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Cowley was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory.
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That which is perhaps best known about Wilford Woodruff is the fact that he kept throughout his long and eventful life a careful record, not only of his own life, but of the important affairs in the history of the Church. In bringing that journal within the compass of one volume, it has not always been easy to determine what was the most important for the pages of this biography. All his journals, covering thousands of pages, I have read with such discriminating judgment as I could bring to the task. The reader, therefore, need not be reminded that this biography contains only a small part, the most important part it is hoped, of the things he wrote. He was so careful and painstaking, and so completely devoted to the task of keeping a journal, that his writings have been sought in compiling much of the important data in Church history which has already been given to the world. His work, therefore, is not unknown to those familiar with Church history. Some of his life has been published in the Deseret News, and Leaves from MyJ ournal contains important chapters. Magazines and Church publications have in them reminiscences which he has given to the readers of those periodicals at different times. All missionaries will be interested in the marvelous experiences which he had while working in the spread of the gospel message. Others will read with peculiar interest the recital of events in the travels of the pioneers from the Missouri River to Salt Lake Valley, and others will read with satisfaction the words that fell from the lips of those prophets with whom he was immediately associated Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and John Taylor. The life of Wilford Woodruff was full of marvels. It was a simple life in which he revealed his heart and his purposes freely. The frankness of his expressions, his care for details, and his conscientious regard for the truth made h (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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Cowley was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory.
He resigned from the Quorum of the Twelve due to his unwillingness to support the church"s abolition of plural marriage. He was ordained an apostle on October 7, 1897, by church president Wilford Woodruff. He replaced Moses Thatcher, who was removed from the Quorum at the April 1896 General Conference.
Cowley was widely noted in the church for his sermons on doctrine.
Cowley submitted his resignation from the Quorum of the Twelve, at the request of church president Joseph F. Smith, on October 28, 1905, because his presence in the hierarchy undermined the church"s position in the Reed Smoot hearings. Cowley was notorious for having performed marriages that contravened the church"s 1890 Manifesto, which prohibited the contracting of new plural marriages.
Apostle John West. Taylor resigned for the same reason at the same time. With the death of apostle Marriner West. Merrill in early February of the next year, there were three vacancies in the Quorum of the Twelve.
At the April 1906 General Conference, the resignations of Cowley and Taylor were presented to and accepted by the general church membership.
As a result, three new apostles were called to replace them and Merrill: George F. Richards, Orson F. Whitney, and David O. McKay. Reports of Cowley"s continuing involvement in new plural marriages led to his priesthood being suspended by the church on May 11, 1911. After his priesthood was suspended, Cowley"s name continued to be linked with plural marriage over the next several years.
In the mid-1920s, Cowley broke all ties with the polygamous dissenters.
Cowley was never restored to his position in the Quorum of Twelve. He died in his home in Salt Lake City, Utah, from uremia resulting from kidney failure.
He was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery.
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This rare and virtually unique disciplinary procedure was used for Cowley because the members of the Quorum of Twelve disagreed about whether to leave him undisciplined, to disfellowship him, or to excommunicate him.