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  Encyclopedia: Wilford Woodruff
Wilford Woodruff (March 1, 1807 – September 2, 1898) was the fourth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, from 1889 until his death in 1898.
Wilford Woodruff lived during the period that the LDS church authorized plural marriage, and was married to a total of six women; however, not all of these marriages were concurrent.
Wilford Woodruff was born in 1807 at Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Wilford-Woodruff   (922 words)

  
 Wilford Woodruff: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wilford Woodruff (March 1, 1807–September 2, 1898) was the fourth President (The chief executive of a republic) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (additional info and facts about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), from 1889 until his death in 1898.
Wilford Woodruff lived during the period that the LDS church authorized plural marriage, and was married to a total of five women; however, not all of these marriages were concurrent.
Wilford Woodruff, along with his brother Azmon, was baptized by missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on December 31, 1833 in Richland, New York.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/wilford_woodruff.htm   (962 words)

  
 PLURAL MARRIAGES AFTER THE 1890 MANIFESTO
Woodruff may have been the one who performed a plural marriage for his own father-in-law in December of 1903, in Salt Lake City, I don't know who the officiator was of that.
Woodruff left Utah to be with his plural wife at the delivery of her first child in Mexico.
She was the sister of another secret marriage that Wilford Woodruff had entered into, but this one he had entered into in 1877, and had married the sister of Susa Young Gates.
www.ldshistory.net /pc/postman.htm   (15179 words)

  
 Utah History Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wilford Woodruff became Church President at a crucial time in its history.
Federal legislation against the practice of plural marriage had resulted in the confiscation of some church property and the imprisonment of many of its leaders, and threatened to impair the functioning of the church.
A financial crisis incurred by the polygamy crusade, the completion of the Salt Lake Temple, the demands of Church education, increased welfare expenditures and costs of funding local industries due to the 1893 depression, confronted the aging president throughout the remainder of his life.
www.media.utah.edu /UHE/w/WOODRUFF,WILFORD.html   (533 words)

  
 Family History
Members of the Church were instructed in the sacred role of family history work in 1894, when President Wilford Woodruff declared, "We want the Latter day Saints from this time to trace their genealogies as far as they can, and to be sealed to their fathers and mothers.
The purpose of family history, President Woodruff explained, is to obtain names and statistical data so that temple ordinances can be performed in behalf of deceased ancestors who did not have the opportunity to hear the restored gospel during mortal life.
In response to President Woodruff's teaching regarding family history responsibilities, Latter-day Saints organized the genealogical society of Utah in Salt Lake City in 1894.
www.lightplanet.com /mormons/daily/family_history/Family_History_EOM.htm   (1385 words)

  
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The only exception is found in the Journal of Discourses where Wilford Woodruff used the term in conjunction with "seventy apostles" and "all other apostles:"
For example see HC 7:37-38, and 7:232, and Wilford Woodruff Journal April 26, 1839.
JD 16:266 (Wilford Woodruff) and 19:233 (George Q. Cannon).
www.mormonfundamentalism.com /Priesthood6.html   (6447 words)

  
 Information
When you look back at LDS Church history you will find plenty of evidence that Joseph Smith used flags to unite, rally, defend, and pursue the purposes of peace.
The prophet Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdry, Parley P. Pratt, Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilfred Woodruff and many leaders of the church discussed and used real and literal emblems during the restoration of the church.
Wilford Woodruff, Journal, 29 May 1847, Church Historical Department.
www.thechurchflag.com /Information.htm   (3364 words)

  
 Joseph Fielding Smith Institute of Latter-day Saint History
Jessee, Dean C. "Wilford Woodruff." In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 4 vols., ed.
Jessee, Dean C. "Wilford Woodruff." In Utah History Encyclopedia, ed.
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1994.
smithinstitute.byu.edu /aboutus/ref_works.asp   (987 words)

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