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Matthias Foss Cowley (August 25, 1858 – June 16, 1940) was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1897 until 1905. He resigned from the Quorum of the Twelve due to his unwillingness to support the church's abolition of plural marriage .
Matthias F. Cowley. Matthias Foss Cowley (1858–1940) was born soon after his parents returned to Salt Lake City after fleeing potential threats of violence during the Utah War. 1 He grew up in the Salt Lake City 14th Ward, where he served as a ward teacher for the family of Apostle John Taylor and became lifelong friends with Elder Taylor’s ...
Mar 31, 2023 · Matthias F. Cowley. navigation search. Matthias Foss Cowley was a member of the Council of Twelve Apostles from 1897 until 1905. He was the son of Matthias Cowley and Sarah Elizabeth Foss, and was born Aug. 25, 1858, in Salt Lake City, Utah. His father had immigrated from the Isle of Man with Elder Cowley's grandparents, to Nauvoo ...
Matthias Foss Cowley. Born: 25 August 1858, Salt Lake City, Utah. Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: 7 October 1897 (age 39) Resigned: 28 October 1905. Disfellowshipped: 11 May 1911. Restored to full fellowship: 3 April 1936. Died: 16 June 1940 (age 81), Salt Lake City, Utah.
One of the most aggressive proponents of new plural marriages, Apostle Matthias F. Cowley, listed the plural marriages he performed in a small notebook. The book contains 3 marriages for 1898, 4 for 1899, 9 for 1900, 20 for 1901, 18 for 1902, and 3 for 1903.
Matthias Foss Cowley was born to Matthias Cowley and Sarah Elizabeth Foss on 25 August 1858 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. He served two missions in the southern United States in 1878 and 1882. He was appointed a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in October 1897 and resigned from that position in 1905.
Matthias F. Cowley, who also served with President Woodruff, observed: “Perhaps no man in the Church ever felt more profoundly the truth of the words, ‘God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform,’ than Wilford Woodruff.
