Brigham Young Superb Signed Doc. Sells Lot in Beloved Salt Lake City to One of His Daughters. Bold Huge Signature

This deed conveys a lot in Salt Lake City containing 100 square rods (five-eighths of an acre) from Brigham Young and his wife Mary Ann Young to his daughter Evelyn L. Young Davis for $5,000.

BRIGHAM YOUNG and Mary Ann Young, Partially Printed Document Signed, Deed to Evelyn L. Young Davis, July 29, 1873, Salt Lake City, Utah. 2 pp., 8.5" x 14". Witnessed by D. M'Kenzie and Joseph P. Lowry. With foil seal for Brigham Young's and Mary Ann Young's signatures, and foil and embossed seal for Notary Public James Jack. Light soiling and wear; 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.

Mary Ann Angell Young (1803-1882) was born in New York and moved with her family to Rhode Island while young. She was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1832 and moved to Kirtland, Ohio. There, she met and married widower Brigham Young in 1834. She raised his two children from his previous marriage, and they had six children, including Brigham Young Jr. Beginning in 1842, she consented to her husband's plural marriages to additional women.

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).

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