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Show Pioneer Flashback Brigham's wives could charge it Young, a son of Brig ham and Mary Ann Angel. Today, the Beehive House, restored with pioneer era furnishings, is open to the public and attracts thousands of visitors every year. (Source: Spencer & Harmer, Brigham Young at Home; Beehive House Records. Quig Nielsen is an information f-ficer f-ficer for the Museum of Church History and Art in Salt Lake City.) i By QUIG NIELSEN Plastic charge cards hadn't been thought of in early pioneer days, but Brigham Young, the ever careful and considerate loving father and husband, had charge accounts for each of his wives. A family store, with John Haslam as the storekeeper, was located in the north end of Salt Lake City's historic Beehive House, Brigham Young ' s primary residence. The store carried staples, medicine, notions, no-tions, dried peas and apples, calico cloth and candy. Each wife had a charge account in this store at that time. And the wives were not Limited in either account, ac-count, at least according to Brigham Young's daughter, Clarissa Young Spencer, in her book written with Mabel Harmer entitled Brigham Young at Home. The Beehive House was the home of Mary Ann Angel, Brigham's second wife who moved in when it was completed in 1854 and lived there for six years. When she moved into the "White House," a new home Brigham built for her, his next wife, Lucy Decker, with their seven children moved into the Beehive House. These were the only wives of Brigham Young ever to live in the Beehive House. Brigham Young deeded the Beehive House to Lucy in 1860 on the condition that "no matter what his reverses or financial conditions may become, she was never to mortgage mor-tgage or give him the Beehive House." Lucy and her daughter Clarissa, who had married John D. Spencer in 1880, lived in the house until 1888 when it was sold to John W. |