I’ve been receiving e-mails asking if I could publish a list of excerpts of what the Journal of Discourses says about polygamy. Well, today is the day I’ve listed some of them! Unfortunately, the JD doesn’t have an online index…one of these days… For now I just started at the beginning – I’ll list a […]
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Polygamy and Mormon Church Leaders Ezra T Benson
Polygamy and Mormon Church Leaders Ezra Taft Benson February 22, 1811 – September 3, 1869 Ezra Taft Benson was born into a well established, successful family who had set about gaining employment in everything from farming to politics. At the end of the Revolutionary War no less than George Washington himself stayed at the home […]
Mormonism, Polygamy and Stealing Wives
Mormonism, Polygamy and Stealing Wives I’ve been working on another addition to Polygamous Leaders in Mormonism and began wondering about the validity of Joseph Smith’s prophetic calling from God. Now if someone wants to claim they’ve found a new religion and a new god based upon what they believe is the way to heaven I […]
An Overview of Polygamy and Mormon Church Leaders
An Overview of Polygamy and Mormon Church Leaders Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy 1841-1846; A Preliminary Demographic Report, George D. Smith, pg. 32; “Over the six years when polygamy was practiced in Nauvoo, 1841 to 1846, Smith, Kimball, and Young were the most-married men in Nauvoo; they accounted, in fact, for 117 of the 434 […]