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Day in the Life

Jan 11, 1860

Journal Entry

January 11, 1860 ~ Wednesday

11 In company with Bishop Hunter I called upon President
Young to enquire if he wished to change any of the Names for
the Board of D A & M Society He said he did not wish to make
any change I was here introduced to Capt Walter M Gibson
of South Carolinia who had lectured in the social Hall upon his
travels in the Indian Archipeligo, in speaking of that country he
said the salobrity of that country was so great that you pull any
kind of herbage you can find and bind it on any tree so that
it would stay and it would take root & grow said He I have
seen fifty kinds of herbage grow upon one tree of Different
kinds like the misseltoe. He spoke of several diferent kinds of fruit
which he had No knowledge of before which were vary healthy
I spent the evening at home The mail came in this Evening.

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3304 mentions
Apostle, Family
270 mentions
Gibson, Walter Murray
16 Jan 1822 - 21 Jan 1888
36 mentions

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Social Hall, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory
South Carolina

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1860
Church membership 61,000; population of Utah Territory 40,273, population of 33 United States 31,443,000.

Jan 11, 1860