Salt Lake History Question

[moksha]

There was a 19th Century effort by gentile missionaries in Salt Lake City to provide a residence for women wishing to escape from that twin-relic of barbarism known as polygamy. Does anyone have any details regarding this place of residence. I couldn't readily find any reference to this on the internet, but I wondered if that may be due to manipulation of the internet search engines by either the adversary or the Church.

[Palerider]

Possibly this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indus ... mous_Wives

[moksha]

That's it. The founders thought for sure that polygamist women would welcome the rescue, but the residence always operated with many vacancies. The women were either content to stay or unwilling to risk an unknown rescue.

Speaking of residence, here is a good view of President Monson's place. This large penthouse is reserved for the President of the LDS Church.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7697033 ... a=!3m1!1e3

[wtfluff]

Possibly this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indus ... mous_Wives

Fascinating!

[Palerider]

That's it. The founders thought for sure that polygamist women would welcome the rescue, but the residence always operated with many vacancies. The women were either content to stay or unwilling to risk an unknown rescue.

Speaking of residence, here is a good view of President Monson's place. This large penthouse is reserved for the President of the LDS Church.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7697033 ... a=!3m1!1e3

It sounded to me as if there were plenty of women who wanted out of polygamy but they were generally first wives, who sadly couldn't be accepted under the home's perview.

Odd that 2nd and 3rd wives may have seen themselves as being in a predicament if they and their children were to leave their husbands. They wouldn't have been seen as divorcees but women who had had children out of wedlock, an even greater stigma.

[Korihor]

Possibly this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indus ... mous_Wives

Fascinating!

Holy crap!
The rabbit hole is never ending.

[moksha]

Here is an early book about the women in polygamy from the director of that rescue mission:

https://archive.org/details/womenofmormonism00froi
The women of Mormonism: The story of polygamy as told by the victims themselves
by Jennie Anderson Froiseth
Publication date 1882