Today in Mormon History - Feb 10

Brigham Young's office journal records: "Prest Young attended Tabernacle morning and afternoon. In the afternoon the President preached subject the disrupted State of the Union- The necessity of being subject here that we might learn how to govern in the world to come." (1)
-- 150 years ago today - Feb 10, 1861

[Apostle Heber J. Grant Diary] Wells Fargo and Co have promised to take the $100,000 for the Church as follows $25,000 for six, $25,000 for 12, $25,000 for 18, and $25,000 for 24 months at eight percent per annum . . . (2)
-- 120 years ago today - February 10-14, 1891

Brigham Young: Returned to Salt Lake City 10 February 1871. (3)
-- 140 years ago today - Feb 10, 1871

1 - This Day in Mormon History, http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html
2 - Diary Excerpts of Heber J. Grant,
3 - 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

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