Brigham Young selects the site of the Salt Lake temple by using Oliver Cowdery's divining rod. This same day Cowdery writes David Whitmer, also a BOOK OF MORMON witness and previously ordained successor that "we have the authority, and DO HOLD THE KEYS. It is important, should we not be permitted to act in that authority, that we confer them upon some man or men, whom God may appoint. . . ." A year later Cowdery would disavow his succession claim and accept baptism in the church Brigham Young was leading to Utah.
[source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
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