Today in Mormon History

[President Heber J. Grant] I have pledged myself to gamble again $750.00 on Frank Taylor's gold mine in California. I am more anxious, ...

[Apostle Abraham H. Cannon] This is the anniversary of the Prophet Joseph Smith's birthday, and has been set apart as a day of fasting ...

[Hosea Stout] This evening a considerable melee happened at the Theatre between a policeman (Thos Hall) and a soldier in which quite a numb...

The first female LDS missionaries to be murdered are sixty-six-year-old Elizabeth W. King and sixty-five-year-old Jane Ruth Teuchner in Nort...

[Ezra Taft Benson] Had long conference with Bro. Geo[rge] F. Richards re. temple work, temple rulings and the importance of the second or h...

[Carl Badger] James H. Anderson has been telling me a story that for strangeness to moral straightness is a prize one. It began by my obser...

Presidents Lorenzo Snow, George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith were at the office. The sums of $30 and $100 were appropriated, the former in ...

[Apostle John Henry Smith] I bot four sets of Knives and Forks, paid $15.00. Z.C.M.I. gave one hundred tons of coal to the poor as a Christ...

[General Authority Abraham H. Cannon] Abram & Geo. Q. go to Ogden to stop & visit Frank (first Utah senator). "Frank was not i...

[William Clayton] [Young reconvenes the Quorum of the Anointed which begins initiating new members into the endowment ceremony]. "Met ...

[William Clayton] Met with the brethren of the first quorum to pray and counsel. My wife and O[rson] Pratts wife, P[arley] P. Pratts wife a...

Young reconvenes the Quorum of the Anointed which begins initiating new members into the endowment ceremony. [Quinn, D. Michael, The Morm...

Palmyra Reflector announces it will start publishing extracts from the Book of Mormon next week [ https://docs.google.com/document/d/10tt...

[Leonard Arrington] Today there was a gathering of LDS women scholars to coordinate some of their work relating to women's studies. ......

[President Joseph F. Smith] ....You all know that your fathers are indeed your fathers and that your mothers are indeed your mothers you al...

[Carl A. Badger] Last night I had a talk with F[ranklin]. S. Richards and asked him to give me a reason why I should not go outside of the ...

[J.D.T. McAllister Diary] Man disfellowshipped for claiming Revelations 10 A.M. at High Council. preferred a charge against Elder Herm...

Polysophical Society organizes with Apostle Lorenzo Snow as president. Women and men lecture and participate in discussions on equal basis. ...

[Brigham Young] I told them that Baptistism, Methodism, Presbyterianism, Quakerism, Shakerism, and every other ism I had studied and learne...

Shortly after the 1954 publication of Joseph Fielding Smith's Man, His Origin and Destiny, BYU History professor Richard D. Poll and his...