Wilford Woodruff, Diary, extracts, 1864-1897

File — Box: 7, Folder: 22

Identifier: I

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Historian's Private Journal, 1 July 1866: "Brigham Young ... exclaimed ... It is in my mind to ordain Bro. Joseph F. Smith to the apostleship and to be one of my councilors. He then asked each one of us for an expression of our feelings and we individually responded that it met our hearty approval. We then offered up the signs of the priesthood, after which Bro. Joseph F. Smith knelt upon the altar and taking off his cap we laid our hands upon him, Bro. Brigham being mouth and we repeating after him in the usual form."

Dates

1864-1897

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