“It was the first time in my life that I desired the grave.”
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Brigham Young
Brigham Young was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877. He also served as the first governor of the Utah Territory from 1851 until his resignation in 1858.
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Born 1 June 1801 · Died 29 August 1877 · Q203559
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2026· 9 entries
“They have not wisdom to act like white men.”
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“I hope to see an Academy established in Provo ... at which the children of the Latter-day Saints can receive a good education unmixed with the pernicious atheistic influences that are found in so many of the higher schools of the country.”
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“the fullness of the priesthood”
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The Tribune-Democrat: Texas Tech seeks Big 12 repeat while Brigham Young among teams trying to be 7th different champ in 7 seasons - The Tribune-Democrat
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The Salt Lake Tribune: Latest from Mormon Land: The kinder, gentler Brigham Young; a look at Irish Latter-day Saints
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Meridian Magazine: Educate Women? What Did Brigham Young Believe? — Becoming Brigham, Episode 30
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Yahoo Sports: Brigham Young Floated as Top Contender to Reach First College Football Playoff
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Channel 3000: Brigham Young Cougars coach Kalani Sitake greets fan on the way in to LaVell Edwards Stadium before the game against the Arizona Wildcats.
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2025· 2 entries
The Digital Universe: The legend of Brigham Young's "Best Stallion" at the first Deseret Fair
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Yahoo: What the tired tropes of ‘American Primeval’ get wrong about Brigham Young, early Latter-day Saints
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2024· 2 entries
Yahoo: After transcribing 1.2 million of his words, this researcher has something to say about Brigham Young
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U.S. News & World Report: Brigham Young University (BYU Provo)
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2023· 3 entries
Wall Street Journal: Brigham Young Is the Western U.S. College Most Highly Recommended by Its Students
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Bloomberg L.P.: Brigham Young (Marriott)
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Snopes rated the claim “One of Brigham Young's sons was a drag queen.” True.
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2016· 1 entry
Young was estimated to have around 30,000 descendants
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2015· 1 entry
U.S. News & World Report: Brigham Young University Rankings
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2001· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “The horse-drawn hearse in front of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion is the actual hearse used to carry Brigham Young’s body.” False.
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1902· 1 entry
25 years after his death, The New York Times established that Young's direct descendants numbered more than 1,000
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1889· 1 entry
And never practiced by members of the church
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1877· 3 entries
Young's funeral was held in the Tabernacle with an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 people in attendance
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Young suffered from cholera morbus and inflammation of the bowels
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Died 1877-08-29.
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1875· 1 entry
Young deeded buildings and land in Provo, Utah, to a board of trustees for establishing an institution of learning, ostensibly as part of the University of Deseret
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1873· 1 entry
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
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1867· 1 entry
And created organizations for young women in 1869 and young men in 1875
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1865· 1 entry
Karl Maeser began to privately tutor Young's fifty-six children and stopped when he was called on a mission to Germany in 1867
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1863· 3 entries
“For their abuse of [the Black African] race, the whites will be cursed, unless they repent.”
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Young stated: "Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race
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“Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.”
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1862· 1 entry
“You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind....Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.”
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1861· 2 entries
By Alfred Cumming, gubernatorial successor to Young
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And suggested that the monument instead read "Vengeance is mine and I have taken a little"
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1860· 1 entry
Some time before the novel's publication in 1887
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1859· 2 entries
Young stated in an interview with the New York Tribune that he considered slavery a "divine institution
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“divine institution ... not to be abolished”
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1858· 2 entries
Following the events of the Utah War and Mountain Meadows Massacre, he stepped down to his gubernatorial successor, Alfred Cumming
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The war ended when Young surrendered, agreeing to resign as governor and allow federal troops to enter the Utah Territory in exchange for a pardon granted to Mormon settlers from President Buchanan
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1856· 3 entries
Brigham Young stated: "We need a reformation in the midst of this people; we need a thorough reform
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“We need a reformation in the midst of this people; we need a thorough reform.”
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Young organized an efficient mail service known as the Brigham Young Express and Carrying Company, which transported mail and passengers between Missouri and California
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1855· 1 entry
To provide temple ordinances to church members while the Salt Lake Temple was under construction
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1853· 1 entry
Young made the church's first official statement on the subject since the church had arrived in Utah
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1852· 1 entry
“In as much as we believe in the Bible ... we must believe in slavery. This colored race have been subjected to severe curses ... which they have brought upon themselves.”
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1851· 2 entries
Young and several federal officials—including territorial Secretary Broughton Harris—became unable to work cooperatively
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Career landmark: Governor of the Territory of Utah (1851–1858).
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1850· 2 entries
As the University of Deseret; its name was eventually changed to the University of Utah
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And the latest in 1920) that when Young spoke to the congregation, he miraculously looked or sounded exactly like Smith, which they attributed to the power of God
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1849· 2 entries
Young arranged for a printing press to be brought to the Salt Lake Valley, which was later used to print the Deseret News periodical
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And called for the minting of coins using gold dust that had been accumulated from travelers during the Gold Rush
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1848· 1 entry
Young announced the ban, which also forbade blacks from participating in Mormon temple rites such as the endowment or sealings
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1847· 2 entries
A date now recognized as Pioneer Day in Utah
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And [his death in] 1877, Young directed the founding of 350 towns in the Southwest
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1846· 1 entry
Before continuing on to the Salt Lake Valley
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1845· 1 entry
Members received their temple endowments day and night, and Young officiated many of these sessions
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1844· 3 entries
With the intent to choose between two claimants, Young and Sidney Rigdon, the senior surviving member of the church's First Presidency
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Young traveled east again to solicit votes for Joseph Smith in his presidential campaign
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While he was traveling to gain support for Joseph Smith's presidential campaign, Smith was killed by a mob, igniting the Illinois Mormon War and triggering a succession crisis in the Latter Day Saint movement
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1843· 1 entry
Young and his wife Mary Ann received the second anointing, a ritual that assured them that their salvation and exaltation would occur
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1842· 1 entry
And participated in an early endowment ritual led by Joseph Smith that May and became part of the Anointed Quorum
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1841· 1 entry
And oversaw the first baptisms for the dead in the unfinished Nauvoo temple
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1835· 2 entries
Young and other apostles went on a mission to the east coast, specifically in Pennsylvania and New York
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Brigham Young was named and ordained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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1831· 1 entry
Five missionaries of the Latter Day Saint movement—Eleazer Miller, Elial Strong, Alpheus Gifford, Enos Curtis, and Daniel Bowen—came from the branch of the church in Columbia, Pennsylvania, to preach in Mendon
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1830· 1 entry
Young was introduced to the Book of Mormon by way of a copy that his brother, Phineas Howe, had obtained from Samuel H
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1828· 2 entries
The family moved briefly to Oswego, New York, on the shore of Lake Ontario, and in 1828 to Mendon, New York
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Had effectively left the Reformed Methodist Church and become a Christian seeker, unconvinced that he had found a church possessing the true authority of Jesus Christ
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1801· 2 entries
Born 1801-06-01.
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In Whitingham, Vermont, and raised in Upstate New York
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