Journal of Mormon History Volume 24 Issue 2 Article 1 1998 Journal of Mormon History Vol. 24, No. 2, 1998 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory Part of the Religion Commons Recommended Citation (1998) "Journal of Mormon History Vol. 24, No. 2, 1998," Journal of Mormon History: Vol. 24 : Iss. 2 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol24/iss2/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Mormon History by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Journal of Mormon History Vol. 24, No. 2, 1998 Table of Contents CONTENTS LETTERS vi • --Missionaries in the American Religious Marketplace: Mormon Proselyting in the 1830s Steven C. Harper, 1 • --Mormon Leaders in Politics: The Transition to Statehood in 1896 Edward Leo Lyman, 30 • --J. Golden Kimball: Private Life of a Public Figure James N. Kimball, 55 • --Mary Bennion Powell: Polygamy and Silence John Bennion, 85 • --The Origin of the Word of Wisdom Clyde Ford, 129 • --The Curious Meet the Mormons: Images from Travel Narratives, 1850s and 1860s Craig S. Smith, 155 • --Making the Most of Leisure: Depression, Recreation, and the Improvement Era Richard Ian Kimball, 182 ENCOUNTER ESSAY • --Forgotten History: Recovering Helen Mar Whitney's Story of the Early Church Jeni Broberg Holzapfel Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, 207 REVIEWS --Andrew F. Smith. The Saintly Scoundrel: The Life and Times of John C. Bennett Donald Q. Cannon, 224 --Jean Bickmore White. Charter for Statehood: The Story of Utah's State Constitution Thomas G. Alexander, 226 BOOK NOTICES --Parker Nielson. The Dispossessed: Cultural Genocide of the Mixed- Blood Utes. An Advocate's Chronicle, 230 --Wayne Ham. Geoffrey F. Spencer: Advocate for an Enlightened Faith, 231 --Barbara B. Smith and Shirley W. Thomas. When the Key Was Turned: Women at the Founding of the Relief Society, 233 --Robert H. Moss. Soldiers N' Saints: An Historical Novel, 233 --Lee Allred. "For the Strength of the Hills," in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol. 13, ed. Dave Wolverton, 235 --Colleen Whitley, ed. Worth Their Salt: Notable But Often Unnoted Women of Utah, 235 --Fred C. Collier and William S. Harwell, eds. Kirtland Council Minute Book, 236 --Hartt Wixom. Edward Partridge: The First Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 237 This full issue is available in Journal of Mormon History: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol24/iss2/ 1 JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY FALL 1998 JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY FALL 1998 COVER: Abstraction of the window tracery, Salt Lake City Tenth Ward. Design by Warren Archer. 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Kimball 55 Mary Bennion Powell: Polygamy and Silence John Bennion 85 The Origin of the Word of Wisdom Clyde Ford 129 The Curious Meet the Mormons: Images from Travel Narratives, 1850s and 1860s Craig S. Smith 155 Making the Most of Leisure: Depression, Recreation, and the Improvement Era Richard Ian Kimball 182 ENCOUNTER ESSAY Forgotten History: Recovering Helen Mar Whitney's Story of the Early Church Jeni Broberg Holzapfel Richard Neitzel Holzapfel 207 REVIEWS Andrew F. Smith. The Saintly Scoundrel: The Life and Times of John C. Bennett Donald Q. Cannon 224 Jean Bickmore White. Charter for Statehood: The Story of Utah's State Constitution Thomas G. Alexander 226 BOOK NOTICES Parker Nielson. The Dispossessed: Cultural Genocide of the Mixed- Blood Utes. An Advocate's Chronicle 230 Wayne Ham. Geoffrey F. Spencer: Advocate for an Enlightened Faith 231 Barbara B. Smith and Shirley W. Thomas. When the Key Was Turned: Women at the Founding of the Relief Society 233 Robert H. Moss. Soldiers N' Saints: An Historical Novel 233 Lee Allred. "For the Strength of the Hills," in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol. 13, ed. Dave Wolverton 235 Colleen Whitley, ed. Worth Their Salt: Notable But Often Unnoted Women of Utah 235 Fred C. Collier and William S. Harwell, eds. Kirtland Council Minute Book 236 Hartt Wixom. Edward Partridge: The First Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 237 LETTERS most of the talking. I asked if Amos had Although the deadline for sub- left Warsaw to escape the violence. mitting proposals for next year's They agreed that it was a possibility, but conference is passed, Ken and they had no family stories to account Audrey Godfrey will consider for the gap. last-minute proposals. Please I suggested, "Some of the 'pony contact them immediately at (435) 752-8765 or 1689 E 1400 clubs' that raided and beat Mormons North, Logan, UT 84341, or by came from Warsaw." e-mail: [email protected] (en-one, Jeanette admitted that it was so. not en-ell). Then her face flushed. She leaned for- ward and said intensely that there was fault on both sides. The Mormons stole "our cattle." Families lost members to A Warsaw Mystery them as converts. This story, which hints at the iden- She continued. A "dear friend" was tify of the person who assassinated the daughter of a prominent Warsaw Joseph Smith, involves a confession attorney. When her father died, she within a confession. opened his deposit box. In it she found In 1961,1 was working on my mas- a signed confession that he had stood ter's thesis on the history of the early in the crowd on the afternoon of the Illinois Geological Survey at the Uni- assassinations and had shot Joseph versity of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Smith. Amos Worthen, a state geologist in the "Who was he?" I asked. 1840s, traveled frequently from the She shook her head. It wouldn't do capital, Springfield, to his home in to tell. The Mormons might desecrate Warsaw. However, he spent 184244 in his grave. Their friend was so afraid Vermont, his natal state. I wondered that she moved away from Warsaw and why he had interrupted his career at never came back. this point and whether it had anything I pointed out that surely her friend's to do with the steadily increasing ten- family was safe after more than a cen- sions between Warsaw and Nauvoo. tury and that this man's identity was his- I interviewed two granddaughters torically important. She shook her of Amos Worthen, Jeanette and Marie head adamantly. Worthen in their Warsaw home. Nei- That was the first confession; the ther had married; both appeared to be second is mine.