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Celestial Marriage—the “doctrine of the plurality of wives”—polygamy. No issue in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (popularly known as the Mormon Church) has attracted more attention. From its contentious and secretive beginnings in the 1830s to its public proclamation in 1852, and through almost four decades of bitter conflict with the federal government to Church renunciation of the practice in 1890, this belief helped define a new religious identity and unify the Mormon people, just as it scandalized their neighbors and handed their enemies the most effective weapon they wielded in their battle against Mormon theocracy. This newest addition to the Kin...
Israel Barlow (1806-1884), a Mormon convert, moved from Massachusetts to Quincy, Illinois, married Elizabeth Haven in 1840, settled at Nauvoo, Illinois, later moving to Salt Lake City and Bountiful, Utah. Descendants lived in Utah, Idaho, California and elsewhere. Ancestors lived in New England, England and elsewhere.
This volume in the Collected Works provides a transcription of the seven books of diaries that Frye kept intermittently from 1942 until 1955.
Includes entries for maps and atlases
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