Wilford is dying; gives family final instructions on funeral and disposition of belongings.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
December 16, 1859 ~ Friday
16th I spent the day in the office. In the evening Presidents
Young & Wells with many others met in the Historians
office to read & discuss the laws got up by the code
commission at the close of the reading President Young
made some remarks upon govermental affairs. He said
their would be an exertion made to take away our charter
or organic act, the vary next best thing to our becum
ing a state would be for them to take away our charter
then we would know who would govern this country
it would not be long before we would have an election
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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3459 mentions
Apostle, Family
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
800 mentions
Apostle
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Church membership 61,000; population of Utah Territory 40,273, population of 33 United States 31,443,000.