Joseph W. Musser
| Joseph White Musser | |
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The priesthood council with
Joseph White Musser (lower right) |
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| Senior Member of the Priesthood Council | |
| December 29, 1949 – March 29, 1954 | |
| Predecessor | John Y. Barlow |
| Successor |
Rulon C. Allred (Apostolic United Brethren) Charles Zitting (Priesthood Council) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 8, 1872 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States |
| Died | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States |
| Resting place |
Salt Lake City Cemetery 40°46′38″N 111°51′29″W / 40.7772°N 111.858°W |
| Spouse(s) | Rose S. Borquist Mary C. Hill Ellis R. Shipp Jr. Lucy O. Kmetzsch |
| Children | 21 |
| Parents |
Amos Milton Musser Mary E. White |
Joseph White Musser (March 8, 1872 – March 29, 1954) was a Mormon fundamentalist leader.
Musser was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Amos Milton Musser (an assistant LDS Church historian) and Mary E. White. He is known for his Mormon fundamentalist books, pamphlets and magazines, as well as being considered a prophet by many Mormon fundamentalists.
On June 29, 1892, Musser was called to the 16th Quorum of the Seventy, and two years later in April 1895 served a mission in Alabama, having been set apart by Brigham Young, Jr., Heber J. Grant, and John W. Taylor.
On Thanksgiving Day 1899, in the company of four other couples, Musser and his wife, Rose Selms Borquist, received their Second Anointing at the unusually young age of twenty-seven, under the direction of Lorenzo Snow. Musser was later told by apostle Brigham Young, Jr. that he had been sent by the President of the Church, Joseph F. Smith, to tell Musser that if he did not enter into the principle of plural marriage he would lose his blessings (presumably, the blessings promised in the Second Anointing). This likely suggested to Musser that living plural marriage was a pre-requisite qualification for the blessings of the Second Anointing, regardless of the previous administration of the ordinance.
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