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{{Short description|Early Mormon leader}}
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{{Infobox Latter Day Saint biography
| name                       = Joseph Young
| image                      = Joseph Young.jpg
| birth_date                 = {{Birth date|1797|04|07}}
| birth_place                = [[Hopkinton, Massachusetts]], United States
| death_date                 = {{Death date and age|1881|07|16|1797|04|07}}
| death_place                = [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah Territory]], United States
| spouse                     = Jane Adeline Bicknell<br>Lucinda Allen<br>Lydia Caroline Hagar<br>Mary Ann Huntley<br>Sarah Jane Snow<br>Elizabeth Stevens
| resting_place              = [[Salt Lake City Cemetery]]
| resting_place_coordinates  = {{Coord|40.777|-111.858|type:landmark|display=inline|name=Salt Lake City Cemetery}}
| children                   = 21 (11 with first wife and 10 with plural wives)
| parents                    = John Young<br>Abigail Nabby Howe
| position_or_quorum1        = [[Seventy (LDS Church)#Early Latter Day Saint quorums of seventy|First Seven Presidents of the Seventy]]{{Broken anchor|date=2024-08-01|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=Seventy (LDS Church)#Early Latter Day Saint quorums of seventy|reason= The anchor (Early Latter Day Saint quorums of seventy) [[Special:Diff/863961847|has been deleted]].}}
| called_by1                 = [[Joseph Smith]]
| start_date1                = {{start date|1835|03|01}}
| end_date1                  = {{end date|1881|07|16}}}}
__NOTOC__'''Joseph Young''' (April 7, 1797 – July 16, 1881)<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=McCune|first=George M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8wvlAAAACAAJ|title=Personalities in the Doctrine and Covenants and Joseph Smith–History|publisher=Hawkes Publishing|year=1991|isbn=9780890365182|location=Salt Lake City, Utah|pages=163–65}}</ref> was an early convert to the [[Latter Day Saint movement]] and was a missionary and longtime [[general authority]] of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church). He was an elder brother of [[Brigham Young]].

== Early life ==
[[File:Brigham Young and his brothers.jpg|225px|thumb|left|The five sons of John and Nabby Young<br>From left to right: Lorenzo Dow, [[Brigham Young|Brigham]], [[Phineas Young|Phineas H.]], Joseph, and John.]]Young was born in [[Hopkinton, Massachusetts]], on April 7, 1797,<ref name=":0" /> the seventh child<ref>{{cite web |last1=Arrington |first1=Leonard J. and JoAnn Jolley |title=The Faithful Young Family: The Parents, Brothers, and Sisters of Brigham |url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1980/08/the-faithful-young-family-the-parents-brothers-and-sisters-of-brigham?lang=eng}} ''Ensign'', August 1980. '''10''' (8). Retrieved August 30, 2022.</ref> born to John Young and Abigail Howe.<ref name=":0" />
In 1830, while he was a preacher for the [[Methodist Church]] in [[Upper Canada]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=Prete |first1=Carma T. |title=Eastern Canada: An Early Fruitful Field, 1829-77 |url=https://rsc.byu.edu/canadian-mormons/eastern-canada-early-fruitful-field-1829-77}}</ref> Young was introduced to the doctrine of the [[Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints)|Church of Christ]] by his younger brother [[Brigham Young|Brigham]].<ref name=":0" /> Joseph eventually abandoned the Methodist faith and was [[Baptism (Latter Day Saints)|baptized]] a member of the Church of Christ by Daniel Bowen in [[Columbia, Pennsylvania]],<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Young, Joseph: Biography|url=https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/joseph-young|access-date=2021-07-06|website=[[The Joseph Smith Papers]]}}</ref> on April 6, 1832;<ref name=":0" /> Brigham followed his brother and became a member of the church one week later. Later in April 1832, Joseph was ordained to the [[Priesthood (Latter Day Saints)|priesthood]] office of [[Elder (Latter Day Saints)|elder]] by Ezra Landon. Immediately following his ordination,<ref name=":1" /> Young began a [[Mormon missionary|mission]] for the church, preaching in Canada in the spring and summer of 1832 with his brother [[Phineas Young|Phineas]] for four months.<ref name=":0" />

==Missions==
In the fall of 1832, Young joined the gathering of Latter Day Saints in [[Kirtland, Ohio]],<ref name=":1" /> where he met [[Joseph Smith]], the founder of the church. Shortly after arriving in Kirtland,{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}} Smith asked Young to depart on another mission for the church to Upper Canada, which he served over the winter months of 1832 and 1833 with his brother Brigham.<ref name=":0" />

On February 18, 1834, Young married Jane Adeline Bicknell in [[Geneseo, New York]].<ref name=":1" /> The couple would eventually have eleven children,<ref name=":0" /> including daughters Jane Adeline, Julia Ann Vilate, and Chloe Eliza, as well as sons Joseph Bicknell, Seymour Bicknell, and Marcus LeGrand.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=The Church Historian’s Press|title=Joseph Young - Pioneer Overland Travel|url=https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/overlandtravel/pioneers/7149/joseph-young|access-date=2021-07-06|website=history.churchofjesuschrist.org}}</ref>

===Seventy===
Young accompanied Joseph Smith and others in a journey to [[Independence, Missouri]], in 1834 as part of [[Zion's Camp]]. In 1835, Smith selected Young to be one of the leaders of the [[Seventy (LDS Church)|Seventy]] of the church. Young was ordained to the Seventy on February 28.<ref name=":0" /> He then became a president of the [[First Quorum of Seventy|First Quorum of the Seventy]] on March 1, 1835.<ref name=":1" /> After it was discovered that the senior president of the Seventy, [[Hazen Aldrich]], had previously been ordained to the office of [[High priest (Latter Day Saints)|high priest]], Aldrich surrendered his position in the quorum. As a result, Young became the senior or seventh president of the Seventy. He would retain this position in the church from 1835 until his death.

As a Seventy, Young served several more missions for the church,<ref name=":0" /> including one to [[New York (state)|New York]] and [[Massachusetts]] with Burr Riggs in 1835 and one to his relatives in the eastern [[United States]] with his brother [[Brigham Young|Brigham]] in 1836.{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}

Young participated in many significant events in early [[History of the Latter Day Saint movement|Latter Day Saint history]]. He was present at the dedication of the [[Kirtland Temple]] in 1836<ref name=":0" /> and participated in the [[Kirtland Safety Society]].<ref name=":1" /> Young was also present at [[Haun's Mill, Missouri]], when it was [[Haun's Mill massacre|attacked]] by those who opposed the Mormon presence in Missouri. He left Missouri with the Latter Day Saints<ref name=":0" /> in consequence of the [[Missouri Executive Order 44|extermination order]] which had been issued by [[Lilburn W. Boggs]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}} Young relocated [[Quincy, Illinois]], for a brief time before settling in [[Nauvoo, Illinois]], in 1840,<ref name=":1" /> where he worked as a painter.<ref name=":0" /> Young also joined the [[Nauvoo Legion]] in 1842.<ref name=":1" />

Young received his [[Endowment (Mormonism)|endowment]] in Nauvoo on February 3, 1844, just months before Joseph Smith was [[Death of Joseph Smith|killed]].<ref name=":0" /> He was selected by Smith as an inaugural member of the [[Council of Fifty]] on March 1, 1845.<ref name=":1" /> At the time Smith was killed, Young was campaigning on behalf of Smith's bid for the [[President of the United States|presidency of the United States]].<ref name=":0" />

Like many early Latter Day Saints, Young practiced [[plural marriage]].<ref name=":0" /> On January 16, 1846, he was married to Lucinda Allen and Lydia Caroline Hagar, in the [[Nauvoo Temple]]. Soon to follow was Mary Ann Huntley on February 6, 1846.  Later, on 7 April 1868 he married Sarah Jane Snow, and Elizabeth Stevens on November 28, 1868.<ref name="family">[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/AF/individual_record.asp?recid=1095481&lds=0&frompage=99 Individual Record:] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050504041554/http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF/individual_record.asp?recid=1095481|date=2005-05-04}} Joseph Young. familysearch.org</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=July 2013}}  Young would eventually father a total of twenty-one children.<ref name=":0" />

===Later life in Utah===
Young and his four wives left Illinois in 1846 and settled in [[Winter Quarters, Nebraska]], and later [[Carterville, Iowa]]. He and his wives left Carterville in 1850 to join the Latter Day Saints who had followed his brother [[Brigham Young|Brigham]] to the [[Salt Lake Valley]] in [[Utah Territory]]. Young arrived in [[Salt Lake City]] in September 1850.<ref name=":0" /> The Youngs travelled in the William Snow/Joseph Young Company, with Young acting as a captain of the group.<ref name=":2" />

In 1870, Young served a final mission for the church to the [[British Isles]]. He also served in the [[Utah Territorial legislature]].<ref name=":1" /> He died in [[Salt Lake City]] on July 16, 1881, at the age of 84.<ref name=":0" /> At the time of his death, Young had served as a [[general authority]] or a missionary of the church for nearly fifty years.

==See also==
*[[S. Dilworth Young]]: great-grandson
*[[Seymour B. Young]]: son

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*{{citation |contribution= Young, Joseph |contribution-url= https://archive.org/stream/pioneersprominen00esshrich#page/1271/mode/1up |page= 1271 |last= Esshom |first= Frank Ellwood |year= 1913 |title= Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah |url= https://archive.org/details/pioneersprominen00esshrich |location= Salt Lake City |publisher= Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company |oclc= 2286984 }}
*Flake, Lawrence R. ''Mighty Men of Zion: General Authorities of the Last Dispensation''. Salt Lake City: Karl D. Butler, 1974.
*Jenson, Andrew. ''[[Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia]]''. Vol. 1. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Company, 1901.

==External links==
*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070329152138/http://www.gapages.com/youngj1.htm Grampa Bill's G.A. Pages: Joseph Young]}}
*[http://archives.lib.byu.edu/repositories/14/resources/6811 Joseph Young and Seymour B. Young Papers], [[L. Tom Perry Special Collections]], [[Harold B. Lee Library]], [[Brigham Young University]]
*[http://archives.lib.byu.edu/repositories/14/resources/7046 Joseph Young diary and accounts], L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
*[http://archives.lib.byu.edu/repositories/14/resources/3730 Joseph Young letters], L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
*[http://archives.lib.byu.edu/repositories/14/resources/4294 Joseph Young seventies' license], L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
*[https://files.lib.byu.edu/transcriptions/VMSS%20791%20Joseph%20Young%20Affidavit.txt Transcription of Joseph Young Affidavit of Haun’s Mill Massacre], L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University

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