The blood in their veins : the Kimballs, polygamy and the shaping of Mormonism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kimball, Andrew E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History--19th century.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Kimball (Family : 1822- :--Kimball, Heber C. (Heber Chase), 1801-1868).

Kimball (Family :.

Kimball, Heber C. (Heber Chase), 1801-1868.

Kimball, Heber C.

Kimball, Heber C. (Heber Chase), 1801-1868--Family.

Latter Day Saint churches--History--19th century.

Latter Day Saint churches.

Polygamy--Religious aspects--Latter Day Saint churches--History.

Polygamy.

Polygamy--Religious aspects--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History.

Physical Description:

viii, 497 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : Signature Books, 2025.

Summary:

This meticulously documented, deeply engaging book represents a unique approach to Utah and Latter-day Saint history, drawing on previously untapped private letters and diaries of members of the large and widely known polygamist family of the prominent Latter-day Saint leader, Heber C. Kimball. The story includes compelling accounts of Helen Kimball Whitney, who married Joseph Smith polygamously at fourteen and became, according to Emmeline B. Wells, "one of the best known and most estimable women of the Church," and of her son Orson F. Whitney, who forswore his embrace of reincarnation only six years before his call as an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Another daughter, Alice Kimball Smith, married a man who was tracked to a brothel and arrested for armed robbery and assault in 1883, after which Alice turned to family friend and apostle Joseph F. Smith and became his fifth wife. Heber's son, J. Golden Kimball, one of the most beloved and colorful personalities in Mormon and Utah history, is brought to life in another sketch. The Kimballs had to navigate the ticklish business of explaining or obfuscating polygamy to disapproving family in the East, including the extended claim by Heber's wife Christeen to her New Jersey family that she had married a Mr. Chase monogamously. Two of Heber's sons, both stake presidents, contemplated plural marriage in the first decade of the twentieth century, well after the church publicly disavowed the practice. Additional light is shone on the now-defunct Latter-day Saint practices of adult adoptions and speaking in tongues, Mormon-settler relations with the Utes and Pahvants, the 1856 handcart rescue, the John Hyrum Koyle "Dream Mine," the Jackson County, Missouri, Temple Lot suit of 1892, and federal pursuit of polygamists.

Contents:

Scattered to the four winds

Unseen spirits

One family

Valley boys

Heber's daughter Helen

Reunion and disunion

Writing Heber

Heber's church

Winding down polygamy

Liberals & strangers

The gathering in

Appendix : alphabetical Kimballs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-482) and index.

ISBN:

1560855223

9781560855224

OCLC:

1492260114