Box 3B
Container
Contains 37 Results:
Church Business--President-in-Exile, 1887 March 2-December 20
File — Box: 3B, Folder: 21
Identifier: B
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning the selling of Salt Lake Dramatic Association to individual Mormons; questions from a local leader regarding self-administration of the sacrament, abortion, interracial members, bestiality, and exposure of the temple endowment ceremony; John Taylor's refusal to assist the Logan Stake in paying Logan Temple operating expenses; the search for a sawyer and carpenter to assist on the Washakie Indian Mission; the church's $6,600 settlement with excommunicated apostle Albert...
Dates:
1887 March 2-December 20
Last Will and Testament, 1887 June 13
File — Box: 3B, Folder: 22
Identifier: B
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The John Taylor family papers (1844-1994) are a collection of material reflecting the life and work of John Taylor, third president of the LDS Church, and his descendants, John W. Taylor, Raymond Woolley Taylor, and Samuel Taylor. Included are letters, biographies, research materials, genealogies, articles written by other authors, diaries, journals, and books. Correspondence comprises a major portion of the collection and has been organized within the papers of each individual. Consequently,...
Dates:
1887 June 13
Church Business--President-in-Exile, 1887 January 5-February 28
File — Box: 3B, Folder: 23
Identifier: B
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning the allocation of church tithing funds, the calling of missionaries, and the transfer of church property to private holders in order to prevent confiscation by federal authorities.
Dates:
1887 January 5-February 28
Church Business--President-in-Exile, 1886 October 20-November 30
File — Box: 3B, Folder: 24
Identifier: B
Scope and Contents
A report of John Taylor's seventy-eighth birthday celebration at the Gardo House; letters concerning church financial affairs, including the construction of the Provo Theatre, the defense of Lorenzo Snow before the United States Supreme Court, and the Spanish translation of the Book of Mormon; John Taylor's inquiry into the worthiness of disfellowshipped treasury employee A. M. Musser; and a letter concerning the employment of Andrew J. Jenson to work...
Dates:
1886 October 20-November 30
Church Business--President-in-Exile, 1886 November 30-1887 January 18
File — Box: 3B, Folder: 25
Identifier: B
Scope and Contents
Correspondence that includes John Taylor's directive to call more settlers to San Juan County to prevent losing political control to non-Mormons there.
Dates:
1886 November 30-1887 January 18
Church Business--President-in-Exile, 1886 August 28-September 22
File — Box: 3B, Folder: 26
Identifier: B
Scope and Contents
A directive from John Taylor to maintain a record of names and charges of federally indicted Mormons in the church historian's office; an Ogden letter complaining of youth participation in "wickedness" at Park Lake resort; and church financial correspondence.
Dates:
1886 August 28-September 22
Revelation on Plural Marriage, 1886 January 27
File — Box: 3B, Folder: 27
Identifier: B
Scope and Contents
John Taylor's revelation, recorded by Joseph F. Smith, Jr., reaffirming the "new and everlasting covenant" involving plural marriage; 1886 Revelation: A Revelation of the Lord to John Taylor, an illustrated pamphlet published in 1963 discussing the revelation in detail; and two short letters discussing financial matters.
Dates:
1886 January 27
Ogden Kraut, 1972 January
File — Box: 3B, Folder: 28
Identifier: B
Scope and Contents
A discourse by Mormon scholar Ogden Kraut, responding to Apostle Mark E. Peterson's request that he denounce his belief in the practice of polygamy, in which he cites John Taylor and other Mormon figures in maintaining that "the principle" is correct and eternal.
Dates:
1972 January
Church Business--Presiding Apostle, 1879 October 19-1884 August 26
File — Box: 3B, Folder: 29
Identifier: B
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning various church issues, including John Taylor's invitation by the Rocky Mountain Electric Light Co. to attend an exhibition of the Swan incandescent lightbulb.
Dates:
1879 October 19-1884 August 26
Funeral Program, 1887 July 29
File — Box: 3B, Folder: 30
Identifier: B
Scope and Contents
The program to John Taylor's funeral in the Salt Lake Tabernacle.
Dates:
1887 July 29