Conference record · 1880 April General Conference · 1880-04-06
Deseret News minutes of the April 6-8, 1880 General Conference (Fiftieth Annual Conference), with preparatory meetings April 4-5 in the Salt Lake Assembly Hall. President John Taylor presiding. This was the Year of Jubilee — the Church's fiftieth anniversary. The Weebly page for this conference carries no bibliography section and cites no Journal of Discourses volume or page for any speaker at all (reconfirmed 2026-07-01), unlike almost every other conference in this era; no evidence was found that any discourse from this conference was published in JD. This is why zero talk files exist for this conference — not a vault gap awaiting transcription. All named speakers (Taylor, Woodruff, Thatcher, Pratt, Rich, Joseph F. Smith, Wells, Brigham Young Jr., Erastus Snow, Richards, Carrington, Lorenzo Snow) are recorded only as third-person Deseret News summaries.
Published minutes of the April 4-8, 1880 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; corrected a misleading 'NOT yet individually transcribed' framing to accurately reflect that this conference's Weebly page cites no JD volume/page for any speaker.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: investigated why this historically significant conference (Year of Jubilee, John Taylor's first full conference cycle) has zero filed talks. The Weebly page for April 1880 carries no bibliography section at all — no 'Journal of Discourses' or 'pg.' citation anywhere on the page, for any of the 12 named speakers — unlike nearly every other conference in this era. This is consistent with (not contradicted by) the vault having zero talk files; the prior 'NOT yet individually transcribed' wording implied pending transcription work that the available evidence does not support. Corrected the note accordingly. Confirmed fidelity: fragmentary remains correct per schema/schema.md for record_type: conference_record.
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