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-- 180 years ago today - Aug 2, 1845 --
[William Clayton]
P.M. rode in the new Church Carriage with Prest. Young, H. C. Kimball, N. K. Whitney & George Miller to look out two Blocks of Emma-'s which she has agreed to give the Trustees for $550.-They selected Blocks 96 & 97 and then went to mother Smiths and took her into the Carriage to show her the blocks and give her her choice which of the two she would have to be deeded to herself and her daughters. She selected Block 96. She wants a house building of the same pattern with brother Kimballs. After we got through she asked for the new carriage saying that Prest. Young & the Trustees promised it to her. She also wanted another horse and a two horse harness. Neither the Trustees nor Prest. Young ever promised the carriage to mother Smith, but they told her that when it was built they would ride her round in it. There is no doubt but Arthur Millikin, Lucys husband, or else William has prompted her to do this out of ill feelings and jealousy lest brother Brigham should ride in it. Arthur
idles his time away. He will do nothing either for himself or any one else, but out of respect for mother Smith the brethren would rather indulge the whole family than to hurt her feelings. She is old and childish and the brethren strive to do all they can to comfort her. They have lent her the carriage while she lives, but it is church property and when she dies it falls into the hands of the Trustees. (1)
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-- 170 years ago today - Aug 2, 1855 --
The good people of Davis [county] had brought out their nominees for the Legislature.
Bishop John Stoker for the Council and Anson Call & Jesse Hobson for the House of Representative[.] My business to Davis was to have one of the nominees to withdraw and John D. Parker [of the Council of Fifty, the political governing body] put on the track in his place accordingly I called the Bishops and other leading men together and laid the matter before them[.] The plan was adopted & A Call withdran & Parker put in his place all to the most perfect satisfaction of all partiesstaid with my Brother all night (2)
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-- 125 years ago today - Thursday, Aug 2, 1900 --
[Apostle Rudger Clawson]
The clerk read a letter from Emma Jensen of Logan, in which she charged the son [William Smith] of a prominent official [Isaac Smith] of the church in the Cache Stake of being the father of an illegitimate child by her daughter. Apostle A. H. Lund, with Apostle Cowley to assist, was appointed to investigate the matter. (3)
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-- 70 years ago today - Aug 2, 1955 --
[J. Reuben Clark]
Mayor Earl J. Glade and County Commissioner Edwin Q. Cannon came in to see me as Chairman of the This is the Place Monument Commission. They wanted to talk about the proposal of Horace Sorenson's group who allegedly represent the Sons of the Utah Pioneers, to make a Pioneer Village Park out of part of the penitentiary property in Sugarhouse. ...
I told them, as I had told Commissioner Cannon yesterday, that personally I thought there was an incongruity and lack of the finer sensibilities to make a state penitentiary into a Pioneer Village; I thought the relationship was incongruous. ... (4)
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-- 40 years ago today - Aug 2, 1985 --
A new LDS hymnbook, the first revision in 37 years, came off the presses. (5)
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1 - The Nauvoo Diaries of William Clayton, 1842-1846, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015
2 - Diaries of Hosea Stout
3 - 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
4 - The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah 2015
5 - Church News: Historical Chronology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://www.ldschurchnewsarchive.com/articles/58765/Historical-chronology-of-The-Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Latter-day-Saints.html
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