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Vornamen: Brigham Nachname: Young |
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1. Juni 1801 -- Whitingham, Windham, Vermont Tod: 29. August 1877 -- Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah |
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| Geburt | 1. Juni 1801 Whitingham, Windham, Vermont |
| Heirat | 2. Februar 1846 (Alter 44) Zina Diantha Huntington Nauvoo, Hancock, Il |
| Heirat | 29. Juni 1849 (Alter 48) Eliza Roxey van Snow |
| Tod | 29. August 1877 (Alter 76) Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah |
| Universelle Identifikationsnummer (UID) | AF67767E159361B48D3A1CDFE3131B331863 |
| Letzte Änderung | 3. Mai 2007 - 10:26:09 Zuletzt geändert von: dcoplien |
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source - wikipedia Brigham Young (June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877) was the second prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was also the first governor of the Utah Territory. Young had a variety of nicknames, among the most popular of which is "The American Moses," [1] (sometimes "The Modern Moses" or "The Mormon Moses" [2]) because, like the biblical figure, he led his followers, the Mormon Pioneers in an often arduous exodus through a desert, to what they saw as a promised land. He was dubbed "The Lion of the Lord" for his bold personality, and also called "Brother Brigham." Young was born to a farming family in Vermont and worked as a traveling 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 Canada as a missionary. After his first wife died in 1833 of gangrene[citation needed], Young joined many Mormons in establishing a community in Kirtland, Ohio. Young was strongly committed to his new faith. He was ordained an Apostle and joined the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles as one of the first members on February 14, 1835. During the anti-Mormon persecutions in Missouri in the late 1830s, he suffered the loss of all his property and other hardships. In 1840 and 1841, he went to England as a missionary for his church. Many of those Young converted moved to the United States to join Mormon communities there. In the 1840s Young was among those who established the city of Nauvoo, Illinois on the Mississippi River. It became the headquarters of the church and was comparable in size to the city of Chicago at the time. While in jail awaiting trial for treason charges, church president Joseph Smith was killed by an armed mob of vigilantes in 1844. Several claimants to his role as church president emerged during the succession crisis that ensued. Before a large Nauvoo congregation meeting to discuss the succession, Sidney Rigdon, the only surviving member of the First Presidency, argued that there could be no successor to the deceased prophet and that he should be made the "Protector" of the church."[1] Young opposed this reasoning and motion. Smith had earlier recorded a revelation in section 107, verses 23-24 of the Doctrine and Covenants that the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles were "equal in authority and power" to the First Presidency, so the decision of Smith's successor fell back to the Apostles even though Rigdon believed he was rightly next in line.[2] When Young testified of the power and authority of the Twelve Apostles, many in the congregation recorded that Brigham Young's voice took on the sound of Joseph Smith's voice and that Brigham Young's face also appeared as the face of Joseph Smith. For many in attendance at this meeting, this occurrence was accepted as a sign that Brigham Young was to lead the Church as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Rigdon became the president of a separate church organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and other potential successors emerged to lead what became (in the view of Young's followers) separate denominations of the movement. After three years under the Quorum of the Twelve, Young reorganized a new First Presidency and was declared President of the largest remaining faction in 1847. Repeated conflict led Young to relocate his group of Latter-day Saints to a territory in what is now Utah, then part of Mexico. Young organized the journey that would take the faithful to Winter Quarters, Nebraska, in 1846, then to Utah's Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847, a date now recognized as a Utah state holiday and known as Pioneer Day. Shortly after the new Mormon colonies were brought into the United States through Mexican Cession, Young petitioned the U.S. Congress to create the State of Deseret. The Compromise of 1850 instead carved out Utah Territory, and Young was installed as governor. As governor and Church president, Young directed both religious and economic matters. He encouraged independence and self-sufficiency. Many cities and towns in Utah, and some in neighboring states, were founded under Young's direction. Some have accused Young of being an autocrat during his leadership in Utah.[3] Others disagree with this assessment, recognizing Young as a strong, inspiring leader during a challenging era, and further noting that his reputation and legacy are generally well-regarded.[citation needed] When federal officials received reports of widespread and systematic obfuscation of federal officials in Utah (most notably judges), President Buchanan decided to install a non-Mormon governor. Buchanan accepted the reports of the judges without any further investigation, and sent troops. The troops, ironically, passed by the bloody Kansas-Missouri war without intervening in it. When Young received word that federal troops led by Albert Sydney Johnston (who later would fight against the Union during the Civil War) were headed to Utah with his replacement, he directed resistance, but insisted that no blood be shed. During this episode, now called the Utah War, Young successfully held the U.S. Army at bay for a winter. He made plans to burn Salt Lake City and move his followers to Mexico, but at the last minute he relented, and agreed to step down as governor. He later received a pardon from President Buchanan for his role in the episode. Relations between Young and future governors and U.S. Presidents were mixed. Abraham Lincoln, at the time the transcontinental telegram wire was laid across Utah, worked together with Brigham Young rather than with the federally appointed governor of the territory.[citation needed] A recurrent question is the nature or extent of Young's involvement in murders[citation needed] and other illegal activities[citation needed] in early Utah, particularly the Mountain Meadows Massacre, which took place in Washington County in 1857. Authorities in nearby Iron County had sent a messenger to Salt Lake City seeking direction from Young, but his response—directing them to leave the wagon party alone—arrived too late to avert the massacre. It is unclear why any message from Young would be required and why his followers felt the need to ask for his direction in the treatment of the wagon train. According to some accounts, John D. Lee, the only person convicted for participation in the massacre, maintained Young's innocence until his death. This was in spite of the fact that Lee was personally bitter toward Young for excommunicating him. According to the Life and Confessions of John D. Lee(p. 225), however, we find the conflicting statement, "I have always believed, since that day, that General George A. Smith was then visiting Southern Utah to prepare the people for the work of exterminating Captain Fancher's train of emigrants, and I now believe that he was sent for that purpose by the direct command of Brigham Young." Young was actually indicted on murder charges in 1872, related to a separate incident. This indictment was based on the testimony of William Hickman, who also felt jilted when 8 of his 9 wives left him, after Young had him excommunicated. Young's murder indictment was thrown out when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the process used to select grand juries in Utah was unconstitutional, because it was designed to keep Mormons off juries. In addition to founding Utah, Young also organized the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and founded the University of Deseret in 1850, which is now the University of Utah. Brigham Young University is named after him. In 1950, the state of Utah donated a marble statue of Young to the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall Collection National Statuary Hall Collection Young was perhaps the most famous polygamist of the early Mormon church. Ironically, he was extremely reluctant to practice plural marriage initially; Young married some 52 women and had 57 known children. In 1856 he built the Lion House to accommodate his sizable family. This remains a Salt Lake City landmark, together with the Beehive House, another Brigham Young Family home. A contemporary of Young wrote: "It was amusing to walk by Brigham Young's big house, a long rambling building with innumerable doors. Each wife has an establishment of her own, consisting of parlor, bedroom, and a front door, the key of which she keeps in her pocket".[4] What follows is a listing of Brigham Young's wives. An asterisk indicates "a wife not recognized in traditional histories"; names in parenthesis are the surnames of previous husbands; "divorce" indicates a formal dissolution of the marriage through secular or ecclesiastical procedures; "remarried" indicates later marriage of the wife to another husband.[5] Brigham YoungMiriam Work - 1824 (2 children), included in his will. Mary Ann Angell - 1834 (6 children), in will. Lucy A. Decker (Seeley) - 1842 (7 children), in will. Harriet E. Cook (Campbell) - 1843 (1 child), in will. Lucy Augusta Adams (Cobb) 1843 (no children); requested cancellation of her sealing, 1846; sealed by proxy to Joseph Smith, 1848; from 1850 onward asked Brigham Young to give her to various men in civil marriage but still included in will. Clarissa C. Decker - 1844 (5 children), in will. Clarissa Ross-Chase - 1844 (4 children), in will. Louisa Beaman (Smith) - 1844 (5 children). Zina D. Huntington (Jacobs, Smith) - 1844 (1 child), in will. Emily D. Partridge (Smith) 1844 - (7 children), in will. (daughter of Edward Partridge) Eliza R. Snow (Smith) - 1844 (no children), in will. *Elizabeth Fairchild - 1844 (no children), divorced 1855. *Clarissa Blake - 1844 (no children). *Rebecca W. Greenleaf Holman - 1844 (no children). *Diana Chase - 1844 (no children), separated about 1848, remarried 1849. Maria Lawrence (Smith) - 1844 (no children), separated 1845, remarried 1846. Susannah Snively - 1844 (no children), in will. Olive Grey Frost (Smith) - 1844 (no children). *Mary A. Clark (Powers) - 1845 (no children), divorced 1851. *Mary Harvey Pierce - 1845 (no children). Margrette W. Pierce (Whitesides) - 1845 (1 child), in will. *Rhoda Richards (Smith) - 1845 (no children). (she was Young's 1st cousin) Emmeline Free - 1845 (10 children), in will. (former fiance of John D. Lee, her sister Louisa married Lee). Mary Elizabeth Rollins (Lightner, Smith) - 1845 (no children); remained with legal husband yet considered herself deserted by Brigham Young, 1846. Margaret Maria Alley - 1845 (2 children), in will. *Mary Ann Turley - 1845 (no children), divorced 1851. *Olive Andrews (Smith) 1846 (no children). *Emily Haws (Chesley, Whitmarsh) - 1846 (no children), separated 1848. Ellen A. V. Rockwood - 1846 (no children). *Abigail Marks (Works) - 1846 (no children). *Mary Elizabeth Nelson (Greene) - 1846 (no children). *Mary E. de la Montague (Woodward) - 1846 (no children); divorced and returned to legal husband, 1847; then returned to Brigham Young, 1851. *Amy C. Cooper - 1846 (no children). *Julia Foster (Hampton) - 1846 (no children), separated, 1846; married another man; returned to Brigham Young, 1855, only to leave him bitterly later. *Abigail Harback (Hall) - 1846 (no children), returned to legal husband, 1846. Naamah K. J. Carter (Twiss) - 1846 (no children), obtained cancellation of her sealing by 1871, anointed to deceased first husband but still included in will. *Nancy Cressy (Walker) - 1846 (no children). *Eliza Babcock - 1846 (no children), divorced 1853. *Jane Terry (Tarbox, Young) - 1847. Mary J. Bigelow - 1847 (no children), divorced 1851. Lucy Bigelow - 1847 (3 children), in will. *Sarah M. Guckin (Malin) - 1848 (no children). Eliza Burgess - 1852 (1 child), in will. *Mary Oldfield (Kelsey) - 1852 (no children). *Catherine Resse (Clawson, Egan) - 1855 (no children). Harriet E. Barney (Sagers) - 1856 (1 child), in will. Harriet Amelia Folsom - 1863 (no children), in will. Mary Van Cott (Cobb) - 1865 (1 child), in will. (Daughter of John Van Cott) Ann Eliza Webb (Dee) 1868 (no children), divorced 1875; her story was the basis of Irving Wallace's 1962 biography The Twenty-Seventh Wife and of David Ebershoff's forthcoming novel, The 19th Wife *Elizabeth Jones (Lewis, Jones) - 1869 (no children). *Lydia Farnsworth (Mayhew) - 1870 (no children). *Hannah Tapfield (King) - 1872 (no children). |
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