Today in Mormon History - Jun 16

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-- 195 years ago today - Jun 16, 1831 --

Jared Carter writes in his diary: "there was one of our Sisters healed from blindness by his [Joseph Smith's] instrumentality," (1)
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-- 190 years ago today - Jun 16, 1836 --
[Brigham Young]
"[Went] to Isac Brownnels had som conversation With him he rejected our testmoney and abused ous [ours] and turned me out adore [of doors] and I washed my feet aganst him" (2)
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-- 185 years ago today - 1841 Jun 16 --

Warsaw Signal on Joseph Smith trial & Danites, points out that Mormons now have the greatest voting power in the county (3)
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-- 170 years ago today - Jun 16, 1856 --

Brigham Young's office journal records "Had an interview with Bro[ther]s Jesse Little & Robert Burton about Bro[ther] Kamp taking away his Negro." Thomas Bedford, a Beaver Island resident who had been publicly whipped on James J. Strang's direction, fatally shoots Strang. Strang had led a large portion of Mormons away from Brigham Young's rule after the death of Joseph Smith. (1)
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-- 165 years ago today - Jun 16, 1861 (Afternoon) --
[Brigham Young]
"Br. Kimball does pretty well in playing on the fiddle I think, so does br. Joseph Young. I will try my hand at my fiddle." (4)
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-- 155 years ago today - Jun 16, 1871 --

Apostle Joseph F. Smith writes of his divorced first wife "Levira [who] arrived from California in a state of insanity." Daughter of founder's brother Samuel H. Smith and first cousin-wife of Apostle Smith, Levira C. Smith is earliest example of mental illness in a prominent Mormon. In 1886 she is legally committed to the Utah Insane Asylum as its fifty-ninth patient, and remains there for three months. (5)
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-- 130 years ago today - Jun 16, 1896; Tuesday --
[Charles W. Penrose]
"Read to [Salt Lake Stake] High Council Bro[ther] F[rancis]. M Lyman's remarks at first meeting of Stake Conference June 6th. Council adopted a resolution which I wrote dissenting from the doctrine advanced by Bro[ther] Lyman that an Apostle had the right to change a regulation established in a regularly organized Stake of Zion, of his own volition, without instructions from the First Presidency. The Presidency of the Stake were requested to write the views of the Council and present them with the Resolution and the report of the remarks of Bro[ther] Lyman to the First Presidency." (6)
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-- 125 years ago today - Sunday, Jun 16, 1901 --
[Rudger Clawson]
"Read a prophecy of Joseph Smith declaring that the saints would move to the Rocky Mountains and become a mighty people there." (7)
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-- 15 years ago today - 2011 June 16 --

I'm A Mormon media campaign launches large-scale in New York City, after testing in regional markets. (8)
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1 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
2 - Brigham Young Journal, 1832 Apr. 9-1836, Sept. 9, typescript
3 - https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ttN3vOzf2UcVhruCrvDf9pF27T0o0PP0Xj1X98tKBc/edit?fbclid=IwAR3HXLgL-X-M_c5LT2W-_F7AYqsqqaQ0yIhfNuyeFsX85irSPuEO6_Q993A
4 - The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses
5 - The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]
6 - Charles W. Penrose, Diary
7 - Stan Larson (editor), A Ministry of Meetings: The Apostolic diaries of Rudger Clawson, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1993, http://bit.ly/rudgerclawson
8 - Wikipedia, 21st Century (Mormonism), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century_(Mormonism)