Divorce among Mormon Polygamists: Extent and Explanations BY E U G E N E
E. C A M P B E L L A N D
BRUCE L.
CAMPBELL
A b o v e : Dedicated in 1855, the Endowment House on Temple Square was the scene of LDS marriage rites for more than thirty years. Utah State Historical Society collections, photograph by Charles R. Savage.
have tended to emphasize the origin and motivation for the practice, courtship techniques, interfamily relationships, economic adjustments, housing arrangements, and legal diffiO T U D I E S OF M O R M O N POLYGAMY
Eugene E. Campbell is professor of history, Brigham Young University. Bruce L. Campbell is assistant professor of home economics, California State University, Los Angeles. This paper was read at the Annual Meeting of the U t a h State Historical Society, September 17. 1977, Salt Lake City. Technically, the Mormons practiced polygyny, the marriage of one man to two or more women. However, in the Mormon subculture polygamy is always taken to mean the marriage of one m a n to two or more wives. In this paper, polygamy, polygyny, and plural marriage will all refer to the Mormon practice.
