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-- 190 years ago today - 1835 Oct 13 --
Joseph Smith visits w/ fully healed Joseph Smith Sr. (1)
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-- 185 years ago today - Oct 13, 1840 --
[Wilford Woodruff]
I conversed much with Catherine the Prophetess. (2)
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-- 180 years ago today - Oct 13, 1845 --
A non-Mormon in Auga, Illinois writes his brother: "there are hundreds of good farms, that the Mormons would sell cheap, go in the Spring they must. They talk of going over the rocky mountains, but I dont believe it. But wherever the wretches can go, I dont know. They have no right to go or stay any where, on earth. They are not fit to be among men!" (3)
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-- 165 years ago today - Oct 13, 1860 --
Apostle Orson Hyde intervenes to spare William A. Hickman from excommunication and tells bishopric: "a man may steal and be influenced by the spirit of the Lord to do it, that Hickman had done it in years past." The bishop reluctantly acquits him. (4)
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-- 140 years ago today - Oct 13, 1885 --
[Salt Lake High Council disciplinary proceedings]
The Fifteenth Ward Bishopric and Bro[ther]. Charles W. Stayner met with the Council this evening by request of [Acting Salt Lake Stake] President Joseph E. Taylor.
President Taylor stated that he had heard that Bishop [Joseph] Pollard and Bro[ther]. Stayner had some misunderstanding, from remarks of the latter, in regard to women laying hands for the healing of the sick, and thought it proper to have the matter presented to the Council for the purpose of hearing what the brethren had to say in relation to it. ...
My subject that evening was in relation to young people getting married. I advised them not to get married except through the sealing covenant. ... I mentioned this and said that a young Sister who was married by the sealing power became a partaker of the priesthood which her husband held but could not if she married him by any other means. As an additional inducement to her to do so, I stated if she had a child after this marriage, and it should become sick and afflicted, she could, in the absence of her husband and the absence of the Elders, herself lay hands upon her child by virtue of he priesthood she held in connection with her husband. Bro[ther]. Pollard seemed to infer from this that I intended to convey the idea that a woman could hold the priesthood separate and apart from her husband; at least I judged so from his remarks at the close of the meeting. I told him that there must be some misunderstanding. ... I had no idea that a Sister held the priesthood separate
and apart from her husband, or could exercise any right whatever'separate and apart from him'except in her own family as I have already stated. Bro[ther] Pollard said that a woman had no right whatever to exercise any such power or privilege and consequently we decided, at the first opportunity which presented itself, to lay the matter before the President of the Stake and get a decision with regard to our positions. ...
Bishop Joseph Pollard said: ... I listened to his remarks with a great deal of attention and interest until he said that '1/2the Sister who was sealed to a Brother would have the priesthood he holds in
connection with him.'| Furthermore, he said that she had a right to exercise the priesthood she held to administer to her own family in the absence of her husband and the Elders. I understood Bro[ther]. Stayner to say that a Sister, when sealed to a husband in the House of God, held the same priesthood he held, let it be what it may; whatever priesthood the husband held the Sister also held it in connection with him. I will say that I never heard this doctrine before. I have been in the Church a great many years, and I have tried to inform myself concerning the principles of the Gospel but that is something entirely new to me.
If it is true that a woman holds the priesthood of God I want to know it; not that I oppose it ...
I felt it my duty to speak about this in public as a great many of our sisters would take advantage of this, and when they once got started it would be a hard job to get them quieted down again. ... (5)
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-- 130 years ago today - Sunday, Oct 13, 1895 --
We returned home in the evening to find that Prest. Jos. F. Smith's speach at the Priesthood meeting had thrown the Democracy into Confusion. (6)
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-- 130 years ago today - Oct 13, 1895 --
[Wilford Woodruff]
13 Sunday There is a terrible Stir to day through Utah over the Meeting Held in the Tabernacle Assembly Hall on Oct 7. The Democrats are trying to break up the State Government over [it]. (2)
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-- 125 years ago today - Saturday, Oct 13, 1900 --
[Rudger Clawson]
In the afternoon I assisted Pres. J. F. Smith in ordaining Elder Squire Coop an elder and in setting him apart and blessing [him] for a musical mission to Europe—namely, to pursue the study of music. (7)
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-- 110 years ago today - Oct 13, 1915 --
[James E. Talmage]
At a conference today attended by the First Presidency, Brother Horace G. Whitney, Business Manager of the Deseret News, and myself, Brother Whitney explained the need of an early beginning on a second edition of the book 'Jesus the Christ'. This day marks the end of the first month since the book was placed on sale and according to Brother Whitney's written report over half the edition has already been sold. As the book is to be used in the Advanced Theology classes in the Sunday Schools beginning January next, and as it has also been adopted in the quorum classes of the Melchizedek priesthood, it appears that a second edition must be issued before the beginning of the coming year. The decision was reached today that plans for the second edition be proceeded with immediately. (8)
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-- 45 years ago today - Oct 13, 1980 --
The "Anthon Transcript" is sold by Mark Hofmann to the LDS church. In exchange the Church gives him a five dollar Mormon gold coin minted in 1850, a first edition of the Book of Mormon, and several examples of pioneer Mormon Currency. Total value: $20,000. (9)
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-- 40 years ago today - Oct 13, 1985 --
Mark Hofmann tries to sell papyrus (supposedly Facsimile 2), for $100,000. By now Hofmann's debts are at least $1,300,000. (9)
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1 - https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ttN3vOzf2UcVhruCrvDf9pF27T0o0PP0Xj1X98tKBc/edit?fbclid=IwAR3HXLgL-X-M_c5LT2W-_F7AYqsqqaQ0yIhfNuyeFsX85irSPuEO6_Q993A
2 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
3 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power
4 - The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]
5 - Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, Privately Published, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015, Appendix 3: Excerpts from the Disciplinary Proceedings of the Salt Lake Stake High Council, 1884-1893
6 - Jean Bickmore White (editor), Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1990, http://bit.ly/johnhenrysmith
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 - James E. Talmage Diary, 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
9 - Whittaker, David J., The Hofmann Maze, A Book Review Essay with a Chronology and Bibliography of the Hofmann Case, BYU Studies Vol. 29, No. 1, pg.80,
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