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TEMPLE STATISTICS
1845-46: “In less than sixty days, over 5,000 persons received the endowment, 2,420 living individuals received eternal marriage sealings, 369 persons participated in proxy marriage ordinances, 71 children were sealed, 130 adoptions were performed, and 591 received the anointings of the fulness of the priesthood.” (Ehat Thesis, p. 240; see also endnote #709)
1851-54: Council House endowments.
Males Females
1851 211 258
1852 522 696
[1853: No entries between 6 Nov., 1852 and 24 Apr., 1854. Assumed that the Council House was closed during that period for some reasons now unknown.]
1854 233 302
TOTALS 966 1256
ALL ENDOWMENTS FOR LIVING; NO SEALINGS.
(Council House Endowments, Endowment Records. Microfilm – Genealogical Library. F-Utah S18S #25165 Pt. 13 “Living Endowments”)
1877: 2 Apr.: “No. of Working days: 29
Jan. Feb. Mar. Total
Endowments for living: 157 187 237 581
Endowments for dead: 112 809 2287 3208
(L. John Nuttall diary, 2 Apr., 1877; for St. George Temple)
1877-79: St. George Temple data.
“The following is the work performed in St George Temple Jan 9, 1877 to Jan 27, 1879 is as follows:
70,352 Baptisms, 34,903 Endowments, 13,159 Ordinations, 11,888 Sealings, 2,072 Childrens sealed to Parents, 393 Adoptions, 875 Second Anointings.” (Wilford Woodruff diary, 6 Sep., 1879)
1887: 2 Jul.: “A report of the Logan Temple Ordinance Work for June 1887 was received showing: Baptisms Dead 2403 – Endowments Living 138, dead 1219 =1357. Ordinations living 3, dead 421 = 424. Sealings, living 63, dead 347 = 410. Children to parents living 131, dead 90 = 221. Adoptions 1 Living Second Anointings living 25 – dead 16 = 41.” (L. John Nuttall diary, 2 Jul., 1887)
1889: Dates during which temple ordinances were performed in the endowment house:
Living Dead
Baptisms None performed 7/24/67-10/26/76
Endowments 5/5/55-10/16/84 None performed
Sealings 5/5/55-9/22/89 5/5/55-9/22/89
(couples)
Sealings 5/5/55-9/22/89 (same)
(couples, one living, one dead)
Sealings None performed None performed
(children)
(Laureen R. Jaussi and Gloria D. Chaston, comps., Register of L.D.S. Church Records, Deseret Book, 1968, pp. 366-367)
Temple ordinances performed in the endowment house:
Living Dead
Baptisms 0 134,053
Endowments 54,170 0
Sealings (spouse) 31,052 37,715
Second Anointing 694 0
(Endowment House Collection, LDS Archives)
1891: 9 Jan.: “I received from Samuel Roskelly, Temple Recorder, the yearly bulletin showing the amount of work done in Logan Temple for 1890, which is as follows: Baptisms, 30,788; endowments, 12,748; ordinations, 4,465; sealings, 3,831; children to parents, 1,492; adoptions, 53; second anointings, 207.” (Marriner Wood Merrill diary, 9 Jan., 1891)
1902: 6 Apr.: “Since the dedication of this [SL] temple there have been 685,966 ordinances performed in it; and in all the temples there have been 2,409,128 ordinances performed.” (John R. Winder, 6 Apr., 1902; CR Apr., 1902, p. 90)
1925: “Report of Temples for the Six Months Ending June 30, 1925 (Comparisons).”
1925 1924
Special Donations $760.71 1,023.82
Donations at Temple Doors 13,388.26 15,789.56
Received from Trustee-
in-Trust 74,840.00 93,896.25
Received from Ordinance
Work 7,235.48 11,234.34
Rent of Clothing 5,181.11 5,820.88
Other Receipts 3,137.42 5,301.40
Baptisms 253,300 259,185
Endowments 185,312 168,358
Ordinations 77,584 63,304
Sealings 82,278 71,776
Special Ordinances [2nd
Anointings] 26 52
Total Ordinances 598,500 568,675
[Of the 26 2nd Anointings, 2 were in Manti, 2 in Logan, 22 in Salt Lake; 3 of the 26 were for the dead–all female–and 23 for the living.]
Cost per Endowment: 1925 1924
Alberta $0.79 0.73
St. George 0.79 0.84
Logan 0.42 0.62
Manti 0.59 0.90
Salt Lake 0.50 0.60
Hawaii 2.23 2.08
(Anthony W. Ivins papers)
1930: Cumulative totals from 1842-1929.
“Totals of temple ordinances performed from the beginning, 1842 to December 31, 1929, in all Temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
Living Dead
Baptisms 6,973,367
Endowments 239,022 4,449,670
Ordinations,
Elders 3,310 1,822,119
Sealings, Wives to
Husbands 119,263 640,977
Children Sealed 98,899 1,009,038
Adoptions 2,507 14,693
Special ordinances 14,771 6,205
Reports for the month of December, 1929, from three Temples had not been received at the time these figures were compiled.–Certified by Duncan M. McAllister, Records Custodian.” (George F. Richards, of the Council of the Twelve and President of the Salt Lake Temple, “Latter-day Temples,” IE 33(7):473, May, 1930)
1935: “There have been nine Temples in the Church, the Kirtland Temple, the Nauvoo Temple, the St. George, Manti, Logan, Salt Lake, the Hawaiian, Alberta and the Arizona Temples. You will be interested to know what has been done in these temples covering the period from Nauvoo days until the present time, or until the end of 1935. the statement follows:
Living Dead
Baptisms 37,062 9,740,433
Endowments 275,362 7,104,659
Ordinations 3,439 3,021,797
Sealings–couples 136,514 1,305,612
Sealings–children 116,272 2,156,648
Adoptions 2,338 13,923
Special ordinances 14,777 6,208
or a total or ordinances for the living of 585,764 and for the dead 23,349,280; and a grand total of 23,935,000 ordinations and ordinances for the living and the dead in these temples.” (Rudger Clawsom, “A Plea for Temple Work,” UGHM 28:4, Jan., 1937; same statistics were published in IE 39(4):202, Apr., 1936; CR Oct., 1936, p. 118)