Family
Young practiced plural marriage. His first wife was Catherine Curtis Spencer. Among their children was Brigham Spencer Young, who would later serve as president of the Northwestern States Mission of the church.
In 1857 Young married his second wife, Jane Carrington, a daughter of Albert Carrington.
Young's wife Abigail Stevens was one of his younger wives. Their daughter Klara Young Cheney, born in Fruitland, New Mexico in 1894, turned 100 years old in 1994. Abigail and Brigham Jr.'s last daughter, Marian Young, was also born at Fruitland on 15 January 1899. She died on 22 November 2004, less than two months short of her 106th birthday. She was the last grandchild of Brigham Young to die.
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