By: Ardis E. Parshall - August 05, 2014 In April 1900, about a year after Cora Birdsall won the patent for the land she had homesteaded, Reed Smoot was called to be an apostle. In March 1903, just after Cora’s trial in the bishop’s court, and while she was waiting for word from the First Presidency about her (premature) appeal to them of the decision of that court, Reed Smoot was elected by the Utah legislature to represent Utah in t...
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