During the reformation, Wilford Woodruff writes "nearly all are trying to get wives, until there is hardly a girl 14 years old in Utah, but what is married, or just going to be."
[Source: Brooke, John L. The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. p.185]
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