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Day in the Life

Aug 15, 1856

Journal Entry

August 15, 1856 ~ Friday

15th President Young rode up City Creek Canyon in the morning
spent the day in the office reading History. I read an Article in the working
Farmer concerning the Cultivation of the Black bury [blackberry] esspecially
the Lawton black bury the best in the known world they measure
3 or 4 inches in Circumference & more than 600 burries have been
raised on the laterals of a single stem. Can we not get someone
in the states to send us some of the roots or seeds this berry was
named after Mr Lawton by the American Institute of New
York as he was the man who first found it by the rode side or in
his field whare it originated no one knows. we had a vary
hard shower of rain & hail in the afternoon. Presidents Young &
Kimball came in & we red History to them & D. H. Wells Mrs Woodruff
& phebe & Susan spent the night in the harvest field or about it
also Father Woodruff they got thoroughly soaked with rain

People

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Woodruff, Aphek, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
541 mentions
Family
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3299 mentions
Apostle, Family
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
773 mentions
Apostle
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1402 mentions
Apostle
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1547 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Phoebe Amelia Snow
4 Mar 1842 - 15 Feb 1919
333 mentions
Family
Scholes, Susan Cornelia Woodruff
25 Jul 1843 - 6 Oct 1897
357 mentions
Family

Events

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Sep 1856 - April 1857
Church-wide reformation includes rebaptizing, restructuring and recommitment to principles and covenants. First "home missionaries" introduced (precursor to ministering program).
October 2, 1856
First baptisms administered in baptismal font; members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles rebaptized (4th rebaptism for Wilford).

Aug 15, 1856