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'''Miles Park Romney''' is part of the Romney family that settled in the [[Settlements in Mexico|Mexico colonies]] due to the passing of the [[Edmunds-Tucker Act]] that punished members of the Church who practiced [[Polygamy|polygamy]]. | '''Miles Park Romney''' is part of the Romney family that settled in the [[Settlements in Mexico|Mexico colonies]] due to the passing of the [[Edmunds-Tucker Act]] that punished members of the Church who practiced [[Polygamy|polygamy]]. | ||
Revision as of 20:47, 11 December 2024
Miles Park Romney is part of the Romney family that settled in the Mexico colonies due to the passing of the Edmunds-Tucker Act that punished members of the Church who practiced polygamy.
He was born on August 18, 1843, in Nauvoo, Illinois to Miles Romney and Elizabeth Gaskell. His parents and older brother George had been converted by the teaching os Orson Hyde in England and immigrated to be with the Saints. Before the family was able to travel to Utah, they lived in St. Louis until 1850.
In Utah, Miles was unable to attend school and was, instead, needed to help provide a living for the family.
Following the counsel of President Brigham Young for young men to marry young, Miles married Hannah Hood Hill on May 10, 1862–he was 18 years old. Three weeks after the marriage, he embarked on a mission to the British Isles. When he returned in November 1865, he met his two-year-old daughter for the first time.
Miles married his first plural wife, Caroline ("Carrie") Lambourne, in 1867 and moved his family to St. George where they were called to help settle the area. He worked on the St. George Tabernacle, which was completed in 1871, and assisted his father to build the St. George Utah Temple.
He was the president of the St. George Social Hall Company and the St. George Dramatic Association, and also served as a chief of police, attorney-at-law, newspaper editor, and architect.
He also married Catharine Jane Cottam, Annie Maria Woodbury, and Emily ("Millie") Henrietta Eyring Snow as plural wives.
In 1881 he was called by the First Presidency to leave St. George and settle in St. Johns, Arizona. He edited and published a newspaper there and was a member of the Dramatic Association and a leading contractor and builder. He returned to St. George, but after three weeks moved to Mexico with his wife Annie where they were among the first settlers of Colonia Juarez.
By the turn of the century, Miles found his carpenter shop against the eastern hills too small to permit expansion necessary for his growing family. He sold his holdings in Colonia Juarez, bought a huge tract of land on the eastern bank of the Casas Grandes River, and moved his families into homes built separately for them on this property. Here he lived for the remainder of his life in relative comfort and affluence. In 1902 he was appointed President of the Stake High Priest Quorum and ordained a Patriarch by Apostle Matthias F. Cowley.
He died on February 25, 1904, and was buried in Colonia Dublán. Counted among his posterity are Marion G. Romney and Mitt Romney.
