Brigham Young’s not on record as saying, “I’m worried that Joseph’s going to ask for my wife as an Abrahamic sacrifice.” It’s not very subtle, though. No, I don’t think it’s subtle.

McAuley was also among those who set fire to the Nauvoo Temple in 1848. J.B. Backenstos, then sheriff of Hancock County, Illinois, who was not a Latter-day Saint, described McAuley as “one of ...

Brigham Young, Utah The story of Brigham Young picks up where Joseph Smith’s left off. Like Smith, Young was born in rural Vermont (the southern Vermont town of Whitingham).

May 4, 1842: Joseph Smith presents the temple endowment to Hyrum Smith, Brigham Young and others in the upper room of the Nauvoo mercantile store. Sept. 1 and 6, 1842 : In Doctrine and Covenants 127 ...

The original layout of the temple’s interior – the one designed by Angell and approved by President young in the mid 1850s – was patterned after the Nauvoo Temple, containing two massive ...

But Mormons came to love more than just Smith’s eyes. Eighteen months after his martyrdom, the founding prophet’s portrait was found in the Nauvoo Temple’s Celestial Room, a reminder to ...

After the death of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young became the Indispensable Pioneer — a leader with the vision and ability to transplant the Church halfway across the continent to a land of new beginnings ...

Brigham Young wasn't even in Nauvoo, which is where the Mormons were living at the time. He was on a mission in the Eastern states that was part religious and part also as a campaign for Joseph ...