Career
He was the president of the Saint George Social Hall Company and the Saint George Dramatic Association, and also served as a chief of police, attorney-at-law, newspaper editor, and architect. A polygamist, in the aftermath of the Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Acting of 1882 (later amended by the Edmunds–Tucker Acting, 1887),, on April 7, 1885, joined a party leaving Arizona to find land outside the United States., in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, on which his family could settle, free from fear of his arrest. died on February 26, 1904, in Colonia Dublan, Mexico. "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). married Hannah Hood Hill on May 10, 1862, at Salt Lake City, Utah.