Death of Brigham Young's Successor.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 217, 27 August 1887, Page 3

Death of Brigham Young's Successor.

John Taylor, who succeeded Brigham Young as President of the Mormon Church, died at 8 o'clock p.m. on July 25th, in Utah. The exact place is not given, as the President was in hiding from the law on account of polygamous practices. Taylor was in hi& seventy-ninth year, and joined the Mormon Church in 1839. He was made oneof the Twelve in 1838, and was a missionary for twenty years ; afterwards he edited various church papers and publications. When Brigham Young died in ISBO, Taylor, then president of the Twelve, became president of the Church. He embraced' polygamy among the first, but denied its practice after continuing in it for years, and. j was indicted for the offence early in 1885. He went into hiding in February of that year, and has not shown up since. Taylor was an Englishman. Geo. Q. Cannon, a Mormon magnate, charges the president's blood on the "persecutors" who have " hounded him to his death." The admission of Utah into the Union is steadily opposed by the influential portion of the press until the Mormon Chui'ctl. formally renounces the doctrine of. Poly 1 gamy. Once in the Union, Utah, as a. State, could re-establish polygamy andi defy the power of Congress a.ncj the nflft'#».

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