Springville Herald | 1950-05-25 | Page 8 | Only Living Child of Brigham Young to Unveil Statue

Swho is himself a grandson of the Utah founder. Governor J. Bracken Brack-en Lee will present the statue to the government. The Brigham Young statue is the 40th to be placed in Statuary Hall, only one of which is a woman. wo-man. The provision for the unofficial unof-ficial "hall of fame" was made by an act of congress in 1864, which allows each state to place two statues in the hall. Brigham Young is Utah's first. Many states have yet to name their first candidate. The ceremony will take place at 2:30 p. m. on June 1, the 149th anniversary an-niversary of the birth of President Young. Only Living Child ' Of Brigham Young To Unveil Statue Brigham Young's only living ' child, Mrs. Mabel Young Sanborn, has been selected for the honor of unveiling her father's statue in the : rotunda of the national capitol in Washington, D. C, when the state of Utah presents the marble hero-I hero-I ic-sized sculpture to the U. S. government. Announcement of the selection of Mrs. Sanborn was made by i, Mrs. C. L. Jack, chairman of the j Brigham Young Monument eom-i eom-i mission, named by the Utah legis-; legis-; . lature to provide the marble piece of Utah's founder for placement in ! Statuary Hall at the national capitol, the nation's unofficial hall of fame. ' Mrs. Sanborn is the 54th of 56 i children sired by Utah's pioneer founder. She is the daughter of Brigham Young and Lucy Bigelow Young, and was born in the Lion House, Salt Lake City, on February Febru-ary 2, 1863, and has just passed her 87th birthday. Her mother's family came to Utah from Massachusetts. Massa-chusetts. Mrs. Sanborn will be accompanied accompan-ied to Washington by Mrs. Marba Cannon Josephson, of the staff of the Improvement Era. Assisting Mrs. Sanborn in unveiling un-veiling the statue will be Mahonri Young, the sculptor of the piece,