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Early Years and Rise in the Church

Born into poverty in Vermont in 1801, Young later moved with his family to western New York, where he worked as a carpenter and craftsman.

In 1832, he was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the religion founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 based on the Book of Mormon, a scripture that Smith claimed to have translated from gold plates given to him by an angel named Moroni.

In 1833, after the death of his first wife, Young and his two daughters joined Smith and other Mormons in Kirtland, Ohio.

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A devoted missionary and supporter of Smith, Young was ordained as one of the original members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, a church governing body, in 1835; he became its president four years later. Though he initially resisted adapting the church’s controversial custom of plural marriage, Young later embraced it as his duty, and would eventually have 55 wives and 56 (or 57) children.

Journey West to the Great Salt Lake

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