[Apostle Rudger Clawson] Uses shorthand to report sermons by apostles Erastus Snow and George Q. Cannon delivered at the Salt Lake tabernacle. (1)
-- Sep 16, 1875
[Apostle Rudger Clawson] Uses shorthand to report sermons by apostles Erastus Snow and George Q. Cannon delivered at the Salt Lake tabernacle. (1)
-- Sep 23, 1875
[Apostle Rudger Clawson] Uses shorthand to report sermons by apostles Erastus Snow and George Q. Cannon delivered at the Salt Lake tabernacle. (1)
-- Oct 03, 1875
[U.S. Religious History] Hebrew Union College was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio under the auspices of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise. It was the first Jewish college in America to train men to become rabbis. (2)
-- Oct 9, 1875
Salt Lake Tabernacle dedicated. (3)
-- Oct 16, 1875
Brigham Young Academy organized, Provo, UT, first Church academy. [See Academies.] (4)
Brigham Young Academy founded in Provo, Utah. (3)
-- Dec 13, 1875
Sister Lucy Brimhall who later became one of the first single sister missionaries in the Church is born. Lucy and her companion Amanda Knight were set apart to serve in the British Mission on 1 April 1898. (5)
-- 1875
Church Membership at end of year: 107,167
New Converts : 3,251
Percent Change from previous year: 3.13% (6)
-- During 1875-80
[Apostle John Henry Smith] Serves as bishop of Seventeenth Ward in Salt Lake City. (7)
-- During ca. 1875-77
[Apostle Rudger Clawson] Works as secretary to John W. Young, a railroad contractor, in both Salt Lake City and New York City. (1)
-- During 1875
[Deseret] Holy Cross Sisters open Holy Cross Hospital their first hospital in the U. S. (8)
-- Jul 14, 1876
Sidney Rigdon died at Friendship, New York. (3)
Footnotes:
1 - 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
2 - Cline, Austin, History of American Religion: Timeline, http://bit.ly/Fwgbe
3 - Hemidakaota, "Church Chronology from 1800-2000," http://www.lds.net/forums/scripture-study-forum/12108-church-chronology-1800-2000-part-1-a.html#post214550
4 - Ludlow, Daniel H. editor, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Macmillan Publishing, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol. 4, Appendix 2: A Chronology of Church History
5 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, United Kingdom, "On This Day," https://www.lds.org.uk/show_oda.php
6 - Wikipedia, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Membership History, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_membership_history
7 - White, Jean Bickmore, Church, State, and Politics, p.xviii, A John Henry Smith Chronology
8 - History to Go, Mining and Railroad, http://historytogo.utah.gov/timeline/miningandrailroad.html
Mormon History Timeline /Chronology
http://lds-church-history.blogspot.com/
