Find Your Relatives
Find Your Relatives
Images of Wilford's Family

Discover Your Relatives in Wilford Woodruff's Papers

with the help of
Start Here
Wilford Woodruff Papers Wilford Woodruff Papers
About Volunteer Meet the Team Partners Impact Editorial Method
2023 Conference Articles Photos Podcasts Updates Videos Newsroom

Day in the Life

Jan 23, 1840

Journal Entry

January 23, 1840 ~ Thursday

23rd [FIGURE] I wrote a Letter to Elder Wm
Clayton at Manchester. We Dined at
Brother George Simpsons. We held a
prayer meetings at Elder Cordons & had an
interesting time

People

Browse people Wilford Woodruff mentioned on this day in his journal.

Cordon, Alfred
28 Feb 1817 - 13 Mar 1871
108 mentions
17 mentions
Clayton, William
17 Jul 1814 - 4 Dec 1879
106 mentions

Places

Browse places mentioned in Wilford Woodruff's journal entry on this day.

Manchester, Lancashire, England

Events

View selected events in the two months surrounding this date in Wilford Woodruff's life.

1840
Church membership is 16,800; population of the 26 United States is 17,100,000.

Jan 23, 1840