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BRINGHAM YOUNG D.S.

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BRINGHAM YOUNG D.S.
<b>137. BRIGHAM YOUNG</b> (1801 - 1877) Leader of the Mormon church who succeeded Joseph Smith as head of the church and led the mass migration to Salt Lake Valley. Young was also the first governor of Utah Territory. Important and rare D.S. "<i>Brigham Young</i>" 2pp. legal folio, Salt Lake City, Mar. 2, 1866, a contract in which Young sells to Joseph A. Young multiple tracts of land totaling in excess of 218 acres, for the sum of $3,281.25. Also signed by <b>GEORGE Q. CANNON</b> (b. 1827), a prominent Mormon missionary sent on missions to California and the Hawaiian Islands. In 1860 Cannon was made "apostle" and was sent to Europe, sending thirteen thousand emigrants from there to Utah. In 1862 he returned and edited the "<i>Deseret News</i>". A third signer of the document is <b>AMOS MILTON MUSSER</b>, an original church historian, jailed for polygamy. Fine condition.<b>$2,000-3,000</b>