Young had many nicknames during his lifetime, among the most popular being "American Moses"[156] (alternatively, "Modern Moses" or "Mormon Moses"),[157][158] because, like the biblical figure, Young led his followers, the Mormon pioneers, in an exodus through a desert, to what they saw as a promised land. Brigham Young and the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Young's belated message to Isaac C. Haight, acting commander of the Iron County Brigade. A teacher walks into the Classroom and says If only Yesterday was Tomorrow Today would have been a Saturday Which Day did the Teacher make this Statement? According to Young, he was taught by Smith that Adam is "our Father and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do". In 1849, Young arranged for a printing press to be brought to the Salt Lake Valley, which was later used to print the Deseret News periodical. [174], Young was a polygamist, having at least fifty-six wives. Young and his two daughters moved to Kirtland along with the Kimball family later that summer. "[20], When Young sent his report on the massacre to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1858, he said that it was the work of Native Americans.[21]. Buchanan later pardoned Young. He was replaced as governor the following year by Alfred Cumming. [Joseph Smith] was succeeded by one of the outstanding organizers of the 19th century, Brigham Young. [26] His third child and first son, Joseph A. At the time of his death on August 23, 1877, Young had married 56 women-19 predeceased him, 10 divorced him, 23 survived him, and 4 are unaccounted for. But for multiple young women at Brigham Young University, they claim they received backlash . [21], After visiting Joseph Smith in Kirtland, Brigham set out to preach with his brother Joseph in the winter of 1832-1833. [121] The LDS Church has formally repudiated the doctrine as early as 1889,[122] and multiple times since the days of Young. In the appendix, Twain describes Young as a theocratic "absolute monarch" defying the will of the U.S. government, and alleges using a dubious source that Young had ordered the Mountain Meadows massacre. [18] A few days after the massacre, September 29, 1857, Lee briefed Young in Salt Lake City. [51] While in Nauvoo, he married Clarissa Decker, Clarissa Ross, Emily Dow Partidge, Louisa Beaman, Margaret Maria Alley, Emmeline Free, Margaret Piece, and Zina Diantha Huntington. Young's father, two brothers, and sister had already moved to Mendon before he did. No stranger to controversy in his lifetime, early Latter-day Saint leader Brigham Young is generating a little more mystery and contention these days from his graveyard. Brigham Young at Home is a valuable addition to the history of the home life of pioneer days. He encouraged independence and self-sufficiency. [154] In 1873, he announced that he would step down as president of the Deseret National Bank and of ZCMI, as well as from his role as trustee-in-trust for the church. Here he became acquainted with Mary Ann Angell, a convert to the faith from Rhode Island, and the two were married in February 1834 and obtained a marriage certificate on March 31, 1834. History of Brigham Young, entry dated Jan. 5, 1852, Church Historians Office Records Collection, LDS Church Archives (quoted in Ricks, A Peculiar Place, 114). You must not meddle with them. [135] The Mormon Reformation called for a spiritual reawakening among members of the church, and took place largely in the Utah Territory. His son, also named Alma, rebelled against everything he was taught. [147], Before his death in Salt Lake City on August 29, 1877,[148] Young was suffering from cholera morbus and inflammation of the bowels. [38] When Joseph Smith arrived in Far West, he appointed Young, along with Thomas Marsh and David Patten, as "presidency pro tem" in Missouri. [11] After his rest, Haslam picked up the reply from Young and was instructed to return to Cedar City with the letter quickly and not to "spare horseflesh."[11]. Instead, this able, energetic, earthy man became the absolute ruler and the revered, genuinely loved father figure of all Mormons everywhere. With its claim to show the true inner workings of one of the biggest and most famous polygamous households of all, "Wife No. [22] During the visit, Brigham spoke in a tongue that Smith identified as the "Adamic language". [58][59] Several claimants to the role of church president emerged during the succession crisis that ensued. He was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847 until his death in 1877. For a view skeptical of the "mantle phenomenon" as historically authentic, see. [8] Young reported having a strict Puritan-style Christian upbringing. 19" was nothing short of a bombshell. Harriet Amelia Folsom was Wife No. [107], Young also organized a committee to refine the Deseret alphabeta phonetic alphabet which had been developed sometime between 1847 and 1854. Within months, Harris and the others departed their Utah appointments without replacements being named, and their posts remained unfilled for the next two years. [115][116][117] The LDS Church has since repudiated the AdamGod doctrine. The affidavit was created at John C. Bennett's request, after his excommunication and in conjunction with his distribution of false information combined with true information about the church's practice of polygamy. The young couple with their empathy-based conservatism are well-positioned to spend another six years in the state's capital. [82] Young named Heber C. Kimball as his first counselor and Willard Richards as his second. . . After marrying Abigail, John Young settled in Massachusetts. Doyle's daughter stated: "You know father would be the first to admit that his first Sherlock Holmes novel was full of errors about the Mormons. [39], Under Young's direction, the quorum organized the exodus of Latter Day Saints from Missouri to Illinois in 1838. Young was born shortly after his return. [151] He is buried on the grounds of the Mormon Pioneer Memorial Monument in the heart of Salt Lake City. [67], Before departing Nauvoo, Young focused on completing the Nauvoo temple. As to why he'll suffer another one: it could be from having to see Nate, who he took under his wing, turn into his enemy, or it could be from having his own son come see him, reminding him of his failed marriage. Brotherton signed an affidavit saying that she had been locked in Smith's office for two days while Young and others tried to convince her to accept polygamy. For instance, Joseph Smith was once attacked by an apostate from the Church, William Law, who "attempted to kill Joseph and fired a pistol at him six times at close range. [5] Young received little formal education, but his mother taught him how to read and write. His sisters were: Nancy Young Kent Fanny Young Murray Rhoda Young Green Nabby Young (who died young) Susannah Young Little Louisa. Brigham Young ( / brm /; June 1, 1801 - August 29, 1877) was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. The proclamation is very clear: . Joseph! He then stayed for a short time in Dublin, Indiana with his brother Lorenzo before moving to Far West, Missouri in 1838. Young organized the journey that would take the Mormon pioneers to Winter Quarters, Nebraska, in 1846, before continuing on to the Salt Lake Valley. (Brigham Young was mistaken when he later testified that the meeting took place "some two of three months after the massacre" Young 1875.) Young knew her father, Isaac Decker, in New York. In 1857, at the time of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Brigham Young, was serving as President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and as Governor of Utah Territory. However, Young later testified that he cut Lee off when he started to describe the massacre because he could not bear to hear the details. The religion had undergone a period of intense conflict with non-Mormons in the American midwest, and faithful Mormons made solemn oaths to pray for vengeance upon those who killed the "prophets" including founder Joseph Smith, and more recently apostle Parley P. Pratt, who was murdered in April 1857 while traveling as a missionary in Arkansas. Young, himself, was subjected to house arrest for several weeks in 1872 and jailed briefly in March 1875. We only index and link to content provided on other servers. [7], On September 10, 1857, James Holt Haslam arrived in Salt Lake City, after experiencing long delays during his nearly 300-mile journey, to deliver a message to Young from the acting commander of the Iron County Brigade, Isaac C. Memorials to Young include a bronze statue in front of the Abraham O. Smoot Administration Building, Brigham Young University; a marble statue in the National Statuary Hall Collection at the United States Capitol, donated by the State of Utah in 1950;[162] and a statue atop the This is the Place Monument in Salt Lake City. He was replaced as governor the following year by Alfred Cumming. He was initially skeptical on whether or not the school's administration would allow the speech but received a message of encouragement from the administrator who reviewed his speech, telling him it was great and to . A CONFESSION etched on a newly discovered lead sheet has shaken the Mormon Church by linking its revered leader, Brigham Young, with one of the worst massacres in American history. [4], Young was born on June 1, 1801, in Whitingham, Vermont. He also worked on the Kirtland Temple and went to a grammar school. John Turner's biography states: "it remains unclear whether Young [] had sanctioned the bogus-making operation. [40][41] Young also served in various leadership and community organization roles among church members in Nauvoo. His mother died of tuberculosis in June 1815. [16][17], Young first heard about the massacre from John D. Lee, one of the participants. Upon joining the Methodists, he insisted on being baptized by immersion rather than by their normal practice of sprinkling. In the early 1850s, he expressed some support for the antislavery "free soil" position in American politics,[164] and in January 1852, he declared in a speech that "no property can or should be recognized as existing in slaves", suggesting opposition to the existence of slavery. [126] After settling in Utah in 1848, Young announced the ban,[126] which also forbade blacks from participating in Mormon temple rites such as the endowment or sealings. [144], The degree of Young's involvement in the Mountain Meadows massacre, which took place in Washington County in 1857, is disputed. The Utah Territory was created by Congress as part of the Compromise of 1850, and as colonizer and founder of Salt Lake City, Young was appointed the territory's first governor and superintendent of American Indian affairs by President Millard Fillmore on February 3, 1851. A key element of the teachings of this group in Young's eyes was their practicing of spiritual gifts like speaking in tongues and prophecy. They described the Book of Mormon as the "stick of Joseph" mentioned in Ezekiel 37. While there, Young's father remarried to a widow named Hannah Brown, and sent Young off to learn a trade. [21] Young and Kimball spent the summer following their baptism conducting missionary work in western New York, while Vilate Kimball cared for Young's family. Many cities and towns in Utah, and some in neighboring states, were founded under Young's direction. 5 min read. Just four days after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, Young designated the location for the Salt Lake Temple; he presided over its groundbreaking years later on April 6, 1853. Portrait of Ira Eldredge with his three wives: Nancy Black Eldredge, Hannah Mariah Savage Eldredge, and Helvig Marie Andersen Eldredge. [99] In 1858, following the events of the Utah War, he stepped down to his gubernatorial successor, Alfred Cumming.[100]. He also led the Anointed Quorum. [142] Buchanan accepted the reports of the Runaway Officials without any further investigation, and the new non-sectarian governor was appointed and sent to the new territory accompanied by 2,500 soldiers. As the competing rail lines approach Utah from the east and west coasts, Young supplies Mormon laborers to both railroad companies and negotiates with the railways to have them make Salt Lake City their meeting point. Mrs. Lawton was the second of the ten Alexander children, of whom the sixth was the late Gen. Edward Porter Alexander, chief of artillery, Longstreet's Corps, C. S. A., president . [15] Sometime in 1830, Young was introduced to the Book of Mormon by way of a copy that his brother, Phineas Howe, had obtained from Samuel H. Smith. From the time Spencer Cox announced his run for governor, he made it clear he was running with his wife. [44], During his time in Nauvoo, Joseph Smith introduced the doctrine of plural marriage among church leaders. Prosecutors in New York City are investigating an incident in which a jazz musician said his 14-year-old son was attacked by a woman who falsely accused him of taking her iPhone. Sidney Rigdon, the senior surviving member of the church's First Presidency, argued there could be no successor to the deceased prophet and that he should stay Joseph's "spokesman" and become guardian of the church. Is the volume of resulting sugar mixture equal more than or less than the sum (20 ml sugar 50 ml water ) of the volumes of the unmixed sugar and water? "John D. Lee Arrested". The remains of about 40 people were later found and buried, and U.S. Army officer James Henry Carleton had a large cross made from local trees, the transverse beam bearing the engraving, "Vengeance Is Mine, Saith The Lord: I Will Repay" and erected a cairn of rocks at the site. [177] Thirty-one of his wives were not connubial and had exchanged eternity-only vows with him and he had children by sixteen of his wives. [74] Young arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847, a date now recognized as Pioneer Day in Utah. Young claimed access to revelation to know God's choice of successor because of his position as an apostle. Recently, Brigham Young has been under attack by many who think his actions were racist, sexist, authoritarian, violent and more. Young acknowledged that the doctrine was challenging for many women, but stated its necessity for creating large families, proclaiming: "But the first wife will say, 'It is hard, for I have lived with my husband twenty years, or thirty, and have raised a family of children for him, and it is a great trial to me for him to have more women;' then I say it is time that you gave him up to other women who will bear children. Young also served a year-long mission to the United Kingdom. This colored race have been subjected to severe curses which they have brought upon themselves. Young believed that Lee's punishment was just but not a sufficient blood atonement, given the enormity of the crime, to allow Lee entrance into the celestial kingdom. "In regard to emigrating trains arriving and passing through our settlements," he wrote in a letter designed to restore calm in Southern Utah, "We must not interfere with them." [112] In 1853, Young made the church's first official statement on the subject since the church had arrived in Utah. Reared in the famous Beehive House, Mrs. Spencer has carried with her through life the patient, loving influence of her parents. [141], When federal officials received reports of widespread and systematic obstruction of federal officials in Utah (most notably judges), U.S. President James Buchanan decided in early 1857 to install a non-Mormon governor. "[76], Upon being asked why he chose for them to settle in the Salt Lake Valley, Young stated: "We have been kicked out of the frying-pan into the fire, out of the fire into the middle of the floor, and here we are and here we will stay. Alan Willson ran from his home in Worthing, West Sussex, after his son called him to say he was being attacked. [94], Young supported slavery and its expansion into Utah, and led the efforts to legalize and regulate slavery in the 1852 Act in Relation to Service, based on his beliefs on slavery. A polygamist, Young had at least 56 wives and 57 children. Researchers note that not all of the fifty-six marriages were conjugal. [35][27] In August 1837, Young went on another mission to the eastern states. An estimated 5,000 members were endowed between December 10, 1845 and February 1846. During the defense of Utah, now called the Utah War, Young held the U.S. Army at bay for a winter by taking their cattle and burning supply wagons. Sanborn, Rhoda Mabel Young, 1863-1950 (Person) Language of Materials. Bridger Walker and his sister. [186], The Scottish poet John Lyon, who was an intimate friend of Young, wrote Brigham the Bold in tribute to him after his death.[187][188]. should serve the seed of Abraham; he should not be a ruler, nor vote for men to rule over me nor my brethren. There is no debate concerning the involvement of individual Mormons from the surrounding communities by scholars. Beau's son was 9 years old at the time of his father's death. Brigham Young University. 20, No. With Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger, Brian Donlevy. According to the record, Alma the Younger was "a very wicked and an idolatrous man. [178] In 1865, Karl Maeser began to privately tutor Young's fifty-six children and stopped when he was called on a mission to Germany in 1867. Byron Morrow played Young in a cameo appearance in the Death Valley Days 1966 episode "An Organ for Brother Brigham". In 1857, at the time of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Brigham Young, was serving as President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and as Governor of Utah Territory. [118], Young also taught the doctrine of blood atonement, in which the atonement of Jesus cannot redeem an eternal sin, which included apostasy, theft, fornication (but not sodomy), or adultery. Brigham Young clearly wasn't free of his ex-wife just yet. He was a brother of the Mormon prophet, Brigham Young (1801-1877). A church conference held in Iowa sustained Young and his First Presidency on December 27, 1847. On September 8, 1857, Captain Stewart Van Vliet, of the US Army Quartermaster Corps, arrived in Salt Lake City. According to William Hayden, Young participated in the Bucksville Forensic and Oratorical Society. "[77], Among Young's first acts upon arriving in the valley were the naming of the city as "The City of the Great Salt Lake" and its organization into blocks of ten acres, each divided into eight equal-sized lots. [5] It is unclear whether Young held this view because of a possible belief that this specific group posed a threat to colonists or that they were responsible for past crimes against Mormons. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Do clownfish have a skeleton or exoskeleton. [60] The majority in attendance voted that the Quorum of the Twelve was to lead the church. During the 30 years between the Mormons' arrival in Utah in 1847 and [his death in] 1877, Young directed the founding of 350 towns in the Southwest. The mint was closed in 1861 by Alfred Cumming, gubernatorial successor to Young. [167][168][169] There is also evidence to suggest Young believed in the racial superiority of white men. Rigdon became the president of a separate church organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and several other potential successors emerged to lead what became other denominations of the movement. She, her husband Nate and their now 2-month-old son Luke fled their home in East Palestine the night of the train derailment to her mother's house about 14 to 15 miles away. This blog does not store any files on its server. His call was to preach to the "remnants of Joseph," a term people in the Church used to refer to indigenous people. Joseph had been a Reformed Methodist preacher and the two made a similar "preaching circuit" in eastern Canada. Carter. He joined the Masons in Nauvoo on April 7, 1842, and participated in an early endowment ritual led by Joseph Smith that May and became part of the Anointed Quorum. Historians still debate the autonomy and precise roles of local Cedar City LDS Church officials in ordering the massacre and Young's concealing of evidence in its aftermath. Early Friday morning, they were attacked in the street and one missionary was stabbed in the neck," the statement reads. Brigham Young (/brm/; June 1, 1801 August 29, 1877)[3] was an American religious leader and politician. Church historians. GILBERT, Ariz. (KPHO/Gray News) - A family in Arizona says their child was attacked by an out-of-control dog at an area park last week. [90] Young also organized a board of regents to establish a university in the Salt Lake Valley. There he showed a talent for organizing the church's work and maintaining good relationships with Joseph Smith and the other apostles. Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University. [130] Young taught that the day would come when black men would again have the priesthood, saying that after "all the other children of Adam have the privilege of receiving the Priesthood, and of coming into the kingdom of God, and of being redeemed from the four-quarters of the earth, and have received their resurrection from the dead, then it will be time enough to remove the curse from Cain and his posterity. [34] Shortly afterwards, Young went on another mission with his brother Joseph to New York and New England. The decree of God that Canaan should be a servant of servants unto his brethren (i.e., Shem and Japhet [sic]) is in full force. It was only after the fact, and after the end of the Civil War, that Young slowly realized just how mistaken his hope in a sudden Millennium was: the perpetrators of the MMM were being sought by the Federal courts. With the onset of the Panic of 1819, Jeffries dismissed Young from his apprenticeship and Young moved to Port Byron, which was then called Bucksville. On August 29, 1877, Brigham Young died in Salt Lake City at. Conditions Governing Access. In the 1995 film The Avenging Angel, the role of Young was played by Charlton Heston. [66] Young led the church as president of the Quorum of the Twelve until December 5, 1847, when the quorum unanimously agreed to organize a new First Presidency with Young as president of the church. Six Days in August: Brigham Young and the Succession Crisis of 1844 Ronald W. Walker Every Latter-day Saint knows the importance of the six days in August 1844 when Brigham Young and the Twelve Apostles were sustained at Nauvoo as Joseph Smith's successors. Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston says its policy won't allow DJ Ferguson to have the surgery since not being vaccinated seriously hurts its chances for success and his long-term outlook. 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Lee Library-related 19th century articles, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Initial organization of Quorum of the Twelve, This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 01:13. Provo, Utah Area. 25 and had the reputation of being his true love, much to the chagrin and mortification of the youthful Ann Eliza Webb Dee Young, No. "[13], Historians debate whether the Haight letter absolves Young of any complicity. These wives bore him children after they moved to Utah. Lucy and Young had seven children together. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [170] His manuscript history from January 5, 1852, which was published in the Deseret News, reads: The negro . As stated, Sydney Rigdon believed he was the next prophet. Trumpeter Keyon . Brigham Young was probably the most oft-married man in 19th-century America. Young negotiated with Stephen A. 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