Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1885 — Proposals in Utah. [ARTICLE]

Proposals in Utah.

“In Salt Lake, you know, it is perpetually leap year, and a lady can ask a man to marry her if she desires to risk the chances of a refusal. Not many of them do, thqugh, as a general rule, but papa (Brigham Young) had a great many offers. Aunt asked him to marry her, I’m sure,” she (Mrs. McAllister) continued, addressing the latter sentence to her mother, whereupon a pleasant dispute over the proposal ensued, which was finally ended by the younger lady’s positive declaration : “Well, I just know he wouldn’t have married her unless she had asked him.” Then to the reporter she said: “Aunt Ann Eliza proposed to papa, too. ” “Don’t be too sure of that, my dear, interposed the mother. ” “Well, if she didn’t, her mother did, anyhow. The old lady kept calling on papa until finally he gave in and married her.” Francisco Alta-California.