Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association organized. (1)
Young Mens Mutual Improvement Association organized, forerunner of Young Men program. (2)
[Heber J. Grant] Accepts a call to serve in the presidency of the Salt Lake City 13th Ward Young Mens Mutual Improvement Association. (3)
-- Jul 10, 1875
Martin Harris, one of Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, d. Clarkston, Cache Co., UT, age 92. (4)
Martin Harris died in Clarkston, Utah. (1)
-- Jul 29, 1875
[Apostle Rudger Clawson] Uses shorthand to report sermon by John Taylor delivered at the Salt Lake tabernacle. (5)
-- Aug 5, 1875
Joseph Angell Young dies. He had never been a member of the First Presidency and was never added to the Quorum of the Twelve. (6)
-- During 1875 August
[Apostle John Henry Smith] Returns to Salt Lake City because of his father's illness. (7)
-- Sep 1, 1875 - 8 October 1876
[1st Presidency Changes] Brigham Young Daniel H. Wells Joseph F. Smith (Counselor) John Willard Young (Assistant Counselor) George Q. Cannon (Assistant Counselor) Brigham Young, Jr. (Assistant Counselor) Lorenzo Snow (Assistant Counselor) Albert Carrington (Assistant Counselor) Death of George A. Smith (8)
-- Sep 1, 1875
[Apostle John Henry Smith] Father dies at age fifty-eight. (7)
[Lucy Mack Smith] George A. Smith dies at Salt Lake City. (9)
[Quorum of the Twelve] George A. Smith dies. (6)
-- Sep 2, 1875
[Apostle Rudger Clawson] Attends funeral service of Brigham Young; at cemetery uses shorthand to record dedicatory prayer by Wilford Woodruff. (5)
Footnotes:
1 - Hemidakaota, "Church Chronology from 1800-2000," http://www.lds.net/forums/scripture-study-forum/12108-church-chronology-1800-2000-part-1-a.html#post214550
2 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Chronology of Church History, http://scriptures.lds.org/chchrono/contents
3 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant, Salt Lake City, Utah
4 - Ludlow, Daniel H. editor, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Macmillan Publishing, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol. 4, Appendix 2: A Chronology of Church History
5 - Larsen, Stan (editor), A Ministry of Meetings:The Apostolic Diaries of Rudger Clawson, Significant Mormon Diaries Series No. 6, A Rudger Clawson Chronology, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City 1993
6 - Wikipedia, Chronology of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_Quorum_of_the_Twelve_Apostles_(LDS_Church)
7 - White, Jean Bickmore, Church, State, and Politics, p.xviii, A John Henry Smith Chronology
8 - Wikipedia, First Presidency (LDS Church), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Presidency_(LDS_Church)#Chronology_of_the_First_Presidency
9 - Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, 2001, Signature Books
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