Boyd Payne

BOYD PAYNE is employed by Signature Books of Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the author of Utah Celebrities: A Guide to the Stars (Telestial Books, 1995) and was project manager of the New Mormon Studies CD-ROM: A Compre￾hensive Resource Library (Smith Research Associates, 1998). He lives in South Jordan, Utah, with his wife, Rachel, and their daughter, Kylaya Rae.

Rudger Clawson’s Report on LDS Church Finances at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Articles/Essays – Volume 31, No. 4

Rudger Judd Clawson, born 12 March 1857 in Salt Lake City, Utah, was a polygamist and the first Mormon convicted and imprisoned (1884-87) for violating federal law (Edmunds Act of 1882) regarding unlawful co habitation.[1]…

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