Show Biography of Brigham 9 Y Young Q ng I t p M T all r E d i i iv v 1 i l lv YI fl v mj y r l lL lJ L V the Mormon Church i MR f Werner Berner o Ladi s H Ho Home me Journal TournaI Continued from last week Judge McKean t who rho had been r Methodist minister before he wa was a j jd J cl a e and ho hoc o. o c eon considered si that lie ile Was teas a crusader rus d l in ina n a fI glorious fight against against- th theocracy ac refused to admit hr Young to and ani g b ball bail n t he lie re remained remained re- re m in his is r rocker with hi s shawl spread a about out his bis for or sever several al months iong longer r Fi Finally MeIe McKeag e t I action ou on in impaneling g special al Mormon nin n. n i juries was wis declared ill egal affil i 1 n al all l Judge McKean's ut were vivre dismissed i Physical ii h Appearance 1 lc is f t e t Brigham Young Yo ng wrt wlas wb a a anU courteous courteous- courteous courteous' ti U strangers strangers' s and lie 1 slid not object to their CU curiosity ty concerning concern concern- cori concerning y rI ing hi him so to long as Jt at dial ll not t enter too personally Into his r relations with hiS hid wives He lIe was as about live five feet ten inches inches in yin height broad an and d thickset giving ng the Impression of stolidity and v vigor gor ilis riiS' head was large and covered w with Ith soft sort auburn hair which reached to tile the oar ear lo lobes es esi i in a half cur curl curlL His i eyes were a cold gray and they gazed at a stranger with a calm but r reserved se almost suspicious cious expression The left eyelId eyelid eyelid eye eye- lid drooped slightly from the effects of neuralgia which which he he suffered from frequently and which was yas the therea rea rea- reason reaS reason S son son he lie kept his head covered except In lit his own house w was s sharp somewhat po pointed and bent slightly toward the left His mouth was long with tightly compressed twin ruin lips lips which hid the Imperfect teeth of his lower jaw jaw except except when II he was talking He wore no mustache mus I tac tache e. e but t jJ tei j a beard about six v ix V inches r i- i long covered His h hm When he stood his heavy henvy broad shoulders shoulders' stooped slightly In the fac face there was an unmistakable expression of ironic humor which Illuminated Illuminated- somewhat tho the forbidding determination tion and self His His' perso personality ali y c contributed as 23 o much as that of of an any one otie man td to the i development of o of the western half o othe oi the Unite stat States s He indic Indicated ted to Americans of the tile eastern state what could be done with their tunes tunes- un t frontier and ami by successful dominating his band of f faithful disciples dis dis- s sin in in the wilderness he demonstrated demon demon- demonstrated that a wi wilderness could be- be become become be be- I come paradise ono enough gh On Thursday August 23 1877 1877 7 when he six was as six seventy r six years rears old it l Brigham Young suffered s rr r from r m a an attack at- at t tack of cholera On Oli On Fr Friday cUl the doctors whom he ho had been willing willing will will- ing big to consult in spite of his general general general gen gen- eral opinions concerning t the the 1 profession profession si sion n said th that fl lie he was c convalescent l out Jut he lie grew worse and the and the next day Saturday his ilis severe severe pain pain r was r relieved 1 eVed with morphine Sunday Sunda he lie fell feU into a coma oma and remained practically lical Y unconscious until Tuesday Tuesday night v the physicIans physicians aban- aban c hope for his r recovery covery At four oclo o'clock k kin in the afternoon of Wednesday August 2 1877 he lIe died It Itis is said sald that he murmured Joseph Joseph Joseph Jos eph Joseph J Joseph seph Joseph and I 1 added something else which was in I audible But it is also said that his his' last words were I fee better The body was taken from the theLon theLon theLon Lon House to the Tabernacle on I Saturday morning September first and nd until noon the following daYlong day daylong daylong long lines of people came camo to take alast a alast alast last look at their leader People carte came in special trains to take a look 1001 at the corpse and It was estimated I that more than twenty-five twenty thousand Mormons Mormons- visited the the Tabernacle cle during the day At thirty eleven o'clock on Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day morning September ber 2 2 the funeral services s began egan Most lost of or Brigham Youngs Young's surviving eighteen wives and four forty sur surviving iving children chil dren were present together with the rest of his family numbering several sever sever- al il l hundred The great organ organ played the tho Dea Dead March larch from from Saul and 1 Mendelssohn's F Funeral March as well as sD special hymns and anda a Mormon funeral march composed for the occasion After Atter the ceremonies cere monies four Cour thou thousand people march march- marched ed eight abreast to the grave Property ty Contest after Youngs Young's Two years year and chil chil- death some of the wives r r 1 1 dren st sued ed the exec executors of or the the thees 4 estate es tate charging fraud Th They y claimed claim clatin- e ed cd that the exe executors l ors had turned o. o over l' l to t the c c church som sonic some cf cr rr ar Youn Young's Youngs s s P personal ers anal property The c church proved that the property pro petty had hau held been held for iI in trust for it by Brigham Young but the the contesting contesting heirs received re re- a as a a compromise seventy five thou thousand a d dollars This compromis compromise was a arranged because it was wn Imp Impossible to de determine I exactly wha what was was Br Brigham I Young's Youngs r and nd what waste jh t w the s churchs church's r erty The Thc c charge s made that B gam Young had balance his his' account with the chur church h In n 1852 l hy by y telling true tile dark to put the sum of two hundred d thousand dollar i LJ his to ere credit lit for Cor services rendered and anti that he lie ladd lad had d d' d ne the he same a lIS 1507 67 with the ai o l l of or nine anil sl sou n thousand dollars But ho ha ays always maintained 1 ed in hi his bis s sermons that j ir iris money and the r money were always kept k separately and that the accounts borrowed front from each other cher but al always alays paid back what was fas owed After the death o ot of Brigham Young Brigham Young t there here was much sp speculation t ning n- n ing lug its effect on the future of or Mor- Mor monism I His sons Brigham Jr and John W. W Young were anxious to suc succeed eed him but th the succession went to to th the president of the the tw twelve elve apostles ac according o 0 o tae te principle laid down by Brigham Young after the death of Joseph Smith and which as been f followed allowed ever since I John Taylor automatically became president tl e The church did not die with Brigham Brig Brig- J h ham m Young g as many hoped ho pod It would and POly polygamy amy v was s practiced J i for almost fifteen years eals after the i ideath death of the Mormon lormon chieftain j I i The end I I I |