LDS History, 1912 Fall

-- 1912 Fall
First seminary opened at Granite High School, Salt Lake City. (1)

-- May 9, 1912 - 4 February 1932
[Change in Presiding Church Patriarch Office] Hyrum G. Smith Grandson of John Smith, previous Presiding Patriarch; great-grandson of Hyrum Smith (2)

-- Oct 15, 1912
[Apostle Rudger Clawson] Reorganizes French Mission. (3)

-- During 1912, Fall
First LDS seminary opened at Granite High School, Salt Lake City. [See Seminaries.] (4)

-- During 1912, fall
[Harold B. Lee] Enters the Oneida Stake Academy, Preston, Idaho, with schoolmate Ezra Taft Benson. (5)

-- Nov 8, 1912
Correlation Committee, headed by David O. McKay, was established by First Presidency to prevent duplication in auxiliary programs. (1)

-- Nov 17, 1912
[Apostle Rudger Clawson] Mobbed in Bristol, England. (3)

-- 1912
Church Membership at end of year: 417,555
New Converts : 10,264
Percent Change from previous year: 2.52% (6)

[Deseret] Kanab elects an all-female mayor and town board, the first in United States history. (7)

Exodus from Mexican colonies during Mexican revolution. (1)

James E. Talmage published The House of the Lord. (1)

[Joseph F. Smith] Granite Seminary in Salt Lake City houses first released-time classes. (8)

[Lucy Mack Smith] The RLDS church issues another edition of Biographical Sketches with additional notes by Heman C. Smith. (9)


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 - Wikipedia, Chronology of the Presiding Patriarchs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presiding_Patriarch#Chronology_of_the_Presiding_Patriarchs_of_The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints
3 - 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
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, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Harold B. Lee, Salt Lake City, Utah
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 - History to Go, Statehood, http://historytogo.utah.gov/timeline/statehood.html
8 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith, Salt Lake City, Utah
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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