100 years ago today - Jan 16, 1914; Friday

John Woolley [[leader of fundementalist movement]] stated to Bro[ther]. [Francis M.] Lyman & me that Bro[ther]. [Matthias F.] Cowley [[released from apostleship for continuing to perform plural marriages]] did say to him in a conversation which took place on the S[outh]. E[ast]. Corner of the Temple Block, that "if any good man comes to you don't turn him down." That was the only thing Cowley said to him on the subject. He would not have assumed to solemnize a marriage had it not been for that remark. He thought Pres[ident]. [Joseph F.] Smith had authorized Cowley to speak. Could not remember just when this conversation took place, but it was before he solemnized marriages.

[Source: Anthony W. Ivins, Diary, entry dated February 1914]

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