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-- 195 years ago today - Sep 12, 1830 --
Elmina Shepard (Taylor), later the first general president of the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association (predecessor to the young Women organization), is born in Middlefield, New York.
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-- 180 years ago today - Sept 12 [1845] --
[Brigham Young]
.... brother Earls came in with a letter from brother Hancock stating that five more houses had been burned, the brethren on the west side of the creek had been obliged to leave and come on to the East side many were sick, and their goods were scattered about the cornfields. Sept 12 in council A. Babbit Esq. proposed our organizing into militia companies, according to instructions of Gov. Ford last fall, and Col. J. B. Backenstos I then ask Gen. Rich & Col. Markham & other officers present if they wish such a move they all declared they would not act in such a capacity at all, I then told them I should feel myself more degraded in the eyes of the Lord to be acting under a comission from Gov ford, than should to be changed into an affrican ... (1)
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-- 180 years ago today - Sep 12, 1845 --
Brigham Young writes to Solomon Hancock in Yelrome, where mobbers are burning Mormon houses, "The object of our enemies is to get opposition enough to raise popular excitement but we think it best to let them burn up our houses while we take care of our families and grain. . . . Be calm and patient till all things are ready. What is a little property or a few lives, compared with the properties and lives of a great people, and the house and ordinances on which the salvation of that people depend?" (2)
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-- 155 years ago today - Sep 12, 1870 (Morning) --
[Brigham Young Sermon]
[Pres] Young, gave most wholesome instructions to the people living far out at sea, from other settlements from whom they could obtain help in times of Indian uprises, only when it would be too late to render any material assistance. The whites were cautioned to give the Indian full value for his skins, furs, pine nuts and labor, and not take advantage of his ignorance as to the value of articles. The Indians are to be taught the science of agriculture, and the young ones their letters, the phonetic way of spelling, and the english language. The spirit, teachings and examples, only in a far more liberal sense, of William Penn are to characterize the dealings of the Kanab and other settlements of the Saints, with their dark skinned brethren, the Lamanites. -- Kanab, Utah (3)
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-- 135 years ago today - Sep 12, 1890 --
[George Q. Cannon]
[San Francisco] We had an interview with [pro-Mormon national republican comittee chair] Judge Estee. We told him we came to him as a friend, not as a paid attorney. We felt more free in coming to him in this way, because we knew that he was disinterested, an that we could expect to get his views uninfluenced by any other motives than to do us good. We went over the ground of our case very thoroughly. He referred to the necessity of our making some announcement concerning polygamy and the laying of it aside. I described to him the difficultythere was in writing such a document'-the danger there would be that we would either say too much or too little. He appreciated this difficulty, but nevertheless pressed the point as one that must be done sooner or later. [Republican leaders then promise to promote Utah's statehood in expectation that the church will work to have a majority of Mormons vote Republican.] (4)
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-- 115 years ago today - Sep 12, 1910 --
[George Albert Smith]
at SLC, "Went to the Gray Sanitarium to take a course of treatment for my nerves." (5)
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-- 115 years ago today - Monday, Sep 12, 1910 --
[John Henry Smith]
Salt Lake City
Prest. A. H. Lund and I looked through the Temple and talked with several employes. We learned that several Keys to the doors are out and that two had been lost. (6)
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-- 90 years ago today - Sep 12, 1935 --
[Heber J. Grant]
For your information, please be advised that the Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a corporation sole, organized under the law of the State of Utah for religious, educational and charitable purposes. It is distinct from the ordinary business corporation in that it has no board of directors and no by-laws. The President of the Church is the corporation. As a corporation sole he is fully empowered and authorized by law to handle all financial and property matters pertaining to the Church, including depositing in banks and checking against the same. (7)
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-- 50 years ago today - Sep 12, 1975-Friday --
[Leonard Arrington]
Tuesday afternoon Jack Adamson died at his home of a heart attack. ...
When Jack went to the University of Idaho in the fall of 1936 he joined a fraternity and partook of the life of fraternity boys which included occasional smoking, drinking, and partying. After two years he went on a mission [to Scotland] and was a good missionary from all reports. After he returned, World War II had commenced and he volunteered for service, as I recall in the Air Corps. This was probably the period when he resumed occasional smoking, drinking, coffee, etc. After the war he returned to the University of Utah and then completed his Ph.D. in literature at Harvard University [in 1956]. He then became the outstanding professor that so many students came to love and admire.
Despite all the above, let it be recorded that he never regarded himself as outside the church. He taught Sunday School for many years and was a great teacher. He permitted exploration of unorthodox ideas and this caused church authorities (I think Apostle Harold B. Lee) to advise the bishop that he be released. I heard him myself make a public statement in response to a question that he did not believe in a personal God and he did not regard himself as an orthodox Mormon. I think he did not believe in a future life. Nevertheless, he never became bitter or rebellious and did not like people who did. He was proud to call himself a Mormon in a cultural and social sense-in every sense except orthodox in theology. He thought Mormonism to be a superior religion and having desirable values which should be perpetuated. Even the temple [ceremony] he regarded as providing desirable ritual and celebration which would influence people for good-or it had the potential of
influencing people for good.... (8)
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1 - 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'
2 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
3 - Deseret News, quoted in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses
4 - George Q. Cannon 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
5 - Journals of George Albert Smith
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 - Heber J. Grant, Letter to Bishop National Bank, Honolulu, 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
8 - Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018
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