1880 MORMON - LATTER DAY SAINTS. Sworn Oath for Mormon Woman Against Polygamy. Pentecostal ME October 12th

ME October 12th

This experience did not last however

I am told that Seagrave was but this Day in the Coffee House vindicating the Book you write against

In this extensive 4pp ALS

I have been for 8 years one of the Elders of the Presbyterian Church

1880 MORMON - LATTER DAY SAINTS. Sworn Oath for Mormon Woman Against Polygamy. Pentecostal ME October 12thA fascinating little piece of Americana and LDS history. Polygamy was not "standard" practice in the LDS until the 1850's. Then, under Orson Pratt [1852], it was made an official tenet of faith. For four decades afterward it was promoted widely, especially among male spiritual and community leaders. Though bigamy and polygamy had been illegal since the Morrill Act, it was largely untested in court and not enforced until the Edmunds Act [1882] which