The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-21
MORMON WOMEN.
1.-TWO Prominent Utah Ladies
IWeI Who Have Written Books.

allowing artlcleIS e1h0H AA0'H <
Ins obtaining lo an Endowment House
letter con Written ritt,s' by .'P. P. T." to the
expose G,,;farnia and published in that
Ala 'o ON the 18th. How vile its general
paper I.Is /, ~ may be surmised from noting
tone -, ~ source the author acknowledges
to Wnp 1t indebted for much of the infor-
hlll l;on. The following extract IS Sc
na ..J from the less Objectionable part
Of the letter;
u last letter gave a history of
II u. .rization of the Mormon Church,
the 9rg g;5 not speak of the women or of
but G Lora in the upbuilding of the
thelr sI sun of God in Zion" Some of
KingaUnmn Of Deseret are the most re-
the ee.Esble 1 have ever met; They
na .as mostly from good old Eng
g goIn' stock, and one glance at thelr
ISL l,S faces show them to be
slfons II fbe same material as the early
m NJ iet :, martyrs. believe they would
ChllS n-oises while being burned at the
slng Pie eo great is their religious fana-
s !5 The most prominent women OF
In.. la.u,t number twenty-five, and among
ges 81 thew have published twenty-one
men men foremost among them IS
IoOS I;na wells, one of the six wives of
bbl llSiai'W wells, an apostle of the church.
~ gaii IL a woman of rare intelligence and
o oL', = executive ability. She edits the
~ MS ErDoi.ent, which is conducted
exclusively by women. Eliza Snow,
tor of Lorenzo Snow, one of the
shining lights Of the church, has pub
Tsbed several books, is also a poetess OF
noordinary ability. Tina D. ii. Young IS
~ royal blood, and claims George
Washington as an ancestor. She
bos taken great interest in
. ITi and has had charge
of large cocooneIy belonging
~ Brigham Young. A good article OF
IN has been home manufactured here
by Mrs. Bethsheba Smith, who is now
b;qb priestess, having become convinced
that the doctrine of plurality of wives
was from God, gave to her husband
several wives in one year. She says:
.Reing proud of my husband and loving
him yery much, knowing him to be a
man of God, and having testimony that
what have done was acceptable to my
Father in Heaven, l was as happy as |
knew how to be" Hannah King was
reared among the classic bowers and
shades of the University town of Cam
bridge, England, baptized early in
youth to the High Church of England;
her grandfather was rector of her
church. She there wrote two books for
juveniles, which were largely sold to the
aristOcracy of England, but the des-
trOyer was abroad in the land.
MORMON MISSIONARY
Got hold of her, converted and baptized
this woman of rare and superior intel
lectual endowments, and in 1853 she left
home and friends and came to Salt Lake,
then only a desert. Perhaps a better
idea of the women's utter self-abnega-
ton in the plurality of wives can not be
better conveyed than in the language of
Augusta Joice Crocheron, who has the
most thrilling history of them all, she
says: I'm 1870 1 became the second
wife Of George w. Crocheron. [ believe
that should better please my heavenly
father by so doing, than my marrying
otherwise. Any woman, no matter
now selfish, can be a first and
only wife, but it takes a great
deal more Christian philosophy
and fOrttude, and seif-discipline to be a
wife in this order Ct marli age. Ibelieve
those who choose the latter when both
are equally possible, and do right
therein, casting aside all selfshness,
Judging self and not another, have at
famed height, mental power,
spiritual plane above those who have
moi To do this is to overcome that
which has its roots in selfishness. and it
can be done if each will do what is
night" To Judge Goodwin, editor of
me Salt Lake Tribune, a gentleman who
mas been dealing sledge-hammer blows
al thls polygamOus rock for years, l am
indebted tormuch valuable information.
ne told me OF a first wife who rebelled
a. Inc advent of No. ., and who asked
.1e church tor a separation. The
lAlTeh compelled him to set apart a
certain home for her, where she with
lsr children lived in peace for years.
!. me end OF that time the husband
wanted to sell the property. She would
~. consent. Then began series of
TtyNeGunons by him and the elders of
NE, MT lShurch, covering period of three
@eeN' At the end of that time, she
T Tbnseated and signed away her home.
,Lu'! "ld her she would have to lie in
IL, EsIaYe and rot through all eternity
nv M u. y. husband would refuse to call her
2,. we " mo, morning of the resurrection.
~la I. Williams is
'AL DAUGHTER OF BRIGHAM YOUNG.
a AIa She says although he had nine
T Vsel girls at the time of her birth, he
rs S@s as pleased as many men over their
-biis porn tl He called his daughters his
Or yn ifn, She knew nothing of want
Tb srH eIg till 1856, during the famine,
on b every family in the Territory was