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Utah Pioneer : Apostle Marriner Wood Merrill and His Family
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Salt Lake City
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Deseret News
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"1. Autobiography, 1832-60. 70 pp., 23.6 cm. Written in 1888. Born in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, 1832. Mother joined Mormons in 1834 but never had spirit of gathering. Death of father, 1850. Cook on lobster boat. Baptized into LDS Church, 1852. To Utah, 1853. Married Sarah Ann Atkinson, 1853. Various jobs. Sharecropping. Consecrated property to Church, 1857. Utah War. Moved to Cache Valley with plural wife, 1860. Settled in Richmond. Holograph sheets pasted into a scrapbook. Also includes Fourth of July oration for 1892. 2. Diary, 7 October 1889 to 31 March 1892. 277 pp., 19.0 cm. Begins diary with ordination to apostleship, October 1889. (I did not attend the conference at this time on account of being unwell, but was Telegraphed for by Prest G Q Cannon and met this genuine supprise after arriving in Salt Lake City on Sunday evening.) Continued to serve as Logan Temple president. Daily temple statistics. Diary entries rather infrequent until author gets into habit of making daily entry. Soon begins heading each page January notes, February notes, etc. Business affairs in Cache Valley. Trip to Canada and eastern states to visit relatives, 1890. The 1890 Manifesto. (Seemes the Onely way to retain the possession of Our Temples and continue the Ordinance work for the Living & Dead which was considered of more important than continueing the practice of plural Marriages for the present.) Adoption of Articles of Faith by general conference. Travel in the interests of sugar company. Comments on round dancing. Visits to stake conferences. Shares the fault of many others in describing talks given usually only in terms of their length. Further discussion of implications of Manifesto, 1891. Rejected view that plural marriage should be given up permanently. (I do not believe the Manifesto was a revelation from God but was formulated by Prest. Woodruff and endorsed by His councilors and the Twelve Apostles for expediency.) 3. Journal Book 2. 1 April 1892 to 18 August 1894. 224 pp., 21.3 cm. Laying of Salt Lake Temple capstone, 1892. Meetings of Quorum of the Twelve. Family concerns. Details on Moses Thatcher case. Salt Lake Temple dedication, 1893. Ceremonies repeated for two weeks. President Woodruff s revelation on law of adoption, 1894. Principal scene of activity Cache Valley. 4. Journal Book No. 3. 19 August 1894 to 27 February 1897. 224 pp., 21.3 cm. Voted straight Republican ticket for delegates to constitutional convention, 1894. Quorum meetings. (Discussed the propriety of Educating Our Elders before sending them on Missions as sujested by John W. Young the sujestion was repudiated it was decided to select the best Elders we could and let them depend on the Lord as formely we had also sijestions from Prof Ben Cluff of the B Y at Provo Offering to Educate the Priesthood and make them proficient to Preside over Wards stakes and the Saints in General this was also repudiated.) Problems with Moses Thatcher. Temple statistics. Frequent mention of authors farms. Member of board of agricultural college at Logan, 1896. Often suffered from ill health. 5. Journal Book No. 4. 1 March 1897 to 28 May 1901. 288 pp., 22.3 cm. Member of Brigham Young College board of directors. Twenty-fourth of July celebration in Salt Lake City, 1897. (The whole tendency is to git money out of the People in attendance.) Reorganization of First Presidency, 1898. Decision to issue $400,000 in Church bonds. Generally but not always attended weekly Quorum of Twelve meetings. Solemn assembly, July 1899. (The subject of Tithing was the Onley subject discussed.) Proposition to join with Josephites and Hedrickites in building temple in Jackson County, Missouri, rejected, 1900. 6. Journal No. 5. 29 May 1901 to 26 January 1906. 171 pp., 22.1 cm. Decision to ordain high councilors high priests. Decision to have only the person blessing the sacrament kneel as in our circumstances the Whole congreagation cannot Kneel &c, 1901. Entries briefer in this last volume. Spending most of his time at home in Richmond. Entries also become less frequent. Last entry dated about ten days before his death in February, 1906." [Abstract from Davis Bitton's Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies]
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After the Manifesto : Mormon Polygamy 1890-1906
An Apostle's Record : The Journals of Abraham H. Cannon Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, 1889-1896
Canadian Mormons : History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
'Come, Let Us Go Up to the Mountain of the Lord' : The Salt Lake Temple Dedication
Excavating Early Mormon History : The 1878 History Fact-Finding Mission of Apostles Joseph F. Smith and Orson Pratt
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Labor and the Construction of the Logan Temple, 1877-1884
Mormonism and Music : A History
Pearl of Great Price Commentary
Reed Smoot and Western Land Policy, 1905-1920
Religion and Economics in Mormon History
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
Succession by Seniority : The Development of Procedural Precedents, in the LDS Church
The Alienation of an Apostle from his Quorum : The Moses Thatcher Case
The beginnings of settlement in Cache Valley
The Bullion, Beck, and Champion Mining Company and the Redemption of Zion
The Faith of Our Pioneer Fathers
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Restored Church
The Taylor-Cowley Affair and the Watershed of Mormon History
'To Maintain Harmony' : Adjusting to External and Internal Stress, 1890-1930
“To Maintain Harmony” : Adjusting to External and Internal Stress, 1890-1930
Truth Seeker: The Life of Joseph F. Merrill, Scientist, Educator, and Apostle