Brigham Young's Homes

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Being a Complete Exposé of Mormonism and Revealing the Sorrow, Sacrifices, and Suffering of a Woman in Polygamy (Hartford, Connecticut: Dustin Gilman & Co., 1876). 3. Stanley Hirshson, Lion of the Lord (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969). 4. Mabel Young Sanborn, comp., Brigham Young’s Wives, Children, and Grandchildren (Salt Lake City: Gaylen S. Young, 1940). 5. Irving Wallace, The Twenty-seventhWife (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961). 6. Leonard J. Arrington, Brigham Young: American Moses (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985). 7. Brigham Young, et al., Journal of Discourses, 26 vol. (Liverpool: LDS Booksellers Depot, 1854–1886), 13:173. 8. Historian’s Office, Journal, 31 January 1857, Archives of the the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (hereafter cited as LDS Church Archives), Salt Lake City, Utah. 9. Young, et al., Journal of Discourses, 14:162. 10. Susa Young Gates, “Recollections,” typescript, Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City, n.d., 74. 11. Clerk’s report of Brigham Young’s interview with Horace Greeley, 13 July 1859, Brigham Young Collection, LDS Church Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah. 12. Brigham Young, “Speech, 6 April 1845,” Times and Seasons 6 (1 July 1845): 955. 13. Greeley, interview. 14. Gates, 4. 15. Mary Cable, “She Who Shall Be Nameless,” American Heritage 16 (February 1965): 165. 16. Joseph F. Smith, Plural Marriage Affidavit Books, 2 vol., holograph, Historical Department of the Church Preface 1. Susa Young Gates, Unique Story— President Brigham Young (Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1990), 79. 2. Brigham Young was appointed “a committee of one” to build a public bathhouse at the warm springs north of Salt Lake City; today the building houses the Utah Children’s Museum. Journal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Liverpool and London: LDS Booksellers, 1855–1886), microfilm, Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah, 17 February 1849. 3. Leonard J. Arrington, Brigham Young: American Moses (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985), 206. 4. For a complete discussion of the problems of Brigham Young’s will, see Leonard J. Arrington, “The Settlement of Brigham Young’s Estate, 1877–1879,” Pacific Historical Review 21 (1952): 1. One simple but obvious error in one printed form of the will is the bequest of property to Brigham’s son Weber, a misprint of the name Heber. Brigham Young, will, Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City, pamphlet 3857. 5. Several other women requested that they be sealed to Brigham after his death, but since he did not provide houses for them while they lived, they are not included here. Chapter 1 1. Al Church, “Stalking the Wild Gentile,” Network 5 (September 1981): 17. 2. Ann Eliza Webb Young, Wife Number 19; or, The Story of a Life in Bondage, of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1:48, 50; 2:12, 16. 17. Susa Young Gates and Mabel Young Sanborn, “Brigham Young Genealogy,” Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine 11 (April 1920): 127. 18. Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightener, Autobiography and Diary, Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, n.d., 25. 19. Elizabeth Terry Heward, “Autobiography ,” in Parshall Terry Family History (Salt Lake City: Mr. and Mrs. Terry Lund, 1956), 73. 20. Gates, 74. 21. Brigham Young Papers, LDS Church Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah. 22. Brigham Young Papers. 23. Divorce certificates, Brigham Young Papers, LDS Church Archives, Salt Lake, City, Utah. 24. Arrington, 373. 25. Mary Ann Clark Powers, letter to Young, 18 June 1851, Brigham Young Papers, LDS Church Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah. 26. Hannah Tapfield King, “Autobiography ,” LDS Church Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah, circa 1864–1872. 27. Nauvoo Temple Records, 2 February 1846, Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints Family History Library (hereafter LDS Family History Library), Salt Lake City, Utah. 28. Brigham Young Papers. 29. Family group sheet, LDS Family History Library. Chapter 2 1. Brigham Young, et al., Journal of Discourses, 26 vol. (Liverpool: LDS Booksellers Depot, 1854–1886), 11:295. Notes 14. Black and Porter, 9. 15. Ibid., 11; for a detailed discussion of this alternative birthplace, see Black and Porter’s collection of essays, Lion of the Lord. 16. Ibid., 8.The transactions of John Young buying land from and selling it back to his brother-in-law, Joseph Mosely, are recorded in “Whitingham Deeds,” microfilm, Genealogical Department Archives, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah, 18 November 1800, 675.. Some...