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30 cze 2010 · Mormon culture has produced during its history an unusual number of historically valuable personal writings. Few such diaries, journals, and memoirs published have provided as rich and well rounded a window into their authors' lives and worlds as the diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney.
Helen Mar was a leading woman in nine-teenth-century Mormonism. She was the daughter of First Presidency counselor Heber C. Kimball and had also been one of the wives of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon Church) founder Joseph Smith, Jr., in Nauvoo, Illinois.
Helen Mar Kimball was sealed to Joseph Smith when she was 14. The marriage was arranged by her father and was apparently not consummated. As an adult, Helen was a fierce defender of both Joseph Smith and plural marriage.
Helen Mar Kimball (August 22, 1828 – November 13, 1896) was one of 30 to 40 plural wives of Joseph Smith, [1] founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. She was sealed in marriage to him when she was 14 years old.
A Widow's Tale: The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney. Preface. In November 1992, W. Whitney Smith, a distinguished professor of bacteri-ology at Utah State University (USU), donated a large collection of family papers to the Merrill Library on behalf of himself, his family, and his wife, Alice.
The Helen Mar Whitney family papers represent a significant contribution to the study of early Latter-day Saints history, overland travel, Salt Lake City social history, and the development of the Arizona territory. The collection consists of over 100 letters dating from 1840 to 1900.
A widow's tale: the -1896 diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2003. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2019667366/>. Includes bibliographical references (pages 811-830) and index.
