On this day in Mormon History
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-- 180 years ago today - Apr 22, 1845 --
[Heber C. Kimball]
At 10 Oclock the Council of Fifty met in the Seventies Hall. Brother Joseph Tomson gave me one dollar in cash as a Token of his love to me. (1)
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-- 150 years ago today - Apr 22, 1875 --
Future apostle John Henry Smith writes in his missionary journal, " When I got up this morning I found that Sister Ellen Drybury had went to work and washed out my stockings and got them dry for me. It is the first time one of the sisters had been so thoughtfull, and I shall ever remember her thoughtfullness as my stockings were very nasty." (2)
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-- 145 years ago today - Apr 22, 1880 --
Bro[ther] [Wilford] Woodruff's revelation was read and considered, but no action was take in relation to it. (3)
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[Wilford Woodruff]
.... A Revelation was discussed and Received as the word of the Lord. Many good remarks were made by the Apostles. ... (4)
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-- 140 years ago today - Apr 22, 1885 --
[J.D.T. McAllister Diary]
Bore testimony to wives and children
A.M. wrote to my families in Salt Lake wives and Children. bore my testimony to God's great work including the Order of the Priesthood Celestial Marriage. or plurality of wives. (5)
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-- 135 years ago today - Apr 22, 1890 --
[Apostle Marriner W. Merrill]
Brother Poulter taking us with his team in company with his wife (one of Thomas Grover's girls, and one of his 52 children) to Snake River, about 25 miles ... (6)
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-- 130 years ago today - Apr 22, 1895 --
[Apostle Brigham Young Jr.]
Alas one of our number [Apostle Moses Thatcher] seems to persist in walking alone and tho' weak in body professes to be strong in the Lord. I fear much for his life & sta[n]ding in his Quorum. If he were more humble God would spare his life [from illness] I believe. (7)
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-- 60 years ago today - Apr 22, 1965 --
Ezra Taft Benson's son Reed publicly endorsed John Birch Society founder Robert Welch's accusation that U.S. president Eisenhower had been a Communist agent. Then the loyal son probably consulted Apostle Benson in advance about his apparent plan to use the Birch Society to disrupt the next general conference with rumors of a violent demonstration by African-Americans. Ezra Taft Benson's official biography by Sherri Dew (Deseret Book) is silent about Benson's and his son's devotion to the Birch Society but observes that in 1965-66 Reed Benson "continued to be involved in the fight for freedom which his father supported . . ." (8)
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-- 45 years ago today - April 22 1980 --
Church trades $20,000 worth of items from its archive to obtain Hoffman's forged Anthon Script. (9)
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1 - Kimball, Stanley B. ed, On the Potter's Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball
2 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
3 - Joseph F. Smith, Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015
4 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
5 - Diary Excerpts of J.D.T. McAllister, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
6 - Notes from the Miscellaneous Record Book, 1886-1906: Selected diary notes from the journal books of Marriner Wood Merrill, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
7 - Diary of Apostle Brigham Young Jr., http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
8 - "Reed Benson Says Welch Was Correct in Calling Eisenhower Communist," Provo Daily Herald, 22 Apr. 1965, 2; Dew, Ezra Taft Benson, 391. 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.
9 - Chronology of Mormon History (Mormon Stories), http://www.mormonstories.org/truth-claims/chronology-of-mormon-history/
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