He instituted a ban prohibiting conferring the priesthood on men of black African descent, and led the church in the Utah War against the United States. One of the homes that Young helped paint in Auburn belonged to Elijah Miller and later to William Seward, and is now a local museum. Within months, Harris and the others departed their Utah appointments without replacements being named, and their posts remained unfilled for the next two years. TUHS neither provides nor controls the provision of health care. Young was involved in temple building throughout his membership in the LDS Church, making it a priority during his time as church president. In the early 1850s, he expressed some support for the antislavery "free soil" position in American politics,[165] and in January 1852, he declared in a speech that "no property can or should be recognized as existing in slaves", suggesting opposition to the existence of slavery. Address 350 22nd St. Ogden UT 84401-1487. [152] He is buried on the grounds of the Mormon Pioneer Memorial Monument in the heart of Salt Lake City. [73] By the time Young arrived at the final destination, it had come under American control as a result of war with Mexico, although U.S. sovereignty would not be confirmed until 1848. Jedediah M. Grant, one of the key figures of the Reformation and one of Young's counselors, traveled throughout the Territory preaching to Latter-day Saint communities and settlements with the goal of inspiring them to reject sin and turn towards spiritual things. Young did not learn of the assassination until early July. Arthur Conan Doyle based his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, on Mormon history, mentioning Young by name. [6] At age twelve, he moved with his parents to the township of Genoa, close to Cayuga Lake. [42] Young proposed marriage to Martha Brotherton, who was seventeen years old at the time and had recently immigrated from Manchester, England. In 1849, Young arranged for a printing press to be brought to the Salt Lake Valley, which was later used to print the Deseret News periodical. During the defense of Utah, now called the Utah War, Young held the U.S. Army at bay for a winter by taking their cattle and burning supply wagons. In the main navigation on ChurchofJesusChrist.org, select Serve and then Temples. [93] These individuals later became known as the Runaway Officials of 1851. Click the Appointments icon. In the Season 5 mid-season finale, "False Prophets", Young's son, Phineas, attempts to murder his father. John Lyon: the life of a pioneer poet. [143] Buchanan accepted the reports of the Runaway Officials without any further investigation, and the new non-sectarian governor was appointed and sent to the new territory accompanied by 2,500 soldiers. [131] Young taught that the day would come when black men would again have the priesthood, saying that after "all the other children of Adam have the privilege of receiving the Priesthood, and of coming into the kingdom of God, and of being redeemed from the four-quarters of the earth, and have received their resurrection from the dead, then it will be time enough to remove the curse from Cain and his posterity. [10] They first resided in a small house adjacent to a pail factory, which was Young's main place of employment at the time. [4], Young was born on June 1, 1801, in Whitingham, Vermont. [193], In another Death Valley Days episode in 1969, "Biscuits and Billy, the Kid", Michael Hinn (19131988) of the former Boots and Saddles western series was cast as Young. Young was played by Dean Jagger in the 1940 film Brigham Young. On October 26, 2009, Church officials announced that the Brigham City Utah Temple would be constructed on a downtown block on Main Street known as Central Square, located directly west of the Brigham City Tabernacle.4 Speculation of this location began shortly after the announcement of the temple when a sign was posted on the site indicating that sale of all seven commercial lots on the block were pending. (If you haven't already signed in with your Church account and password, it will then prompt you to do so.) [178] Thirty-one of his wives were not connubial and had exchanged eternity-only vows with him and he had children by sixteen of his wives. "[76], Upon being asked why he chose for them to settle in the Salt Lake Valley, Young stated: "We have been kicked out of the frying-pan into the fire, out of the fire into the middle of the floor, and here we are and here we will stay. After meeting Joseph Smith, Young joined the Church of Christ in April 9, 1832. Everything in the temple points us to Jesus Christ. [176], Of Young's fifty-six wives, twenty-one had never been married before; seventeen were widows; six were divorced; six had living husbands and the marital status of six others is unknown. [102] Young viewed education as a process of learning how to make the Kingdom of God a reality on earth, and at the core of his "philosophy of education" was the belief that the church had within itself all that was necessary to save mankind materially, spiritually, and intellectually. The seed of Canaan cannot hold any office, civil or ecclesiastical. Brigham City Utah Box Elder Stake. [26] His third child and first son, Joseph A. The prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints presided at the groundbreaking of the Ephraim Utah Temple on Saturday, August 27, 2022. The west faade will be detailed similarly to the east including a second spire. [168][169][170] There is also evidence to suggest Young believed in the racial superiority of white men. It later became known as the Young Ladies Mutual Improvement Association, and was a charter member of the National Council of Women and International Council of Women. The Provo City Center Temple is a stunning edifice in the center of the City of Provo. In the story line, the organ built and guided west to Salt Lake City by Joseph Harris Ridges (18271914) of Australia becomes mired in the sand. Lyon, T. Edgar (1989). Sidney Rigdon, the senior surviving member of the church's First Presidency, argued there could be no successor to the deceased prophet and that he should stay Joseph's "spokesman" and become guardian of the church. An estimated 5,000 members were endowed between December 10, 1845 and February 1846. The affidavit was created at John C. Bennett's request, after his excommunication and in conjunction with his distribution of false information combined with true information about the church's practice of polygamy. [33] He oversaw the finishing of the Kirtland temple and spoke in tongues at its dedication in 1836. The Brigham City Utah Temple will be the fourteenth temple built in Utah and the first built in Box Elder County. [19] In April 1832, a branch of the church was organized in Mendon; eight of the fifteen families were Youngs. According to William Hayden, Young participated in the Bucksville Forensic and Oratorical Society. Fielding Utah Stake. Please contact the temple for more information or if you have special circumstances or needs. Young's father, two brothers, and sister had already moved to Mendon before he did. This is due to differences in what scholars have considered to be a "wife". [67], Before departing Nauvoo, Young focused on completing the Nauvoo temple. [178] There were fifty-six women who Young was sealed to during his lifetime. By 1870, it had all but disappeared from use.[109]. [94], Young supported slavery and its expansion into Utah, and led the efforts to legalize and regulate slavery in the 1852 Act in Relation to Service, based on his beliefs on slavery. In his will, Young shared his estate with the sixteen surviving wives who had lived with him; the six surviving non-conjugal wives were not mentioned in the will. He encouraged independence and self-sufficiency. No clothing rental. "[97] Seven years later in 1859, Young stated in an interview with the New York Tribune[98] that he considered slavery a "divine institution not to be abolished". The Brigham City Utah Temple serves members from 13 stakes headquartered in Box Elder County and Malad Valley: Map View. [184][185][186], Brigham Young appears at the end of the bande dessine Le Fil qui chante, the last in the Lucky Luke series by Ren Goscinny. Since Young's death, a number of works have published collections of his discourses and sayings. This was partly experienced when Young traveled with his wife, Miriam, and Heber C. Kimball to visit the branch of the church in Columbia. [20] There, Young saw Alpheus Gifford speak in tongues, and in response Young also spoke in tongues. Young had a somewhat mixed view of slavery which historian John G. Turner called a "bundle of contradictions". The warm white temple, faced with precast concrete limestone, will point east toward the historic Brigham City Tabernacle with the top of the angel Moroni reaching several feet above the highest point of the tabernacle. As governor, Young had promised the federal government he would protect migrants passing through Utah Territory, but over 120 men, women and children were killed in this incident. If watching on your mobile device, be sure to select a higher quality resolution. He worked as a carpenter, glazier, and painter. For those LDS faithful who do wish to enter, you need to make an appointment. [195] He encounters Joseph Smith and attempts to ambush his party of Mormons, but, rather than engaging with "the Clitoris Man", Smith shows mercy, rubbing one of the frogs that God has given him to have sex with to cure his AIDS on Young's face, curing his AIDS, and so moving him that he decides to convert to the faith. President and Prophet Russell M. Nelson made this announcement Sunday in the final session of the October 2022 general conference. [65] Not all church members followed Young. History of Brigham Young, entry dated 5 Jan. 1852, in Church Historians Office Records Collection, LDSCA. On December 3, 2009, the City Council of Brigham City held a public hearing to receive input on a request by the Church to vacate both the plat that subdivides the temple site into lots and the associated easements. [37] He became the oldest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles when David Patten died after the Battle of Crooked River. [104] Young said, "I hope to see an Academy established in Provo at which the children of the Latter-day Saints can receive a good education unmixed with the pernicious atheistic influences that are found in so many of the higher schools of the country. Young also worked to establish the learning institutions which would later become the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. Please call 9-1-1, your physician or go to the closest emergency room for care and treatment. [82] Young named Heber C. Kimball as his first counselor and Willard Richards as his second. [89] Young organized the first Utah Territorial Legislature and established Fillmore as the territory's first capital.