Apostles Quote by D. Michael Quinn

The 19th century Mormons, including some of my ancestors, were not eager to practice plural marriage. They followed the example of Brigham Young, who…

— Dallin H. Oaks

George Smith shows how many of the prophet’s followers embraced plural marriage during a period when the LDS Church was emphatically denying the practice…

— Daniel Walker Howe

The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early 1840s, after…

— Scott Anderson

In 1835 at Kirtland I learned from my Sisters Husband Lyman R. Shirman, who was close to the Prophet and Received it from him.…

— Benjamin F. Johnson

It's hard to know how many rank-and-file nineteenth-century church members accepted the idea that Jesus was married to multiple women and fathered children, but…

— John Turner

The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based upon polygamy,…

— Jedediah M. Grant

“A final note on numbers: My research shows Ann Eliza was most likely Brigham's 52 of 55 wives. As far as I can tell,…

— David Ebershoff

“It is one of the great ironies of Mormon history that Smith, who set the polygamous movement in motion, never experienced it in practical…

— Todd M. Compton

The Prophet had made dishonorable proposals to my wife... under cover of his asserted 'Revelation.'... Smith told his wife Jane the Lord had commanded…

— William Law

The response of the men who were introduced into polygamy between 1841 and 1846 was anything but enthusiastic. The same was true of the…

— Leonard J. Arrington

At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things it was…

— Abraham H. Cannon

Of all the names Polygamy went by (so as not to exasperate the Gentile population and even some of the wives of the members'…

— Ardyth Kennelly