On this day in Mormon History
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-- 185 years ago today - 1840 Aug 8 --
Joseph answers John C. Bennett's letters, stating, "My general invitation is, Let all that will, come, and partake of the poverty of Nauvoo freely.- (1)
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-- 180 years ago today - Aug 8 [1845] --
[Brigham Young]
.... In the evening went to Wm [William] Smith [age 34] and sealed [him] to Miss Rice [age 14] -- (2)
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-- 130 years ago today - Aug 8, 1895 --
Much talk over letter from Mr. Blackwell of Boston of Aug 6 to sister Zina D Young writing strongly against the women of voting on the Constitution as they have not the suffrage until the Constitution gives it to them (3)
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First Presidency met with us at 11 a. m. After Circle prayers we partook of the sacrament of bread and wine. ... It was decided by the First Presidency and Twelve that it was not a good thing for women to register and vote at the coming fall election; they thought it would endanger Statehood. (4)
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-- 125 years ago today - Aug 8, 1900 --
The first of two plural marriages in Mexico that second counselor Joseph F. Smith secretly authorizes without the knowledge of President Lorenzo Snow, who prohibits polygamous ordinances. Counselor Smith instructs senior Seventy's president Seymour B. Young to perform the polygamous marriages. (5)
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-- 85 years ago today - Aug 8, 1940 --
[Heber J. Grant]
I approved a long letter prepared by President Clark to a sister who wants to live according to the law of Moses ... (6)
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1 - https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ttN3vOzf2UcVhruCrvDf9pF27T0o0PP0Xj1X98tKBc/edit?fbclid=IwAR3HXLgL-X-M_c5LT2W-_F7AYqsqqaQ0yIhfNuyeFsX85irSPuEO6_Q993A
2 - Brigham Young Journal # 4 in the handwriting of: William Clayton, Evan Greene, John D. Lee, Willard Richards. First person account kept by others. 'Lieut. Genl Brigham Young's Journal 1844'
3 - Diary Excerpts of Franklin D. Richards, 1887-1897, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
4 - Notes from the Miscellaneous Record Book, 1886-1906: Selected diary notes from the journal books of Marriner Wood Merrill, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
5 - The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]
6 - Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
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