On this day in Mormon History
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-- 190 years ago today - Apr 24, 1835 --
Smith, the Mormon Prophet, was recognised, on Wednesday last, by Justice Miller of this village, for his appearance at the next Court of Common Pleas, to answer to a charge of Assault and Battery committed upon the person of his brother-in-law. [The hearing is postponed when the brother-in-law leaves the state for a time.] (1)
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-- 180 years ago today - Apr 24, 1845 --
Emma Smith argues that the Nauvoo high council is the presiding authority of the church and that William Marks is the lawful successor to her husband. She bases this on an 1835 revelation (D&C 107). Brigham Young writes a letter to U.S. President James K. Polk asking, "Will it be too much for us to ask you to convene a special session of congress and furnish us an asylum, where we can enjoy our rights of conscience and religion unmolested?" (2)
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-- 140 years ago today - Apr 24, 1885 (Friday) --
Bishop Hiram B. Clawson, of Salt Lake City, was arrested on a charge of u.c. [Unlawful Cohabitation, I.E. living with a polygamous wife], and placed under $1,500 bonds. (3)
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-- 135 years ago today - Apr 24, 1890 --
[Brigham Young Jr.]
Presidency cannot Consent to have our people promise to obey the 'law,' repudiate all wives but one, tho' some of the brethren who are actually obeying the law want to know what the difference is. In our circle meeting this afternoon I had a strong intimation or impression, I thought of the spirit, that Joseph F. Smith & myself will wear this anti Polygamy law out, and ere long we shall ride in these streets with our wives and children. (4)
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-- 130 years ago today - Apr 24, 1895 --
[Brigham Young Jr.]
Loafed around the office for want of something better to do. Have read Bro[ther] [Apostle] M.[oses] Thatcher's speech on the Convention and disapp[r]ove of it, he is out of order-- abusive, he is not united with his quorum. Learn that certain are employing spotters to catch leading men on Unlawful Cohab. The cloven foot is coming out gain the Repub[lican], organ is firing big gums at Church authorities. The "Lib" Party begins to wriggle & spit venom. (5)
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-- 110 years ago today - Apr 24, 1915 --
[Harold Reynolds to Walter Monson]
The first Council of Seventy, however, have been asked to get 100 seventies for the European mission, and they will have difficulty and it is a question whether or not they will be able to get the number asked for. Of course these brethren will be sent to Europe as they have not had any missionaries arrive or go to Europe since last June, and an effort is being made now to supply them with the help they are so greatly in need of. They have released many elders since the war broke out and as you know most of their elders were transferred to the missions in the United States, so it will be impossible to send you 75 seventies. (6)
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1 - Kenney, Scott, Saints Without Halos, "Mormon History 1830-1844," http://web.archive.org/web/20120805163534/saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
2 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
3 - Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology
4 - Brigham Young Jr. 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 - Diary of Apostle Brigham Young Jr., http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
6 - Harold G. Reynolds, Letter to Walter P. Monson, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015
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