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Helen Jernegan's Memoirs of the Voyage

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to our party; he sat up on a throne and looked like a King. He said he had sixteen wives, "Hmelia" at that time was his favorite, and lived in a handsome house with lots of servants. We were told that many of his wives were the servants in the Hotel, these were his cast off wives. We went to the Great Morman Temple and heard the organ played, at that time the largest in the world.

The foundations of the New Temple were just laid, no Gentile has ever entered this building. We went to the theater and saw Brigham Young and several of his wives in the box with him.

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