170 years ago today - Aug 12, 1844

Lyman Wight: Commissioned by apostles 12 Aug. 1844 to "carry out the instructions he has received from Joseph.—to procure a location" in Texas

[Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 6, Biographical Sketches of General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]

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