Oct 3rd 1875
Sunday [FIGURES] President U. S. Grant is Expected in this
City of Salt Lake at 1 oclok to day The City Council appointed
a committee to go up & meet him Also President Brigham
Young and several of the Twelve Apostle went up to Ogden
in President Brigham Youngs car to Meet with President
Grant Governor Emery and the Gentile ring also went
up a head & went out to Echo & there Met with President
Grant & so it when they arived in Ogden the Utah
Central Engine hitched onto President Grants cars
and here at this point President Brigham Young was introduced
to President U S. Grant, One the President of the Kingdom
of God on the Earth & a law giver unto Israel in
this last dispensation and fullness ^of times^ & the other the President
of the United States and of this Great Nation when
they met Elder George Q. Cannon being acquainted
with both was the man who introduced them He said
Mr President may I have the Pleasure of introducing to
you President Brigham Young, they shook hands but
President Young did not understand at first who it was
and He asked who it was & Brother Cannon said President
Grant then President Young shook hands with him again
and said President Grant this the first time that I
Ever had the pleasure of seeing a President of the United
States and of shaking hands with him the Twelve were
then introduced to him and Mrs Grant after the cars
started President Grant & wife went into President Youngs car
Also his son Col Fred Grant & had conversation together
~ Sunday
Oct 3rd 1875
Sunday
FIGURES President U. S. Grant is Expected in this
City of Salt Lake at 1 oclok to day The City Council appointed
a committee to go up & meet him Also President Brigham
Young and several of the Twelve Apostle went up to Ogden
in President Brigham Youngs car to Meet with President
Grant Governor Emery and the Gentile ring also went
up a head & went out to Echo & there Met with President
Grant & so it when they arived in Ogden the Utah
Central Engine hitched onto President Grants cars
and here at this point President Brigham Young was introduced
to President U S. Grant, One the President of the Kingdom
of God on the Earth & a law giver unto Israel in
this last dispensation and fullness of times & the other the President
of the United States and of this Great Nation when
they met Elder George Q. Cannon being acquainted
with both was the man who introduced them He said
Mr President may I have the Pleasure of introducing to
you President Brigham Young, they shook hands but
President Young did not understand at first who it was
and He asked who it was & Brother Cannon said President
Grant then President Young shook hands with him again
and said President Grant this the first time that I
Ever had the pleasure of seeing a President of the United
States and of shaking hands with him the Twelve were
then introduced to him and Mrs Grant after the cars
started President Grant & wife went into President Youngs car
Also his son Col Fred Grant & had conversation together
"Journal (January 1, 1873 – February 7, 1880)," October 3, 1875, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed November 14, 2024, https://www.wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/7LDQ