Family tree of Brigham YOUNG

American politician, Mormons

American Born Brigham YOUNG

American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States

Born on June 01, 1801 in Whitingham, Vermont, USA , United States

Died on August 29, 1877 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, USA

Born on june 01 44

Deceased on august 29 39

Mormons 9

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Hayden

John

1703 - 1763

Maynard

Lucy

1709 - 1779

Howe

Peter

1696 - 1756

Howe

Thankful

1703 - 1766

Goddard

Ebenezer

1714 - 1762

Brigham

Sybil

1718 - 1807

Young

Joseph

1729 - 1769

Hayden

Elizabeth

1728 - 1810

Howe

Phinehas

1735 - 1807

Goddard

Susannah

1742 - 1837

Young

John Hayden

1763 - 1839

Howe

Abigail

1766 - 1815

Young

Brigham

1801 - 1877

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Young was born to a farming family in Whitingham, Vermont and worked as a travelling carpenter and blacksmith, among other trades. Young first married in 1824 to Miriam Angeline Works. Though he had converted to the Methodist faith in 1823, Young was drawn to Mormonism after reading the Book of Mormon shortly after its publication in 1830. He officially joined the new church in 1832 and traveled to Upper Canada as a missionary. After his first wife died in 1832, Young joined many Mormons in establishing a community in Kirtland, Ohio. Young was ordained a member of the original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1835, and he assumed a leadership role within that organization in taking Mormonism to the United Kingdom and organizing the exodus of Latter Day Saints from Missouri in 1838.

While in jail awaiting trial for alleged treason charges, Joseph Smith, president of the church, was killed by an armed mob in 1844. Several claimants to the role of church President emerged during the succession crisis that ensued. Before a large meeting convened to discuss the succession in Nauvoo, Illinois, 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 be made the "Protector" of the church. Young opposed this reasoning and motion. Smith had earlier recorded a revelation which stated the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles were "equal in authority and power" to the First Presidency, so Young claimed that the leadership of the church fell to the Twelve Apostles. Many of Young's followers would later reminisce that while Young spoke to the congregation, he looked or sounded exactly like Joseph Smith, to which they attributed the power of God. These recollections indicate an experience of some kind that persuaded them that the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles was to lead the church with Young as the Quorum's President. Young was ordained President of the Church in December 1847, more than two and a half years after Smith's death. Rigdon became the president of a separate church organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and other potential successors emerged to lead what became other denominations of the movement.

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