B. H. Roberts, Correspondence, 1911-1915

File — Box: 4, Folder: 17

Identifier: I

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Theodore Roosevelt, letter to Isacc Russell, 4 February 1911, 7 pp., says: "On one occasion a number of charges were made to the Administration while I was President about these polygamous marriages in Idaho and Wyoming as well as Utah, it being asserted that a number of our Federal officials had been polygamously married. A very thorough and careful investigation was made by the best men in the service into these charges, and they were proved to be absolutely without so much as the smallest basis in fact. It was finally found that a fourth-class postmistress, whose earnings a year were about $25, and who was an old woman, had been plurally married some thirty years previously, but had long ceased living with her husband."
Isacc Russell, letter to JFS, 11 February 1913, 4 pp.
Isacc Russell, letter to JFS, 10 June 1913, 4 pp.
Moroni Snow, letter to JFS and Counselors, 30 October 1913
[Secretary in behalf of First Presidency], letter to Moroni Snow, 31 October 1913
Presiding Bishopric, letter to B. H. Roberts, 10 May 1915

Dates

1911-1915

Conditions Governing Access

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