Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Samuel Bateman papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 128
Scope and Contents
Contains materials documenting Samuel Bateman's personal and family life. Included are some of Bateman's handwritten diaries for the years 1886-1888, 1899-1901, and 1901-1909. Also included are typescripts, microfilm, and scanned copies of these diaries, and typescripts of some correspondence to and from Samuel Bateman, dated 1868-1886. His correspondence discusses guarding John Taylor and his friendship with Wilford Woodruff, who were both Presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of...
Dates:
1868-2016
David John Buerger term papers
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230311620]
Identifier: MSS SC 1465
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of typed term papers entitled "Brigham Young University: The Unvarnished Reality," and "Politics and Inspiration: An Historical Analysis of the Woodruff Manifesto." The items are controversial works on the role of education in the Mormon Church and the changes in the Mormon doctrine of "plural marriage."
Dates:
1978
Copies of revelations
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 1857
Scope and Contents
Two handwritten booklets. One booklet is a list of people which were persecuted and imprisoned for polygamy in Utah and Idaho. The other item includes copies of a "revelation" (26 Jan. 1880) by the Mormon Apostle, Wilford Woodruff, concerning obedience to the Mormon Church and an excerpt from his journal on the dedication of the St. George Temple in 1877; a list of 28 women believed to have been "sealed" to Joseph Smith (1805-1844); "testimonies" of Mormon Church members; a "revelation"...
Dates:
1869-1900