Temple Health refers to the health, education and research activities carried out by the affiliates of Temple University Health System (TUHS) and by the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. A century after Young's death, historian Rodman W. Paul wrote,[162]. He founded Salt Lake City and served as the first governor of the Utah Territory. This form is secure and our Access Center specialist will call you back within one business day to schedule your appointment. [93] These individuals later became known as the Runaway Officials of 1851. [152] He is buried on the grounds of the Mormon Pioneer Memorial Monument in the heart of Salt Lake City. After bearing mortal children and establishing the human race, Adam and Eve returned to their heavenly thrones where Adam acts as the god of this world. ", invoking the name of the late Joseph Smith Jr, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. [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. [147] Young's letter reportedly arrived on September 13, 1857, two days after the massacre. The gold-leafed statue of the angel Moroni was hoisted and secured into place atop the Brigham City Utah Temple on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, from about 1:40 to 2:30 p.m. While there, Young's father remarried to a widow named Hannah Brown, and sent Young off to learn a trade. Part of the new Business Intelligence/Data Analytics Team. Within months, Harris and the others departed their Utah appointments without replacements being named, and their posts remained unfilled for the next two years. Prayer Roll Click here to submit names. [80] Young's expedition was one of the largest and one of the best organized westward treks, and he made various trips back and forth between the Salt Lake Valley and Winter Quarters to assist other companies in their journeys. [87] During his time as governor, Young directed the establishment of settlements throughout present-day Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Nevada, California and parts of southern Colorado and northern Mexico. Young organized the journey that would take the Mormon pioneers to Winter Quarters, Nebraska, in 1846, before continuing on to the Salt Lake Valley. The LDS Church's Doctrine and Covenants contains one section from Young that has been canonized as scripture, added in 1876. He averred that Chinese and Japanese immigrants would need to be governed by white men as they would have no understanding of government. kmeznx. Fencing will be installed around the temple grounds themselves but not around the surrounding parking lot. 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. Some Latter Day Saint denominations, such as the Community of Christ, consider Young the "Father of Mormon Polygamy". Young was played by Dean Jagger in the 1940 film Brigham Young. If you accept, you may be prompted by your browser to allow this. During his time as church president, Young led his followers, the Mormon pioneers, west from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Salt Lake Valley. Monday, 27 February 2023 - Monday, 13 March 2023, Monday, 7 August 2023 - Monday, 21 August 2023, Friday, 8 September 2023 (Limited Operations), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 (Limited Operations), Saturday, 30 December 2023 (Limited Operations). [11] Their daughter, Elizabeth, was born on September 26, 1825. The status of four was unknown. They were from Arkansas." Young's leadership style has been viewed as autocratic. [13] Young worked as a carpenter and joiner, and built and operated a saw mill. [148], Before his death in Salt Lake City on August 29, 1877,[149] Young was suffering from cholera morbus and inflammation of the bowels. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), from 1847 until his death in 1877. 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. Young was also one of the first to subscribe to Union Pacific stock, for the construction of the First transcontinental railroad. [35][27] In August 1837, Young went on another mission to the eastern states. Appointments Address 250 S Main St Brigham City UT 84302-2560 United States Telephone (1) 435-695-2170 Email Log in to send email to temple Prayer Roll Click here to submit names Services No clothing rental available No cafeteria available. Later, after taking up the mantle of Mormon leader following Smith's death from dysentery, Young is among those visited by Jesus and told to have as much sex as they possibly can, to ensure the propagation of the Mormon faith.[195]. [19] In April 1832, a branch of the church was organized in Mendon; eight of the fifteen families were Youngs. . should serve the seed of Abraham; he should not be a ruler, nor vote for men to rule over me nor my brethren. ChurchofJesusChristTemples.org shares construction news, photographs, maps, and interesting facts about the temples of the restored Church of Jesus Christ. In the 1995 film The Avenging Angel, the role of Young was played by Charlton Heston. [130], Throughout his time as prophet, Young went to great lengths to deny the assumption that he was the author of the practice of priesthood denial to black men, asserting instead that the Lord was. Central Elementary School once stood on the site, but it was razed several years ago in a downtown redevelopment effort. Here he became acquainted with Mary Ann Angell, a convert to the faith from Rhode Island, and the two were married in February 1834 and obtained a marriage certificate on March 31, 1834. Everything in the temple points us to Jesus Christ. Young established a gold mint in 1849 and called for the minting of coins using gold dust which had been accumulated from travelers during the Gold Rush. "[77], Among Young's first acts upon arriving in the valley were the naming of the city as "The City of the Great Salt Lake" and its organization into blocks of ten acres, each divided into eight equal-sized lots. By 1870, it had all but disappeared from use.[109]. He also led the Anointed Quorum. The decree of God that Canaan should be a servant of servants unto his brethren (i.e., Shem and Japhet [sic]) is in full force. At the north end of the Beehive House was a family store, at which Young's wives and children had running accounts and could buy what they needed. The Compromise of 1850 instead carved out Utah Territory and Young was appointed governor. [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. Instead, this able, energetic, earthy man became the absolute ruler and the revered, genuinely loved father figure of all Mormons everywhere. The Brigham City Utah Temple won the PCI Design Award for Best Religious Structure in 2014. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will build 18 new houses of the Lord in the coming months and years. [78] On August 7, Brigham suggested that the members of the camp be re-baptized to signify a re-dedication to their beliefs and covenants. Young is the longest-serving president of the LDS Church to date, having served for 29 years. While the majority of the sealings were "for eternity", some were "for time only," meaning that Young was sealed to these women as a proxy for their previous husbands who had passed away. If watching on your mobile device, be sure to select a higher quality resolution. PCI stands for the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute. "[105] The school broke off from the University of Deseret and became Brigham Young Academy in 1876 under the leadership of Karl G. Maeser,[105] and was the precursor to Brigham Young University. "[9], Young married Miriam Angeline Works, whom he had met in Port Byron in October 1824. For those who are interested, we have scheduled a couple of sealing appointments at the Brigham City Utah Temple, and have some available seats. All rights reserved. [171] Young also predicted a future in which Chinese and Japanese people would immigrate to America. 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. Please contact the temple for more information or if you have special circumstances or needs. [179] In 1865, Karl Maeser began to privately tutor Young's fifty-six children and stopped when he was called on a mission to Germany in 1867. He refused to sign a temperance pledge, however, stating that "if I sign the temperance pledge I feel that I am bound, and I wish to do just right, without being bound to do it; I want my liberty. Brigham City Utah North Stake. Please contact the temple for more information or if you have special circumstances or needs. Memorials to Young include a bronze statue in front of the Abraham O. Smoot Administration Building, Brigham Young University; a marble statue in the National Statuary Hall Collection at the United States Capitol, donated by the State of Utah in 1950;[163] and a statue atop the This is the Place Monument in Salt Lake City. 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. 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. Only children under the age of seven, who were cared for by local Mormon families, survived, and the murdered members of the wagon train were left unburied. . :200 When Young received word in July that federal troops were headed to Utah with his replacement, he called out his militia to ambush the federal force using delaying tactics. Virtual visits with a Temple specialist are effective, safe and convenient. They described the Book of Mormon as the "stick of Joseph" mentioned in Ezekiel 37. Just four days after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, Young designated the location for the Salt Lake Temple; he presided over its groundbreaking years later on April 6, 1853. Appointments. According to Young, he was taught by Smith that Adam is "our Father and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do". [140] The Reformation appeared to have ended completely by early 1858. There's no visitors center, and the grounds are limited so there's not much to do if you're just passing through. The Brigham City Utah Temple District covers the same region as the original Box Elder Stake. By submitting this form, you are agreeing to our Terms of Use. Joseph! These wives bore him children after they moved to Utah. "[156], At the time of his death, Young was the wealthiest man in Utah, with an estimated personal fortune of $600,000 (equivalent to $15,300,000 in 2021).[154]. Young negotiated with Stephen A. Douglas and agreed to lead church members out of Nauvoo in the spring in exchange for peace. A key element of the teachings of this group in Young's eyes was their practicing of spiritual gifts like speaking in tongues and prophecy. [16] In 1831, five missionaries of the Latter Day Saint movementEleazer Miller, Elial Strong, Alpheus Gifford, Enos Curtis, and Daniel Bowencame from the branch of the church in Columbia, Pennsylvania to preach in Mendon. 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. After the exterior was completed on December 10, 1845, members received their temple endowments day and night, and Young officiated many of these sessions. Historians have come to different conclusions on whether contemporary records support this "transfiguration of Brigham Young" (also sometimes called the "mantle phenomenon") as an authentic experience, whatever its causation. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints News Release, "Five New Temples Announced," 3 Oct. 2009. . [160][161] Young was dubbed by his followers the "Lion of the Lord" for his bold personality and commonly was called "Brother Brigham" by Latter-day Saints. Brigham Young and William Smith discredited Brotherton's character, and Brotherton herself did not associate with the church afterwards. Shortly after World War II, a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps wrote a book called Man's Search for Meaning. For a view skeptical of the "mantle phenomenon" as historically authentic, see. Florence Claxton's graphic novel, The Adventures of a Woman in Search of Her Rights (1872), satirizes a would-be emancipated woman whose failure to establish an independent career results in her marriage to Young before she wakes to discover she's been dreaming. They converted to the church, including his cousin Willard Richards. [68] With the repealing of Nauvoo's charter in January 1845, church members in Nauvoo lost their courts, police, and militia, leaving them vulnerable to attacks by mobs. TUHS neither provides nor controls the provision of health care. Brigham City Utah Stake. Appointments Address 250 S Main St Brigham City UT 84302-2560 United States Telephone (1) 435-695-2170 Email Log in to send email to temple Prayer Roll Click here to submit names Services No clothing rental available No cafeteria available. [99], In 1856, Young organized an efficient mail service known as the Brigham Young Express and Carrying Company, which transported mail and passengers between Missouri and California. [154], Young was also involved in the organization of the Salt Lake Gas Works, the Salt Lake Water Works, an insurance company, a bank, and the ZCMI store in downtown Salt Lake City. [137] At a church meeting on September 21, 1856, Brigham Young stated: We need a reformation in the midst of this people; we need a thorough reform.[138] Large gatherings and meetings during this period were conducted by Young and Grant, and Young played a key role in the circulation of the Mormon Reformation with his emphasis on plural marriage, rebaptism, and passionate preaching and oration. [51] While in Nauvoo, he married Clarissa Decker, Clarissa Ross, Emily Dow Partidge, Louisa Beaman, Margaret Maria Alley, Emmeline Free, Margaret Piece, and Zina Diantha Huntington. But you can certainly stop an walk around the building and grounds. [113] In 1853, Young made the church's first official statement on the subject since the church had arrived in Utah. He credited Young's leadership with helping to settle much of the American West:[162]. With the onset of the Panic of 1819, Jeffries dismissed Young from his apprenticeship and Young moved to Port Byron, which was then called Bucksville. "[177] By the time of his death, Young had fifty-seven children by sixteen of his wives; forty-six of his children reached adulthood. [23] Young continued to preach in eastern Canada in the spring, and accompanied two Canadian converts to Kirtland in July 1833. After meeting Joseph Smith, Young joined the Church of Christ in April 9, 1832. This colored race have been subjected to severe curses which they have brought upon themselves. [6] At age twelve, he moved with his parents to the township of Genoa, close to Cayuga Lake. United States. [42] Young and the other apostles directed the church's missionary work and the immigration of new converts from this point forward. Young performed the sealing ordinances for two of Joseph Smith's plural wives in early 1842. The west faade will be detailed similarly to the east including a second spire. He also married in Nauvoo, but did not have children with: Augusta Adams Cobb, Susannah Snively, Eliza Bowker, Ellen A. Rockwood, and Namah K. J. He also authorized the construction of the Utah Central railroad line, which connected Salt Lake City to the Union Pacific transcontinental railroad. Weather conditions delayed the planned 12:00 noon raising. Each TUHS member organization is owned and operated pursuant to its governing documents. . [10] They first resided in a small house adjacent to a pail factory, which was Young's main place of employment at the time. Sign up to receive COVID-19 updates from Temple Health, including latest treatments, clinical trials, vaccine, booster shots, health tips and FAQs. Young acknowledged that the doctrine was challenging for many women, but stated its necessity for creating large families, proclaiming: "But the first wife will say, 'It is hard, for I have lived with my husband twenty years, or thirty, and have raised a family of children for him, and it is a great trial to me for him to have more women;' then I say it is time that you gave him up to other women who will bear children. Many cities and towns in Utah, and some in neighboring states, were founded under Young's direction. Young did not immediately accept the divine claims of the Book of Mormon. Young claimed access to revelation to know God's choice of successor because of his position as an apostle. [38] When Joseph Smith arrived in Far West, he appointed Young, along with Thomas Marsh and David Patten, as "presidency pro tem" in Missouri. [107] The Young Women organization was first called the Retrenchment Association, and was intended to promote the turning of young girls away from the costly and extravagant ways of the world. [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. A large slab of granite was put up on which he had the following words engraved: "Here 120 men, women and children were massacred in cold blood early in September, 1857. An estimated 5,000 members were endowed between December 10, 1845 and February 1846. 1. "[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". Young and his two daughters moved to Kirtland along with the Kimball family later that summer. [33] He oversaw the finishing of the Kirtland temple and spoke in tongues at its dedication in 1836. He also tried to promote Mormon self-sufficiency by establishing collectivist communities, known as the United Order of Enoch. 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John Turner's biography states: "it remains unclear whether Young [] had sanctioned the bogus-making operation. 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. He also provisioned the building of the Endowment House, a "temporary temple" which began to be used in 1855 to provide temple ordinances to church members while the Salt Lake Temple was under construction. During time as prophet and governor, Young encouraged each bishop to establish a grade school for his congregation, which would be supported by volunteer work and tithing payments. Ideas to prepare your child for temple baptisms and confirmations. [12] In 1828, the family moved briefly to Oswego, New York on the shore of Lake Ontario, and in 1828 to Mendon, New York. Young's father, two brothers, and sister had already moved to Mendon before he did. [26] His third child and first son, Joseph A. "[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. Feb 2015 - Sep 20183 years 8 months. Arthur Conan Doyle based his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, on Mormon history, mentioning Young by name. "[128] In 1863, Young stated: "Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? No clothing rental. Young stated that upon being taught about plural marriage by Joseph Smith: "It was the first time in my life that I desired the grave. Young had many nicknames during his lifetime, among the most popular being "American Moses"[157] (alternatively, "Modern Moses" or "Mormon Moses"),[158][159] because, like the biblical figure, Young led his followers, the Mormon pioneers, in an exodus through a desert, to what they saw as a promised land. There is no debate concerning the involvement of individual Mormons from the surrounding communities by scholars. [155] In 1873, he announced that he would step down as president of the Deseret National Bank and of ZCMI, as well as from his role as trustee-in-trust for the church. [11] Young converted to the Reformed Methodist Church in 1824 after studying the Bible. [39], Under Young's direction, the quorum organized the exodus of Latter Day Saints from Missouri to Illinois in 1838. "[190], Mark Twain devoted a chapter and much of two appendices to Young in Roughing It. [44], During his time in Nauvoo, Joseph Smith introduced the doctrine of plural marriage among church leaders.

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