Smith was all about monopolizing...Even claimed Orson Hyde's wife (an "apostle" in the church) after Smith sent Hyde as a missionary to Palestine.
And, of course, the habit of monopolizing was absorbed by the top leaders in the church...like First President Heber C. Kimball, who took over 40 wives:
“Kimball always kept an eye out for romance. ‘Brethren,’ he instructed some departing missionaries, ‘I want you to understand that it is not to be as it has been heretofore. The brother missionaries have been in the habit of picking out the prettiest women for themselves before they get here, and bringing on the ugly ones for us; hereafter you have to bring them all here before taking any of them, and let us all have a fair shake.” The Lion of the Lord, by Stanley P. Hirshon, pp. 129-130