[Diary of Second Counselor John Henry Smith] Richfield and Salt Lake City
My son Glenn is 17 years old to day. My wife Josephine entertained about 35 of my decendents tonight at her home. We had a pleasant time to gether. George Albert and our daughter Priscilla S. Langton were absent.
Tuesday, Sept. 20, 1910 - Salt Lake City
Bathsheba Wilson Bigler Smith died at 10 a.m. at her daughter Bathsheba Smith Merrills home. (1)
-- 100 years ago - Monday, Sep 19, 1910
[Diary of Apostle John Henry Smith] Kanab
The High Council met at 9 a.m. and the members who sit on this case of the Bishopric against The Presidency are: John Rider, Edwin Ford, Ezra T. Woolley, Charles M. Carroll, Taylor Crosby, Henry E. Bowman, James Leithead, Silas Harris, Robert Moncur, M.D. Harris, Alvin Heaton, Jesse W. Crosby, Jr.
F. M. Lyman St., John Henry Smith, John W. Taylor, and Abraham H. Cannon presiding.
The day was spent in taking evidence.
An impromptu Concert was held in the evening. We had a pleasant time.
Bros. Lyman, Taylor, Cannon and myself got together and agreed upon our decision. (1)
-- 120 years ago - Friday, Sep 19, 1890
On his 19th birthday Orson Pratt is baptized into the Mormon Church by his brother Parley. He becomes one of the first apostles, almost commits suicide after finding that Joseph Smith had propositioned his wife, is excommunicated, rebaptized, fulfills 11 missions for the church. He teaches himself mathematics, physics and astronomy and publishes textbooks on advanced algebra. He differs in doctrinal matters with president Brigham Young and is threatened with disciplinary action over it but Pratt's views are later adopted by the Church while Young's are labeled as "heresy." Before he dies in 1881 Orson Pratt had been a Mormon longer than any other person. (2)
-- 180 years ago - Sep 19, 1830
1 - 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
2 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
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