115 years ago today - Sep 2, 1898

[President Wilford Woodruff Journal] Friday Sept 2nd The following telegram was received at the President's office:

San Francisco, Sept 2 10.05 a.m.

President Woodruff is dead. He left us at 6.40 this morning. Break the news to his family. He slept peacefully all night and passed away without movement.

Geo. Q. Cannon

To Prest. Jos. F. Smith.

[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

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