Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1884 — Brigham Young’s Children. [ARTICLE]

Brigham Young’s Children.

Speaking of this Young family—what apart it has played in Utah history! You encounter the descendants of old Brigham everywhere. As he left fiftyfour living children out of a progeny numbering seventy-two souls, it is not to be wondered that they turn up everywhere. Some of the sons who are in business here, be it said, are exemplary and most agreeable men; while among the daughters are numbered some ladies unexcelled in graces of heart and mind. But alas! there have been a sadly large number of male scamps and female sirens in the list. The daughters may be found among the demi-monde of this city, San Francisco and New Orleans. At least two sons are already in drunkards’ graves. Scandal, contention and wantonness have added poison to the family cnp. Here is Mormonism’s own answer to Mormouism! Even Amelia, the favorite, the beloved seventeenth wife of the old patriarch, after whom the Amelia palace was named, remembered her liege loid but four abort months after his taking off, and then became the “life partner” of another. And there are wives living here who bitterly tell now of the days when Amelia rode about behind Brigham’s best span while they, more faithful wives, took in washing to earn a subsistence. Two of the daughters were married on the same night to a leading Mormon, and are now living together in his harem on one of the principal streets here. Salt Lake letter.