-- Sep 2, 1835
New Portage, Ohio. Joseph Smith traveled from Kirtland, Ohio, to New Portage to attend a Church conference and remained there until September 8. (1)
-- Sep 9, 1835
[Marks, William] Ordained high councilor 9 September 1835. (2)
-- Sep 14, 1835
A high council of the First Presidency calls Oliver Cowdery as Church Recorder and decides, "The laborer is worthy of his hire." Pay salary and expenses for Joseph Sr. (for patriarchal blessings), Frederick G. Williams (for recording blessings), Oliver and Emma to select hymns and W. W. Phelps edit. (3)
David Whitmer and Samuel H. Smith are appointed Literary firm agents. W. W. Phelps to Sally, The D&C was starting to come out of the bindery. Sale price $1. Crawley bibiography, 54-75. (3)
Oliver Cowdery is, again, appointed "Historian & Recorder" of church until 1837. (4)
"In a meeting of a High Council and the Presidency at Kirtland, it was decided that, as the laborer is worthy of his hire, whenever President Joseph Smith, Sen., is called upon to pronounce Patriarchal blessings upon the Church, he be paid for his services at the rate of ten dollars per week and his expenses." By 1841, this would include a fee of $1 per blessing; fifty years later it would be $2 per blessing. (5)
Kirtland, Ohio. Under Joseph Smiths direction and in accordance with instructions in Doctrine & Covenants 25, the high council instructed Emma Smith, the Prophets wife, to prepare a new selection of sacred hymns to be printed by William W. Phelps. (1)
[Joseph Smith] The First Presidency and stake high council vote a salary for the Presiding Patriarch. By 1841, this would include a fee of $1 per blessing; fifty years later it would be $2 per blessing. (6)
[Lucy Mack Smith] The Kirtland High Council authorizes Joseph Smith Sr. $10 per week for his expenses as a patriarch and the same to Frederick G. Williams as scribe; Oliver Cowdery is appointed recorder. (7)
[Whitney, Newel Kimball] Received patriarchal blessing 14 September 1835. (2)
-- mid-Sept. 1835
[Lucy Mack Smith] The Doctrine and Covenants is published. (7)
-- Sep 18, 1835
[Lucy Mack Smith] Solomon Jenkins Salisbury, the third child and first son of Katharine Smith Salisbury and Wilkins J. Salisbury, is born at Kirtland, Geauga County, Ohio. (7)
-- Sep 22, 1835
Joseph blesses to David Whitmer, John Whitmer, John Corrill, and William W. Phelps, with Oliver Cowdery recording. Oliver then prays for a blessing to give to Joseph and reports the heavens were opened to him. He writes "part of that which was shown and declared." (3)
Footnotes:
1 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
2 - Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985
3 - Kenny, Scott, "Mormon History 1830-1844," http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
4 - Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology," http://bit.ly/14Qt5F
5 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
6 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47"
7 - Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, 2001, Signature Books
LDS History Timeline / Chronology
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