Chester A. Arthur inaugurated as 21st President of 38 United States after assassination of James A. Garfield.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
September 16, 1881 ~ Friday
16 I met with the committee in the Historians office
on historical matters this committee was apointed
By the Presidency to examine into the labor work
and Business of the Historian office they were Joseph
F Smith F. M. Lyman & John Henry Smith they
sat untill 11 oclok & adjourned untill 4 oclok
O Pratt was appointed Historian May 9, 1874,
making his labor as Historian for 7 years up to
May 7, 1881 During this time He has got up a history
documentary, for 22 years, Making 34 volums of 241,259
pages, averaging 1213 1/2 pages each vol, at a cost of $12377.70
there was 54 pages of indexing for Each vol as title page,
making $400 per volumn inclunding Binding, paper, ruling, pens
ink and indexing total $13,600. But none of this work
had been compared with its copy I spent the night at the farm
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Lyman, Francis Marion
12 Jan 1840 - 16 Nov 1916
277 mentions
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Smith, John Henry
18 Sep 1848 - 13 Oct 1911
298 mentions
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Smith, Joseph Fielding
13 Nov 1838 - 19 Nov 1918
4130 mentions
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Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
1084 mentions
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Wilford serves 7.5 years as Church Historian (until becoming President of the Church).
Wilford works in St. George Temple.