regarding polygamy. October 28: Matthias F. Cowley follows John W. Taylor and resigns from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles due to disagreements with church policy regarding polygamy. December 23: Joseph Smith Birthplace Memorial near Sharon, Vermont is dedicated by Joseph F. Smith. 1906 Summer: Joseph F. Smith visits Europe, the first President of the Church to do so. The first Sunday School classes for adults are held. Turkish edition of Book of Mormon; first in an Asian language. 1907 January 10: The LDS Church becomes debt-free. February 20: After more than two years of hearings, the Smoot Hearings are resolved by a vote. The republican majority overturns objections to his seating. Reed Smoot serves another 26 years. June: The Smith Family Farm is acquired for the LDS Church. December 7: Charles W. Nibley becomes the Presiding Bishop and brings financial reforms, including tithing payments only in cash, no longer taking donations in kind. December 14: Converts in Europe are advised to remain in their home countries instead of gathering to Utah. Zion's Printing and Publishing Company is started at Independence, Missouri by the LDS Church. 1908 April 8: The General Priesthood Committee is created. October: A financial auditing report is presented at General Conference for the first time. 1909 November: The First Presidency issues an official statement regarding questions concerning the Creation of the earth and the theories of evolution and the origin of man. LDS Church purchased property in Far West, Missouri, including the former temple lot. LDS priesthood meetings begin to be held weekly. Japanese translation of Book of Mormon, the first in an east Asian language. 1910s 1910 January: The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine is launched, published by the Genealogical Society of Utah. April 14: Daughters of the Utah Handcart Pioneers founded. 1911 February 10: Three popular BYU professors appear before church leaders for teaching evolution. After becoming a public controversy, the professors resign later that year. Historian Leonard Arrington called this Mormonism's "first brush with modernism". March 28: John W. Taylor is excommunicated for performing a plural marriage despite the Second Manifesto issued by church president Joseph F. Smith. With this excommunication, the practice of new polygamous marriages is believed to be finally abolished. Polygamists who were married prior to 1905 continue to remain in good standing with the LDS Church including, but not limited to, the church's president, Joseph F. Smith. April 15: