At age five, Marriner modeled a kilt, a symbol of his father's homeland. MARRINER S. ECCLES Marriner S. Eccles was born on September 9,1890, the year the LDS Church renounced polygamy as a prelude to statehood, which still lay six years in the future. Ellen's father had served prison time for practicing plural marriage, and so she shielded her husband even to the point of hiding her first pregnancy. After Marriner was born, Ellen carried him into the back room if company called, including her extended family. On laundry day, she hung his diapers on the clothesline underneath sheets. Eventually David Eccles was called into the Fourth District Court on charges of unlawful cohabitation, but by then Congress had extended amnesty to those whose marriages were solemnized before 1893. Eccles continued to divide his time and resources between his two families, yet Ellen's extralegal lifestyle contrasted with the Ogden family's prominence. Her locus of personal power resided in her sons, and she reinforced David's efforts to groom the boys for responsibility. "It was in Logan that I learned how to walk and talk," Marriner wrote. "This mastered, at the stout age of three I was moved back to Oregon, where a new home was in readiness for my mother at Baker City. Five years later I began my education in the lumber business. "Although my father was a millionaire by then," he continued, "he felt the age of eight was a suitable one for his children to go to work." Marriner's job at a box factory paid 5 cents per hour, and he worked 10-hour days. His father encouraged him to set aside savings in order to purchase stock in the Oregon Lumber Company. "And by the end of the third summer the combined savings totaled $100," Marriner wrote. "I was sold the share of stock as promised and became a capitalist at the age of 11. The feat won a treasured compliment from my father, which was multiplied many times over in the compliments I paid myself."