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Show APOSTLE BRIGH AM YOUNG DEAD. Was President of the Quorum of Apostles of the Mormon Church. Apostlo IlriKlinm Young. pn-ient of the quorum of twelve, son of the fnmoua leader of the Mormon church and next In line of succonion to I'roi blent Joseph V. Hmlih for Hint p: I-Hon. I-Hon. died at his home In Still I nke City at 10:4D p. m. Hntindny Dcnth. which ensued after an Illness of over a year's durstlon. waa due primarily to cirrhosis of Iho liver. This led lo dropsy, and hie condition was madn still worse by a recent attack of bronchitis. bron-chitis. llrlghsm Young, a member of tho council of twelve apoatlce aince and president of that body since tho death of Franklin D. Richards, waa tho son of President Ilrlgham Young and Mary Ann Angell. He was born December 18, 18.16. at Klrtlnnd, O. Ilia father. In 18.13, was a widower Vlth two llttlo girls, and hn married Mary Ann Angel as a result of a fust meeting meet-ing In Klrtland, during which it waa revealed to tho elder Ilrlgham that aho was designed for him. Ilrlgham, Jr., was the third child of this marriage, and he was born amid all Iho untoward unto-ward clrcumatancoa of the early days In tho church. Ho wss a twin, but his twin sister, Mary, died at tho age of 7. Apostlo Young's eldest recollection was a scone of thn painful moving and mobblngs of bis peoplo In the Missouri-Illinois days. In 18.19 the family fam-ily moved to Montrose, which wss across tho rlvor from Nauvoo, whom Ilrlgham Young was baptized by his father In Ihu Mississippi river In 1145. He underwent, as a small boy, the suffering suf-fering accompanying Iho removal of Iho Saints to Winter Quarters, and the trip across tho plnins to the Suit I.ako valley. On November 5, 1H.1S, when 19 year of agn, ha was married to Catherine Curtis Spencer, and about sixteen months Inter ho yielded obedi ence to tho principle of plural mar- Irlngo by mnrrylng Jnno Cnrringion. Hla eniiy I'pya in Ihe vnlle-( wero I fraught wllh tunny hardships, ho having hav-ing served as a scout during the Kcho canyon war. while out roronnoiterlng in Iho mountains auflerltig great hnrd ahlpa. Hn was also ono of Iho relief party sent bnck to meet a hnndcart compnny of emigrants, on which trip hn wan attacked by Inflammatory rheumatism. In April. 18111, ho was ordnlned a member of tho high council or the Snlt I ake stake, and In thn spring or 18112 ho accompsnled Delesato llernhlsnl to the states. After arriving In Now York ho rocelevd a letter from Ills father, catling him nn a mission, and complying comply-ing with this call ho anlled for Kurono and arrived at I Ivornool July 20, I81.2. Ho labored prlnrlnnlly In 1 ondon, but visited Bcnndlnnvia and other narta of Kuropo, returning home In isf.3. Ho was erdnined an apostle by his fnlher, HrlKliam Young, en Feb. 4, 1ki;4. but hn rid not hocon-e a member of the twelvn ao-osilns ruorum until October, 1W.H, when ho was chosen lo fill a varnncv caused bv tho se'ortion of Oonrpo A. Smith as a counselor In thn first prnsldencv. In 18G4 Anestlo Young wbs rnl'ed on arothor mission to tVe-it Itrlialn for the mirnose of as-dating President Daniel II. Wells In the presidency of Iho Kiirenenn mission. Hho-ilv after hla arrival there he ancceod"d President Presi-dent Wella as president of tho European Euro-pean mission. During his atny Iho'e he travels I extensively, nnd In IRIS received a renimst from his fnllier to return lo 1'tnh for a visit and sailed for heme. After a fev months at home, Anoatlo Young returned to Fnvlnnd and reeumed chnren of thn mission, hut he remained thorn on'y a ahort while, salllnr flnsl'v for homo with his fntnllv. For a tlmn ho had charge of the affaire of the church In Cache stake. Iln wns Ihe-e until f-n ronrgsn-Ir.nllon ronrgsn-Ir.nllon of that slako In 17. At the general confnreprn in 1H73 ho was chosen as one of Ibo ftvn counselors lo llrichsm Yrnng "d acted In that capacity until his father died. Anostln Youpe snrved several tnrms In thn Vtnh lnMnfnro. made a number num-ber of trtna east In Iho Inloreat of the church, and ocennted nurnn'-mia nnsl-tlopa nnsl-tlopa of honor and fmat. Of into venra he haa traveled nMonnlvnly In Utah, Arizona. New Mexico. Colorado and old Mexico. vlsttlr tho various stakes of thn church. WMin visiting the Yauul Indians In Mnxlco In 1883 ho was attacked by vn'lnw fever and was si the point or death. From IKifl to 1813 ho wns n-nln in charvn or Iho Kuronenn m'slon. ami slnen then, until un-til hla long Ill-ess. hn hs traveled between be-tween thn various sinkcs of Zlon In tho Interest of bis faith. |