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Brigham Young
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American religious leader (1801–1877)
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Brigham Young (1801–1877) was an American theologian, carpenter, prophet, and politician. Born in Whitingham, he was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and spoke English. His siblings included Joseph Young, and his children included Susa Young Gates and Zina P. Young Card. He was married to Eliza Roxcy Snow and Ann Eliza Young.
Young died in Salt Lake City from peritonitis. He is the author of works such as *The resurrection*, *Discourses of master minds*, and *Brigham Young's will*. Other publications include *A collection of sacred hymns, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in Europe* and *Discourses of Brigham Young, second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1801
- Died
- 1877
- Works
- 95
Top works
- Discourses delivered by presidents Joseph Smith and Brigham Young on the relation of the "Mormons" to the government of the United States
- The resurrection
- Discourses of master minds
- [Pamphlets describing items in the Library's Special Collections]
- Brigham Young's will
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1945-11-12
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 7
- Total plays
- 16
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,494x
- CBAM: Convolutional Block Attention Module
· 2018 · cited 18,179x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,894x
- UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age
· 2015 · cited 12,398x
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Quotes
- “Some of these my brethren know what my feelings were at the time Joseph revealed the doctrine; I was not desirous of shrinking from any duty, nor of failing in the least to do as I was commanded, but it was the first time in my life that I had desired the grave, and I could hardly get over it for a long time. And when I saw a funeral, I felt to envy the corpse its situation, and to regret that I was not in the coffin...”
- “I would rather that this people should starve to death in the mountains, than to have the Lord Almighty hand us over to a cursed, infernal mob. I would rather go down to the grave in peace than to fight a mob, unless the Lord would give me enough Saints to fight and kill the poor devils; in such case I wish to live and fight them. But I never want to see a mob again drive and tread under foot the Saints.”
- “The worst fear that I have about this people is that they will get rich in this country, forget God and his people, wax fat, and kick themselves out of the Church and go to hell. This people will stand mobbing, robbing, poverty and all manner of persecution, and be true. My greater fear for them is that they cannot stand wealth; and yet they have to be tried with riches, for they will become the richest people on this earth.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Young
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Whitingham
- Place of death
- Salt Lake City
- Occupation
- politician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Latter Day Saints
- Field of work
- colonization
- Image
- Brigham Young by Charles William Carter.jpg
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- Commons category
- Brigham Young
- date of birth
- 1801-06-01
- date of death
- 1877-08-29
- topic's main category
- Category:Brigham Young
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- Commons gallery
- Brigham Young
- name in native language
- Brigham Young
- cause of death
- peritonitis
- writing language
- English language
- facial hair
- chin curtain
- floruit
- 1863-01-01
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Brigham Young (/ˈbrɪɡəm/ BRIG-əm; June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877) was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847 until his death in 1877. He also served as the first governor of the Utah Territory from 1851 until his resignation in 1858.
Young was born in 1801 in Whitingham, Vermont and raised in Upstate New York. After working as a painter and carpenter, he became a full-time LDS Church leader in 1835. Following a short period of service as a missionary, he moved to Missouri in 1838. Later that year, Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs signed the Mormon Extermination Order, and Young organized the migration of the Latter Day Saints from Missouri to Illinois, where he became an inaugural member of the Council of Fifty. In 1844, while he was traveling to gain support for Joseph Smith's presidential campaign, Smith was killed by a mob, igniting the Illinois Mormon War and triggering a succession crisis in the Latter Day Saint movement. After negotiating a ceasefire, Young was unanimously elected as the church's second president in 1847. During the Mormon exodus, Young led his followers west from Nauvoo, Illinois, via the Mormon Trail to the Salt Lake Valley. Once settled in Utah, he ordered the construction of numerous temples, including the Salt Lake Temple. He also formalized the prohibition of black men attaining priesthood and directed the Mormon Reformation. A supporter of education, Young worked to establish the learning institutions that would later become the University of Utah and Brigham Young University.
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