Brigham Young: The New York Years (Charles Redd Monographs in Western Histo) - Hardcover

Richard F. Palmer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0941214079 ISBN 13: 9780941214070

Publisher: Charles Redd Center for Wester, 1982

Synopsis

Brigham Young prepared for his life's mission in the state of New York. He was born in Vermont, taken to New York State as an infant, and raised on hard work by deeply religious parents. He lived and worked during most of his thirty years in the heart of the Finger Lakes region. A willing worker, but lacking formal education, Brigham learned and practiced a variety of trades. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a furniture and cabinet maker in Auburn. Young Brigham became, in time, an expert husbandman, farmer, gardener, carpenter, glazier, mason, furniture and cabinet maker, painter, and boat builder-and even took a turn at lay preaching. Many of Brigham's closest associates in later life were old friends whom he had first met in New York State. Perhaps the most noted of these was his close confidant Heber C. Kimball, who also came from Vermont parentage. And there was Solomon Chamberlain, with whom Brigham later crossed the Plains. Chamberlain was to become one of the first members of the Mormon church and appears to have been the first unofficial missionary to make direct contact with the Young family.

Edition details

• Publisher: Charles Redd Center for Wester
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0941214079
• ISBN 13: 9780941214070
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 116