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Letters of Catharine Cottam Romney, plural wife
- Title
- Letters of Catharine Cottam Romney, plural wife / edited by Jennifer Moulton Hansen.
- Author
- Romney, Catharine Cottam, 1855-1918.
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1992.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hansen, Jennifer M. (Jennifer Moulton), 1949-
- Description
- xvii, 317 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- Catharine Jane Cottam Romney (1855-1918) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Thomas and Caroline Smith Cottam. At a young age, she moved with her family to St. George where she grew into young womanhood. In 1873, at the age of eighteen, Catherine married Miles P. Romney as the third of his five plural wives. In 1881 Miles was called to help settle St. Johns, Arizona. Following the anti-polygamy prosecutions in 1884, Miles Romney and his fourth wife, Annie moved to Mexico. Catharine and her family followed in 1887. Miles died in 1904, leaving four widows. In 1912, Catharine was forced to flee Mexico, with other Mormon colonists, from the devestation of the Mexican Revolution. She spent her remaining years in the United States. Catharine died in 1918. She was the mother of ten children. Her children and grandchildren settled in Arizona, California and Utah and were prominent in the LDS Church as well as politics and education.
- Subject
- Romney, Catharine Cottam, 1855-1918 > Correspondence
- Romney, Catharine Cottam, 1855-1918
- Romney
- Cottam
- Eyring
- Kimball
- Latter Day Saint pioneers > West (U.S.) > Correspondence
- Women pioneers > West (U.S.) > Correspondence
- Polygamy
- Mormon pioneers
- Polygamy
- Women pioneers
- Mormons > West (U.S.) > Correspondence
- West United States
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- autobiographies (literary works)
- personal correspondence.
- Correspondence
- Autobiographies
- Personal correspondence
- Correspondence.
- Autobiographies.
- Personal correspondence.
- Correspondance privée.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-302) and index.
- Contents
- Part one: St. George, Utah territory -- Part two: St. Johns, Arizona territory -- Part three: Mexico -- Part four: Return home -- Appendix one: Genealogy -- Appendix two: Excerpts from the Orion Era.
- ISBN
- 0252018680
- 9780252018688
- LCCN
- 91020686
- OCLC
- ocm23974859
- 23974859
- SCSB-1950076
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library