Box 1B
Container
Contains 41 Results:
Church Business, President-in-Exile, 1886 March 6-October 21
File — Box: 1B, Folder: 14
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
A letter to John T. Caine, Utah delegate to Congress, requesting efforts to appoint a Mormon as Indian agent for the proposed reservation in San Juan County; correspondence concerning the construction of the Salt Lake Temple; John Taylor's rejection of violence in the struggle with federal authorities; correspondence with Reuben Garten, a non-Mormon academic lecturer who defended the practice of polygamy; and a letter concerning the imprisonment and prosecution of George Q. Cannon, first...
Dates:
1886 March 6-October 21
Church Business, President-in-Exile, 1886 March 17-August 24
File — Box: 1B, Folder: 15
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Correspondence about the political situation in Idaho and threat of the Republican party against Mormon settlers there; letters concerning the financial status of Z.C.M.I. and other Mormon businesses; John Taylor's order that no unauthorized persons practice or perform on the tabernacle organ; and a letter to Daniel H. Wells, president of the English mission, about mission finances and political developments in Utah.
Dates:
1886 March 17-August 24
John W. Taylor, 1885 April 10-1887 January 3
File — Box: 1B, Folder: 16
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with John W. Taylor, apostle and John Taylor's son, concerning family matters; relations with the federal government and non-Mormon factions in Utah; the first presidency's published epistle about polygamy and government harassment; and church and political developments in Idaho, including John W. Taylor's trial for treason.
Dates:
1885 April 10-1887 January 3
Isaac M. Waddell, 1886 March 22-1887 April 2
File — Box: 1B, Folder: 17
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Isaac M. Waddell concerning financial matters, including the St. George and Manti Temple associations, bail and attorney fees for those on trial for unlawful cohabitation, and church property transactions.
Dates:
1886 March 22-1887 April 2
John R. Winder, 1884 July 3-1886 June 19
File — Box: 1B, Folder: 18
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with John R. Winder, second counselor in the church presiding bishopric, regarding church financial affairs and local elections.
Dates:
1884 July 3-1886 June 19
Church Business--President-in-Exile, 1886 May 2-1887 October 15
File — Box: 1B, Folder: 19
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
A life sketch of John Beck from the Latter Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia by Andrew Jenson, and various correspondence, including letters from a San Francisco man attempting to sell weapons to the church; a report of the ousting of the Mormon delegation at the 1886 Idaho Democratic Convention; a personal letter from Wilford Woodruff to the first presidency; a directive from John Taylor to record names of charges of indicted and imprisoned Mormons in the...
Dates:
1886 May 2-1887 October 15
Revelation on Plural Marriage, 1886 January 27
File — Box: 1B, Folder: 20
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
John Taylor's revelation, recorded by Joseph F. Smith, Jr., reaffirming the "new and everlasting covenant" involving plural marriage, and two short letters discussing financial matters.
Dates:
1886 January 27
Thomas Taylor, 1878 March 18-1886 October 9
File — Box: 1B, Folder: 21
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from Thomas Taylor, bishop of the Salt Lake Fourteenth Ward and former church migration agent, in which he petitions John Taylor (no relation) for reimbursement of expenses incurred while overseeing migration efforts; a report of his excommunication for homosexuality; his letter to John Taylor pleading for mercy; a sketch of his life and the life of George H. Taylor, who replaced him as Fourteenth Ward bishop, from the Latter Day Saint Biographical...
Dates:
1878 March 18-1886 October 9
Church Business--President-in-Exile, 1886 September 28-November 5
File — Box: 1B, Folder: 22
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Correspondence that includes a letter to A. M. Cannon, president of the Salt Lake Stake, approving George H. Taylor as new bishop of the Fourteenth Ward; and the report of an extended family gathering at the Gardo House to celebrate John Taylor's seventy-eighth birthday.
Dates:
1886 September 28-November 5
Lucinda Lee Dalton, 1884 August 24-1887 January 6
File — Box: 1B, Folder: 23
Identifier: A
Scope and Contents
Letters from Lucinda Lee Dalton, a Beaver, Utah, school teacher and widowed mother of six, concerning her anxiety about premarital sexual relations between her sister and late husband, the eternal fate of her children, and her desire not to marry again; and a letter from missionaries serving among the "Lamanites" asking about "the propriety of brethren of the mission marrying into the Navajo nation."
Dates:
1884 August 24-1887 January 6