John Taylor · 1886 October General Conference · 1886-10-08
Reported for The Deseret Weekly; formal First Presidency epistle read at conference.
Reported for The Deseret Weekly; full First Presidency epistle published.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the full Deseret News October 1886 proceedings text; replaced a fabricated/mismatched compiler summary with the real source text.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: fetched and read the full Deseret News proceedings for this conference (Oct 20, 1886 issue, pg. 630-631) plus the First Presidency's Epistle (Oct 13, 1886 issue, pg. 616-617), via historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com (newspapers.lib.utah.edu returned HTTP 418 to automated fetch -- known tooling limitation also hit by other reviewers on this vault -- so page-level scan OCR was not independently cross-checked). Cross-referenced the conference's own roll call of general authorities present and the full session-by-session table of contents to verify speaker, date, and session for every talk in this conference; this small conference was held at Coalville (Summit Stake Tabernacle) during the anti-polygamy 'Underground' period, with only three Apostles present (Richards, who presided, John Henry Smith, and John W. Taylor) and the First Presidency communicating only by written epistle. Replaced a fabricated/mismatched compiler summary with the real, full text of the First Presidency's (John Taylor and George Q. Cannon, in exile) Epistle to the Church, read by Brother Heber M. Wells over two sessions; corrected date/session from Wednesday Morning (Oct 6) to Friday Afternoon (Oct 8) to match.
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