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For more events in Church History,
1844 - Fifteen hundred copies of the Prophet Joseph's "Views of the Powers and Policy of the United States" came off the press ready for distribution by the Elders of the Church. The Prophet records that the weather had been very pleasant, "the pleasantest February I ever saw" (History of the Church, 6:224).
1846 - The weather had turned extremely cold as the thermometer reached 12 degrees below zero at 7 P.M. in the encampment of Saints at Sugar Creek, Iowa. A son was born to John Redding during the cold and snowstorm of the day. It was recorded that the Mississippi river had frozen over above Montrose. Meanwhile, John Atlantic Burr was born to Sarah Burr aboard the ship Brooklyn en route from New York to California. The Brooklyn was carrying Mormon emigrants to the west traveling by sea around the tip of South America. | 
