Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Colonel Willard Young, 84, next to last surviving son of the 56 children born to Mormon Brigham Young and his 19 wives; in Salt Lake City, Utah...
CHARLES COULSON RICH-John Henry Evans-Macmillan ($3.50). Of all the restless religious sects spawned in the U. S., Mormonism went furthest, made the biggest splash. Nowadays as settled and respectable as any other church, in its early years it roused its neighbors to a fury of apprehensive persecution, even threw a scare into the U. S. Government. Present-day "Gentiles" know little of Mormon history, few Mormon heroes except Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. After reading Charles Coulson Rich they could add another name to their list of Latter-day Saints, many an historical fact to a little-known...
Polygamy-or, as the Mormons delicately called it, plural marriage-was not et an acknowledged Mormon practice. Mormon communities in the East and Midwest were surrounded by citizens who frowned on such Old Testament goings-on. But Prophet Joseph Smith had already secretly taken the step, initiated a chosen few into the same fellowship. Rich, a sobersided, promising and healthy recruit, was one whom the Prophet commanded to do likewise. He talked the matter over with Sarah and both decided to comply with the semi-divine command, provided Sarah chose the candidates. In quick succession Husband Rich took on four...
Meantime Rich had left home, settled with fellow-Saints in Missouri. When local antagonism against the Mormons got too hot for them, the Riches went along with their brethren on the 1,100-mile trek to the Promised Land of Utah. As a hard working, efficient officer, finally as second in command of the Mormon army (the Nauvoo Legion), Charles Rich made a name for himself as one of the most useful Saints in Zion. After the hardships of the journey and the first starvation days in the new land, he was further upped in rank...
...Some Mormon unemployed will be put to work on fertile but fallow acreage to raise beets and truck crops for refineries and canneries, the profits to be distributed to the needy in cash and kind. Other jobless Mormons will be put to work on a church-building program, cost of which will be shared between localities and a national Mormon fund. This fund is to be swelled by contributions from solvent Mormons who will be expected to abstain from at least two meals on one Sunday each month (minimum estimated cost: 5? per meal). Mormons who have been slack about...