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John Mills Whitaker Diaries
Photocopies of typewritten transcripts of a handwritten journal. The items were originally kept in Pitman shorthand. The entries are extensive and detailed. Whitaker was raised in Centerville, Utah but lived much of his adult life in Salt Lake City, Utah. Whitaker details his life and activities and makes observations on Utah society, the Mormon Church, and state and national politics. He had numerous callings in the Mormon Church and served as a missionary for that faith in the "Eastern States Mission" from 1897 to 1900. As a secretary for the Mormon Church's First Council of Seventy and its Deseret Sunday School Union, he observed the Church's governing bodies. Also as a son-in-law of the third president of the Mormon Church, John Taylor, Whitaker was familiary with many of the policies and prodecures of the First Presidency of that faith. Also included are transcripts of Whitaker's funeral in 1960.
John Mills Whitaker
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John Mills Whitaker
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Things that Endure
John Mills Whitaker was born in Utah in 1863. His parents were among the early Mormon pioneers settling in Davis county. He married Ida Oakley Taylor, one of the daughters of John Taylor and they were the parents of nine children. She spent many years in church service and biographical material on him is given in this volume written by his son. Descendants continue to live in Utah, and elsewhere throughout the west.
Reflections
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Solemn Covenant
In his famous Manifesto of 1890, Mormon church president Wilford Woodruff called for an end to the more than fifty-year practice of polygamy. Fifteen years later, two men were dramatically expelled from the Quorum of Twelve Apostles for having taken post-Manifesto plural wives and encouraged the step by others. Evidence reveals, however, that hundreds of Mormons (including several apostles) were given approval to enter such relationships after they supposedly were banned. Why would Mormon leaders endanger agreements allowing Utah to become a state and risk their church's reputation by engaging in such activities--all the while denying the fact to the world? This book seeks to find the answer...
Ryan's Master
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