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Show j party continued westward, Brig-tiam Brig-tiam Jr. driving two yoke of oxen. At the April conference in 1 861, he was called to act as a member of the High council of the Salt Lake Stake. He went on his first mission to England in i I6t, returning home at the re-; re-; quest of his father in 1863. Brig-:ham Brig-:ham Young Jr. was ordained an Apostle by his father on ' Feb. 4, 1 1864, but he did not become a member of the Council of the Apostles until October, 186S, when he was selected to fill the vacancy caured by the selection -( of George A. Smith as a counse-I counse-I lor to the president. He went to I England on another mission in 1865 and became president ol I that mission . J He ca.ne' to Utah on a visit in jSeptember, 1865, at the request of President Young and returned to Liverpool in March, 1867, resuming re-suming the presidency of the mission. Upon the death of Apostle I Benson, Apostle Young svas selected sel-ected to take charge of Church! affairs in Cache valley and he presided there until 1877 when the Cache Stake was organized . For refusing to deliver into the hands of Receiver .W. S. Mc-Cornick Mc-Cornick certain church property on July I2, 1879, Apostle Young was adjudged guilty of contempt of court by Judge Boreman of the Third district court and arrested in connection with several others. He was placed in the Utah peni- tentiary but was released on Aug. 28, 1879, a higher court having reversed the former decision.) Apostle Young-went to Arizona j in 1 88 1, returning to Salt Lake ia June, 1S82, jest previous to his A-l'SEFJjL CARiER. " I . ' HLhs death of Apostle Brigham &ig removes from the midst of ' Seople of Utah one of their ssiEt'aoti-d, most useful andtnost TEsra?ected citizens. He was born rss. Klirtland, Geauga (now Lake) OMtJsty, Ohio, on Dec. 18, 1836. 32Si? was the son of President - ScIEarn -Young and Mary Ann .Ltirgf-ll) Young, who were mar-scia.i mar-scia.i Kirtland, in 1833. The -isSi.cie Apostle was the third child Ssra4o his parents and was also -ctessria, his sister, Mary, having! mother's death. He sei ved several sev-eral terms in the Utah Legisla- j tureand visited. , the east in the! interest of the Church on several occasions. Apostle Ypsng spent . much time in traveling in Utah and the surrounding states, visit-! ing the various states of the Church during the pst few years. ' He was known widely to be a good and an upright man with 1 the interests of the Church at1 heart. j He was a member of the coun-j cil of the Twelve Apostles since j 1 1868 and a president of that lead- ing quorum of the Church of Jesus Christ" of Latter-day Saints since the death of Fraklin D Richards about, three years ago . j At the funeral service in Silt; Lake Wednesday, glowing trib-1 utes to the great life work of the j deceased were voiced by Pre'si- i dents Joseph F. Smith, John R. ! Winder and A. H. Lend, Apos-i ties John Henry Smith and John j W. Taylor, and Elder Seymour j B. Young. All spoke of the up. right life ' of the- deceased, his faithfulness to the Gopel . he had j .. s&s when she ad Brigham Jr. . r-tfl;- 7 years old. The family 3fErsi3 to Qaincy and from there Comntice, again moving in soon after Preside nt Your.g, Cfif.a one of the Twelve, had ssSKted lor England, to Montrose, etbss the river. Tie following year the family ?3i4S4 to NauYoo and in 1845 &&xm Jr. was baptized in the 325sissippi river by his father. Tkeyoung boy, who was describ-sst describ-sst faein merry, kind-hearted sral coarageous, was perfectly I espoused and his earnest devot-j devot-j ion thereto. Sjsi3Sed to his father and to the Stecfliet Joseph Smith, and young 35 fee was. felt deeply the death af 5ie leader. However, with his sfaitcr's accession to the presiden-eqf presiden-eqf same rork in abundance. The JSScfck. westward kad begun and ?fe:Swy Brigham, thea 10 years ' jgd,Fas left b;hind. He soon "-yrcitook the Saints under the' 'Zfc.rsction of his father and pro-uaejjed pro-uaejjed T.-Ith them to Winter ters, Nebraska. After a stay re ur.til t e spring of 1848 the |