120 years ago today - Oct 21, 1900

Alexander F. Macdonald performs a plural marriage in Mexico, his first since 1890. Second counselor Joseph F. Smith authorizes this without the knowledge of church president Lorenzo Snow, who later threatens to excommunicate this patriarch.

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

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