#they tended to give shorter sentences to elderly polygamists and really throw the book at younger ones and he was only about 40 so he may

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Latest interesting Mormon history find:

Apostle George Q. Cannon (the balding man with the white beard seated in the center of the picture) and fourteen bishops, all imprisoned for polygamy at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary. The photo is from November 1888. There are quite a few photographs of various combinations of imprisoned polygamists taken at the "Pen".

T.C. Wright (jailer)

J.P.R. Johnson (bishop, Provo First Ward)

George Halliday (bishop, Santaquin Ward)

Walter Granger (bishop, St. George 2nd Ward)

Hans Peter Jensen (bishop, Manti South Ward)

Abraham Kimball (bishop, Kanosh Ward) (Unlike the rest of the prisoners and like the guards, he is not in prison clothes. He was suffering from tuberculosis and was released early, dying the next year. If he was sick or about to be released that may be why he's dressed differently.)

Lorenzo Argyle (bishop, Lake Shore Ward)

John Jardine (bishop, Clarkston Ward)

Pleasant Green Taylor (bishop, Harrisville Ward)

James A. Doyle (cell block guard)

Thomas Harper (bishop, North Box Elder County Ward)

James Campbell Hamilton (bishop, Mill Creek Ward)

Elijah Sheets (bishop, Salt Lake City 8th Ward)

George Q. Cannon (Quorum of the Twelve Apostles)

Winslow Farr (bishop, Ogden 3rd Ward)

Thomas Robinson Cutler (bishop, Lehi Ward)

Paul Poulson (bishop, Richfield 1st Ward)

photo and identifications are from the Washington County, UT Historical Society.