BRIGHAM YOUNG’S PATERNAL CARES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 623, 27 March 1874, Page 3

BRIGHAM YOUNG’S PATERNAL CARES.

iVlrs. Ann Eliza Webb Young, “the nineteenth and last wife of Brigham Young,” who ,has recently lift him and his territory, delivered her first lecture on the Mormons at Denver, Colorado, on the 9th of December. According to the Denver News Mrs. Young states that Brigham was 73 years of age last June. He has 19 wives; 15 of these are his own for time and eternity ; the other four arc proxy-wives, being widows of Joseph biiiith. Pho children of their union with Brigham are accredited to Joseph Smith, and go to swell his kingdom. All plural wives are known by their maiden names to distinguish one from the other. Brigham has two large houses called the Bee-hive and the Lion house. There is one wife in the Bee-hive and six mi the other. The rest ate scattered about through out the city and territory. His three eldest sons followed the polygamous example of their fa Tier. He has 45 living children, the most of t hem are grown and married. There are 29 girls and 1C girls in his family. His son John VV. has renounced polygamy by discarding his first and second wives, and retained his third. Seven of Brigham’s daughters taste the sweets of plural marriages. Two of the seven call Hiram B Clawson husband, two are allied to G. Thatcher, and two to Mark Croxall.fhe seventh is the second mate of Thomas Williams Amelia Folsom is the only wife Brigham lives with at present He has forsaken all for her. Upon this favourite wife is lavished all the care and attention the most devoted monogamist could possibly bestow »pon Ids companion. At present he is erecting a mansion for her that will cost at least 100,000 dollars. Brigham loves her bitter than all others. He is afraid of her, and this is where lies her success over him.