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arriving in the city A b r a h a m visited his wives briefly, checked in at the Juvenile Instructor office, a n d visited with the families of three m e n with w h o m h e had been imprisoned: Royal B. Young, George C. Lambert, a n d R u d g e r Clawson. H e offered their families words of consolation a n d solace. T h e following day he was back at work in the Juvenile Instructor office a n d in the evening r e s u m e d his regular meetings with the First Seven Presidents of Seventies. His life was back to normal. His j o u r n a l s for the later years of his life provide n o indication that either his business career or church offices suffered by his having been imprisoned. Was A b r a h a m H. C a n n o n "rehabilitated" d u r i n g his five-month stay in prison? Probably not. T h e r e is n o indication that rehabilitation was either necessary or available. Moreover, he would twice m o r e commit the offense for which h e was originally imprisoned. Less than five m o n t h s after his release he m a r r i e d Mary Eliza Croxall in Mexico (January 11,1887); h e m a r r i e d Lillian Hamblin in J u n e or July 1896 just weeks prior to his death. Did A b r a h a m consider himself to have been punished? It is difficult to know for certain exactly how h e felt about his prison experience. His journals in later years contain but infrequent mentions of his prison term, a n d those only concern meeting people with whom he served time or who worked t h e r e as guards. Rather than p u n i s h m e n t A b r a h a m probably viewed his prison experience as yet a n o t h e r test his God h a d placed u p o n him. His last j o u r n a l entry prior to leaving the penitentiary is instructive on this point: "I can truly say that I have tried to set a good example in study, work and morals, a n d the Lord has wonderfully blest me." 21
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