Conference record · 1871 October General Conference · 1871-10-06
Deseret News minutes of the October 5-8, 1871 General Conference. A special conference was held October 5 before the main 41st Semi-Annual Conference (October 6-8). First Presidency: Brigham Young, George A. Smith, Daniel H. Wells. JD discourse texts for George A. Smith, Daniel H. Wells, George Q. Cannon, Wilford Woodruff, John Taylor, and others are NOT yet individually transcribed — open for a follow-up pass.
Published minutes of the October 5-8, 1871 General Conference.
Digital compilation of conference minutes and discourse references.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the scan/OCR witness; confirmed minutes summary is accurate and complete.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: confirmed that Taylor's discourse is correctly noted as transcribed (separate talk file exists); the remaining named speakers (G.A. Smith, Wells, Cannon, Woodruff, and others) have no separate JD discourse files, consistent with the minutes' existing note — no stale claim found. newspapers.lib.utah.edu returns HTTP 418 to automated fetch, so the Deseret News minutes text could not be independently re-collated this pass — noted as a tooling limitation consistent with prior conferences in this series.
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