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Young, Brigham

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  1. A nineteenth-century American religious leader. Young guided the Mormons after the death of their founder, Joseph Smith, and brought them to Utah, where they settled.


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On one occasion," says Heber, "Father John Young, Brigham Young, Joseph Young and myself had come together to get up some wood for Phineas H. Young.

From Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Whitney, Orson F.

Workmen's compensation, 549 Writs of assistance, 88 Wyoming, admission, 442 X, Y, Z affair, 180 Yale, 44 Young, Brigham, 290 Zenger, Peter, 48 Printed in the United States of America.

From History of the United States by Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin)

Young, Brigham: Utah, 264, 268; on preëxistence, 391.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Young, Brigham, his doctrine, 19; his mother-in-law—how many?

From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John