Episode 126: Lorenzo Snow
Join Lindsay as she interviews John Hatch from Signature Books about the lives and wives of Lorenzo Snow.
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Links and texts mentioned in this podcast:- Signature Books
- Juanita Brooks lecture
- Harold B. Lee Library info on Lorenzo Snow
- Chronological history of Lorenzo Snow
- Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage by B. Carmon Hardy
- Brian Hales’ take on Lorenzo Snow
- FAIR Mormon takes on “Fundamentalist Assumptions”
- Denver Snuffer on Lorenzo Snow
- Charlotte Squires (19 November 1825 Ohio – 25 September 1850). Married October 1844.
- Mary Adaline Goddard (8 March 1812 Connecticut – 28 December 1898). Married 1845.
- Sarah Ann Prichard (29 November 1826 Ohio – 30 November 1900). Married 21 April 1845.
- Harriet Amelia Squires (13 September 1819 Ohio – 12 May 1890). Married 17 January 1846.
- Eleanor Houtz (14 August 1831 Pennsylvania – 13 September 1896). Married 1848.
- Caroline Horton (25 December 1828 England – 21 February 1857). Married 9 October 1853.
- Mary Elizabeth Houtz (19 May 1840 Pennsylvania – 31 May 1906). Married 1857.
- Phoebe Amelia Woodruff (4 March 1842 Nauvoo, Illinois – 15 February 1919). Married 4 April 1859. Phoebe was the daughter of Wilford Woodruff.
- Sarah Minnie Ephramina Jensen (10 October 1854[3] – 2 January 1908). Married on 12 June 1871
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Ganesh
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I really enjoyed this podcast. May I ask why there was not any discussion about Phoebe Amelia Woodruff?
Since her father was an Apostle (future president) was her marriage unusual? Was this a dynastic coupling or an example of friends marrying each others daughters?
And is it odd that the 5th President of the Church is the son in law of the 4th President of the Church?
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noel hausler
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Dan Vogel cited an entry where Phoebe was first offered by Woodruff to BY as a young wife. Young responded he had enough young wives and she ended up with Snow.
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BeckyB
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Phoebe Woodruff is my 2nd Great Grandmother. I was sad not to hear her name spoken in this podcast, but happy to find her listed here in the footnotes. She is basically a ghost, that is never mentioned in any church lesson or history. My family has always been proud to claim Lorenzo but it is almost as if his wife did not even exist. I don’t know much about her but I do know some. I know that she was just barely 17 when she married Lorenzo Snow. I know she didn’t know him personally other than that he was her father’s close friend. She lived most of her life without a husband. She supported herself and her children by being a midwife. At 48, because of the Manifesto, Lorenzo distanced himself from her and her children. My G. Grandfather was pretty bitter about how they were treated, but Phoebe stayed faithful to the church until she died 20 years later. I wish we knew more about these women. Thank you for making an effort to tell their stories.
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DB Cooper
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Could you please tell us where we could find a copy of that letter that John read which was from from Snow to one of his young wives? As John pointed out, it sounds like a nice regular affectionate letter from a husband to a wife, until you consider the context that it was from a man in his 50s to a teenage girl who was his 9th or 10th wife.
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Tom Bennett
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It was mentioned that Lorenzo Snow’s house had a secret room. I have been interested in seeing these polygamist homes, especially the ones of the Pioneer era.
Are any of them still standing? Could we organize some tours?
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