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-- 180 years ago today - Sep 20, 1845 --
Lieutenant General Brigham Young said he laid hands on the deceased the day he was shot that he felt to pronounce a martyr blessing and the blessing of a Martyr crown, in he has died in the cause of mobocracy, I feel to sympathize with this Father Phippins. He died but he desired to live for the same cause as we do. He shall come forth in the first resurrection. I am for work and preach to live long upon the earth. God bless you, Amen. -- Nauvoo, Illinois (1)
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-- 175 years ago today - Sep 20, 1850 --
Brigham Young: Appointed governor of Utah Territory by Millard Fillmore 20 September 1850. (2)
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-- 160 years ago today - Sep 20, 1865 --
The Salt Lake Telegram reports that Salt Lake City's Jews celebrate Yom Kippur in the LDS 14th Ward chapel, as arranged by Brigham Young. (3)
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-- 140 years ago today - Sunday, Sep 20, 1885 --
[John Henry Smith]
Ashley, Uinta County
... The brethren voted to ... forgive each other their trespasses. (4)
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-- 135 years ago today - Saturday, Sep 20, 1890 --
[John Henry Smith]
Kanab
The High Council met at 8 a.m. The following decision was made.
Decision
In the matter of the Bishopric of the Kanab Ward against the Presidency of the Kanab Stake of Zion.
In the first Count we find the rules of the ward in regard to public dances should not have been applied to private parties; but the Presidency of the Stake should have given instructions for the correction of this matter to the Bishopric of the Ward.
The second Count pertains to an incorporate[d] water company whose business policy should be dictated by the stockholders, and while we do not approve of ecclesiastical interference in such matters, if any influence is used it should be for the promotion of union.
... The fourth Count relates to the removal of the Kanab Bishopric by the Presidency of the Stake without a hearing before the High Council.
In this matter we find that it was a strained construction which enabled the Presidency to consider the letter of the Bishopric as a resignation, and their release was hasty and unwarranted....
The conference convened in the stake academy building at 10 a.m. ... Francis M. Lyman took up the ballance of the time explaining to the people their condition and calling for repentance from certain brethren who had made some very harsh remarks about the bishop.
... The High Council and Priesthood of the Stake met at 7 p.m. the brethren nominated a number of men from whom the apostles selected by the aid of those present the bishop and Council. Bishop L. C. Mariger having resigned in the morning at the High Council meeting this action was found necessary.. Joel H. Johnson was chosen for Bishop, Alfred Young for first Councillor and Asa W. Judd for second Councillor. All were unanimously sustained. (4)
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-- 125 years ago today - Sep 20, 1900 --
[Marriner W. Merrill]
I went to the Tabernacle and heard Mr. [President] Roosevelt and some of his party speak on the issues of the day. They complimented Utah people for having so many children to inhabit the land and build up the country. Had a good meeting. No vindictive feeling toward the Democratic Party was indulged in; the party were Republicans. (It was at this meeting, when Theodore Roosevelt was informed that father had 45 children, that he is reported to have said "Bully" and pulled out of his vest pocket a gold button to be given father as a souvenir. M. C. M.)
[I suspect the parenthetical note was added by one of Marriner Merrill's children] (5)
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-- 120 years ago today - Sep 20, 1905 --
As Joseph F. Smith and his wife sleep, a burglar robs their bedroom. (6)
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-- 115 years ago today - Sep 20, 1910 --
[J. Golden Kimball]
Elder Geo[rge]. Albert Smith is improving slowly.
The other brethren are pretty well unless it be J. G[olden]. Kimball who says he has appendicitis on both sides and indigestion between and for this reason he positively refuses to smile. (7)
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-- 90 years ago today - Sep 20, 1935 --
[Heber J. Grant]
I had a burning ambition, when I was a young man, to obtain an education, but left school at the age of fifteen, and went to work in order to support my widowed mother. I was offered a cadetship at the Naval Academy, and it nearly broke my heart to refuse the offer, but I said: 'Mother, I am going to stay home and take care of you.' The dream of my life was to get an education. (8)
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-- 80 years ago today - Sep 20, 1945 --
[Marion G. Romney]
Submitted to President Clark a report showing that between the first and last of 1945, we will have distributed in Salt Lake County about $160,000.00 worth of commodities through the Welfare Program. He wanted this information in connection with the request for a contribution made of the First Presidency by the Community Chest. (9)
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-- 75 years ago today - Sep 20, 1950 --
[George Albert Smith]
"LeRoy Snow came to see Arthur about Brother Romney writing the story of his father's lifePresident Lorenzo Snow. I instructed Arthur to have LeRoy see me at some time so that I could talk with him concerning this matter.. I am sure that there is some phase of the book that Roy might like to include which would be inadvisable." (10)
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-- 35 years ago today - Sep 20, 1990 --
Bookcraft, Inc. releases Gerald N. Lund's first volume in the historical novel series The Work and the Glory. The series sells more than a million copies, becoming one of the most successful ventures in Church publication history.
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1 - On the Mormon Frontier, the Diaries of Hosea Stout. Juanita Brooks, ed. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1964. 1:69, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses
2 - Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith
3 - The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]
4 - 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
5 - Notes from the Miscellaneous Record Book, 1886-1906: Selected diary notes from the journal books of Marriner Wood Merrill, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
6 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot..com
7 - J. Golden Kimball 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
8 - Heber J. Grant, Letter to Mr. C. F. Steed, 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
9 - The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015, Appendix 2, The Diaries of Marion G. Romney, 1941-1961, Abridged
10 - Journals of George Albert Smith
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