Today in Mormon History - Oct 17

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On this day in Mormon History http://TodayInMormonHistory.com/ -- 195 years ago today - Oct 17, 1830 -- Oliver Cowdery signs a statement with an addendum signed by Parley P. Pratt, Peter Whitmer Jr., and Ziba Peterson declaring their intention to preach as missionaries to Lamanites "to rear up a pillar as a witness where the Temple of God shall be built, in the glorious New-Jerusalem." (1) ---------------------- -- 160 years ago today - Oct 17, 1865 (Tuesday) -- [Seven women and men] were killed by Indians, under the chief Black Hawk, near Ephraim, Sanpete Co. (2) ---------------------- -- 135 years ago today - Oct 17, 1890 -- [Abraham H. Cannon] Uncle David [Cannon] came in about noon and told me that he had just had a conversation with Lindsey Sprague, a deputy marshal, who told him that there were papers out for my arrest, but it was not the intention to serve them until my family were located and where they could be captured. I got Chas. H. Wilcken to investigate the matter for me and he learned that it was indeed a fact that a warrant was issued and in Doyle's hands for my arrest. I therefore kept in my room all the afternoon. (3) ---------------------- [Wilford Woodruff] I visited the Saltair works in the Afternoon. They had made 36,000 tons in 1890. They take out 500 tons a day. They have now 20,000 piled for shiping. It is the greatest salt works in the world. (4) ---------------------- -- 60 years ago today - Oct 17, 1965 -- The New York World's Fair concludes. The Mormon Pavilion, with a 127-foot-high replica of the triple east towers of the Salt Lake Temple, was visited by millions during the fair. ---------------------- 1 - Mark Lyman Staker, Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations: A Selective Chronology of Significant Events in Ohio's LDS History 2 - Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology 3 - Abraham H. Cannon (Author), Edward Leo Lyman (Editor), Candid Insights of a Mormon Apostle: The Diaries of Abraham H. Cannon, 1889-1895, Signature Books 4 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies via todayinmormonhistory-email https://ift.tt/3m2edyF Manage Unsubscribe from these notifications or sign in to manage your Email service.