Today in Mormon History - May 26

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-- 185 years ago today - May 26, 1841 --

Joseph Smith writes to Thomas Sharp, editor of the WARSAW SIGNAL: "SIR-You will discontinue my paper-its contents are calculated to pollute me, and to patronize the filthy sheet-that tissue of lies-that sink of iniquity-is disgraceful to any moral man. Yours, with utter contempt, JOSEPH SMITH. P.S. Please publish the above in your contemptible paper." Sharp publishes Smith's letter with the introduction: "In our paper of week before last, we took occasion to express an honest opinion in relation to the Mormons, and some of their leaders -an opinion which we believe is concurred in by nine-tenths of the community. No sooner, however, had our paper reached Nauvoo, than it caused the following highly important revelation to be forwarded us, from his holiness, the Prophet." This is Sharps first published sarcasm towards the Mormons but from now on he refers to Smith as "His Holiness." (1)
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-- 180 years ago today - May 26, 1846 --

"President Young told Daniel and O. Spencer that he dreamed, asleep or awake, that the Spirit said to him, tell Daniel to gather up what teams, tools, and seed and men he can, and go on and let Orson stay and take care of the families and bring them on, etc." (2)
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-- 135 years ago today - Tuesday, May 26, 1891 --
[Apostle John Henry Smith]
The Republican Committee met and adopted an address to the people. Myself, John M. Zane, and Geo. M. Cannon arc to go about organizing the Counties into clubs. John M. Zane and I took the Document to the Herald and Tribune. (3)
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-- 125 years ago today - May 26, 1901 --
[Heber J. Grant cryptically notes President Lorenzo Snow's permission to take another plural wife]
10 am Temple Fast mts'17 years since Gusta & I married'She willing to have me do my duty. & Pt Snow. Miss Babcock Mary Walker Kimball Hugh J Cannon Sister Edward Stevenson I sang O My Father at Pt Snow-request ... Gusta & I went to Josephine Snow's'Geo M Cannon & I blessed Libbie Ivins Gusta & I 6 '|-16th Ward I sang Let each man learn to know himself'Lord's side & Holy City'Spoke & Sang abt 11/4 hrs. (4)
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-- 120 years ago today - May 26, 1906 --

Thomas Clawson, brother of Apostle Rudger Clawson, writes: "Held our regular Block Teachers Meeting after the servide. Bro John Woodmansee was the home missionary and his talk was upon the Adam God doctrine which was entirely to deep for him as well as for all who listened to him. In fact it was a very dry and unprofitable meeting." (1)
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-- 40 years ago today - May 26, 1986 --

Christy Fichtner, a convert of seven months, becomes Miss USA.
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-- 20 years ago today - May 26, 2006 --

Holocaust survivors are listed in it despite agreement, Jews say

Jewish leaders in a dispute with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over its practice of posthumous baptisms say there is new evidence that the names of Jewish Holocaust victims continue to show up in the church's vast genealogical database.

"We've been dealing with it for 11 years, since 1995, and we continue to deal with it," said Ernest Michel, a Holocaust survivor and founding member of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.

A cross-referencing of more than 1,500 Dutch Jews whose names should have been deleted from the church's International Genealogical Index remain in the database, Michel said. ... (5)
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1 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
2 - Apostle Willard Richards Journal
3 - 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
4 - The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015
5 - "Mormon baptism database in dispute" by Jennifer Dobner, Associated Press, in A chronicle of the Mormon-Jewish controversy; The LDS Agreement: A JewishGen InfoFile, http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/ldsagree.html