Polygamy Lecture by Brigham Young's Wife

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Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 10/8/2009 at 17:29:15

Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa

February 10, 1876: Ann Eliza, Brigham Young’s 19th wife, will lecture at the M. E. Church, Maquoketa, on Wednesday evening the 23rd, for the benefit of the Ladies’ Furnishing Fund.

February 17, 1876: The ladies of the M. E. Church, Maquoketa, have engaged Mrs. Ann Eliza, the nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, to deliver a lecture in the church next Wednesday evening, for the benefit of the Society. She comes recommended by the highest dignitaries of the land, and the press, wherever she has spoken, speaks of her in the highest terms. The subject of her lecture will, of course, be polygamy, as at present is practiced in Utah, with all its enormities; but the most fastidious need not fear that their sensibilities will be shocked by anything impure or immoral in her utterances. Everybody should go and hear her, as it may be a long time before they have another opportunity of hearing an expose of the “twin relic” from the lips of one “who knows how it is herself.”

March 2, 1876: The lecture of Ann Eliza Young last week, was a decided success. 188 tickets were sold, netting to the M. E. Society after paying all expenses, about $46. The lecture was well received, and gave general satifaction.