Chapter VI.
Brigham Young at Home.
- His biography
- Birth and education
- Embraces Mormonism
- Meets Smith the Prophet
- Journey to Missouri
- Is ordained an Apostle
- Preaches
- Appointed President of the Apostles
- Flies for his life
- Re-lays foundation of Temple in Jackson county, Mo.
- Mission to England
- Returns to Nauvoo
- Brigham and Smith
- Brigham and Sidney Rigdon
- Builds up Nauvoo
- Conducts emigration
- Mormon Battalion
- Salt Lake City
- Brigham's leadership
- Appointed President of Church
- Quarrels with Judges and expels them
- Colonel Steptoe
- Modus operandi
- Should he die, fate of the Church
- Personal appearance
- In council and in pulpit
- Satellites to this planet
- His manners
- Style of oratory
- As a writer
- As a husband and father
- Domesticities
- His wives
- His favorite Women
- Courting the men
- Occupation and property
- Universal confidant and adviser
- Administrative blunders
- Secret of success.
Brigham Young, the President of the Mormon Church and Governor of Utah Territory, was born at Whittenham, Vermont, June 1, 1801, and is, consequently, now fifty-six years of age. His father was a farmer, and had been a soldier of the Revolution. The whole family moved to the State of New York in 1802. Brigham's youth was occupied by the ordinary pursuits of a farmer's son; familiarized with tools and accustomed to hard work.
In the year 1832, being then thirty-one years old, he heard
