Daniel DeLuce, war correspondent of Mormon parentage and heritage extending back to 1830's, receives Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. However, not until 1952 does self-acknowledged Mormon receive America's most prestigious publishing award. Two other Pulitzer recipients are non-LDS Utahns who often write about Mormons: Bernard Devoto in 1948 for ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI (history) and Wallace Stegner in 1972 for ANGLE OF REPOSE (fiction). In addition, Nobel Prize winner Haldor Laxness, non-Mormon, publishes novel PARADISE RECLAIMED in Iceland about LDS convert. Utah (specifically Spanish Fork) has largest number of Icelandic immigrants in United States.
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
85 years ago today - May 1, 1939
[J. Reuben Clark]
Brother Farnsworth had a bundle of papers with him, and turned over pages which he said were extracts from the Talmud, which showed the attitude of the Jews towards the Gentiles. He also had lists of the Red organizations, some 350 in all. He said that these organizations were of great numbers in Utah; that professors at the University of Utah belonged to them, as also professors at the Brigham Young University. He said that at the meetings which he had attended of the Communist Party they had advocated mass assassinations such as had been practised by them in Russia, and they also advocated mass starvation. He said that they are organized, and had their men listed who were to be assassinated under this wholesale plan, and that high up among those who were to be first taken were the Church Authorities, all of whom were to be murdered.
Brother Farnsworth spoke of the teaching down at Brigham Young University of religion, and particularly referred to the teaching of Elder Guy C. Wilson, who had for a thesis: "Sacrifice Prophet, Priest, or King whenever you deem it necessary in order to maintain faith in God." Brother Farnsworth said that the Brigham Young University teaching was to the effect that every man must decide for himself what he would believe'should make his own religion, really'and he said that the teaching was destructive of all discipline and regularity in a religious belief. ...
Brother Farnsworth charged that all of the policies of the present administration in Washington were shaped by the Jews ...
I told Brother Farnsworth that I had heard all of the things that he was telling me before; that some of them I knew to be true; that I felt we were in a serious condition; that I had been preaching about it for four or five years. ...
[The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah 2015]
Brother Farnsworth had a bundle of papers with him, and turned over pages which he said were extracts from the Talmud, which showed the attitude of the Jews towards the Gentiles. He also had lists of the Red organizations, some 350 in all. He said that these organizations were of great numbers in Utah; that professors at the University of Utah belonged to them, as also professors at the Brigham Young University. He said that at the meetings which he had attended of the Communist Party they had advocated mass assassinations such as had been practised by them in Russia, and they also advocated mass starvation. He said that they are organized, and had their men listed who were to be assassinated under this wholesale plan, and that high up among those who were to be first taken were the Church Authorities, all of whom were to be murdered.
Brother Farnsworth spoke of the teaching down at Brigham Young University of religion, and particularly referred to the teaching of Elder Guy C. Wilson, who had for a thesis: "Sacrifice Prophet, Priest, or King whenever you deem it necessary in order to maintain faith in God." Brother Farnsworth said that the Brigham Young University teaching was to the effect that every man must decide for himself what he would believe'should make his own religion, really'and he said that the teaching was destructive of all discipline and regularity in a religious belief. ...
Brother Farnsworth charged that all of the policies of the present administration in Washington were shaped by the Jews ...
I told Brother Farnsworth that I had heard all of the things that he was telling me before; that some of them I knew to be true; that I felt we were in a serious condition; that I had been preaching about it for four or five years. ...
[The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah 2015]
85 years ago today - May 1, 1939
President Heber J. Grant writes in a letter: "Married couples who, by inheritance and proper living, have themselves been blessed with mental and physical vigor are recreant in their duty if they refuse to meet the natural and rightful responsibility of parenthood. Of course, in every ideal home the health of the mother, as well as the intelligence and health of the children should receive careful consideration"
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
120 years ago today - May 1, 1904
In Salt Lake City Hannah Grover Hegsted becomes the third wife (and second living wife) of Bishop Victor C. Hegsted fourteen years after the first Manifesto was issued, and a month after the so-called Second Manifesto. Their marriage had been approved by an apostle the year before. No disciplinary action is ever brought against them. However Hegsted is released as Bishop of the Salem, Idaho ward the next year and Hannah quits her position at Ricks Academy.
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
130 years ago today - May 1, 1894
[President Wilford Woodruff Journal]
The Utah Armey went South last night to Murrey. The speeches of the Leaders was quite Warlike. These Armies of Men out of work gathering into larg Bodies and Marching to Washington I think is going to lay the foundation of Great Trouble for surely there is great trouble awaiting the Nations of the Earth including the United States. There is already begining to [be] Earthquak in Divers Places which are Destroying much property and lives Also Storms, Cyclones & the Sea Heaving itself beyound its bounds which are Causing great Destruction through out the world.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
The Utah Armey went South last night to Murrey. The speeches of the Leaders was quite Warlike. These Armies of Men out of work gathering into larg Bodies and Marching to Washington I think is going to lay the foundation of Great Trouble for surely there is great trouble awaiting the Nations of the Earth including the United States. There is already begining to [be] Earthquak in Divers Places which are Destroying much property and lives Also Storms, Cyclones & the Sea Heaving itself beyound its bounds which are Causing great Destruction through out the world.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
155 years ago today - May 1, 1869
The church begins obtaining sworn affidavits from persons who have personal knowledge of Joseph Smith instructing, performing, or entering into plural marriage. Unfortunately this is not a careful effort at an historical reconstruction of pre-1844 plural marriage but is a legalist response to the RLDS church's denials of the founding prophet's involvement in polygamy. The living witness who knows most details of Nauvoo polygamy, Brigham Young, does not add an affidavit of his own to this bound collection.
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
190 years ago today - May 1, 1834
Levi Lewis allegedly quotes Martin Harris accusing Joseph Smith of attempting to seduce Eliza Winters, which is printed in the Susquehanna Register and Northern Pennsylvanian. The date of the reported seduction attempt is unknown, but would have been 1825 to 1829. The Lewis allegation is included in E. D. Howe's, Mormonism Unveiled printed later that year. It constitutes the only published accusation of sexual impropriety or polygamy against Joseph Smith in the 1830s.
[Hales, Brian C., Joseph Smith's Polygamy: History and Theology, 3 vols., Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2013 (www.JosephSmithsPolygamy.com)]
[Hales, Brian C., Joseph Smith's Polygamy: History and Theology, 3 vols., Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2013 (www.JosephSmithsPolygamy.com)]
190 years ago today - May 1, 1834
Zion's Camp begins.
[Kenney, Scott, Saints Without Halos, "Mormon History 1830-1844," http://web.archive.org/web/20120805163534/saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml]
[Kenney, Scott, Saints Without Halos, "Mormon History 1830-1844," http://web.archive.org/web/20120805163534/saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml]
190 years ago today - May 1, 1834
Zion's Camp begins, the 1,000 mile march from Kirtland, OH to retake Jackson County, MO. Only 207 men at peak, plus women/children.
[Chronology of Mormon History, http://followtheprophets.com/chronology-of-mormon-history/]
[Chronology of Mormon History, http://followtheprophets.com/chronology-of-mormon-history/]
210 years ago today - 1-May 11, 1814
Joseph Sr. is listed in the Lebanon (NH) assessment records as owing $2.00 invoice, an 86-cent town tax, 72-cent school tax, $1.16 highway tax, 32-cent state tax, and no "minister's tax" . Unlike the previous years, he apparently did not own enough property to qualify for voting, which is consistent with Lucy's statement that the family was very poor after their bout with typhoid.
[Vogel, Dan, Early Mormon Documents, Appendix B: Chronology, 1771-1831, http://amzn.to/T5nY8w]
[Vogel, Dan, Early Mormon Documents, Appendix B: Chronology, 1771-1831, http://amzn.to/T5nY8w]
30 years ago today - Apr 30, 1994
Tahiti issues postage stamp commemorating 150 years of Mormonism there.
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
110 years ago today - Apr 30, 1914; Thursday
Bro[ther]. George Albert Smith ... said his health had been gradually improving all the time, and he hoped now to be able to fill regular appointments. ...
[First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
[First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
115 years ago today - Friday, Apr 30, 1909
[Apostle John Henry Smith Diary]
Ocean Park
It is a marvel to me how much I can sleep and how I want to tool about. I finished reading the life of the Empress Josephine.
[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, http://bit.ly/johnhenrysmith]
Ocean Park
It is a marvel to me how much I can sleep and how I want to tool about. I finished reading the life of the Empress Josephine.
[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, http://bit.ly/johnhenrysmith]
145 years ago today - Apr 30, 1879
Emma Hale Smith Bidamon: Died at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, 30 April 1879.
[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, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith]
[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, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith]
180 years ago today - Apr 30, 1844
Addison Pratt landed on Tubuai, the first missionary to begin work in the South Pacific.
[Church News: Historical Chronology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://www.ldschurchnewsarchive.com/articles/58765/Historical-chronology-of-The-Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Latter-day-Saints.html]
[Church News: Historical Chronology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://www.ldschurchnewsarchive.com/articles/58765/Historical-chronology-of-The-Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Latter-day-Saints.html]
30 years ago today - Apr 29, 1994
Salt Lake City hosts the fifty-ninth annual American Mothers National Convention under the leadership of Barbara B. Smith, a former general president of the Relief Society.
45 years ago today - Apr 29, 1979
Mark Hofmann writes to his mother, "During our Easter feast you gave it as your opinion that certain materials in the Church archives should not be made public because there exists [sic] certain faith-demoting facts that should not be known. While you may take comfort in knowing that this has been the traditional attitude of the leadership of the Church; you have expressed anxiety because I do not share this belief. . . . My conviction is that the truth is the most important thing." By this time Hofmann has already tried his hand at forgery.
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
110 years ago today - Apr 29, 1914
[Apostle Heber J. Grant Diary]
Tried to get Utah State Natl Bk to make me loan. But they refused ...
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Tried to get Utah State Natl Bk to make me loan. But they refused ...
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
135 years ago today - Mon. April 29th, 1889
[Abraham H. Cannon Journal]
"B.H. Roberts delivered himself up this morning and plead guilty to a charge of unlawful cohabitation. He will receive sentence on Wednesday."
[Abraham H. Cannon Journal Excerpts, http://www.amazon.com/Apostles-Record-Journals-Abraham-1889-1896/dp/B000MFD1K4]
"B.H. Roberts delivered himself up this morning and plead guilty to a charge of unlawful cohabitation. He will receive sentence on Wednesday."
[Abraham H. Cannon Journal Excerpts, http://www.amazon.com/Apostles-Record-Journals-Abraham-1889-1896/dp/B000MFD1K4]
150 years ago today - Apr 29, 1874
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal]
I Called and laid hands upon him [Issac Whitehead] a few days since & Blessed him & Ordained him to the Office of a High Priest & Patriarch & was satisfyed that He had but a few days to live.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
I Called and laid hands upon him [Issac Whitehead] a few days since & Blessed him & Ordained him to the Office of a High Priest & Patriarch & was satisfyed that He had but a few days to live.
[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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