Conference record · 1876 October General Conference · 1876-10-06
Deseret News minutes of the October 6-8, 1876 General Conference (Forty-Seventh Semi-Annual Conference). First Presidency: Brigham Young, Daniel H. Wells. Both discourses with surviving JD full text are filed separately as talks: Lorenzo Snow's 'Apostolical Succession and Responsibility...' (Friday October 6 PM) and Brigham Young's 'Philosophy of Man Upon The Earth...' (Sunday October 8 PM) — confirmed against the Weebly page's own bibliography, which lists no other JD citations for this conference. Notable: Brigham Young assigned temple-building responsibilities for Sanpete Valley, Cache Valley, and Salt Lake City and declared 'The great and grand secret of salvation...is the continuation of the lives' (within the filed Young discourse). The many other named speakers (Wells, Woodruff, Rich, Richards, Young Jr., Taylor, Joseph F. Smith, Pratt, Penrose, Cannon, Brigham Young's other appearances) are recorded only as third-person Deseret News summaries, with no full JD text located — consistent with the bibliography, not a vault gap.
Published minutes of the October 6-8, 1876 General Conference.
Digital compilation of conference minutes and discourse references.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; fixed a major stale-claims bug (this file wrongly asserted both discourses were 'NOT yet individually transcribed' when they were already filed as separate talks) and rewrote the summary accordingly.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: fixed a stale-claims bug — this file asserted that Snow's and Young's discourses were 'NOT yet individually transcribed,' when both already existed as separately filed talks (reviewed under claude-sonnet-4-6's earlier light pass, each already carrying a precise BYU citation with no IA anchor available). Rewrote the summary to cross-link both filed discourses by session. Confirmed against the Weebly page's own bibliography that Wells, Woodruff, Rich, Richards, Young Jr., Taylor, Joseph F. Smith, Pratt, Penrose, and Cannon have no JD citation — summary-only, not an ingestion gap. Confirmed fidelity: fragmentary remains correct per schema/schema.md for record_type: conference_record.
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