125 years ago today - Oct 9, 1889

Salt Lake stake high council excommunicates elder for having local bishop perform unauthorized plural marriage for him four years earlier. Stake authorities had not authorized marriage because the young woman has " blood in her veins." First counselor says her father is "about 1/6 Nigger from his appearance."

[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]

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