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'''Miles Park Romney''' (August 18, 1843 – February 26, 1904) was a prominent builder in [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. He was born in [[Nauvoo, Illinois|Nauvoo]], [[Illinois]], the son of [[Miles Romney]].<ref>{{citation|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZP3-rXn0H8sC&pg=PT52&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false|page = 52|first1 = Michael|last1 = Kranish|first2 = Scott|last2 = Helman|publisher = [[HarperCollins]]|year = 2012|title = The Real Romney}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Lfygxs65k_EC&pg=PA245&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false|page = 245|title = A Gathering of Eagles: Conversions from the Four Quarters of the Earth|first1 = Daniel B.|last1 = Gibbons|first2 = Elizabeth|last2 = Gaskell|year = 2002|publisher = Writers Club Press}}</ref> He was the president of the [[St. George Social Hall]] Company and the St. George Dramatic Association, and also served as a chief of police, attorney-at-law, newspaper editor, and architect.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,254362,00.html | work=Fox News | title=Polygamy Prominent in GOP Presidential Hopeful Mitt Romney's Family Tree | date=December 6, 2011}}</ref> One of his sons, [[Gaskell Romney]], was the father of [[George W. Romney]] and grandfather of [[Mitt Romney]].<ref name=npr>{{citation|url = https://www.npr.org/2012/01/22/145574014/mexican-cousins-keep-romneys-family-tree-rooted|title = Mexican Cousins Keep Romney's Family Tree Rooted|first = John|last = BURNETT|date = January 22, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{citation|publisher = [[Washington Post]]|first = Dana|last = Milbank|authorlink = Dana Milbank|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/meet-mitt-romneys-cousin-park-romney/2012/02/02/gIQAYLvclQ_story.html|date = February 2, 2012|title=Meet Mitt Romney's cousin}}</ref>
'''Miles Park Romney''' (August 18, 1843 – February 26, 1904) was a prominent builder in [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. He was born in [[Nauvoo, Illinois|Nauvoo]], [[Illinois]], the son of [[Miles Romney]].<ref>{{citation|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZP3-rXn0H8sC&pg=PT52|page = 52|first1 = Michael|last1 = Kranish|first2 = Scott|last2 = Helman|publisher = [[HarperCollins]]|year = 2012|title = The Real Romney|isbn = 9780062123299}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Lfygxs65k_EC&pg=PA245|page = 245|title = A Gathering of Eagles: Conversions from the Four Quarters of the Earth|first1 = Daniel B.|last1 = Gibbons|first2 = Elizabeth|last2 = Gaskell|year = 2002|publisher = Writers Club Press|isbn = 9780595219704}}</ref> He was the president of the [[St. George Social Hall]] Company and the St. George Dramatic Association, and also served as a chief of police, attorney-at-law, newspaper editor, and architect.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,254362,00.html | work=Fox News | title=Polygamy Prominent in GOP Presidential Hopeful Mitt Romney's Family Tree | date=December 6, 2011}}</ref> One of his sons, [[Gaskell Romney]], was the father of [[George W. Romney]] and grandfather of [[Mitt Romney]].<ref name=npr>{{citation|url = https://www.npr.org/2012/01/22/145574014/mexican-cousins-keep-romneys-family-tree-rooted|title = Mexican Cousins Keep Romney's Family Tree Rooted|first = John|last = BURNETT|date = January 22, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{citation|work = [[Washington Post]]|first = Dana|last = Milbank|authorlink = Dana Milbank|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/meet-mitt-romneys-cousin-park-romney/2012/02/02/gIQAYLvclQ_story.html|date = February 2, 2012|title=Meet Mitt Romney's cousin}}</ref>


Miles Park Romney moved to Utah with the body of the church while still a child. He became a builder like his father. After he married his first wife he was sent on a mission for the Church in England. After his return he followed the then teachings of the Church and married another wife.
Miles Park Romney moved to Utah with the body of the church while still a child. He became a builder like his father. After he married his first wife he was sent on a mission for the Church in England. After his return he followed the then teachings of the Church and married another wife.
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A polygamist,<ref>{{citation|publisher = [[The New Yorker]]|url = http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/backissues/2012/01/takes-polygamy-and-the-romneys.html|series = Lives of the Saints|date = January 26, 2012|title = Takes: Polygamy and the Romneys|first = Jon|last = Michaud}}</ref><ref name="romneyplural">{{cite news | url=http://toddmcompton.com/romney_plural_lives.htm | title=Mitt Romney's Polygamous Heritage | date=May 2012 |last=Compton |first=Todd}}</ref> in the aftermath of the [[Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act of 1882]] (later amended by the [[Edmunds–Tucker Act]], 1887), Romney, on April 7, 1885, joined a party leaving Arizona to find land outside the U.S., in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, on which his family could settle, free from fear of his arrest.<ref>{{citation |first= T. George |last= Harris |title= Romney's way: a man and an idea |publisher= [[Prentice-Hall]] |year= 1968 |oclc= 437793 }}</ref> Romney died on February 26, 1904, in [[Colonia Dublan]], Mexico.
A polygamist,<ref>{{citation|publisher = [[The New Yorker]]|url = http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/backissues/2012/01/takes-polygamy-and-the-romneys.html|series = Lives of the Saints|date = January 26, 2012|title = Takes: Polygamy and the Romneys|first = Jon|last = Michaud}}</ref><ref name="romneyplural">{{cite news | url=http://toddmcompton.com/romney_plural_lives.htm | title=Mitt Romney's Polygamous Heritage | date=May 2012 |last=Compton |first=Todd}}</ref> in the aftermath of the [[Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act of 1882]] (later amended by the [[Edmunds–Tucker Act]], 1887), Romney, on April 7, 1885, joined a party leaving Arizona to find land outside the U.S., in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, on which his family could settle, free from fear of his arrest.<ref>{{citation |first= T. George |last= Harris |title= Romney's way: a man and an idea |publisher= [[Prentice-Hall]] |year= 1968 |oclc= 437793 }}</ref> Romney died on February 26, 1904, in [[Colonia Dublan]], Mexico.


Romney's five wives, in order of marriage, were Hannah Hood Hill (1862), Caroline "Carrie" Lambourne (1867), Catherine Jane Cottam (1873), Alice Marie "Annie" Woodbury (1877) and Emily "Millie" Henrietta Eyring Snow (1897).<ref name="romneyplural"/><ref>{{cite web |first=Ethel Romney |last=Peterson |title=Biography: Miles Park Romney |url=http://www.orsonprattbrown.com/Romney/miles-park-romney1843-1904.html |publisher=Orson Pratt Brown |year=2001 |accessdate=April 23, 2012}}</ref> Romney married Hannah Hood Hill on May 10, 1862, at Salt Lake City, Utah.<ref name =diaries>{{citation|publisher = [[University of Illinois Press]]|title = Letters of Catherine Cottam Romney, plural wife|first1 = Catherine Cottam|last1 = Romney|first2 = Jennifer Moulton (ed.)|last2 = Hansen|year = 1992|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=cWww69owr1kC&}}</ref>
Romney's five wives, in order of marriage, were Hannah Hood Hill (1862), Caroline "Carrie" Lambourne (1867), Catherine Jane Cottam (1873), Alice Marie "Annie" Woodbury (1877) and Emily "Millie" Henrietta Eyring Snow (1897).<ref name="romneyplural"/><ref>{{cite web |first=Ethel Romney |last=Peterson |title=Biography: Miles Park Romney |url=http://www.orsonprattbrown.com/Romney/miles-park-romney1843-1904.html |publisher=Orson Pratt Brown |year=2001 |accessdate=April 23, 2012}}</ref> Romney married Hannah Hood Hill on May 10, 1862, at Salt Lake City, Utah.<ref name =diaries>{{citation|publisher = [[University of Illinois Press]]|title = Letters of Catherine Cottam Romney, plural wife|first1 = Catherine Cottam|last1 = Romney|first2 = Jennifer Moulton (ed.)|last2 = Hansen|year = 1992|isbn = 9780252018688|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=cWww69owr1kC}}</ref>
[[File:Catherine-jane-cottam-romney.jpg|thumb|Catherine Jane Cottam married Romney as a [[plural marriage|plural wife]] in 1873. Her personal diaries, now published, comprise a significant record of her life and times.<ref name = diaries />]]
[[File:Catherine-jane-cottam-romney.jpg|thumb|Catherine Jane Cottam married Romney as a [[plural marriage|plural wife]] in 1873. Her personal diaries, now published, comprise a significant record of her life and times.<ref name = diaries />]]



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Miles Park Romney (putative), c. 1860s
Hannah Hill Romney
(1842–1929)

Miles Park Romney (August 18, 1843 – February 26, 1904) was a prominent builder in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was born in Nauvoo, Illinois, the son of Miles Romney.[1][2] He was the president of the St. George Social Hall Company and the St. George Dramatic Association, and also served as a chief of police, attorney-at-law, newspaper editor, and architect.[3] One of his sons, Gaskell Romney, was the father of George W. Romney and grandfather of Mitt Romney.[4][5]

Miles Park Romney moved to Utah with the body of the church while still a child. He became a builder like his father. After he married his first wife he was sent on a mission for the Church in England. After his return he followed the then teachings of the Church and married another wife.

Romney became prominent in the community, building Brigham Young's home. Miles Park Romney and his three wives and various children were then sent to settle St. Johns, Arizona, as part of the Church leadership's plan to settle a larger area. St. Johns was not particularly welcoming to the Mormon newcomers, with Romney, the editor of the local Mormon paper a particular target; Romney became entangled in a non-Mormon led effort to try David King Udall, another prominent Mormon and bishop, for fraud involving a homestead application and after various threats to hang the lot of them, the polygamous Romney family was told to try Mexico instead.[6]

A polygamist,[7][8] in the aftermath of the Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act of 1882 (later amended by the Edmunds–Tucker Act, 1887), Romney, on April 7, 1885, joined a party leaving Arizona to find land outside the U.S., in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, on which his family could settle, free from fear of his arrest.[9] Romney died on February 26, 1904, in Colonia Dublan, Mexico.

Romney's five wives, in order of marriage, were Hannah Hood Hill (1862), Caroline "Carrie" Lambourne (1867), Catherine Jane Cottam (1873), Alice Marie "Annie" Woodbury (1877) and Emily "Millie" Henrietta Eyring Snow (1897).[8][10] Romney married Hannah Hood Hill on May 10, 1862, at Salt Lake City, Utah.[11]

Catherine Jane Cottam married Romney as a plural wife in 1873. Her personal diaries, now published, comprise a significant record of her life and times.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ Kranish, Michael; Helman, Scott (2012), The Real Romney, HarperCollins, p. 52, ISBN 9780062123299
  2. ^ Gibbons, Daniel B.; Gaskell, Elizabeth (2002), A Gathering of Eagles: Conversions from the Four Quarters of the Earth, Writers Club Press, p. 245, ISBN 9780595219704
  3. ^ "Polygamy Prominent in GOP Presidential Hopeful Mitt Romney's Family Tree". Fox News. December 6, 2011.
  4. ^ BURNETT, John (January 22, 2012), Mexican Cousins Keep Romney's Family Tree Rooted
  5. ^ Milbank, Dana (February 2, 2012), "Meet Mitt Romney's cousin", Washington Post
  6. ^ Miller, Mark Edwin. "St. Johns' Saints: Inter-ethnic Conflict in Northeastern Arizona, 1880-1885," The Journal of Mormon History 23 (Spring 1997): 66-99.
  7. ^ Michaud, Jon (January 26, 2012), Takes: Polygamy and the Romneys, Lives of the Saints, The New Yorker
  8. ^ a b Compton, Todd (May 2012). "Mitt Romney's Polygamous Heritage".
  9. ^ Harris, T. George (1968), Romney's way: a man and an idea, Prentice-Hall, OCLC 437793
  10. ^ Peterson, Ethel Romney (2001). "Biography: Miles Park Romney". Orson Pratt Brown. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
  11. ^ a b Romney, Catherine Cottam; Hansen, Jennifer Moulton (ed.) (1992), Letters of Catherine Cottam Romney, plural wife, University of Illinois Press, ISBN 9780252018688 {{citation}}: |first2= has generic name (help)

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