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-- 185 years ago today - Mar 17, 1841 --
[Wilford Woodruff]
17th Foxal . (1)
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-- 175 years ago today - Mar 17, 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" wife of Hambleton who is "acquitted by the Court and also by the Voice of the people present." Hambleton later becomes sheriff in Utah.
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-- 170 years ago today - Mar 17, 1856 --
The 2nd proposal for Statehood for the State of Deseret was rejected due to growing anti-Mormon sentiment and complaints that unbelievers were said to be mistreated and that the Territorial Government was a shadow or puppet government for the real power or theocratic dictatorship directed by leaders of the Mormon Church ( the latter charge is surely true ). President James Buchanan sends a military army to replace Brigham Young with Alfred Cummings. Johnsons Army was the largest piece-time military effort to ever be sent to squash a civil rebellion, and thus dangerously depleted Union troops just prior to the nations most-encompassing military conflict, the US Civil War. (2)
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[Wilford Woodruff]
.... at 10 oclok I went to a stream of water & Baptized all my family that was over 8 years old. Three wives 3 Children & a lamanite Boy Called Moroni. I returned to My house & confirmed them all. (1)
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-- 160 years ago today - Mar 17, 1866 --
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff]
In the Evening I Called at the City Hall to see Edward Tullidge who had became insane. I was left alone with him. I laid hands upon him & rebuke the devels & they Came out of him & he beged of me to take him home. He promised me faithfully to obey me in all things if I would take him to his family who were in my house. Upon this promise I took him by the arm & led him home in his right mind.
I spent the Evening with him reading the news of the day. He went to bed with his Brother John, & slept untill about 1 oclok. Then the devil entered into him & he raged Badly. I arose & went to him & again laid hands upon him & Cast the Devel out of him in the name of Jesus Christ. And he remained quiet untill about day light when the Devil again Entered into him & he raged in a dredful manner. We gave him his breakfast & I took him by the arm & walked with him back to the City Hall & left him in the hands of the poliece. (1)
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-- 145 years ago today - Mar 17, 1881 --
[Wilford Woodruff]
We gave Endowments to 91. W. Woodruff sealed 15 Couple and had 14 persons Adopted into his family the Mathews & Edwards family. We had a good day. (1)
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-- 140 years ago today - Wed., March 17th, 1886 --
[General Authority Abraham H. Cannon]
I was called up to be sentenced. Upon Judge Zane giving me permission to speak I explained by position and stated that I had only sought to obey the law of God in doing what I had done, and if for doing that I deserved punishment, I was prepared for sentence. He then sentenced me to six months imprisonment, to pay a fine of $300 and costs, and stand committed till the fine and costs are paid. I immediately went into the marshal's office under guard, and there remained until about 4 p.m., except for a few minutes when I went to a restaurant under guard, waiting for the Penitentiary wagon. Father's [George Q. Cannon] trial was set for today but as he did not appear, his bonds were forfeited. A great number of special deputies were sworn in for the occasion, a company of soldiers were held in readiness, and all who entered were searched to see if they carried concealed weapons. All precautions were, however, unnecessary, as the prisoner did not come. Considerable money [$45,000] was
lost by his not coming. About 5 p.m. after riding over a very rough road and wet, I arrived at the "Pen" in charge of Guard Janey. . . . There are now 50 of the brethren in the "Pen" for conscience sake, and therefore, it is not nearly as unpleasant as it might be or as I expected it would be. (3)
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-- 105 years ago today - Mar 17, 1921 --
[James E. Talmage]
.... When after due consideration the name of Brother Widtsoe was placed before the Brethren by President Heber J. Grant for their vote, as we testified to each other our hearts verily burned within us. We know that the selection of Brother Widtsoe is the Lord's choice. Word was sent out and an automobile was dispatched to the University to bring Brother Widtsoe to the Council. Actually, he was overwhelmed when the announcement of the action of the Council was made to him. After he had received a very impressive charge from President Heber J. Grant, Elder John Andreas Widtsoe was ordained an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ and was set apart as a member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles under the hands of the First Presidency and of all members of the Twelve present, President Heber J. Grant being voice in the ordination and setting apart. Brother Widtsoe took his place as the junior member of the Council, and remained with us during the rest of the session. ... (4)
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-- 60 years ago today - Mar 17, 1966 --
On 21 May 1965, former blessings were restored to [former apostle] John Whittaker Taylor by Joseph Fielding Smith. The attached records of this restoration were received from the Temple and from Brother [Delbert L.] Stapley's office....
A chronological chart has been attached which will show the following multiplicity of questions we are not yet able to answer:
1. What was really restored to John W. Taylor? Does this restoration now enable the family to have sealings take place which were not formerly recognized?
2. Were the sealings of the two wives, married to Brother Taylor after the [Wilford Woodruff] Manifesto but before his resignation, restored or were the sealings every considered valid?
3. Was the sealing of the sixth wife, married to him before his excommunication, restored or was there ever a valid sealing?
4. Were the sealings of the thirty children, born to him after the Manifesto, restored or were only certain of these children's sealings restored?
(Perhaps some of these would require sealings rather than restoration:)
a. The seventeen children born after the Manifesto to the three wives married prior to the Manifesto.
b. The nine children born to the two wives married between the time of the Manifesto and his resignation.
c. The four children born to the wife married between the time of his resignation and excommunication.
d. The three children born after his resignation to the three wives married before the Manifesto.
e. The six children born after his resignation to the two wives married between the time of the Manifesto and his resignation.
f. The one child born after his excommunication to the two wives married between the time of the Manifesto and his resignation.
g. The two children born after his excommunication to the two wives married between the time of the Manifesto and his resignation.
5. Were any or all of these children 'Born in the Covenant'?
6. Relative to your answers to the questions above, what should we tell these people and what should be shown on the records they submit?
Two living wives, twenty-eight children and a host of grandchildren participating in the Priesthood Genealogical Programs will need to know their status in order to properly prepare their records. Also, we will need to know in order to give them proper handling.
Official answers to these questions are quite urgent and would be appreciated. (5)
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[Letter from former neighbor of McKay Robert Hinckly to David O. McKay] "The head of the Birch Society, Robert Welch, is due in Salt Lake City on April 6th or 7th, the time of General Conference. Efforts will be made to have him recognized in some way during Conference (Elder Benson may even propose to have him come to the stand to make some brief remarks). But this is the Robert Welch who slandered President Eisenhower by writing that "there is only one possible word to describe his purposes and actions. That word is 'treason.'" Welch bore the same kind of false witness against Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, calling him "a Communist agent." He also accused the late President John F. Kennedy, during his brief term in office, of being sympathetic to the Communist goals of world conquest…. President McKay, I beseech you to give heed on these matters to all of your dedicated Counselors in the First Presidency…. I fervently hope that Mr. Welch, the Birch
head, will receive no recognition of any sort from you or the Church while he is in Salt Lake City. And I beseech you to require a decision from Elder Benson forthwith as to whether his life will be dedicated to Church or Birch. He is doing the Church a great, great disservice by mixing the two." (6)
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T]he First Presidency published a denial of any sponsorship of the [Birch Society - Robert] Welch dinner and emphatically stated that "the Church has no connection with the John Birch Society whatever." McKay stopped publication of his photograph in the Birch magazine and withdrew his permission for Benson to introduce the president of the Birch Society at its meeting during April conference. (7)
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-- 45 years ago today - Mar 17, 1981-Tuesday --
[Leonard Arrington]
Apparently Mark Hofmann has furnished xerox copies of the Joseph Smith III ordination to somebody or somebodies. They have been rapidly duplicated, and there are now many copies in circulation. Time magazine has telephoned about it, so has Utah Holiday and other publications. We missed the boat not being allowed to make a public announcement two weeks ago. Because the calls have been coming in last evening and this morning, Earl [Olson] and Elder [G. Homer] Durham have been meeting with Elder [Gordon B.] Hinckley from 7:30 this morning until now-11:30. Don Schmidt has met with them part of that time. Dean Jessee, who has received some of these telephone calls, has been trying to make contact with Elder Durham and Earl without success. Don has now informed him that all telephone calls should be referred to Public Communications. Don says that they have now definitely determined to make a public announcement here today. Why they don't consult Dean Jessee, an authority on the subject,
is strange, nor would they consult any other historian for background. It would be interesting to know whether they got access to the minutes of the Council of Fifty in 1844 that are in the First Presidency's office and whether they are using those. P.M. Ron Esplin said that he had talked with Don Schmidt and that Earl, Elder Durham, and Elder Hinckley had spent all morning going through the minutes of the Council of Fifty in the First Presidency's vault looking for the last charge to the Twelve [Apostles]. [[The Last Charge refers to Joseph Smith's alleged authorization of the Twelve to lead the church, expanding on their original calling to oversee only the members located outside of organized stakes (D68C 107:23).]] None of them know even the year. It would have been so simple for them to have consulted any one of our historians, who could have given them the right date. That they would pursue this without calling in a single historian is almost unbelievable-it certainly isn't
the Spirit of the Kingdom. It makes one a little resentful, even a little angry. [[Arrington had been denied access to the minutes. See Arrington to Gordon B. Hinckley and Hinckley to Arrington, Mar. 9, 12, 1981.]] (8)
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1 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
2 - Tungate, Mel, Mormon Polygamy, http://www.tungate.com/polygamy.htm
3 - Abraham H. Cannon Journal Excerpts, http://www.amazon.com/Apostles-Record-Journals-Abraham-1889-1896/dp/B000MFD1K4
4 - James E. Talmage, Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015
5 - H. Dale Goodwin, Memorandum to Theodore M. Burton, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1910-1951, Privately Published, Salt Lake City, Utah 2010
6 - Robert Hinckley to McKay as referenced in Gregory A. Prince and Wm. Robert Write, David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press (2005)
7 - "Church Tells Position On Dinner for Bircher," Ogden Standard-Examiner, 17 Mar. 1966, A-10; "Notice To Church Members," Deseret News "Church News," 19 Mar. 1966,2; "So Much For Mr. Welch," Rocky Mountain Review, 17 Mar. 1966, 4. From D. Michael Quinn, Ezra Taft Benson and Mormon Political Conflicts, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 26:2 (Summer 1992), also in Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power Salt Lake City (Signature Books, 1994), Chapter 3.
8 - Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018
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