Today in Mormon History - Dec 20

Today in Mormon History ...

[Second Counselor John Henry Smith Diary] Salt Lake City
The time up until noon was spent by the Presidency talking over with John C. Cutler matters in regard to the Hotel Utah and the combining of the Utah Co[unty] electrical plants owned by Jesse Knight and others. (1)
-- 100 years ago - Tuesday, Dec 20, 1910

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] Dec 20 1860 I Called upon F. D. Richards who has been suffering with the inflamitory rheumatism to a great Degree. I found him much better. I had an interview with Zerubabel Snow about the resistance of the people at Fairfield against the Collector of taxes. Judge Snow questioned the legality of the Law or act in ordering the Collector to raise a posse sufficiet to take their property to pay the taxes & Cost by Force. I spent the afternoon in the Legislator & evening at home. | (2)
-- 150 years ago - Dec 20, 1860

[Joseph Smith Sermon] Shows Papyri (3)
-- 175 years ago - 20Dec35


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 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993
3 - The Parallel Joseph, http://www.boap.org/LDS/Parallel/

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