On 10/14 in New Mormon History...

[New Mormon History]

Historic events in New Mormon History on 10/14

1876: "It having been given out at Conference that the Endowment House would be closed after this week, for the past few days hundreds of persons have been going through the House, in fact, great numbers have to be refused, the authorities not having time or room for them." Closing the Endowment House in Salt Lake City is Brigham Young's way of guaranteeing the use of the distant St. George temple.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1882: Seymour B. Young is "ordained" president in the First Council of the Seventy. He is the first general authority with a post-graduate degree (from University Medical College of New York) and the first M.D. to serve in the hierarchy. No other general authority has an M.D. degree until the appointments of Russell M. Nelson in 1984, Malcom S. Jeppson in 1989, J. Ballard Washburn in 1990, James O. Mason in 1994, and Cecil O. Samuelson, Jr. in 1994.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1899: A Salt Lake County attorney declines to issue a warrant for President Lorenzo Snow due to insufficient evidence of unlawful cohabitation.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1909: "The [First] Presidency read the article on the origin of man written by O.F. Whitney... As it will go out under our names the Presidency made a few changes." Published in Nov., the statement responds to the theory of organic evolution by affirming that Adam was the first man and progenitor of the human race. The statement does not deny the possibility of biological evolution preceding Adam. Its author believes in reincarnation.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1935: John Horne Blackmore is elected to Canada's Parliament, serving in the House of Commons until 1958. Other non-U.S. Mormons who serve in their nation's parliament are Harry Percival Vette (Tonga, 1940s), Solon E. Low (Canada, 1945), James Gladstone (Canada, 1958), Iofipo R. Kuresa (Samoa, 1970), Manuera Benjamin Riwai-Couch (New Zealand, 1975), Terry Rooney (England, 1990), Moroni Bing Torgan (Brazil, 1991).
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.