A Mormon tells Senator Reed Smoot's secretary that "Apostle [Abraham Owen] Woodruff told him that a certain number of worthy people had been commissioned to keep alive the principle of plural marriage." This view is the basis of the Mormon Fundamentalist movement which does not fully emerge until the 1920s. Woodruff, who died in June after visiting his post-Manifesto plural wife and her first baby, is honored as a polygamy martyr by these Mormons.
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
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