Brigham Young
1801 to 1877

American religious leader; president of the Mormon church from 1847 to 1877 and first governor of Utah Territory.
Appears in
Improvement Era
1 article
Journal of Discourses
200 discourses
- Salvation
- Recreation, and the Proper Use of It
- Knowledge of the Doctrine of Christ—The Religions of Men, and the Religion of God—Joseph Smith—Persecutions, Etc.
- Self-Government—Mysteries—Recreation and Amusements, Not in Themselves Sinful—Tithing—Adam, Our Father and Our God
- Education
- Confidence—Advice to Emigrants—Danger in Prosperity
- Joseph, a True Prophet—Apostates—Dream, Etc.
- March of “Mormonism”—The Power of God and the Wisdom of Man—Good and Evil Influences—The Law of Increase
- President B. Young's Journey South—Indian Difficulties—Walker—Watching and Prayer—Thieves and Their Deserts—Eastern Intelligence—Financial State of the Church—Gaining Knowledge, Etc.
- Duties and Privileges—Sacrifice—Confidence—Language—Organization and Disorganization—Taking Wives
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Portrait: photograph, Charles William Carter (1832-1918); print from the Harvard Art Museums (Fogg Museum), between 1866 and 1877. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Public domain: photograph by Charles W. Carter, who died in 1918, taken between 1866 and 1877 (before the subject's death in 1877); Wikimedia Commons licence: Public domain; PD-old-100-expired.