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Show Establishment and board significant A meeting was Collapse: held on 1891-1900 19 September quorum of five members present. During this they formally accepted the resignation of the 1899, with meeting a Maynards, which had been tendered over two weeks earlier, accepted the resignation of board member, William C. Jennings, who was then going East in order to attend school, and die.61 The women of Unity Circle met the adjourned sine next day, and the minutes show that they planned a reception for the Maynards on Friday evening, 22 September 1899, at the home of Martha J. Watson, the president of Unity Circle." The Maynards left later that month for Denver to join the Broadway Temple Association, otherwise known as the Myron Reed Movement, which was an independent church any creed, but espousing as their fundamental "the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of bound not principle Man." but to year this movement fizzled into oblivion, their credit the Maynards went on to succeed in other Within to a fields. departure of the Following the Maynards from Salt Lake business meetings, no elections of officers, and no social activities for one and a half years. Though Baum is known to have lived in the city for another City, there were year before moving no to San Francisco, there is no record of any board of trustee meetings or activities. For all intents and purposes the Unitarian society had ceased to exist. However, the dissolution of the church 26 on August was not quite complete, because 1900 Rev. David Utter, who nine years earlier had been Salt Lake's first Unitarian minister, returned 61 Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes, 19 September 1899, to located in Ms 508, Bx 1, Bk 1,227. 62 The on book skips Circle Minute Book indicates that the Unity the 27 again to 29 May women adjourned planning to meet completely-intact minute 1899. However, the next page in the 1901. See Ms 508, Bx 74, Fd 3. September 51 |