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-- 180 years ago today - Feb 10, 1846 --
Brigham Young (aged 44) marriage to Jane Terry (1819-1847) (aged 26) widow of George W. Young (no relation) requested on deathbed to be sealed to Brigham Young; died four days after marriage (1)
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-- 175 years ago today - Feb 10, 1851 --
Lyman Wight: Began renewal of temple ordinances 10 Feb. 1851 at Zodiac, Texas, where endowments used robe "like the robe used in Utah…but the [under]garment was not like the garment in Utah at all," according to follower John Hawley (2)
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-- 170 years ago today - Feb 10, 1856 --
[Orson Pratt] said that Allan Huntington [who] was appointed a missionary to the Indians had been guilty of swareing a great deal. He had herd him. It was then Moved & carried that He be cut off from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It was carried unanimously.
...Brother P. P. Pratt said to me that He thought the three Nephites could not vary well visit the Lamanites yet & tell them to believe what the Mormon Missionaries told them lest there might be occasionally a bad man among them who would sware as Huntington did or would take the advantage of them in some way so that it would cause the Lamanites to loose Confidence even in the Holy Messengers. (3)
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[George A. Smith]
"We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they (Non-Mormons) envy us our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow-minded, pinch-backed race of men, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy, and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. They ought to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices; and it is not to be wondered at that they should envy those who so much better understand the social relations." (4)
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-- 165 years ago today - Feb 10, 1861 --
Said that when we could govern ourselves we could [govern] another, a family, a city, a nation, or millions of people. Touched on the treatment of once United States to this people under the administration of Pres James Buchanan. Said they would never be able to patch up the government, i. e., the people of the United States and it [it] was preserved at all it would be by the Elders of Israel. Said for us not to boast at the calamity of our enemies, for it would make our souls sick to witness the sorrow and distress which would eventually come upon them.
[Brigham Young's office journal records: "the President preached subject the disrupted State of the Union- The necessity of being subject here that we might learn how to govern in the world to come."] (5)
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-- 140 years ago today - Feb 10, 1886 (Wednesday) --
Deputy marshals visited the old Church Farm, south of Salt Lake City, searching for Pres. Geo. Q. Cannon. (6)
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-- 125 years ago today - Feb 10, 1901 --
[Brigham Young Jr.]
.... I followed talking about excitement of small pox. Promised the L.D.S. if they would live their religion God would furnish medicine plentifully to preserve them all from contagious diseases and calamities which are coming upon the earth ... (7)
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-- 115 years ago today - Feb 10, 1911 --
A committee consisting of Francis M. Lyman, Hyrum M. Smith, Charles W. Penrose, Anthony W. Ivins, George H. Brimhall, Horace H. Cummings, Heber J. Grant, George F. Richards, and Joseph Keeler meets with three BYU professors, Henry and Joseph Peterson and Ralph Chamberlin. The session lasts nearly five hours, and the three are frank in explaining their belief in evolution and their reservations about some parts of the Bible. According to Heber J. Grant, they manifest "a very good spirit." The next day the committee formulates its report, which it presented to the Twelve. They agree unanimously to ask the three to leave BYU.
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-- 85 years ago today - Feb 10, 1941 --
[George F. Richards]
His [i.e., Apostle Reed Smoot's] death was by me entirely unexpected. I knew he had been afflicted in his mind for some time and that as a result of a fall he had a lame shoulder, but I had no idea that his time of passing was so near. (8)
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1 - Wikipedia, List of Brigham Young's Wives, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brigham_Young%27s_wives
2 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 6, Biographical Sketches of General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power
3 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
4 - George A Smith, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 3, page 291
5 - Diary of Charles Lowell Walker. Andrew Karl Larson, ed. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1980. 162, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses
6 - Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology
7 - Diary of Apostle Brigham Young Jr., http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
8 - George F. Richards, Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015
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