Box 7
Container
Contains 18 Results:
Reed Smoot, 1900-1913
File — Box: 7, Folder: 1-10
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains the files by and about people in LDS history, arranged alphabetically by last name. The material in the files consists of typed extracts from the originals or photocopies. Selected quotes and a listing of letters indicate the nature of the material found in each folder. The quotations provide a sampling of the numerous topics covered.
Dates:
1900-1913
John Taylor, Diary, extracts, 1877-1886
File — Box: 7, Folder: 11
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents
Minutes, 9 April 1879, 6 pp., says: "Prest. Taylor said ... We cannot afford to let go any of the principles Heaven has revealed, neither need we be blatant nor defiant. Shall we stop keeping God's commandments? No. But we must take a prudent course. If people would get married he did not know that he was going to try to help it. He much preferred marriage to whoredom, even if whoredom was according to law. Thought...
Dates:
1877-1886
Moses Thatcher, 1892-1902
File — Box: 7, Folder: 12
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents
- "Highlights in the Life and Career of Apostle Moses Thatcher"
- JFS, letter to Moses Thatcher, 2 August 1892,3 pp.
- JFS, letter to N. C. Edlefsen, 4 November 1892
- JFS, letter to H. E. Baker, 4 November 1892,2 pp.
- JFS, letter to N. C. Edlefsen, 5 November 1892
Dates:
1892-1902
David J. Whittaker, "Historians and the Mormon Experience: A Sesquicentennial Perspective," 29 pp.
File — Box: 7, Folder: 13-14
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains the files by and about people in LDS history, arranged alphabetically by last name. The material in the files consists of typed extracts from the originals or photocopies. Selected quotes and a listing of letters indicate the nature of the material found in each folder. The quotations provide a sampling of the numerous topics covered.
Dates:
1820-1984
John R. Winder
File — Box: 7, Folder: 15
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents
John R. Sillito, "John R. Winder: Faithful Counselor, Builder of the Kingdom," 17 pp.
Dates:
1820-1984
Abraham O. Woodruff, Diary, extracts, 1901
File — Box: 7, Folder: 16
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents
"Regular meeting of the council [of Twelve Apostles and the First Presidency]: We discussed at length the question does a deacon hold all of the Aaronic Priesthood? Most of the brethren took the view that a deacon does not hold but part of the priesthood and that when a deacon is ordained a teacher or a priest he get more of the priesthood. President Joseph F. Smith, Brigham Young, Jr., John Henry Smith and I did not agree with this view but held that there are but two priesthoods and that when...
Dates:
1901
Wilford Woodruff, Diary, extracts, 1865-1870
File — Box: 7, Folder: 17
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents
Diary, 11 December 1869: "Joseph Smith ... is the LAST PROPHET who is called to lay the foundation of the great last dispensation of the fullness of times. Some have thought it strange what I have said concerning Adam, but the period will come when this people if faithful will be willing to adopt Joseph Smith as their prophet, seer, revelator, and god, but not the father of their spirits for that was our father Adam."
Dates:
1865-1870
Wilford Woodruff, Diary, extracts, 1871-1877
File — Box: 7, Folder: 18
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents
Diary, 31 August 1873: "Brigham Young [said] A man who did not have but one wife in the resurrection that woman will not be his but [be] taken from him and given to another. But he may be saved in the kingdom of God but be single to all eternity."
Dates:
1871-1877
Wilford Woodruff, Diary, extracts, 1877-1880
File — Box: 7, Folder: 19
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents
Diary, 31 December 1877: "The council attended to a good deal of business which was recorded in Pres. Taylor office journal. The subject of the trial of the highest authorities of the church was discussed. See the journal."
Dates:
1877-1880
Wilford Woodruff, Diary, extracts, 1881-1886
File — Box: 7, Folder: 20
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents
Diary, 9 March 1884: "Conference at Bountiful. Samuel W. Richards said where a man had two or three wives one after the other and did not have but one at a time he would still be in polygamy in the next world. The same as though he had them all at once. Joseph F. Smith thought different from Bro. Richards. He thought in that way a man would not be carrying out the patriarchal law of marriage if that would have answered he did not see the necessity of the Lord commanding Joseph the Prophet to...
Dates:
1881-1886