Brigham Young and unknown wife. Herridge is moving ahead with his efforts to try to prove a hypothesis he has about the image: that the woman is a previously unknown wife of the revered church leader.

A Daguerreotype known in historical archives as "Brigham Young and Unknown Wife" shows the founder of the state of Utah with one of his wives. The woman's face has literally been erased from history.

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The image is known as “Brigham Young and unknown wife.” “What we found was that nobody — and we looked at all the wives — nobody quite fit what we were looking for,” Herridge said.

a woman's experience of mor- monism. the life of brigham young and his family as told by his nineteenth wife. share full article. april 10, 1874.

Rare pictures of Brigham Young abound in the book 'Brigham Young Images of a Mormon Prophet,' by Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and R.Q. Shupe''s. 'These are all the visual images during his lifetime.

The week before, a new book involving Brigham Young came out, drawing extensively on Carruth’s research and co-authored by her, W. Paul Reeve and Christopher B. Rich, Jr., “ This Abominable ...

June 14, 1842: Having learned about plural marriage from Joseph Smith, Brigham Young marries the first of his polygamous wives, Lucy Ann Decker Seeley, at age 41 (Decker was 20).

Closing the book after reading, “Brigham Young: ... Brigham Young was known for his compassion and openness as a Mormon apostle. Turner recounts his tender, love-filled letters to his wife, ...

Writer David Ebershoff's novel, "The 19th Wife," is two stories: one based on the life of Ann Eliza Young, one of Mormon leader Brigham Young's 19 wives who divorced him and became a crusader ...

On this day in 1847, Brigham Young and his fellow members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints arrived in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Valley after completing a treacherous 1,300-mile ...