Polygamy

File — Box: 11, Folder: 14

Identifier: III

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Jedediah M. Grant, letter to Brigham Young, 30 December 1851, 5 pp.
William Clayton, notarized statement, 1874, 5 pp.
Mary E. R. Leightner, statement, 1877,2 pp.
JFS, letter to Philip H. Boyer, 26 December 1881, 4 pp., says: "The seeming distinction between the 'Eternity of the marriage covenant,' and 'plural marriage,' is not real.... The question of the 'eternity of the marriage relation or covenant,' not being directly involved in the foregoing enquiry, but belonging to and a part of the principle of 'celestial marriage,' which includes and means plural marriage."
Wilford Woodruff, statement, 12 March 1897,2 pp.
B. F. Johnson, letter to JFS, 9 March 1904
Lorenzo Snow, notarized statement, 28 August 1869
Eliza Maria (Partridge) Lyman, notarized statement, 1 July 1869
Martha McBride Kimball, notarized statement, 8 July 1869
Lucy Walker Smith, notarized statement, 24 October 1902
Lucy Walker Smith Kimball, notarized statement, 17 December 1902
G. H. Brimhall, letter to JFS, 21 April 1902, concerning statement of Maria Jane Woodward about Emma Smith and polygamy in Nauvoo
Stanley S. Ivins, Diary, 1944, 2 pp.

Dates

1820-1984

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