A Biography of Ezra Thompson Clark ANNIE CLARK TANNER Utah, the Mormons, and the West Series No. 5 Hardback. 96 Pages. / 1-56085-033-7 / $8.50 Annie Clark Tanner characterizes her father by noting that the "three controlling motives of his life were to increase his possessions, to serve his church, and to look diligently after the interests of his family," which he was successful at in every case. He also married three wives and fathered twenty-one children. Annie declares that it was the "quality of his character [that] accounted for the harmony among his children and wives. His two families lived just across the street from each other." Her honest biography serves as a window on pioneer Utah. Annie Clark Tanner was born in 1864 in Farmington, Utah, the oldest child of Ezra Clark and his polygamous second wife, Susan Leggett. While a student at Brigham Young Academy, she became a plural wife of faculty member Joseph Tanner, by whom she had eight children. In 1941, the year she died, she completed her own autobiography, A Mormon Mother.

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