130 years ago today - Dec 19, 1886

John Taylor enters his first plural marriage since the passage of the 1862 federal law against Mormon polygamy. Performed by the brides father, and witnessed by his counselor George Q. Cannon and bodyguard Charles H. Wilcken.

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

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