Annie Clark Tanner characterizes her father, Ezra Thompson Clark, by noting that the three controlling motives of his life were to increase his possessions, to serve his church, and look diligently after the interests of his family. He increased his possession from a thirty-five-acre farm in Farmington to seven hundred acres in Bear Lake, Idaho, he founded the Davis County Bank and the Commercial Store, and he served as an elder and placed the majority of his possessions at the disposal of the LDS church.In addition, though ...
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Annie Clark Tanner characterizes her father, Ezra Thompson Clark, by noting that the three controlling motives of his life were to increase his possessions, to serve his church, and look diligently after the interests of his family. He increased his possession from a thirty-five-acre farm in Farmington to seven hundred acres in Bear Lake, Idaho, he founded the Davis County Bank and the Commercial Store, and he served as an elder and placed the majority of his possessions at the disposal of the LDS church.In addition, though he was married to three wives and fathered twenty-one children, he provided not only the necessities but many of the luxuries of life. He indeed fulfilled his life's ambitions.Annie declares that it was the quality of his character (that) accounted for the harmony among his children and wives. His two families lived just across the street from each other. ... It can be truthfully said by children of both families that they never heard their mothers disagree.Annie had great love and respect for her father, but she was also committed to telling it like it was without concern for approval from the rest of the family and without glossing over his idiosyncrasies. From his experiences readers can decipher the broad contours of frontier life without moralistic embellishments.
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