tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48664051568797833922024-03-28T20:29:02.836-07:00Today in Mormon HistoryDaily Snippets of what happened on this day in Mormon Church History.Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.comBlogger30854125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-34101888234781456872024-03-28T05:01:00.005-07:002024-03-28T05:01:58.761-07:0095 years ago today - Mar 28, 1929Ruth May Fox is called as the third general president of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association (the predecessor of the Young Women program), with Lucy Grant Cannon and Clarissa A. Beesley as counselors.<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-28163416464783317502024-03-28T05:01:00.003-07:002024-03-28T05:01:40.173-07:0095 years ago today - Mar 28, 1929The First Presidency and Twelve decide to disband the private prayer circle organizations which meet weekly or monthly in temples. Until 1978 local stakes continue to have prayer circle meetings in temples or in special rooms of stake meeting houses.
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<br>[<a href="https://byustudies.byu.edu/PDFLibrary/19.1QuinnLatter-day-dd60c2d0-159f-4238-84c7-42658a35d6ce.pdf">https://byustudies.byu.edu/PDFLibrary/19.1QuinnLatter-day-dd60c2d0-159f-4238-84c7-42658a35d6ce.pdf</a> Latter-day Saint Prayer Circles, BYU Studies 19 no. 1 (1978) by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( <a href="http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase">http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase</a> )]]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-22978871268141723562024-03-28T05:01:00.001-07:002024-03-28T05:01:19.213-07:00125 years ago today - Mar 28, 1899[Birth of Harold B. Lee]
<br>He was born on 28 March 1899 in Clifton, Oneida County, Idaho, to Samuel Marion Lee and Louisa Emeline Bingham. He was the second son in a family of six children, growing up in impoverished, rural conditions. He started school a year earlier than was the normal practice in his farming community because he could already write his name and knew the alphabet. As a young boy he was large for his age, and when his friends were ordained to the Mormon priesthood, he became a deacon also, although technically he was not old enough for the honor.
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<br>[Utah History Encyclopedia: Harold B. Lee, <a href="http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/">http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/</a>]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-89367793842119113462024-03-28T05:00:00.003-07:002024-03-28T05:00:58.095-07:00130 years ago today - Wed., Mar 28, 1894I (Pres. Woodruff) was sealed to my father, and then had him sealed to the Prophet Joseph. Erastus Snow was sealed to his father though the latter was not baptized after having heard the Gospel. He was, however, kind to the Prophet, and was a Saint in everything except baptism. The Lord has told me that it is right for children to be sealed to their parents, and they to their parents just as far back as we can possibly obtain the records; and then have the last obtainable member sealed to the Prophet Joseph, who stands at the head of this dispensation. It is also right for wives whose husbands never heard the Gospel to be sealed to those husbands, providing they are willing to run the risk of their receiving the Gospel in the Spirit world. There is yet very much for us to learn concerning the temple ordinances, and God will make it known as we prove ourselves ready to receive it. In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I
<br>asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.
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<br>[Abraham H. Cannon Journal Excerpts, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Apostles-Record-Journals-Abraham-1889-1896/dp/B000MFD1K4">http://www.amazon.com/Apostles-Record-Journals-Abraham-1889-1896/dp/B000MFD1K4</a>]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-67012378884646978242024-03-28T05:00:00.001-07:002024-03-28T05:00:38.322-07:00175 years ago today - Mar 28, 1849At organzation of Utah's Nauvoo Legion, Hosea Stout notes: "John Pack & John D. Lee were each put in nomination for Majors by regular authority & both most contemptuously hissed down. When any person is thus duly nominated I never before knew the people to reject it [-] But on this occasion it appears that they are both a perfect stink in every body's nose."
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<br>[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( <a href="http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase">http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase</a> )]]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-14839355710134439882024-03-27T05:03:00.001-07:002024-03-27T05:03:17.833-07:0030 years ago today - Mar 27, 1994SALT LAKE TRIBUNE article, "The Ups and Downs of Prozac-Utah's Favorite Drug." The reporter quotes a distinguished psychiatrist as saying: "the typical Utahn taking Prozac frequently is a housewife overwhelmed with a lot of children. She's not able to deal with an unresolved problem with a marriage, and wants a solution. She will say to her doctor that she is kind of depressed and they will prescribe it. What she really needs is family counseling or therapy." The psychiatrist later claims he was misquoted.<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-41024278747601375982024-03-27T05:02:00.005-07:002024-03-27T05:02:57.176-07:0040 years ago today - Mar 27, 1984Official statement that First Presidency "are disturbed and saddened at the presence of anti-Catholic posters being placed in areas within Salt Lake City."
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<br> BYU bookstore director Roger Utley explains why records of the British group Culture Club have been removed from bookstore shelves pending an investigation of the sexual behavior of the group's lead singer, Boy George: "It's more an evaluation of the artist than of his music.". Ryan Thomas, Director of Student Programs, adds that Boy George, whose penciled eyebrows, heavy makeup, and ankle-length smocks had become his band's trademark, are a "well-recognized symbol" of transvestism and homosexuality. Almost immediately, some students pen sarcastic responses such as "Is there any real difference between a man who dresses as a woman in order to sell records and a parochial school that masquerades as a university in order to sell a church?"
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<br>[On This Day in Mormon History, <a href="http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com">http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com</a>]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-86554681505998494742024-03-27T05:02:00.003-07:002024-03-27T05:02:38.359-07:0095 years ago today - Mar 27, 1929[George F. Richards]
<br>We excused Isaac D. Cooper from coming to the Temple. He does not sustain the Authorities of the Church in their attitude toward the practice of Plural marriage and he is loud mouthed about it and determined in his way.
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<br>[George F. Richards Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1910-1951, Privately Published, Salt Lake City, Utah 2010]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-20652888229358433982024-03-27T05:02:00.001-07:002024-03-27T05:02:17.475-07:00135 years ago today - Mar 27, 1889Establishment of Sugar industry in Utah-- With L.D.S. Church encouragement and approval, Arthur Stayner, a Mormon horticulturist, experimented with sugar cane and sugar beets for the manufacture of sugar locally through the 1880's. In the spring of 1889 a prospectus was drawn up for the establishment of the Utah Sugar Company with the hopes of re-establishing a domestic sugar industry in the intermountain region. The First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles supported the fund-raising drive .... It was from this beginning that there eventually developed the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company in which the L.D.S. Church became so heavily interested and involved during the later administration of President Heber J. Grant. ...
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<br>[Clark, James R., Messages of the First Presidency (6 volumes)]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-10607043429884748662024-03-27T05:01:00.005-07:002024-03-27T05:01:56.987-07:00155 years ago today - Mar 27, 1869[Hosea Stout]
<br>Indians made a raid in Round Vally [Scipio,] captured 100 horses
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<br>[Diaries of Hosea Stout]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-67686798870577756342024-03-27T05:01:00.003-07:002024-03-27T05:01:36.597-07:00165 years ago today - Mar 27, 1859 (Sunday)About this time it was reported that certain U.S. officials had entered into a conspiracy to secure the arrest of Pres. Brigham Young, and that Col. Johnston had promised the assistance of U.S. troops under his command to effect the arrest. As a consequence Gov. Cumming notified General Daniel H. Wells to hold the militia in readiness to prevent the outrage, should it be attempted; 5,000 troops (militia) were placed under arms.
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<br>[Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-14707431458866197532024-03-27T05:01:00.001-07:002024-03-27T05:01:16.119-07:00175 years ago today - Mar 27, 1849Apostles Orson Hyde, George A. Smith, and Ezra T. Benson write Young that Council of Fifty member Peter Haws complains that "Twelve men had swallowed up thirty eight." Council members George Miller, Lyman Wight, and Lucien Woodworth also claim that Quorum of Twelve usurped Fifty's theocratic prerogatives after 1844. Today Smith retorts that Council of Fifty is "nothing but a debating School."
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<br>[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( <a href="http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase">http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase</a> )]]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-78368329969065915642024-03-27T05:00:00.003-07:002024-03-27T05:00:55.774-07:00180 years ago today - Mar 27, 1844[Nauvoo Neighbor]
<br>- Story: "Coffee Drinkers" -- Describes how to grow coffee beans.
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<br> - Story: "The Oregon Question" -- Describes a debate by Presidential Candidates regarding Oregon and Texas, and then describes Joseph Smith's Platform.
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<br> - Announcement: Deserting Wife -- W.W. Rust -- Wealthy W. Rust has abandoned W.W. Rust, and should not be harbored or offered credit in the town.
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<br>[<a href="http://boap.org/LDS/Nauvoo-Neighbor">http://boap.org/LDS/Nauvoo-Neighbor</a>]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-46514849930106772142024-03-27T05:00:00.001-07:002024-03-27T05:00:35.564-07:00180 years ago today - Mar 27, 1844Several affidavits are filed that testify that secret meetings were held about March 15 for the purpose of formulating an opposition to Joseph Smith.
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<br>[Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-10965355629829336752024-03-26T05:01:00.003-07:002024-03-26T05:01:37.787-07:0045 years ago today - Mar 26, 1979-Monday[Leonard Arrington]
<br>Further on Second Anointings
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<br> In conversation with a number of [Historical Department] staff members about Second Anointings, this morning, I learned the following things:
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<br> 1. There were a considerable number of Second Anointings given in the Nauvoo Temple in 1846, also a number that were given by the Prophet [Joseph Smith] outside the Nauvoo Temple before it was completed, presumably in the upper story of his store. By the time of the departure from Nauvoo in February 1846, there were probably several dozen persons who had received Second Anointings. Then there was a hiatus and no Second Anointings were performed until 1866-67. Likewise, no adoptions were performed during that period. It is quite probable that Brigham Young took the attitude that these ordinances could be performed only in a completed, dedicated temple and he was awaiting the completion of the Salt Lake Temple. Then for some reason there was a decision to begin conferring them again in the Endowment House [in Salt Lake City], because the completion of the temple was too far away and there were a number of new apostles who had not received Second Anointings and should have
<br>them-examples, Joseph F. Smith, George Q. Cannon, Brigham Young, Jr., etc. But they still held off any adoption ordinances, awaiting the completion of the temple. Then finally there was Wilford Woodruff's revelation of the 1890s that no more adoptions should be performed.
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<br> 2. In the original ceremony they conferred the sealing power, which they spoke of in shorthand terms as "the fullness." In the 1920s when we began to have trouble with the [Mormon] Fundamentalists, President [Heber J.] Grant changed the ceremony to the extent of leaving out "the fullness" or the conveying of this, which might have given authority to those receiving it (some of whom might be or might become Fundamentalists) to have this power.
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<br> 3. There have been few Second Anointings granted in the present generation, but a temple worker told one of the staff that President [Spencer W.] Kimball recently revived the practice and has been administering Second Anointings to selected people.
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<br> 4. The ceremony involved both women and men; originally it was given to the men in the temple and then they went through the second part of the ordinance in their own homes in a sacred room set aside for the purpose. In Utah it appears to have been performed only in temples and the Endowment House, with the husband and wife together. The ceremony involves making priests and priestesses equal to gods and goddesses of the recipients. The husband is anointed by the presiding official-almost always the president of the Church-and then there is a portion of the ceremony in which the wife goes through a symbolic ceremony of preparing the husband's body for burial and for resurrection, and she uses her equivalent to the priesthood to anoint him and to seal him up for the resurrection. Because of this portion, some women in pioneer Utah, on the basis of their diaries and histories, apparently thought that the priesthood was being conferred upon them. This is apparently not
<br>something which women in this century have assumed. But there must be something to the idea, since they are not only sharing in the symbolic ceremony as recipients but also actively performing an ordinance which involves sealing-performing this on authority which they receive during the ceremony.
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<br> 5. It is my understanding that this is one of the most sacred of all ordinances performed in the temple-that it is comparatively rare-and that it is a most secret ceremony. I am told the Church officials do not wish the term Second Anointings to appear in print. If it needs to be spoken of in some context, then the shorthand term "the fullness" is usually referred to, and that might appear in print occasionally, although rarely.
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<br> 6. It is my understanding that much of the trouble between Brigham Young and [Joseph Smith's brother] William Smith was over the issue of the authority which William Smith had been given in his Second Anointing. He thought he had the sealing power and wanted to seal people on his own authority. Brigham Young responded to him in a letter in our possession which recalls to him a conversation on the second floor of Joseph's store about the matter, in which Joseph said that there was a difference between being granted a potential power as gods and goddesses, and being granted the keys of Elijah; only one person on earth, the prophet, has the keys of Elijah-this is not shared by a number of people and is not conveyed except potentially in the Second Anointing ceremony. And even the potential authority and power, which often could lead to misunderstanding, was removed in the 1920s by President Grant.
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<br> I asked Ron Walker, who is a bishop, if Second Anointings are mentioned in the bishop's handbook. He said no. He said it was his understanding that neither a bishop nor a stake president may recommend persons to receive Second Anointings-this must come from a General Authority, and the only instances he knows of have come from the president of the Church. He said that in his ward there are probably no more than six who have received Second Anointings. Of these, two are General Authorities; one is the surviving widow of a former stake president who was a personal friend of one of the presidents of the Church; another is the surviving widow of a person who is a personal friend of another president of the Church. He said there may be two others, but he's not completely sure. That's out of a ward of 500 or 600 people. He said he had the impression that there were not many granted during the last 30 years but that there is some slight resumption since President Kimball
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<br>[Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-72927723519886702482024-03-26T05:01:00.001-07:002024-03-26T05:01:17.601-07:00120 years ago today - Mar 26, 1904President John R. Winder of the First Presidency dedicates the Bureau of Information, the first visitors' center on Temple Square. The building is an octagonal frame structure about twenty-five feet across, costing $500; it serves as the base for the seventy-five guides called to answer tourists' questions about Salt Lake City and the Church.<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-3162249826828957522024-03-26T05:00:00.003-07:002024-03-26T05:00:57.267-07:00180 years ago today - Mar 26, 1844 - TuesdayA significant event likely occurred in this meeting ... about which the minutes are silent but which council members discussed a year later ... referred to as JS's "last charge." This may have been an extension of the charge relating the history, purpose, and rules of the council that was typically given to new members and that JS may have delivered in this meeting. The most complete recorded version of this charge was written down by Thomas Bullock in December 1846. On that occasion William Clayton related that at the organization of the Council of Fifty, JS stated that the council served two purposes: it was to establish "the Kingdom spoken of by Daniel" and "to take from his [JS's] shoulders a great weight of responsibility & place it in others." Hyde's description of the late March 1844 event, discussed in the council on 25 March 1845, indicates that JS told the council, "I roll the burthen and responsibility of leading this church off from my shoulders on to yours. Now,
<br>round up your shoulders and stand under it like men; for the Lord is going to let me rest a while."
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<br>[Joseph Smith Papers: Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844-January 1846]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-2264945216190316722024-03-26T05:00:00.001-07:002024-03-26T05:00:37.702-07:00180 years ago today - Mar 26, 1844 - Tuesday[Council of Fifty]
<br>.... The chairman [Joseph Smith] then introduced the following persons for admission ... gave some instructions pertaining to the kingdom of God. ...
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<br> The Those brethren who were admitted members took their seats in order.
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<br> The title of the Council was read to the new members and unanimously accepted.
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<br> On motion the committee appointed at the last council to draught a memorial to send to congress [to commission Joseph Smith to a U.S. army officer and enlist 100,000 armed volunteers to patrol the western territories]....
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<br> ... Prest. Joseph Smith motioned that a memorial be likewise sent to the Prest. of the United States with a similar request, which was seconded by Er Hyrum Smith & carried unanimously. ...
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<br> Er Orson Hyde addressed the council on the subject before them and also on the present prospects of the kingdom. He felt as though he could prophecy that Congress would grant our memorial. ...
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<br> Er Rigdon addressed the council on the subject of the kingdom of God. inasmuch as there was no business before the house. He entered into the subject in a most spirited & animated manner, showing the glory and joy which will exist when God reigns over the nation, when oppression shall cease, and the righteous enjoy the blessings of the kingdom.
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<br> Er O. Hyde spake of the fulfilment of prophecies and illustrated the establishment of the kingdom of God in a pleasing manner. ...
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<br>[Joseph Smith Papers: Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844-January 1846]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-88413205375412650412024-03-25T05:03:00.003-07:002024-03-25T05:03:40.429-07:0040 years ago today - Mar 25, 1984-Sunday[Leonard Arrington]
<br>During the past few days a trial took place in Salt Lake City which had great significance for Mormon historiography. For years [anti-Mormon publishers] Jerald and Sandra Tanner have published documents which were stolen or surreptitiously removed from the Church Archives or xeroxed without permission. On the one hand the scholars were delighted to have access to documents which were restricted. On the other hand they could hardly condone the unethical if not illegal practice. In every instance, no matter how flagrant the theft or unwelcome the publication, the Church has chosen to overlook the action and simply to deny use to Tanner and his friends.
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<br> A few months ago Andy Ehat, graduate student at BYU, completed a thesis which traced certain sacred ceremonies in early church history-endowments, ordinances, etc. For this purpose he managed to obtain access to certain restricted documents, among them the diary of William Clayton which has been kept in the vault of the First Presidency. Jim Allen also obtained access to this document for use in preparing his biography of Clayton. Ehat and Allen exchanged notes and xeroxes of documents. Some eighty pages of the Clayton diary were filed in Jim Allen's office at BYU. The bishop of one of the BYU wards was allowed to use Jim's office on Sundays and one evening each week. One of his counselors was looking through his files out of curiosity, saw the Clayton diary material, read some of it, was fascinated, and removed it long enough to make a xerox copy. He showed it to friends, among them Richard Van Wagoner, who in turn shared it with others and a copy ended up with the
<br>Tanners. [[The religion professor who had the copy of the typescript from Ehat was Lyndon Cook, so Arrington's account is a little confused.]] They quickly published it and to this date have sold something like 1800 copies.
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<br> Ehat felt crushed. For one thing, he was blamed for the leakage. For another, he had expected to publish his thesis and felt that it was now unpublishable because the heart of it, what came from the Clayton diary, had been published. He had been ordered by BYU to buy up the copies previously distributed, had been denied access to other documents, and otherwise lost some of his credibility. He decided to sue the Tanners and obtained the willing services of Gordon Madsen as attorney. Gordon talked with the Church lawyers in the attempt to get their support and help. Conferences were held and the church decided to stay out of it. Representing the Tanners was Brian Barnard. On Wednesday, March 21, the trial was held ... Judge Christensen gave his decision. He found for the plaintiff [Ehat]. He apparently delivered quite a lecture to the Tanners, put an injunction against further sales of the Clayton book, and fined the Tanners as follows: to be paid to Ehat: $900 representing
<br>the profit from the Clayton book; $3,000, representing what Ehat thought he would make from the publication of his thesis; $11,000, representing compensation for the loss of reputation, damage to character, etc. of Ehat. [[A year later the judgment would be overturned on appeal. ...]]
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<br>[Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-48191025178844086772024-03-25T05:03:00.001-07:002024-03-25T05:03:19.218-07:0040 years ago today - Mar 25, 1984Wards and branches are allowed to have microform facilities for genealogical research.
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<br>[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( <a href="http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase">http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase</a> )]]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-4961747688442022972024-03-25T05:02:00.004-07:002024-03-25T05:03:00.212-07:0075 years ago today - Mar 25, 1949[J. Reuben Clark]
<br>Bp. Isaacson said that Pres. McDonald had indicated unhappiness at the BYU situation, the negro question, and others.
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<br>[The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah 2015]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-80625592938818937012024-03-25T05:02:00.003-07:002024-03-25T05:02:37.534-07:00120 years ago today - Mar 25, 1904Anthony W. Ivins performs a plural marriage sealing Rangmilda Bluth to Heber Erastus Farr as his second living wife. Ivins is ordained an apostle in 1907 and becomes Second Counselor to his cousin, President Heber J. Grant, in 1921.<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-62832461871360053932024-03-25T05:02:00.001-07:002024-03-25T05:02:20.915-07:00130 years ago today - Sun., Mar 25, 1894[Abraham H. Cannon]
<br>Bro. Roskelly of the Logan temple is having a considerable number of persons who are dead sealed and adopted to him. This is right where people request it, but he should not try to induce them to take this course through their surviving relatives, or in their own cases, if alive. Pres. Woodruff will write him to not try to get people to be thus sealed to him, but where they ask it of their own free will it will be proper.
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<br> . . . I also encouraged love in the family. Bro. Grant spoke the remainder of the time. He said in the course of his remarks that it is said truly in family affairs that "Men hold the lines, but women tell them where to drive;" this was said to show the sisters that their influence over the men is very great, either for good or evil. We returned home in the evening.
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<br>[Abraham H. Cannon Journal Excerpts, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Apostles-Record-Journals-Abraham-1889-1896/dp/B000MFD1K4">http://www.amazon.com/Apostles-Record-Journals-Abraham-1889-1896/dp/B000MFD1K4</a>]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-45296642194121193842024-03-25T05:01:00.005-07:002024-03-25T05:01:58.711-07:00135 years ago today - Mar 25, 1889[Heber J. Grant]
<br>Upon my arrival home I found my wife Lucy quite worked up on account of my having sold my home to Byron Groo as he was not a member of the Church and people were talking about it and making remarks that were anything but complimentary. I told her that I would get Pres Woodruff to approve the sale as there was never a rule that there were no exceptions to, and as Byron Groo was a friend of our people and was employed in writing in their defence there would be no objections to my selling to him. I called at the Gardo House where I met Bros Woodruff and Cannon, J. F. Smith, and F. D. Richards and they approved of my sale to Byron Groo, although they said that if I had not sold that it would have been better on account of the talk of the people not to have done so, but they thought that there was not the least wrong in the sale that I had made.
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<br>[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866405156879783392.post-25547515442645408082024-03-25T05:01:00.003-07:002024-03-25T05:01:38.879-07:00175 years ago today - Mar 25, 1849 (Sunday)The first public meeting was held on the Temple Block, G.S.L. [Great Salt Lake] City.
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<br>[Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://bit.ly/tdimh</div>Clair Barrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11537853381222533640noreply@blogger.com0