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Post-manifesto polygamy :

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Post-manifesto polygamy :

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the 1899-1904 correspondence of Helen, Owen, and Avery Woodruff /

edited by Lu Ann Faylor Snyder and Phillip A. Snyder.

Logan, Utah :

Utah State University Press,

2009.

1 online resource (xiv, 196 pages) :

illustrations, maps.

Life writings of frontier women ;

v. 11

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-190) and index.

"These letters among two women and their husband offer a rare look into the personal dynamics of an LDS polygamous relationship. Abraham "Owen" Woodruff was a young polygamous Mormon apostle, and the son of LDS President Wilford Woodruff, who is remembered for the Woodruff Manifesto, a divinely-inspired call for the termination of plural marriage. The Woodruff Manifesto eased a systematic federal judicial assault on Mormons and made Utah statehood possible. It did not end polygamy in the church. Some leaders continued to encourage and perform such marriages. Owen Woodruff, himself married to Helen May Winters, contracted a secretive second marriage to Avery Clark. Pressure on the LDS church revived with hearings regarding Reed Smoot's seat in the U.S. Senate. After church president Joseph F. Smith issued the so-called Second Manifesto in 1904, polygamy and its more prominent advocates were mostly expunged from mainstream Mormonism. Owen Woodruff had often been "on the underground," moving frequently, traveling under secret identities, and using code names in his letters to his wives, while still carrying out his administrative duties, which, in particular, involved supervision of the nascent Mormon colonies in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming. He was never excommunicated, as some of his apostolic colleagues were. Both he and his first wife, Helen, while living with Avery in Mexico and preparing for a mission to Germany, contracted smallpox and died suddenly in 1904. Avery later returned to Utah with her children along with those of Helen and Owen."--Publisher's description.

These letters among two women and their husband offer a rare look into the personal dynamics of an LDS polygamous relationship. Abraham "Owen" Woodruff was a young Mormon apostle, the son of President Wilford Woodruff, remembered for the Woodruff Manifesto, which called for the divinely inspired termination of plural marriage. It eased a systematic federal judicial assault on Mormons and made Utah statehood possible. It did not end polygamy in the church. Some leaders continued to encourage and perform such marriages. Owen Woodruff himself contracted a secretive, second marriage to Avery Clark.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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Post-manifesto polygamy.

Post-manifesto polygamy.

9780874217391

Lambert, Eliza Avery Clark Woodruff,1882-1953

Woodruff, Abraham Owen,1872-1904

Woodruff, Helen May Winters,1873-1904

Lambert, Eliza Avery Clark Woodruff,b. 1882

Woodruff, Abraham Owen,1872-1904

Woodruff, Helen May Winters,b. 1873

Lambert, Eliza Avery Clark Woodruff,1882-1953.

Woodruff, Abraham Owen,1872-1904.

Woodruff, Helen May Winters,1873-1904.

Polygamy-- Religious aspects-- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Polygamy-- Religious aspects-- Mormon Church.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Religious.

Christianity.

Philosophy & Religion.

Polygamy-- Religious aspects-- Mormon Church.

RELIGION-- Christianity-- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)

Religion.

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Snyder, Lu Ann Faylor.

Snyder, Phillip A.

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