Box 2A
Container
Contains 37 Results:
Church Business--Presiding Apostle, 1878 October 21-November 14
File — Box: 2A, Folder: 20
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning the formation of a new settlement in the Elk Mountains; George Reynolds's polygamy case before the United States Supreme Court; closure and reopening of the Endowment House; unauthorized dispersement of church funds by the British Mission; purchase of a meetinghouse in Christiana, Norway; Ogden ward boundaries; and management of conduct in the Salt Lake Theatre.
Dates:
1878 October 21-November 14
Church Business--Presiding Apostle, 1878 November 20-December 28
File — Box: 2A, Folder: 21
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Correspondence about publication of the Book of Mormon in Liverpool, England; administrative reorganization of Arizona settlements; economic problems of the colony in Conejos, Colorado; administrative neglect in Tooele, Utah, schools; the death of Orson Hyde; and an audit of the Laie pineapple plantation in Hawaii.
Dates:
1878 November 20-December 28
Church Business--Presiding Apostle, 1878 December 24-1879 January 24
File — Box: 2A, Folder: 22
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning the establishment of United Order colonies in Arizona and New Mexico; housing arrangements for the widows of Orson Hyde; the purchase of a meetinghouse in Christiana, Norway; the colonization of Castle Valley; the formation of mining cooperative associations in and around Weber County; an outbreak of disease in Arizona settlements; John Taylor's threat to call for a boycott of the Ogden Junction if it continued to publish articles...
Dates:
1878 December 24-1879 January 24
Church Business--Presiding Apostle, 1879 January 25-February 20
File — Box: 2A, Folder: 23
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
A letter to Wilford Woodruff about the Reynolds polygamy case, the Mormon women's delegation to Washington, D.C., and John Taylor's New York Tribune interview; discussion of land acquisitions for Brigham Young College in Logan; Salt Lake Fourteenth Ward Bishop Thomas Taylor's petition for compensation for his assistance in early church migration efforts; a letter to William Budge, president of the British Mission, concerning emigration and publication of the...
Dates:
1879 January 25-February 20
Church Business--Presiding Apostle, 1879 February 20-March 13
File — Box: 2A, Folder: 24
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning John Taylor's disapproval of members turning to the civil rather than church courts to resolve community disputes; the selection of school textbooks; John Taylor's condemnation of the breaching of land agreements with the Indians or otherwise "oppressing the Lamanites"; publication of Orson Pratt's pamphlet, "A Key to the Universe"; and the Perpetual Emigration Fund.
Dates:
1879 February 20-March 13
Church Business--Presiding Apostle, 1879 April 14-May 27
File — Box: 2A, Folder: 26
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
The appointment of Sanpete Stake President Canute Peterson as assistant superintendent of Manti Temple construction; a directive to compile membership records for Australian Mormons; a progress report on the European missions; a letter to Orson Pratt concerning publication of the Doctrine and Covenants and the calling of Logan Stake President Moses Thatcher as an apostle; discussion of statewide cooperative trade agreements; the submission of Mormon-written...
Dates:
1879 April 14-May 27
Church Business--Presiding Apostle, 1879 May 23-June 3
File — Box: 2A, Folder: 27
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Correspondence about the introduction of missionaries into Mexico City; a letter to Orson Pratt concerning publication of the Doctrine and Covenants, Book of Mormon, and Pratt's pamphlet, "Key to the Universe," in England; discussion of the purchase of Lee's Ferry on the Grand Colorado River; and an inquiry about a grant from the Arizona legislature to John D. Lee, who was executed for involvement in the Mountain...
Dates:
1879 May 23-June 3
Church Business--Presiding Apostle, 1879 June 3-25
File — Box: 2A, Folder: 28
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning the establishment of ward trustees to hold local church property; the visit of John R. Park, president of the University of Deseret, and Louis F. Moench, president of the Weber School District, to northern Utah stakes; financing emigration from England; proposed publication of poetry by Mary J. Tanner, a Provo homemaker; the incarceration of George Reynolds in a Lincoln, Nebraska, penitentiary following his polygamy conviction; the dispute over Brigham Young's estate,...
Dates:
1879 June 3-25
Church Business--Presiding Apostle, 1879 June 28-July 18
File — Box: 2A, Folder: 29
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning George Reynolds's imprisonment in a Nebraska penitentiary and subsequent return to Utah; emigration of European converts; a directive to the Sanpete Stake president to excommunicate church members who disobey orders to distribute irrigation water inequitably; the selection of school textbooks; the dispute between John Taylor and Brigham Young's heirs over settlement of Young's estate; water disputes among settlers; construction progress on the Logan and Manti temples;...
Dates:
1879 June 28-July 18
Church Business--Presiding Apostle, 1879 July 16-September 10
File — Box: 2A, Folder: 30
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Correspondence about the appointment of water masters to oversee the distribution of water rights in central and southern Utah; John Taylor's warning against immigrants' dishonesty in obtaining lower railway fares by misrepresenting their children's ages; the church Auditing Committee's assessment of debts by Brigham Young's sons, Lorenzo D., Arta D. and Ernest J., incurred while they served missions in England; settlement of the Brigham Young estate; John Taylor's chastisement of an Ogden...
Dates:
1879 July 16-September 10