1801 - 1877 Editor of "" in Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. l6th ed. Brigham Young (1801-1877) was a Mormon ecclesiastical leader and politician in Utah. |b Brigham Young was born on June 1, 1801 in Witingham, Vermont. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1832, and moved to Kirtland, Ohio. He followed the migration of the church from Ohio to Missouri to Nauvoo, Illinois. In February 1846 he led the Mormon exodus to the West, and was sustained as the second president of the Church on December 27, 1847. Arriving in Utah he settled in Salt Lake City, and in 1849 was appointed as governor of Utah Territory. Young passed away on August 29, 1877 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Brigham Young