseph Smith were told by him that when Mary the mother of Jesus was on her way to the hill country she was met by [God] the Father and the Angel Gabriel and the latter performed the marriage between the Father and Mary."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1899: when Salt Lake temple worker Joseph H. Dean visits President Snow at home, he "brot me a glass of wine also and some cake."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1919: Heber J. Grant obtains approval of his counselors to cancel $30,000 in loans he received as apostle from Trustee-in-Trust in exchange for stock.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1995: announcement of temple to be constructed in Monterrey, Mexico. No ground-breaking ceremony occurs by November 1996.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
To see the whole database in chronological order, Click here. Note that I'm not done entering all the information. While most of these facts come from Quinn's book, I'm seeking the primary sources for each, but this will take a long time.
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