Agnes Taylor

Infobox_Politician
name =Agnes Taylor


birth_date =birth date|1821|10|2|mf=y
birth_place =Westmoreland, England
death_date =death date and age|1911|12|12|1821|10|02
death_place =Salt Lake City, Utah
office =|
spouse = John Rich
Abraham Hoagland
Wilhelm Schwartz

Agnes Taylor Rich Hoagland Schwartz (October 2, 1821–December 11, 1911) was a Mormon pioneer who played a key role in helping her brother, Mormon church president John Taylor, evade authorities during the federal crackdown on polygamy in the mid-1880s. She was also the mother-in-law of later church president Joseph F. Smith and of William W. Taylor, and a wife of Abraham Hoagland.

Taylor was born to James and Agnes Taylor in an English village called Hale in Westmorland. Her older brother, John, would later become president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In 1838, 17-year-old Taylor married John Rich in Carthage, Illinois. They eventually settled in Nauvoo and had four children before divorcing when Taylor wanted to go west with the main body of Latter Day Saints in the late 1840s. [cite book |last=Black |first=Susan Easton |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |title=Members, LDS, 1830-1848, Vol 42 |url= |edition= |year= |publisher= |location=Provo, Utah |language= |isbn= |oclc= |doi= |pages=539, 615, 616 |chapter= |quote= ] [cite book |last=Black |first=Susan Easton |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |title=Pioneers of 1847 |url= |edition= |year=1980 |publisher= |location=Provo, Utah |language= |isbn= |oclc= |doi= |pages=76 |chapter= |quote= ]

In 1847, Taylor married 50-year-old Abraham Hoagland at age 26. [cite book |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |title=Hancock County Marriage Register |url= |edition= |year= |publisher= |location= |language= |isbn= |oclc= |doi= |pages=38 |chapter= |quote= ] They had five children together [cite journal |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1940 |month= |title= |journal=The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine |volume= |issue= |pages=vi |publisher=Genealogical Society of Utah |id= |url= |accessdate= |quote= ] before divorcing in 1861 [cite web |url=http://www.georgeqcannon.com |title=Summary of Abraham Hoagland Journals: 1857 to 1870 |accessdate=2007-08-17 |format=.pdf |work= |publisher=George Q. Cannon Family Association |pages=5] upon the recommendation of Brigham Young. [cite book |last=Arrington |first=Leonard J. |authorlink=Leonard J. Arrington |coauthors= |editor= |title= |url= |edition= |year= |publisher= |location= |language= |isbn= |oclc= |doi= |pages=317–318 |chapter= |quote= ] Their daughter Sarah married William Whitaker Taylor.

In 1862, Taylor was 41 when she married Wilhelm Schwartz, a 24-year-old Prussian immigrant. [cite journal |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |year= |month= |title= |journal=Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude |volume=4 |issue= |pages=3021 |id= |url= |accessdate= |quote= ] They had two children together, the second of whom, Mary Taylor Schwartz, married 43-year-old Joseph F. Smith in 1884 at the age of 18. By the time her brother became church president, the Edmunds-Tucker Act began putting intense pressure on him to observe the anti-bigamy law. He sought to comply with the law by moving into the Gardo House with Agnes. [cite book |last=Cowley |first=Matthias F. |authorlink=Matthias F. Cowley |coauthors= |editor= |title=Prophets and Patriarchs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |url= |edition= |year=2006 |publisher=Kessinger Publishing |location= |language= |isbn=1428601805 |oclc= |doi= |pages=68 |chapter= |quote= ] She took over management of the mansion while he continued his duties as president. [cite book |last=Taylor |first=Samuel Woolley |authorlink=Samuel W. Taylor |coauthors= |editor= |title=The Kingdom Or Nothing: The Life of John Taylor, Militant Mormon |url= |edition= |year=1976 |publisher=Macmillan |location= |language= |isbn=0026166003 |oclc= |doi= |pages=302 |chapter= |quote= ] [cite book |last=Larson |first=Gustive Olof |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |title=The "Americanization" of Utah for Statehood |url= |edition= |year=1976 |publisher=Huntington Library |location=Utah |language= |isbn= |oclc=155085 |doi= |pages=166–167 |chapter= |quote= ] In March 1885, soon after John Taylor's final public appearance, federal marshals made a massive raid on the mansion to capture him. This and subsequent raids were unsuccessful, and his "tough-minded sister ... often held raiding marshals and deputies at bay at the front door of the mansion, admitting no one unless he presented papers properly signed by a federal judge." [cite journal |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date =March 13, 1885 |year= |month= |title= |journal=Journal History |volume= |issue= |pages= |id= |url= |accessdate= |quote= ] [cite web |url=http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/mining_and_railroads/thegardohouse.html |title=The Gardo House: A History of the Mansion and Its Occupants |accessdate=2007-08-29 |accessmonthday= |accessdaymonth= |accessyear= |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher= |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] After her brother's 1887 death, Taylor vacated the house. ["Letter from Wilford Woodruff to Agnes T. Schwartz." August 20, 1887 "First Presidency Letterpress Copy Books." 1887—August–September.] [cite web |url=http://jfs.saintswithouthalos.org/pri/fp_87_08.htm|title=First Presidency Letterpress Copy Books |accessdate=2007-08-29 |accessmonthday= |accessdaymonth= |accessyear= |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher= |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ]

Taylor died in Salt Lake City, Utah. [cite book |last=Jenson |first=Andrew |authorlink=Andrew Jenson |coauthors= |editor= |title=Church Chronology |url= |edition= |year= |publisher= |location= |language= |isbn= |oclc= |doi= |pages= |chapter=December 12, 1911 (Tuesday) |quote= ] Joseph F. Smith, Francis M. Lyman, Charles W. Penrose, Frank Y. Taylor, and Hyrum M. Smith each spoke at her funeral. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |author= |coauthors= |title=Tributes to Worth of Mrs. Agnes Schwartz: President Smith and Others Speak Highly of Life of Noble Woman |url= |format= |work= |publisher=Deseret News |location=Salt Lake City, Utah |id= |pages= |page= |date=Friday, December 15, 1911|accessdate= |language= |quote= |archiveurl= |archivedate= ] [cite web |url=http://www.allenhackworth.com/South/agnesbio.htm |title=Agnes Schwartz Biography |accessdate=2007-08-29 |accessmonthday= |accessdaymonth= |accessyear= |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher= |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ]

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