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Dec 20, 2025, 7:28:47 AM (10 days ago) Dec 20
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Historic events in New Mormon History on 12/20
1854: Polysophical Society organizes with Apostle Lorenzo Snow as president. Women and men lecture and participate in discussions on equal basis. Brigham Young soon organizes male-dominated Deseret Theological Institute as competition.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1888: senior apostle Wilford Woodruff tells meeting of Twelve, "The Lord never will give a revelation to abandon plural marriage."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1960: Adewole Ogunmokun writes LDS headquarters requesting that LDS missionaries be sent to Nigeria to officially baptize and formally organize Nigerians who have converted to Mormonism after reading LDS publications. In this unprecedented development in Mormonism, a dozen groups of self-converted Nigerians have already organized, calling themselves "Latter-day Saints" and baptizing themselves as sign of their conversion. Within five years one of these Nigerian groups has "seventy-five congregations with nearly ten thousand baptized adult members and six thousand children," many of whom are living in polygamous families and few of whom know about LDS church's policy of denying priesthood to black Africans. This situation creates a quandary with which LDS leaders struggle for years.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1975: The Church News feature an article about Delores ("Lorie") Watson, the national women's motocross champion for 125 cc motorcycles.
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.
1854: Polysophical Society organizes with Apostle Lorenzo Snow as president. Women and men lecture and participate in discussions on equal basis. Brigham Young soon organizes male-dominated Deseret Theological Institute as competition.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1888: senior apostle Wilford Woodruff tells meeting of Twelve, "The Lord never will give a revelation to abandon plural marriage."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1960: Adewole Ogunmokun writes LDS headquarters requesting that LDS missionaries be sent to Nigeria to officially baptize and formally organize Nigerians who have converted to Mormonism after reading LDS publications. In this unprecedented development in Mormonism, a dozen groups of self-converted Nigerians have already organized, calling themselves "Latter-day Saints" and baptizing themselves as sign of their conversion. Within five years one of these Nigerian groups has "seventy-five congregations with nearly ten thousand baptized adult members and six thousand children," many of whom are living in polygamous families and few of whom know about LDS church's policy of denying priesthood to black Africans. This situation creates a quandary with which LDS leaders struggle for years.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1975: The Church News feature an article about Delores ("Lorie") Watson, the national women's motocross champion for 125 cc motorcycles.
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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