Post-Manifesto Polygamy

File — Box: 11, Folder: 19

Identifier: III

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Anthony W. Ivins, Record Book of Marriages, extracts, 3 pp.
Heber J. Grant, letter to JFS, 5 January 1906, letter-press copy book, says: "Your remark 'I am sorry for two of the brethren' etc. has caused me a great amount of thought and much anxiety. When I wake up in the night I have thought of these brethren [John W. Taylor and Matthias F. Cowley] and your statement 'I scarcely see how they can escape' has worried me. I can't tell you how much I wish I could have me you in Vermont and talked over their case and other matters.... For my mission I had intended to get another wife and was going to ask no questions. Your Secty. gave me to understand that I was a fool having no sons and with the great City of Liverpool in which to hide a wife if I did not get one.... One of the apostles
[Marriner W. Merrill] old enough to be my father told Owen [Woodruff] and me in the Temple that we should not fail in laying the foundation of our Kingdom in this life. Before I went to Japan my President [Snow] intimated that I had better take the action needed to increase my family."

Dates

1820-1984

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