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Brigham Young Estate Conveys Lots in Salt Lake City to One of His Daughters
Brigham Young Estate Conveys Lots in Salt Lake City to One of His Daughters
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Brigham Young Estate Conveys Lots in Salt Lake City to One of His Daughters

This deed conveys all or part of six lots in Salt Lake City from George Q. Cannon, Brigham Young Jr., and Albert Carrington, the executors of Brigham Young's will, to his daughter Evelyn L. Young Davis.

[BRIGHAM YOUNG.] George Q. Cannon, Brigham Young Jr., and Albert Carrington, Partially Printed Document Signed, Deed to Evelyn L. Young Davis, June 21, 1878, Salt Lake City, Utah. 3 pp., 8.5" x 14". Witnessed by H. Webber and W. A. Rossiter. With foil seals for Brigham Young Jr.'s and Albert Carrington's signatures, and foil and embossed seal for Notary Public James Jack's signature. Light soiling and wear; separated on center folds; small tears on other folds; very good.

Brigham Young (1801-1877) was born in Vermont and moved with his family to New York as a child. He married Miriam Works in 1824, with whom he had two daughters. He worked as a carpenter in several towns in upstate New York. He was first introduced to the Book of Mormon in 1830 shortly after its publication. After meeting Joseph Smith, he joined the Mormon faith in 1832. After his first wife died in 1833, he married Mary Ann Angell in 1834. He became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1835 and its president in 1841. After evangelizing in various areas, he settled in Missouri and then Illinois in 1838. After Joseph Smith introduced the doctrine of plural marriage, Young married Lucy Ann Decker in 1842 as his first plural wife. Joseph Smith was killed by an armed mob in June 1844. After a period of uncertainty, Young succeeded Smith as the leader of the church in December 1847, and continued to lead it until his death 29 years later. In 1846-1847, Young led the Latter-Day Saints to relocate to Salt Lake Valley, which was then part of Mexico. They arrived on July 24, 1847. He named the city "The City of the Great Salt Lake" and organized it into blocks of ten acres, each divided into eight equal lots. After Congress organized the Utah Territory, President Millard Fillmore appointed Young as the territory's first governor. As territorial governor, the University of Deseret in 1850, which became the University of Utah, and introduced the first printing press in Salt Lake City, which was used to print the Deseret News. He supported slavery and its expansion into Utah. In 1875, he deeded buildings and land in Provo for an academy that was to be part of the University of Deseret, but it broke away and became Brigham Young Academy in 1876, the precursor to Brigham Young University. As a polygamist, Young had at least fifty-six wives and had fifty-seven children with sixteen of his wives.

George Q. Cannon (1827-1901) was born in England and baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1840. His family immigrated to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1842. Cannon became an early member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and served in the First Presidency. He was the church's chief political strategist and served as the territorial delegate to Congress from Utah for five terms (1872-1882).

Brigham Young Jr. (1836-1903) was born in Kirtland, Ohio, to Brigham Young and Mary Ann Angell. At age 12, he drove an oxcart on the Mormon Trail and reached Salt Lake City in 1848. In 1855, he married Catherine Curtis Spencer. He practiced plural marriage and married hi second wife in 1857, and eventually had five wives. He served in the reconstituted Nauvoo Legion and served in the Utah War in resistance to U.S. troops. His father ordained him as an apostle in 1864. Four year later, he became a part of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He served as a missionary of the church in Europe for much of the 1860s. He served as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles twice between 1889 and 1903.

Albert Carrington (1813-1889) was born in Vermont and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1833. He taught school and studied law in Pennsylvania before joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1841. He moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1844, and then to Salt Lake City. He served as editor of the Deseret News from 1854 to 1856 and 1862 to 1867. He served as Brigham Young's personal secretary for more than twenty years and became an apostle and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1870. He was excommunicated from the church in 1885 for extramarital sexual relationships. He was rebaptized into the church in 1887.

Evelyn Louisa Young Davis (1850-1917) (sometimes spelled "Eveline") was the first child and only daughter of Brigham Young and his twenty-second wife Margaret Maria Alley Young (1825-1852). Evelyn Young married Milton Herbert Davis (1846-1890) in 1871, and they had at least two children between 1872 and 1874. She was one of the "Big Ten," a designation Young gave to his ten oldest daughters. She was in the sixteenth class of her father's will.

James Jack (1829-1911) was born in Scotland and was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1851. Two years later, he married Jemima Innes, with whom he had eight children, and immigrated to the United States. He served as a notary public, treasurer of the Utah Territory for twenty years (1870-1890), and chief clerk and treasurer of the Church for forty-eight years (1861-1909).

This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.

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