Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Born Jun 1, 1801 at Whitingham, Windham, VT, died Aug 29, 1877 at Salt Lake City, UT, 76 years, buried Sep 2, 1877 at Salt Lake City, UT SOURCES: LDS FHL AF 3ZD8-KC . The following biography is exerpted from "Brigham Young--Mormon Pioneer of the Desert", DesertUSA.c om : "Young was born into a poor farming family, the 9th of 11 children, on June 1, 1801, in Whitingham, Vermont. At the age of 3, his family moved to upstate New York, and at age 16, he left home becoming an itinerant carpenter, joiner, painter and glazier. After converting to Methodism in 1823, he married his first wife in 1824. The couple settled in Mendon, New York in 1829, 40 miles from Manchester, where Joseph Smith would publish the Book of Mormon in 1830. Young was immediately attracted to the book, and he was baptized into Joseph Smith's newly formed Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 14, 1832. The same year he went to Canada as a missionary, and in 1833, after the death of his wife, he led several friends and much of his family to join Joseph Smith and the gathering of Zion in Kirtland, Ohio. Young went to Missouri in 1834 when hostile gentiles (non-Mormons) threatened the Mormon community there. He later traveled to England and the eastern states as a missionary, then defended Joseph Smith when the Kirtland settlement foundered in 1837. The next year, after following Smith to Missouri, he helped evacuate the community when threatened by anti-Mormon mobs and organized their move to Nauvoo, Illinois. By 1841, Joseph Smith appointed him President of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, the governing body of the church, second in authority only to Smith himself. When Joseph Smith was murdered by an Illinois mob in June 1844, Young returned to Nauvoo and took charge of the church. Facing continued persecution, he led the Mormons westward out of Illinois to Florence, Nebraska on the Missouri River in 1846. In 1847, he led an exploration to the Rocky Mountains. After discovering and selecting the Great Salt Lake region as a safe haven where Mormons could have the freedom to worship and live as their faith decreed, Young returned to Florence, and in December 1847, became president of the church. In 1848, Young organized and led the great Mormon emigration from Nebraska to Utah, where he remained for the rest of his life. He immediately established Salt Lake City and, through the church, directed religious, political, economic, cultural, and educational affairs. He promoted isolation and economic self-sufficiency, encouraging local manufacture of goods, and discouraging enterprises like mining that would invite outsiders. To strengthen the church and its authority within Utah, Young established Mormon colonies throughout the state and in the neighboring territories of Arizona, California, Nevada and Idaho. Young constantly encouraged emigration by financing wagon trains and furnishing converts with hand carts so they could make the 1,400-mile journey from the East by foot. In 1849 Mormons established the provisional state of Deseret, with Young as governor. The next year this area became the territory of Utah, again with Young as governor, but with the announcement in 1852 that plural marriage -- polygamy -- was a basic tenet of the church, a public outcry prompted scrutiny by federal authorities. President James Buchanan replaced Young as Governor in 1857 and sent the U.S. Army to establish federal rule in Utah. Young fought this "Mormon War" by cutting off supply lines rather than engage federal troops in battle, but this conflict led to the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre, an atrocity that would haunt Young till his dying day. In September 1857, a party of 120 emigrants suspected of hostility toward the church was murdered in southeastern Utah by Paiute Indians and a band of Mormons led by John D. Lee, who claimed to be acting under direct orders from Young. But in 1858, Young was pardoned for his alleged role in this atrocity. Without federal interference, Mormon communities flourished, and Utah's economy boomed during the following decade. In 1869, the completion of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory Point, Utah threatened Young's efforts to safeguard Mormon prosperity and polygamy by maintaining a sanctuary of isolation. Young responded by consolidating political and economic power; he established Mormon monopolies and initiated women's suffrage in Utah, greatly increasing the number of Mormon voters. But the continued public outcry over Mormon plural marriage would not go away -- nor would federal concerns over the establishment of a Mormon theocracy. In 1871, Young was tried under an 1862 federal law that prohibited polygamy in US territories. At the time, Young had more than 20 wives and 47 children. When he was eventually acquitted, prosecutors attempted to prove Young's complicity in the Mountain Meadows Massacre 20 years earlier. In 1877, John D. Lee was brought to trial, but he refused to implicate Young. After an initial acquittal, supposedly influenced by the Mormon leader, Lee was retried, found guilty and condemned to death. The question of Young's role was never definitively determined. Brigham Young died shortly after Lee's trial, on August 29, 1877. Federal authorities continued their assault against Mormon theocracy and marriage practices, until in 1890, the Mormon church relinquished the practice of polygamy. In 1896 the territory of Utah was admitted into the union as the 45th state. Various former Mormons, who have continued the practice of polygamy to the present day, have been excommunicated by the Mormon church." -- Bob Katz Married/ Related to: Hepzibah Richards, daughter of Joseph Richards and Rhoda Howe. Born Jul 28, 1795 at Hopkinton, Middlesex, MA, died Sep 30, 1838 at Far West, Caldwell, MO, 43 years SOURCES: LDS FHL AF 1F72-BM. |
2nd marriage/ relation Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Married/ Related to: Sophronia Gray Frost Born Jul 24, 1816 at Bethel, Oxford, ME, died May 18, 1844 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, 27 years Sophronia Frost also married Joseph Smith. SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 2HZ7-PN |
3rd marriage Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Married Oct 8, 1824 (7 years married) to: Miriam Angeline Works Born Jun 7, 1806 at Aurelius, Cayuga, NY, died Sep 8, 1832 at Mendon, Monroe, NY, 26 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 27ZZ-W6. Children: 1. Elizabeth YoungBorn Sep 26, 1825 at Port Byron, Cayuga, NY, died Feb 2, 1903 at Lewisville, Jefferson, ID, 77 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 1C3J-09, 2. Violet YoungBorn Jun 1, 1830 at Mendon, Monroe, NY, died Nov 18, 1902 at Lewisville, Jefferson, ID, 72 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 198M-03 |
4th marriage Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Married Feb 18, 1834 at Kirtland, OH (43 years married) to: Mary Ann Angell Born Jun 8, 1808 at North Providence, RI, died Jun 27, 1882 at Salt Lake City, UT, 74 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 2PLN-4S. Children: 1. Joseph Angell YoungBorn Oct 14, 1834 at Kirtland, Geauga, OH, died Aug 5, 1875 at Manti, Sanpete, UT, 40 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 2PLN-BT 2. Brigham Young, Jr.Born Dec 18, 1836 at Kirtland, Geauger, OH, died Apr 11, 1903, 66 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 1M2H-KJ 3. Mary Ann YoungBorn Dec 18, 1836 at Kirtland, Geauger, OH, died Aug 1843, 6 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 2PLN-C1 4. Alice YoungBorn Sep 4, 1839 at Montrose, Lee, IA, died Nov 2, 1874 at St. George, Wahn, UT, 35 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 1ZZG-JP 5. Eunice Caroline YoungBorn Aug 20, 1842 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, died Nov 17, 1922 at Logan, Cache, UT, 80 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 2PLN-FC 6. John Willard YoungBorn Oct 1, 1844 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, died Feb 11, 1924 at New York City, NY, 79 years, buried Feb 18, 1924 at Salt Lake City, UT SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 2PLN-GJ |
5th marriage Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Married Jun 15, 1842 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL (35 years married) to: Lucy Ann Decker Born May 17, 1822 at Phelps, Ontario, NY, died Jan 24, 1890 at Salt Lake City, UT, 67 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 2KXX-2B Children: 1. Brigham Heber YoungBorn Jun 19, 1845 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, died Jun 3, 1928, 82 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 2KXX-JQ. 2. Fanny Decker YoungBorn Jan 26, 1849 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Jan 20, 1892 at Salt Lake City, UT, 42 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 2KXX-KW. 3. Ernest Irving YoungBorn Apr 30, 1851 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Oct 8, 1879, 28 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 2KXX-L3. 4. Shamira YoungBorn Jan 21, 1853 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Aug 24, 1915, 62 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 17J3-CG 5. Arta D. Crista YoungBorn Apr 16, 1855 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Apr 7, 1916 at Ogden, Weber, UT, 60 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 3ML4-F2 6. Feramorz Little YoungBorn Sep 16, 1858 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Sep 27, 1881, 23 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 2KXX-PL. 7. Clarissa Hamilton YoungBorn Jul 23, 1860 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Aug 21, 1939 at Salt Lake City, UT, 79 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 2KXX-QR. |
6th marriage Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Married Nov 2, 1843 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL (33 years married) to: Harriet Elizabeth Cook Born Nov 7, 1824 at Ontario, NY, died Nov 5, 1898 at Salt Lake City, UT, 73 years, buried Nov 8, 1898 at Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, UT SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 3VL3-K3 Child: 1. Oscar Brigham YoungBorn Feb 10, 1846 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, died Aug 4, 1910 at Provo, UT, 64 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 3PTB-92 |
7th marriage Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Married Nov 2, 1843 (33 years married) to: Augusta Adams Born Dec 7, 1802 at Lynn, Essex, MA, died Feb 3, 1886 at Salt Lake City, UT, 83 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 17XW-9N |
8th marriage Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Married May 8, 1844 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL (33 years married) to: Clarissa Decker Born Jul 22, 1828 at Freedom, NY, died Jan 5, 1889 at Salt Lake City, UT, 60 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 3LTZ-JN Children: 1. Jeanette Richards YoungBorn Oct 14, 1849 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Mar 8, 1930, 80 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 51DF-K6 2. Nabbie Howe YoungBorn Mar 22, 1852 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Mar 15, 1894 at Salt Lake City, UT, 41 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 1G9D-H5 3. Jedediah Grant YoungBorn Jan 21, 1855 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Jan 11, 1856, 0 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 51DF-LC 4. Albert Jeddie YoungBorn Jan 4, 1858 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Dec 16, 1864, 6 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 51DF-MJ 5. Charlotte Talula YoungBorn Mar 4, 1861 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Jan 20, 1892, 30 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 51DF-NP |
9th marriage Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Married Sep 1844 (32 years married) to: Emily Dow Partridge Born Feb 28, 1824 at Painesville, Geauger/Lake, OH, died Dec 9, 1899 at Salt Lake City, UT, 75 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 1WB3-Q4 Children: 1. Edward Partridge YoungBorn Oct 30, 1845 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, died Nov 26, 1852 at Salt Lake City, UT, 7 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 3QB0-H7 2. Emily Augusta YoungBorn Mar 1, 1849 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Mar 19, 1926 at Salt Lake City, UT, 77 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 1ZZG-GC 3. Caroline Partridge YoungBorn Feb 1, 1851 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Jul 2, 1903 at Salt Lake City, UT, 52 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 1P33-8K 4. Joseph Don Carlos YoungBorn May 6, 1855 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Oct 19, 1938 at Salt Lake City, UT, 83 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 23K9-HT 5. Miriam YoungBorn Oct 13, 1857 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Oct 14, 1919 at Granite, Salt Lake, UT, 62 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 23K8-2G. 6. Josephine YoungBorn Feb 21, 1860 at Salt Lake City, UT, died May 9, 1912, 52 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 23K9-8M 7. Laura YoungBorn Apr 2, 1862 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Nov 4, 1862, under 1 year old SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 3QB0-N3 |
10th marriage Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Married Sep 10, 1844 (14 years married) to: Clarissa Ross Born Jun 16, 1814 at Northville, Cayuga, NY, died Oct 17, 1858 at Salt Lake City, UT, 44 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 1QZR-RN Children: 1. Mary Eliza YoungBorn Jun 8, 1847 at Winter Quarters, IA, died Sep 5, 1871 at Salt Lake City, UT, 24 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 1VDC-JB 2. Clarissa Maria YoungBorn Dec 10, 1849 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Apr 30, 1935, 85 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 90XB-JB 3. Willard YoungBorn Apr 30, 1852 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Nov 30, 1939, 87 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 90XB-KH 4. Phoebe Louisa YoungBorn Aug 1, 1854 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Aug 22, 1931 at Salt Lake City, UT, 77 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 3TR4-RP |
11th marriage Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Married Sep 19, 1844 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL (5 years married) to: Louisa "Louisa Beaman" Beeman Born Feb 7, 1815 at Livonia, Livingstone, NY, died May 15, 1850 at Salt Lake City, UT, 35 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File 37D5-31 |
12th marriage Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Married Nov 2, 1844 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL (32 years married) to: Susannah Snively Born Oct 30, 1815 at Woodstock, Shenandoah, VA, died Nov 20, 1892 at Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, UT, 77 years SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File GQCG-HM |
13th marriage Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Married Jan 16, 1845 (2 years married) to: Mary Harvey Pierce, daughter of Robert Pierce and Hannah Harvey. Born Nov 29, 1821 at Willistown, Chester, PA, died Mar 16, 1847 at Winter Quarters, Douglas/Omaha, Nebraska, 25 years SOURCES: LDS FHL AF 1F6F-PX. |
14th marriage Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Married Jan 16, 1845 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL (32 years married) to: Margaret Pierce, daughter of Robert Pierce and Hannah Harvey. Born Apr 19, 1823 at Ashton, Delaware, PA, died Jan 16, 1907 at Salt Lake City, UT, 83 years, 1st marriage to: Morris Whitesides, 2nd marriage to: Brigham Young SOURCES: LDS Family History Library, anestral file 8R61-7S. Child: 1. Benjamin Morris YoungBorn Jan 18, 1855 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Feb 20, 1931, 76 years SOURCES: LDS Family History Library, anestral file 334R-HG. |
15th marriage Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Married Jan 1846 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL (19 or 20 years married) to: Ellen Rockwood Born Mar 23, 1829 at Holliston, Middlesex, MA, died Jan 6, 1866 at Salt Lake City, UT, 36 years SOURCES: LDS FHL AF NV46-H9 . |
16th marriage Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Married Jan 1846 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL (0 or 1 years married) to: Maria Lawrence Born ± 1805 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, died 1847 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, approximately 42 years |
17th marriage Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Married Jan 14, 1846 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL (31 years married) to: Emelina Free Born Apr 28, 1826 at Belleville, St. Clair, IL, died Jul 17, 1885 at Salt Lake City, UT, 59 years SOURCES: LDS Family History Library, anestral file 1ZVS-8D . Children: 1. Ella Elizabeth YoungBorn Aug 31, 1847 at Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska, died Aug 7, 1890, 42 years SOURCES: LDS Family History Library, anestral file 3ZD8-SK. 2. Marinda Hyde YoungBorn Jul 30, 1849 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Aug 17, 1883 at Salt Lake City, UT, 34 years SOURCES: LDS Family History Library, anestral file 3K62-K3. 3. Hyrum Smith YoungBorn Jan 2, 1851 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Feb 28, 1925 at Salt Lake City, UT, 74 years SOURCES: LDS Family History Library, anestral file 3ZD8-TQ. 4. Emeline Amanda YoungBorn Feb 11, 1853 at Salt Lake City, UT SOURCES: LDS Family History Library, anestral file 3ZD8-VW . 5. Louisa Nelle YoungBorn Oct 30, 1855 at Salt Lake City, UT SOURCES: LDS Family History Library, anestral file 3ZD8-W3 . 6. Lorenzo Dow YoungBorn Sep 22, 1856 SOURCES: LDS Family History Library, anestral file 3ZD8-X8. 7. Alonzo YoungBorn Dec 20, 1858 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Mar 31, 1918 at Salt Lake City, UT, 59 years SOURCES: LDS Family History Library, anestral file 3ZD8-GT. 8. Ruth YoungBorn Mar 4, 1861 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Nov 8, 1944, 83 years SOURCES: LDS Family History Library, anestral file 3ZD8-ZF . 9. Daniel Wells YoungBorn Feb 9, 1863 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Feb 9, 1863, under 1 year old SOURCES: LDS Family History Library, anestral file 513V-GJ . 10. Ardelle YoungBorn Oct 26, 1864 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Sep 2, 1900, 35 years SOURCES: LDS Family History Library, anestral file 3ZD9-1Q . |
18th marriage Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Married Jan 14, 1846 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL (6 years married) to: Margaret Maria Alley Born Dec 19, 1825 at Lynn, Essex, MA, died Nov 5, 1852, 26 years SOURCES: LDS Family History Library, anestral file 26QG-1T. Children: 1. Evelyn Louise YoungBorn Jul 30, 1850 at Salt Lake City, UT SOURCES: LDS Family History Library, anestral file 94HD-V8. 2. Mohonri Moriancumer YoungBorn Nov 1, 1852 at Salt Lake City, UT, died Apr 20, 1884, 31 years SOURCES: LDS Family History Library, anestral file 90X9-MP. |
19th marriage Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Married Jan 21, 1846 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL (31 years married) to: Martha Bowker Born Jan 24, 1822 at Mt. Holley, Burlington, NJ, died Sep 26, 1890 at Salt Lake City, UT, 68 years SOURCES: LDS Family History Library, anestral file NHS6-2C Child: 1. Ida YoungBorn Dec 30, 1860 at Kaysville, Davis, UT, died Nov 30, 1927 at Salt Lake City, UT, 66 years SOURCES: LDS Family History Library, anestral file BFQR-MX . |
20th marriage Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Married Jan 26, 1846 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL (3 years married) to: Rebecca Greenleaf Holman, daughter of Joshua Sawyer Holman and Rebecca Whitcomb Greenleaf. Born Feb 20, 1824 at Stafford, Genessee, NY, died Jul 11, 1849 at Kanesville/Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, IA, 25 years SOURCES: LDS Family History Library, anestral file 2N02-XJ. |
21th marriage Brigham Young, son of John Hayden Young and Abigail Nabby Howe. Married Jan 26, 1846 at Nauvoo, Hancock, IL (31 years married) to: Naamah Kendall Jenkins Carter Born Mar 20, 1821 at Wilmington, Middlesex, MA, died at Salt Lake City, UT SOURCES: LDS Family History Library, anestral file NV46-KM. |
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