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Mar 17, 2026, 7:28:50 AM (3 days ago) Mar 17
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Historic events in New Mormon History on 3/17
1848: Hosea Stout tells Salt Lake high council: “It has been my duty to hunt out the rotten spots in this Kingdom]. . . . even now I have a list [of] who will deny the faith.” Stout reassures the council that "I av tried not to handle a man’s case until it was right.”
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1849: Brigham Young instructs Council of Fifty regarding two imprisoned men (one of them referred to on 3 Mar.): "he would show them that he was not afraid to take their Head but do as you please with them." Council allows them to live.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1851: Brigham Young speaks in favor of Madison D. Hambleton who is being tried for shooting and killing man at LDS church services, immediately after closing prayer. The man “seduced” of Hambleton who ls “acqultted by the Court and also by the Voice of the people present.” Hambleton later becomes sheriff in Utah.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1856: unsuccessful convention seeking statehood.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1921: John A. Widtsoe is ordained an apostle, and is the first general authority to have a Ph.D. degree from a non-U.S. school (in chemistry from the University of Goettigen, Germany).
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1971: James D. Morask, a paraplegic for four years after an automobile accident, regains feeling and movement in his legs immediately after his LDS baptism. Eight months later, the Church News reports that he is now walking "with braces to give his legs support and has learned to drive again."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1979: In one of his nationally syndicated essays, political conservative William F. Buckley praises the LDS missionary program as "a kind of privately financed peace corps."
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.
1848: Hosea Stout tells Salt Lake high council: “It has been my duty to hunt out the rotten spots in this Kingdom]. . . . even now I have a list [of] who will deny the faith.” Stout reassures the council that "I av tried not to handle a man’s case until it was right.”
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1849: Brigham Young instructs Council of Fifty regarding two imprisoned men (one of them referred to on 3 Mar.): "he would show them that he was not afraid to take their Head but do as you please with them." Council allows them to live.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1851: Brigham Young speaks in favor of Madison D. Hambleton who is being tried for shooting and killing man at LDS church services, immediately after closing prayer. The man “seduced” of Hambleton who ls “acqultted by the Court and also by the Voice of the people present.” Hambleton later becomes sheriff in Utah.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1856: unsuccessful convention seeking statehood.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1921: John A. Widtsoe is ordained an apostle, and is the first general authority to have a Ph.D. degree from a non-U.S. school (in chemistry from the University of Goettigen, Germany).
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1971: James D. Morask, a paraplegic for four years after an automobile accident, regains feeling and movement in his legs immediately after his LDS baptism. Eight months later, the Church News reports that he is now walking "with braces to give his legs support and has learned to drive again."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1979: In one of his nationally syndicated essays, political conservative William F. Buckley praises the LDS missionary program as "a kind of privately financed peace corps."
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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