National election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J. Tilden (outcome determined after the Compromise of 1877).
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
January 07, 1877 ~ Sunday
Jan 7, 1877
Sunday
I wrote 3 letters to D. H. Wells Phebe W. Woodruff, & Brigham
I attended meeting at the Tabernacle in the afternoon Jacob Gates
Prayed. B Young Jr spoke 28 M[inutes], W. Woodruff 24 M[inutes], E Snow 20
W. Woodruff gave some instruction on the Endowments I spokeent the
evening at President Young {President Young reproved Erastus Snow vary hard in many matters.}
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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3427 mentions
Apostle, Family
Young, Brigham (Jr.)
18 Dec 1836 - 11 Apr 1903
578 mentions
Apostle
Woodruff, Brigham Young, b. 1857
18 Jan 1857 - 16 Jun 1877
63 mentions
Family
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
798 mentions
Apostle
Snow, Erastus
9 Nov 1818 - 27 May 1888
691 mentions
Apostle
Gates, Jacob
9 Mar 1811 - 14 Apr 1892
71 mentions
Zion's Camp
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1580 mentions
Family
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Wilford, L. John Nuttall and John D. T. McAllister begin writing down the temple ceremony.
Church membership reaches 115,065.
First baptism for the dead administered in St. George Temple font.
First proxy endowments administered in this dispensation in St. George Temple.
First proxy sealings and first sealings and endowments for the living in St. George Temple.
Brigham Young asks Wilford and others to write out the temple ceremonies.
Wilford administers second anointing to the first couple in the St. George Temple.
Wilford administers second anointing by proxy for the first time in the St. George Temple.
Wilford receives revelation authorizing proxy ordinances for his family by non-relatives.
In honor of Wilford's 70th birthday, 154 women serve as proxies in ordinances for his deceased female relatives.
Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated as 19th President of 38 United States.