115 years ago today - Nov 7, 1901

The First Presidency decides that there is no "rule in the church forbidding cousins to inter-marry" and that first cousins can have temple marriages if they present a civil license. General authorities such as Brigham Young, Willard Richards, Joseph F. Smith, and Abraham H. Cannon married their first cousins as legal or plural wives.

[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]

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