Brigham Young

Birth of Brigham Young, American religious leader of the Latter-day Saints

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Brigham Young was an American religious leader, politician, and settler.

He was the second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877 and is often known as the "American Moses" or the "Modern Moses" because of his role in leading the Latter-day Saints to Utah.

Brigham Young was born on the 1st June 1801.

Among his many achievements, Brigham had a tremendous number of wives.

The sheer variety of Brigham Young's marriages makes it difficult to make sense of them.

He married single women and widows, he also married women who were already married to Mormon men in good standing.

As of early 1842, Brigham Young was a contented monogamist. He dearly loved his wife, Mary Ann Angell.

Two months later, Young proposed marriage to a 17-year-old British Mormon named Martha Brotherton who had recently arrived in Illinois.

She turned him down and signed an affidavit denouncing his behavior.

Nevertheless, in June Young proposed to a second woman, who accepted him.

Lust or sExual attraction was not the reason for Brigham's entrance into polygamy.

Instead, Brigham sought a second wife because president of Joseph Smith, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, instructed him that plural marriage was a divine commandment.

This would bring a select number of righteous men, tremendous blessings for eternity.

Once Brigham accepted it, however, he accepted it wholeheartedly.

After his first plural marriage, Brigham married three more times, however, he did not live with any of his additional wives, and they bore him no children during these years.

After the murder of Joseph Smith, Brigham married around 15 women, and began to have children with several of his wives.

His rate of marriage peaked in early 1846, when he married nearly 20 additional wives in the church's temple.

Shortly thereafter, Brigham Young headed for the American West, bringing with him many of the women who had married him over the previous four years.

Brigham did not care very much what others thought about his marriages, and he had little patience, or time, for his wives when they expressed dissatisfaction.

When wives demanded divorces, he granted them.

At the same time, he tried dearly to create a harmonious and united family, instructing his wives and children to join him for prayer each day.

On the 7th April 1868, Brigham married his 53rd wife, American actress, 24 year old Anna Webb in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Brigham would marry twice more before his death on August 29, 1877, aged 76.

Brigham Young's funeral was held in the Tabernacle with an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 people in attendance.

He is buried on the grounds of the Mormon Pioneer Memorial Monument in the heart of Salt Lake City.

A bronze marker was placed at the grave site June 10, 1938, by members of the Young Men and Young Women organizations, which he founded.

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Brigham Young in 1870 ~ Charles William Carter