Search results
Matthias Foss Cowley (August 25, 1858 – June 16, 1940) was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1897 [1] until 1905. He resigned from the Quorum of the Twelve due to his unwillingness to support the church's abolition of plural marriage .
Matthias F. Cowley. Matthias Foss Cowley (1858–1940) was born soon after his parents returned to Salt Lake City after fleeing potential threats of violence during the Utah War. 1 He grew up in the Salt Lake City 14th Ward, where he served as a ward teacher for the family of Apostle John Taylor and became lifelong friends with Elder Taylor’s ...
Matthias F. Cowley. Matthias Foss Cowley was a member of the Council of Twelve Apostles from 1897 until 1905. He was the son of Matthias Cowley and Sarah Elizabeth Foss, and was born Aug. 25, 1858, in Salt Lake City, Utah. His father had immigrated from the Isle of Man with Elder Cowley's grandparents, to Nauvoo, in 1843.
While serving in the presidency of the Oneida Stake in Idaho, Matthias Cowley filled an assignment to help organize the Northwestern States Mission. Soon after his call to the apostleship in 1897, he returned to the southern states, touring that mission and the eastern states.
One of the most aggressive proponents of new plural marriages, Apostle Matthias F. Cowley, listed the plural marriages he performed in a small notebook. The book contains 3 marriages for 1898, 4 for 1899, 9 for 1900, 20 for 1901, 18 for 1902, and 3 for 1903.
Matthias Foss Cowley. 25 August 1858–16 June 1940. Matthias Foss Cowley was born to Matthias Cowley and Sarah Elizabeth Foss on 25 August 1858 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. He served two missions in the southern United States in 1878 and 1882.
People also ask
Who is Matthias F Cowley?
Why did Matthias Cowley resign from the Quorum of the twelve?
When did Matthias Cowley become an apostle?
When did Matthias F Cowley marry Luella smart Parkinson?
Missionary work in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has always held paramount importance, and its roots go back to the beginning of the Church in 1830. Joseph Smith’s younger brother Samuel holds the distinction of being the first missionary called in this dispensation.
