Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1894 — NINE WIVES REMAIN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NINE WIVES REMAIN.

Widow! of BrlsteM Toon* Wl*o Ara Ho* UTtaf. Of tbe nineteen wives whom the great head of the Mormon Church, Brigham Young, married, nine are now living at Salt Lake City, Utah. The most interesting of these women Is Amelia Folsom-Young, the seventeenth wife and the favorite of her husband. She was born at Buffalo in 1838, and in J 860 her family moved West and joined the Mormon Church. She and Brigham Young saw each other. It was a case of love at first sight and they soon wedded. Mrs. Young has lately been interviewed as to her married lite, and what she says is very interesting. Each of Young’s wives, she says, had a separate room in his dwelling, and bis household altogether numbered sev-enty-five. All dined at the same table and all met in tbe evening for

family prayers. Mrs. Young says her married life was supremely happy. “I would sacrifice anything for the surviving wives of President Young," she remarked, “and their feeling toward me, I think, is the same.” Speaking of the position of the Mormon Church in this country, Mrs. Young said: “The ill-feeling that has heretofore existed toward the Mormon Church is fast dying out, and the people of Utah have learned to treat the Mormons as any other religious body. As old prejudices disappear the good work of the Mormon Church becomes apparent. Through the tithing house this church distributes more goods to the poor each year than any other church organization, the amount in Salt Lake City alone being SIOO,OOO annually. Homes are built up and co-operation practiced with beneficial results. The misrepresentations of the past are being supplanted by the truths of the present, which fact points to a bright future for the church. ”

BRIGHAM YOUNG AND HIS SEVENTH WIFE, AMELIA F. YOUNG.