Descendants of Brigham Young

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Brigham Young (June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877) was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847 until his death in 1877. He founded Salt Lake City and he served as the first governor of the Utah Territory. Young also led the foundings of the precursors to the University of Utah and Brigham Young University.

Young was a polygamist, marrying a total of 55 wives, 54 of them after he converted to Mormonism.<ref name = "joj">{{citation |first= Jeffrey Odgen |last= Johnson |url= http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/dialogue,17879 |title= Determining and Defining 'Wife' — The Brigham Young Households |journal= Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought |volume= 20 |issue= 3 |date= Fall 1987 |pages= 57–70 |doi= 10.2307/45225560 |jstor= 45225560 |s2cid= 254339939 |doi-access= free |access-date= 2015-04-17 |archive-date= 2012-05-09 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120509185612/http://content.lib.utah.edu/u/?%2Fdialogue%2C17879 |url-status= dead }}</ref> By the time of his death, Young had 56 children by 16 of his wives; 46 of his children reached adulthood.<ref name=byubio>{{citation |url= http://yfacts.byu.edu/Article?id=214 |title=Brigham Young Biography: Facts of Faith |work= Y Facts (yfacts.byu.edu) |publisher= BYU |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://archive.today/20130920194808/http://yfacts.byu.edu/Article?id=214 |archivedate= 2013-09-20 }}</ref>

In 1902, 25 years after Young's death, ''The New York Times'' established that Young's direct descendants numbered more than 1,000.<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1902/06/22/101218688.pdf "Descendants of Brigham Young to Hold Annual Mass Meetings"], ''The New York Times'', 1902-06-22.</ref>

In 2016 Young was estimated to have around 30,000 descendants.<ref>{{cite web |title=Descendants, including General Authority, Observe Brigham Young's Birthday at His Grave Site - Church News and Events |url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/descendants-including-general-authority-observe-brigham-youngs-birthday-at-his-grave-site?lang=eng |website=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |access-date=29 December 2021}}</ref>

==Notable descendants== The following are notable descendants of Brigham Young. {{Dynamic list}}

{| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! style="width:80px" | ! style="width:150px" | Name ! style="width:150px" | Relationship to Brigham Young ! style="width:150px" | Wife of Brigham Young descended from ! style="width:500px" class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 75px | {{sortname|Emma L.G.|Bowen|Emma Lucy Gates Bowen}} | Granddaughter | {{sortname|Lucy|Bigelow|nolink=1}} | An opera singer and later the wife of Albert E. Bowen, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. She was often referred to as Lucy Gates and after her marriage as Lucy Gates Bowen or Lucy Bowen. |- | 75px | {{sortname|Zina C.|Brown|Zina Young Card Brown}} | Granddaughter | {{sortname|Zina D. H.|Young}} | Wife of Hugh B. Brown, a member of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and First Presidency and a Canadian military officer. |- | | {{sortname|Zola G.|Brown|nolink=1}} | Great-granddaughter | {{sortname|Zina D. H.|Young|nolink=1}} | Daughter of Hugh B. Brown and Zina Card Brown. Zola was the first wife of FLDS Church president Rulon Jeffs |- | 75px | {{sortname|Orson S.|Card|Orson Scott Card}}<ref>{{cite web | title = Who Is Orson Scott Card? | publisher = Hatrack River Enterprises Inc | work = Hatrack River| year = 2009 | url = http://www.hatrack.com/osc/about-more.shtml | accessdate =August 25, 2009}} paragraph 9</ref> | great-great-grandson | {{sortname|Zina D. H.|Young|nolink=1}} | Novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for the science fiction novel ''Ender's Game'' (1985). |- | 75px | {{sortname|Zina Y.|Card|Zina P. Young Card}} | Daughter | {{sortname|Zina D. H.|Young|nolink=1}} | Wife of Charles O. Card who founded the first Mormon settlement in Canada - Cardston, Alberta - and who was referred to as "Canada's Brigham Young." |- | | {{sortname|John Willard|Clawson|John Willard Clawson}} | Grandson<ref>{{cite web |title=John W. Clawson |url=https://www.lib.utah.edu/collections/utah-artists/UAP-John-Clawson.php |website=Utah Artists Project |publisher=J. Willard Marriott Library |access-date=16 April 2021}}</ref> | {{sortname|Mary Ann| Angell}} | Portrait painter |- | 75px | {{sortname|Hugh W.|Dougall}} | Grandson | {{sortname|Clarissa|Ross|nolink=1}} | Hymnwriter; Among hymns by Dougall are "Jesus of Nazareth, Savior and King" and the music to "Come Unto Him" and "The Bridge Builder." |- | 75px | {{sortname|Maria Y.|Dougall|Maria Young Dougall}} | Daughter | Clarissa Ross | Became First Counselor in the general presidency of the Young Women |- | 75px | {{sortname|Susa Y.|Gates|Susa Young Gates}} | Daughter | {{sortname|Lucy|Bigelow|nolink=1}} | A prominent women's rights activist in Utah.<ref name = Life/><ref name = Cracroft/> |- | | {{sortname|Sandra|Tanner| |Jerald and Sandra Tanner}} | great-great-granddaughter | Mary Ann Angell<ref>[https://www.goodnewsforlds.com/bios/sandra-tanner.html About : Sandra Tanner]</ref> | Mormon critic |- | | {{sortname|Sally Young|Kanosh| |Sally Young Kanosh}} | Adopted daughter | Clarissa Caroline Decker | Bannock slave bought by Young's brother-in-law and given to the Young family. Worked in the Lion House to feed her adopted family. Later married Kanosh to form an alliance between Young and Kanosh. |- | | {{sortname|Leah D.|Widtsoe}} | Granddaughter | {{sortname|Lucy|Bigelow|nolink=1}} | A leading expert in home economics and wife of apostle John A. Widtsoe.<ref name = Life>{{cite book | last = Gates | first = Susa Young Gates |author2= Leah D. Widtsoe | title = Life Story of Brigham Young | publisher = Macmillan | year = 1930 | location = New York | page = 388 | isbn = 0-8369-5886-1}}</ref><ref name = Cracroft>{{citation |last= Cracroft |first= R. Paul |title= Susa Young Gates: Her Life and Literary Work. |type= Master's thesis |publisher= Department of English, University of Utah |year= 1951 |oclc= 30597464 }}</ref> |- | 75px | {{sortname|B. Morris|Young}} | Son | {{sortname|Margaret|Pierce|nolink=1}} | One of the founders of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association (YMMIA), the predecessor to the LDS Church's Young Men organization. From 1885 to the 1900s, B. Morris publicly performed as a cross-dressing singer under the pseudonym '''Madam Pattirini'''.<ref>Galen Snow Young, "Brief History of Brigham Morris Young", 31, Department of Archives and Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah</ref><ref>Photograph of Brigham Morris Young as Madam Pattirini, photo 157, negative 3, Archives, Historical Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah</ref><ref>Dean C. Jessee, "Letters from Brigham Young to His Sons", 243, Desert Book (1974), Salt Lake City, Utah</ref> |- | 75px | {{sortname|Bob|Young|Bob Young (mayor)}}<ref name="tpgybio">"[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/young1.html#0VY0RNEHC Index to Politicians - Young, A to B]". politicalgraveyard.com. Retrieved December 31, 2013.</ref><ref name="emmy">(September 16, 2012). "[https://web.archive.org/web/20150520234056/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/9/prweb9906094.htm ''The Treasure Train'', a Well-Written Historical Novel, is an Exciting Way to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the War Between the States]". prweb.com. Retrieved December 31, 2013.</ref> | Great-great-great-grandson | Lucy D. Young | An Emmy nominated broadcast journalist, author, and former mayor of Augusta, Georgia. He also served a presidential appointment by George W. Bush on the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. As of 2013, Young was serving as the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy. |- | 75px | {{sortname|Brigham|Young, Jr.|Brigham Young, Jr.|Young, Brigham}} | Son | {{sortname|Mary Ann|Angell}} | Ordained an LDS Church apostle by his father.<ref name = Jenson>Jenson, Andrew. ''Latter-day Saints Biographical Encyclopedia'' (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book and A. Jenson Historical Co., 1901–36) '''1''':42, 121, and 518.</ref> He served as president of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from 1899 until his death. |- | 75px | {{sortname|Don C.|Young|Don Carlos Young}} | Son | Emily Dow Partridge | An architect, landscape architect and designer from 1879 to circa 1935. He was the official LDS Church Architect from 1887 until 1893. After 1893, Young practiced privately, with the LDS Church as a frequent client.<ref>{{citation | last = Westwood | first = P. Bradford | year = 1994 | title = The early life and career of Joseph Don Carlos Young (1855–1938): a study of Utah's first institutionally trained architect to 1884 | format = Masters thesis | publisher = University of Pennsylvania | location = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | pages = 9, 47–49 and 77–79 | url = https://archive.org/details/earlylifecareero00west | accessdate = February 10, 2012}}</ref> A preponderance of his work centered on church commissions, or commissions offered him by extended Young family members, or other church members and friends. |- | 75px | {{sortname|John W.|Young|John Willard Young}} | Son | {{sortname|Mary Ann|Angell|nolink=1}} | Ordained an LDS Church apostle by his father.<ref name = Jenson/> He is one of the few Latter-day Saints in history to have been ordained to the office of apostle without ever becoming a member of the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles or the First Presidency.<ref name = "Journal">David Whitmer was an ordained apostle but was never a member of either quorum. Some have also suggested that Martin Harris was an ordained apostle. See Brigham Young, ''Journal of Discourses'' '''6''':320 and Heber C. Kimball, ''Journal of Discourses'' '''6''':29.</ref> |- | 75px | {{sortname|Joseph A.|Young|Joseph Angell Young}} | Son | {{sortname|Mary Ann|Angell|nolink=1}} | Ordained an LDS Church apostle by his father.<ref name = Jenson/> He is one of the few Latter-day Saints in history to have been ordained to the office of apostle without ever becoming a member of the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles or the First Presidency.<ref name = "Journal"/> |- | | {{sortname|Kimball|Young}} | Grandson | {{sortname|Harriet Elizabeth|Cook|nolink=1}} | Sociologist and president of the American Sociological Association in 1945. |- | 75px | {{sortname|Mahonri|Young}} | Grandson | {{sortname|Margaret|Alley|nolink=1}} | Sculptor;<ref>{{citation |url=http://signaturebooks.com/2010/04/mahonri-young-his-life-and-art/ |title=Publisher's description of ''Mahonri Young: His Life and Art'' by Thomas E. Toone |website=Signature Books |access-date= 2013-09-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url= http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20130106134202/http://signaturebooks.com/2010/04/mahonri-young-his-life-and-art/ |archive-date=2013-01-06}}</ref> Two of his works, the This Is The Place Monument and the Seagull Monument are featured prominently in Salt Lake City, Utah. |- | 75px | {{sortname|Waldemar|Young}} | Grandson | {{sortname|Margaret|Alley|nolink=1}} | Screenwriter  |- | 75px | {{sortname|Richard W.|Young|Richard Whitehead Young}} | Grandson | {{sortname|Mary Ann|Angell|nolink=1}} | U.S. Army Brigadier General and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines;<ref>{{cite web | author1-link = W. Paul Reeve | last = Reeve | first = W. Paul | author2 = Utah History to Go! | title = Captain Richard W. Young and Spanish–American War | work = History Blazer | publisher = State of Utah | date = February 1995 | url = http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/statehood_and_the_progressive_era/captainrichardwyoungandspanish-americanwar.html | accessdate = August 25, 2009 | archive-date = September 10, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090910091651/http://www.historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/statehood_and_the_progressive_era/captainrichardwyoungandspanish-americanwar.html | url-status = dead }} paragraph 2</ref> |- | 75px | {{sortname|Steve|Young}} | Great-great-great-grandson | {{sortname|Emily Dow|Partridge|nolink=1}} | Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback,<ref>{{cite web |url = http://static.espn.go.com/nfl/profiles/profile/0128.html |title = Steve Young Profile |access-date =March 12, 2009 |date = September 27, 1999 |work = ESPN }}</ref> Super Bowl XXIX MVP, 2x NFL MVP (1992, 1994). |- | 75px | {{sortname|William H.|Young|William Hooper Young}} | Grandson | {{sortname|Mary Ann|Angell|nolink=1}} | In 1903, William was convicted of the "Pulitzer Murder" in New York City and was sentenced to life imprisonment.<ref>{{cite web | last = Tanner| first = Sandra |author2= Jerald Tanner | title = About Us | publisher = Utah Lighthouse Ministry | url = http://www.utlm.org/navaboutus.htm | accessdate =August 25, 2009}} paragraph 3</ref><ref>[http://thevirtualdimemuseum.blogspot.com/2008/05/pulitzer-murder-case.html "The Pulitzer Murder Case"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101020201830/http://thevirtualdimemuseum.blogspot.com/2008/05/pulitzer-murder-case.html |date=2010-10-20 }}, ''The Virtual Dime Museum'', 2008-05-29, accessed 2009-04-30 paragraph 5</ref> |}

==See also== * List of Brigham Young's wives

==References== {{Reflist|30em}}

==External links== * [http://archives.lib.byu.edu/repositories/14/resources/3718 Young Family Genealogy]. MSS SC 981; Young Family genealogy; 20th Century Western and Mormon Manuscripts; L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University. *[http://archives.lib.byu.edu/repositories/14/resources/4351 Brigham Young's Wives, Children, and Grandchildren]. MSS SC 1995; 20th Century Western and Mormon Manuscripts; L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.

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