Box 2A
Container
Contains 37 Results:
Church Business--Presiding Apostle, 1879 September 10-30
File — Box: 2A, Folder: 31
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning land and timber laws; measures taken to protect church property from Brigham Young's heirs; the absence of workers from the temple stone quarry; the collection of money from the Perpetual Emigration Fund to help Mormons in Georgia escape "mobs and wicked men"; the apostle's? decision to send Tabernacle organist Joseph J. Daynes to New York City for finishing lessons; and John Taylor's directive that families of missionaries be cared for by their neighbors, particularly...
Dates:
1879 September 10-30
Church Business--Presiding Apostle, 1879 September 29-December 30
File — Box: 2A, Folder: 32
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning former missionary Rudger Clawson's return to Dalton, Georgia, to testify for the government in the Joseph Standing murder case, as well as the acquittal of the accused; school book appropriations for the Bear River Indian farm; progress in the Southern States Mission; purchase of the St. Johns, Arizona, area; John Taylor's agreement to pay $75,000 to settle the dispute over the Brigham Young estate; transfer of the Cashmere Goat Company's 540 goats to Orderville;...
Dates:
1879 September 29-December 30
Church Business--Presiding Apostle, 1880 January 10-February 26
File — Box: 2A, Folder: 33
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning the abolition of polygamy as a requirement for Utah statehood; progress of the European Mission; United States President Rutherford B. Hayes negative attitude about Mormonism and his appointment of Kentucky resident Eli H. Murray to Utah's governorship; the continued imprisonment of George Reynolds; the purchase of land in Mexico; Governor Murray's veto of a bill allowing women to hold public office; the 1880 Utah church; and church operation of the Pahriah (formerly...
Dates:
1880 January 10-February 26
Church Business--Presiding Apostle, 1880 March 4-July 9
File — Box: 2A, Folder: 34
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Correspondence about a proposal to erect a silk factory in Salt Lake City; the water rights dispute between Mona and Goshen settlements; aiding Indians in central Utah; John Taylor's instructions on how to deal with church members who disobey ranking priesthood leaders; plans to use stone cuttings from the Salt Lake Temple to build the Salt Lake Eighteenth Ward chapel; experimentation with glassmaking; a compilation of the history of Ogden to be included in Hubert H. Bancroft's ...
Dates:
1880 March 4-July 9
Church Business--President, 1880 August 20-1881 January 26
File — Box: 2A, Folder: 35
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Correspondence about the acquisition of life-size statues of Joseph and Hyrum Smith from their death masks; John Taylor's directive against mother-daughter plural marriages; the release of William Budge as British Mission president so he could represent Mormon Idahoans in the state legislature; John Taylor's decision to delay the installation of electric lights in Salt Lake City; Albert Carrington's calling as British Mission president and editor of the Millennial...
Dates:
1880 August 20-1881 January 26
Church Business--President, 1881 February 19-March 15
File — Box: 2A, Folder: 36
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Correspondence about the progress of the European Missions; Utah Gov. Eli Murray's issuance of the certificate of election to George Q. Cannon's losing opponent; and John Taylor's lenient stance regarding the observance of the Word of Wisdom (Mormon code of health) by aged converts of the church.
Dates:
1881 February 19-March 15
George Q. Cannon, 1881 September 30-1882 February 27
File — Box: 2A, Folder: 37
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Letters to George Q. Cannon, first counselor in the church presidency and former Utah territory delegate to Congress, concerning anti-Mormon legislation to be considered by Congress, and Utah Gov. Eli Murray's assistance in preparing them; the possibility of the governor's replacement; the death of Cannon's first wife, Elizabeth Hoagland Cannon; attempts to win national approval of Utah statehood and officially seat Cannon in the House of Representatives; Cannon's intellectual debates with the...
Dates:
1881 September 30-1882 February 27