Item Detail
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31459
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English
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Missionary Work in the Late Nineteenth Century : Clarence Gardner as a Case Study
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Mormon Historical Studies
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2018
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19
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2
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Sandy, UT
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The Mormon Historic Sites Foundation
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85-113
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"... this article tells the story of one missionary, Clarence Gardner, to discover how he applied these proselytizing principles. Gardner was born on November 6, 1875, in West Jordan, Utah, the son of the much-married Archibald Gardner and his eleventh and last wife, Mary Larsen. Gardner built a new house for Mary and her family on a forty-five-acre farm in West Jordan. To avoid prosecution and possible incarceration for polygamy, Gardner and others moved to Star Valley, Wyoming. The next year he brought his youngest family with him. Mary quite readily left her nice home and went with her husband and took with her four sons and a daughter to settle this remote frontier area. They arrived in the newly settled town of Affon, Wyoming, on October 1, 1890." [Author]