Polygamy; Is What Makes Mormon History So Unique
	Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner Smith Young, one of the (polyandrous) wives of Joseph Smith, featured in Todd Compton's book, In Sacred Loneliness : The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith, Signature books 1998.
	The beginnings of this chronology of the anti-polygamy bills for the Utah Territory, come from a hand out I received in a Religion or History class at BYU in the mid 1970's. I have significantly augmented it from 3 pages to about 29 pages, with additional line items from various scholarly History books and professional articles.  Anson Bowen Call; Post 1890 Manifesto Polygamist, Typical Mormon or Religious Zealot?  Anson B. was engaged to marry his first (polygamous) plural wife, before the first 1890 Wilford Woodruff Manifesto, as things worked out, he ended up marrying 3 plural wives after the September 1890 press release.   The 1852 Utah Territorial Legislature enacted a peculiar statute concerning the rights of illegitimate children. This statute was to be later referred to by United States Supreme Court Justice Brown as a novelty among legitimacy statues.
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