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Show Unitarianism in Utah However, on 1899 the story broke in the Salt that the national headquarters had September 7 Lake Tribune that the reason withdrawn their financial support for the Maynards was due to a scandal concerning their marriage in 1893. The story that in the was Michigan Unitarian church where the twenty-nine-year-old Mila Tupper was a brilliant young pastor, the forty-year-old Rezin A. Maynard was a trustee of the church and a respected member of the bar. In an article entitled "Romance of Maynard" it was reported: It is said that his [Rezin Maynard's] home life was not a happy one, and that in trying to mend matters in the trustee's home the fair young pastor [Mila Tupper] won the heart of the unhappy trustee. The attachment was a mutual one, the trustee obtained a divorce from his wife, gave up his home and family and in a few short weeks married the young woman who had filled the place of pastor in the church of which he This too was and she was a much for the local asked resign and trustee. S9 Michigan congregation later disfellowshipped from the American Unitarian Association. In later referring to hiring a minister who was not recognized by the national was to organization, Samuel Unitarian Association, A. was Eliot, president of the American apparently referring to the Salt Lake City society having called the Maynards as ministers without authorization. Eliot said they "had sad experience with just this kind of business and it must not be repeated. Because of the bad publicity by this September 1899 an nouncement, there was no service the following Sunday in Salt Lake City and the Maynards never again preached there. was "60 S9 The Salt Lake and the but they 60 50 Tribune, 7 September 1899, 8. The main points of the Maynard scandal of the Unitarian society were known to Irma Hance and Virginia Picht, chose not to discuss any of it in Hance and Picht, In Commemoration, 73-74. collapse Samuel A Bx 7, Fd 1. Eliot, Letter to Mr. [Jay F.] Sturgis, 13 December 1902, located in Ms 508, |
