Mormon
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Mormon
- A person who belongs to the Christian religious groups related to the religion founded by Joseph Smith, Jr., The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- (allusively) With reference to the doctrine of plural marriage, accepted and practiced by Mormons, which was officially abandoned in 1890.
- The Panama Echo of the 13th contains the following paragraph: "Senor Louis Durand, of this city, late resident on Santa Anna Plaza, outside the city walls, died last night, aged 90 years. He had a family of over one hundred children. They are actually his own children, of the first generation." The old Mormon![1]
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- ↑ Mail Gleanings, &c., The New-York daily tribune, 10 March 1852, page 7, column 4, 3rd item from top. The Utah-based church publicly announced its practice of plural marriage August 28, 1852, but Orson Hyde had defended the practice in the Frontier Guardian in February.
