Today in Mormon History - Oct 09

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-- 175 years ago today - Oct 9, 1846 (Friday) --

The camp of the poor was organized and started for the West. Flocks of quails visited the camp and were easily caught. This was a providential supply of food for the suffering exiles. (1)
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-- 175 years ago today - Oct 9, 1846 --
An advance company of the Mormon Battalion arrives in Santa Fe and presents itself for inspection to Col. Alexander W. Doniphan. Previously, Doniphan had commanded a Missouri state militia detachment that arrested Joseph Smith; on that occasion, Doniphan defied orders from his superiors to execute Smith.

The Mormon marchers are honored by Doniphan with a 100-gun salute. (2)
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-- 165 years ago today - Oct 9, 1856 --
[Brigham Young]
Some remarks were made last Sunday night relative to the family of Joseph Smith. President Young said, I have no fears with regard to the children of Joseph. God will take care of them and all will be right. -- Salt Lake City [Wilford Woodruff?s Journal. 9 Vols. Scott G. Kenney, ed. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1983-85. 4:470] (3)
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In the midst of Utah Reformation's frenzy, Apostle Wilford Woodruff notes, "The spirit of God is like a flame among the Leaders of this people & they are throwing the arrows of the Almighty among the people."
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[Heber C. Kimball marriage]
wife #43. Adelia Almira Wilcox (Hatton Brown), 1828-1896. (4)
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-- 150 years ago today - Oct 9, 1871 --
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff]
Oct 9, 1871 This morning President Young prepared to go to the Court room at 10 oclok to answer the writ served upon him by the U.S. Marshall. The Court Room was Crouded by the friends of Presidet Young & thousands were in the street. Finally word was sent to Presidet Young not to Come untill 2 ock.

At 2 oclok The Presidency Twelve & many other went to the Court room. Wm Jinnings & John Sharp gave bail for him in the sum of $5,000. Hempsted one of his lawyiers pied to Quash the Inditemet. The court adjourned till 10 oclok to morrow.

... I then Called upon the presidt Young & staid at his office untill 10 oclok. He feels very calm with regard to his present Persecutions. He feels that the Lord will deliver him. (5)
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-- 130 years ago today - Oct 9, 1891 --
[Heber J. Grant]
I called on Prest Cannon this morning at the Gardo and unburdened my to him, telling him of my wife's suffering and my own heart aches. He told me that I should be blessed and comforted of the Lord and that the Lord would aid me in assisting Gusta to feel better. I could not keep from crying while I was chatting with Prest Cannon. I confessed to him that I felt that perhaps it was just that I should suffer as I was suffering as I had made him and other suffer by misjudging them and their actions. As we were parting he put his arm around me and kissed me and I felt that all ill feeling that I might have engendered in his heart because of my criticisms of his actions after the death of Prest Taylor was a thing of the past. This afternoon I took Gusta's girl Mary for a ride. Called for a minute to see Emily. I called and saw Gusta again and found her feeling very much better than she was last night and I do not know how to be thankful enough for the change in her feelings ... (6)
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-- 120 years ago today - Wednesday, Oct 9, 1901 --
[Apostle John Henry Smith]
Salt Lake City

The cold under which President Lorenzo Snow has been laboring has developed into Pneumonia and he is dangerously sick.

Thursday, Oct. 10, 1901 - Salt Lake City All of the Apostles in the City were called to the bedside of President Lorenzo Snow at 5 a.m. He was dying. At 3:35 p.m. he breathed his last surrounded by most of the Apostles and many of his family. (7)
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[Apostle Rudger Clawson]
Salt Lake City. Clear and mild. In connection with my appointment as second counselor in the First Presidency of the church, I here record an interview with President Lorenzo Snow. I called at the Beehive House by request at 12:30 noon, Sunday, Oct. 6th, 1901, between meetings of the conference. President Snow, being quite feeble with a bad cold, had just arisen. He said to me in substance, ... I have thought about these things, and the Spirit of the Lord whispers to me that I am to select you for one of my counselors.

I said in reply, "President Snow, there is only one consideration that makes it possible for me to accept this great responsibility, and that consideration is the fact that I know this to be the work of God. The Lord can qualify and make me equal to the obligation, man cannot." The President replied, "Yes, that is true." Thus ended the interview.

...Apostle Matthias F. Cowley told me that he had received a manifestation, while in Mexico some time ago, that I would be appointed to said position. (8)
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-- 120 years ago today - Oct 9, 1901 --

Certificate of authority of YMMIA missionaries-- Salt Lake City.

Owing to a peculiar set of circumstances this is a very interesting document, not so much for its contents as for its signatures.

From April 12, 1901 Lorenzo Snow had been functioning with a second counselor only following the death of George Q. Cannon. In the October, 1901 general conference of the Church Joseph F. Smith was sustained as first counselor and Rudger Clawson was sustained as the new second counselor in the First Presidency. The conference closed on October 7th and three days later on October 10, 1901 President Lorenzo Snow died thus dissolving the First Presidency. That three days was long enough for Rudger Clawson to affix his signature [a] document ...as a member of the First Presidency. (9)
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-- 110 years ago today - Oct 9, 1911 --
[Thomas A. Clawson Diary]
Special priesthood meeting, "The question of whether a man violates his covenants made in the Temple if he is married civily after he has once been married in the Temple. Tba answer was No. That he has married according to law and a covenant made by the contracting parties therefore he does not violate any covenant. The meaning of the words "that he shall nothing (Sic) to do with any woman save those given to him of the Lord" refers more to the acts of whordom and illicit relations." (10)
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-- 75 years ago today - Oct 9, 1946 --

I should have noted that [son-in-law] Bruce R. McKonkie was chosen at the conference to fill a vacancy in the Council of the Seventies. He is a worthy choice. (11)
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-- 75 years ago today - Oct 9,1946 --

First Presidency and apostles decide to allow faithful African-American Mormons to receive patriarchal blessings, and Patriarch Elder G. Smith blesses black couple for the first time. (12)
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-- 50 years ago today - Oct 9, 1971 --

The Deseret News publishes on the front page of the local section a First Presidency statement which condemns the upcoming Salt Lake City performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as "a profane and sacrilegious attack upon true Christianity." Although the statement advises everyone to oppose this production, an audience fills the Salt Palace to "near capacity" for the musical's only scheduled performance on 12 Oct. (13)
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-- 35 years ago today - Oct 09, 1986 --

Joseph B. Wirthlin is ordained an Apostle, replacing Thomas S. Monson, who had been called to the First Presidency.
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1 - Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology
2 - Mormon Battalion Timeline, Herald Extra, March 25, 2010
3 - The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses
4 - Hatch, Charles M. and Compton, Todd M. editors, 'A Widow's Tale: 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney' p. 37
5 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
6 - The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015
7 - 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
8 - 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
9 - Clark, James R., Messages of the First Presidency (6 volumes)
10 - Diary Excerpts of Thomas A. Clawson, Signature Books Library, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
11 - Joseph Fielding Smith, Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015
12 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power, Appendix 5, Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1848-1996, http://amzn.to/extensions-power
13 - The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]