Join Lindsay for the primer series on Mormon Polygamy that will begin with the wives of Joseph Smith and eventually broaden to contemporary strains of the practice today.
Episode 02: Lucinda Morgan Harris
Episode 04: Zina Huntington Jacobs Young Smith
Episode 05: Presendia Huntington Buell
Episode 09: Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner
Episode 10: Polygamy in Nauvoo
Episode 11: Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde
Episode 12: Elizabeth Davis Durfee
Episode 13: Sarah Kingsley Cleveland
Episode 14: Delcena Johnson Sherman
Episode 17: Martha McBride Knight
Episode 19: Flora Ann Woodworth
Episode 21: Joseph Smith’s Progeny
Episode 25: The Lawrence Sisters
Episode 28: Elvira Cowles Holmes
Episode 31: Desdemona Wadsworth Fullmer
Episode 35: Polygamy and Lamanite Marriages
Episode 36: Plural Marriage and the Martydom
Episode 37: Polygamy and Winter Quarters
Episode 38: Polygamy and Winter Quarters
Episode 39: Early Utah Period Polygamy
Episode 41: Polygamy and the Family, Public and Private
Episode 42: Scandal, Soldiers, Sex and Wives
Episode 43: Violent 1850’s Utah
Episode 45: Houses of Polygamy
Episode 46: A Brief History of the Relief Society
Episode 47: History of Southern Utah, Part 1
Episode 48: History of Southern Utah, Part 2 (Orderville and other towns)
Episode 50: Marriage to Brigham Young
Episode 51: Amelia Folsom, “Brigham’s Favorite Wife”
Episode 52: Obscure Polygamous Women, Polygamous Wives Writing Club
Episode 53: Federal Legislation
Episode 54: Lucinda Dalton, Mormon Feminist Pioneer
Episode 56: Polygamy in Mexican Colonies
Episode 57: Polygamy and Suffrage
Episode 58: Anne Gordge, Polygamous Calamity Jane
Hi! I was wondering if you have notes for episode #10? I have really loved listening to these so far! Thanks for your hard work.
Sure, I’ll post them here (I’m assuming you mean my sources):
Richard S. Van Wagoner, Mormon Polygamy, p.8
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, p.140-141
Richard S. Van Wagoner, Sidney Rigdon, p.291
Historical Record 6:33: “Lucinda Harris, also one of the first women sealed to the Prophet Joseph”; Sarah Pratt, in
Wyl, 60; 4 Apr. 1899 sealing, Salt Lake Temple Sealing Records, Book D, 243;
Minutes of the High Council of the Church of Jesus Christ of Nauvoo Illinois, 6 Feb 1841
Noble affidavit, in B. H. Roberts, A Comprehensive History of the Church (Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1930), 2:102; Erastus Snow affidavit, in Historical Record 6:232, 233; speech by Joseph Noble, 19 Dec. 1880, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Elder Jenson, Andrew. 1951 Volume: 1 Page: 697 Marriages in Nauvoo Region 1839-45. Easton, S. Civil Marriages in Nauvoo 1839-45. Cook, Lyndon Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register 1845-46 Mormon Manuscripts to 1846.
Mormon Polygamy in Nauvoo, Richard Van Wagoner, Dialogue, Vol.18, No.3, p.77
In Sacred Loneliness, page 80-81
Joseph F. Smith Affidavit Books, 1:5, 4:5, cf. Bachman, “A Study of the Mormon Practice of Plural Marriage,” 348; Historical Record 6:233;
Joseph Smith, History of the Church, Vol. 4, p.445
Brigham Young journal, 6 Jan. 1842, LDS archives and Marriott Library; Bennett, History of the Saints, 256, “Mrs. A**** S****”; Testimony of Mary Ann West in U.S. Circuit Court (8th Circuit) Testimony (1892), Manuscript Transcripts, 521, questions 676-79, LDS archives; Nauvoo Female Relief Society Minutes, 28 Sept. 1842, 89, LDS archives and Lee Library.
St. Louis Bulletin, 15 July 1842
LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Elder Jenson, Andrew. 1951 Volume: 1 Page: 697 Marriages in Nauvoo Region 1839-45. Easton, S. Civil Marriages in Nauvoo 1839-45. Cook, Lyndon Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register 1845-46 Mormon Manuscripts to 1846.
LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Elder Jenson, Andrew. 1951 Volume: 1 Page: 697 Marriages in Nauvoo Region 1839-45. Easton, S. Civil Marriages in Nauvoo 1839-45. Cook, Lyndon Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register 1845-46 Mormon Manuscripts to 1846.
Official History of the Church, Vol. 5, p.134-136, Sidney Rigdon Biography by Richard S. Van Wagoner, p.295
Minutes of The High Council of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 24 May 1842, Nauvoo Neighbor 29 May 1844 edition
Times and Seasons 4, [May 1,1843]: 181
The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, p.635
LDS History of the Church 5:131–132; RLDS History of the Church 2:613; ; see also Dean C, Jessee, The Papers of Joseph Smith 2 [Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company, 1992]: 443–444)
Temple Lot case complete transcript, 364, 367, 384; also see Foster, Religion and Sexuality, 15
Historical Record 6:223; Lucy Walker Smith Kimball, in the Temple Lot case (full transcript, 461, LDS archives); Helen Kimball Whitney, Woman’s Exponent, 15 Feb. 1886, 138.
William Clayton Journal 2, “Nauvoo, Illinois,” September 15, 17 and 21, 1843.
Times and Seasons, Vol.4, No.24, p.369
Brigham Young Diary, 30 Oct 1843
The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, p.124
Joseph Smith, History of the Church, Vol. 6, p.403, Mormon Polygamy: A History, p.66
Joseph Smith, History of the Church, Vol. 6, p.432-434
Joseph Smith, History of the Church, Vol. 6, p.548-550, Manuscript fragment of Nauvoo Legion History for June 1844, LDS archives.
Joseph Smith, History of the Church, Vol. 6, p.558
Joseph Smith, History of the Church, Vol. 6, p.616-623
Brigham Young, A Series of Instructions and Remarks by President Young at a Special Council, Tabernacle, March 21, 1858 (Salt Lake City, 1858)
Lindsay, I have enjoyed the Year of Polygamy. Your podcast is one of several that I listen to on a regular basis, and I want you to know that the combination of your diligent research and your comfortable delivery put you at the top of my list. History Extra or Talking History should have you as a guest. An honest discussion of the subject of Polygamy might be interesting to a broader audience. Please keep up the good work, you are a breath of fresh air in the sick room of those of us who are receiving inoculations from a batch of bad vaccine.
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