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-- 170 years ago today - May 20, 1855 --
"Elder E[zra] T. Benson exhibited part of an ancient sword which had been dug up about 10 ft. under ground while excavating for a well, which called forth a few remarks from him."
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-- 140 years ago today - May 20, 1885 --
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff]
20 I receivd 2 letter from Sarah & Mary & wrote 3 Letters to Sarah Newton & Mary. I looked over my sealing record & found I had sealed 1,095 Couple up to Jan 1885. W Woodruff had sealed to him of his dead relatives {336}. (1)
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-- 135 years ago today - Tuesday, May 20, 1890 --
[Apostle John Henry Smith]
The morning papers announce that the Supreme Court has decided to confiscate our Church property, Fuller, Lamar & Field Dissenting. (2)
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-- 85 years ago today - May 20, 1940 --
[J. Reuben Clark]
Pres McKay: 830 a.m. Talked about the war: found him so pro-ally he is ready to go to war, almost,'probably no so much pro-ally as anti-Hitler. ... (3)
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-- 45 years ago today - May 20, 1980-Tuesday --
[Leonard Arrington]
.... Gary thinks officers of the Church, particularly General Authorities, need to know something about the history of the position of the patriarch and his activities and functions. Gary several times has emphasized that he has absolutely no interest in having the position of patriarch or succeeding his father. He knows he never will. He has had a divorce, for one thing. But his interest is on the same order, I suppose, as that of a son or daughter who wants to see his/her father's history written.
Received a telephone call this afternoon from John Ullman, a member of the Church in Southern California who talked with me after my address at USC in April. He wants me to send him a copy of the study we do on Adam- God doctrine when it is made available. He is worried about it because of a pamphlet distributed during the LA area conference on Adam-God which quotes from my Charles C. Rich book and from Elder [Mark E.] Petersen's book on Adam-God.70 Brother Ullman's address is 4505 Temple City Boulevard, Temple City, CA, 91780. (4)
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1 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
2 - 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
3 - The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah 2015
4 - Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018
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