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<\/a>Aivenpah Valley Herd Ground
\nAnti-Friction Journal Box and Divided Car Axle
\nB.K. Tannery
\nBank of Deseret
\nBear River Ferry and Toll Bridge
\nBenson, Far and West
\nBig Cottonwood Canal
\nBig Cottonwood Lumber
\nBrigham Young Bank
\nBrigham Young Barbershop
\nBrigham Young Blacksmith Shop
\nBrigham Young Carding Mill
\nBrigham Young Carpentry Shop
\nBrigham Young Cotton Factory
\nBrigham Young Cotton Farm
\nBrigham Young Doby Show Shop
\nBrigham Young Eating House
\nBrigham Young Express
\nBrigham Young Farm
\nBrigham Young Gristmill
\nBrigham Young Herd
\nBrigham Young Herd Ground
\nBrigham Young Lime Kiln
\nBrigham Young Lumber Yard
\nBrigham Young Map Store
\nBrigham Young Molasses Factory
\nBrigham Young Nail Factory
\nBrigham Young Paint Shop
\nBrigham Young Paper Mill
\nBrigham Young Plastering Shop
\nBrigham Young Pottery Shop
\nBrigham Young Print Shop
\nBrigham Young Real Estate
\nBrigham Young School
\nBrigham Young Shoe Shop
\nBrigham Young Silk Cocoonery
\nBrigham Young Stable
\nBrigham Young Tannery
\nBrigham Young Tavern
\nBrigham Young Woolen Factory
\nBurton, Sons, and Young
\nCall\u2019s Landing and Church Warehouse
\nChase Mill
\nChruch Slaughterhouse
\nChurch Stone-cutting Yard
\nCity Creek Foundry and Machine Shop
\nCity Creek Wood
\nConstitution Building
\nCo-operative Stock Herd Association
\nDavis County Canal
\nDeseret Bee-keepers
\nDeseret Currency
\nDeseret Dramatic Association
\nDeseret Mint
\nDeseret National Bank
\nDeseret Paper Mills
\nDeseret Store
\nDeseret Training and Manufacturing
\nDeseret Telegraph
\nDeseret Theological Institute
\nDeseret Woolen Mills
\nEagle Gate Toll Road
\nEldredge and Clawson
\nEmpire Gristmill
\nExcelsior Mill
\nForest Farm
\nFort Bridger
\nGardo House
\nGlobe Bakery
\nGlobe Saloon
\nGrass Creek Coal
\nGreat Salt Lake City Waterworks
\nHC Kimball Flourmills
\nHeberville Cotton Factory
\nHooper, Eldredge and Company
\nHoward Distillery
\nJordan Irrigation
\nJuab, Sanpete, and Sevier Railroad
\nKansas Prairie Ranch
\nLaie Plantation
\nLatter-day Saints Bakery
\nLorenzo Snow Flourmill
\nMaid of Iowa (steamboat)
\nMalad River Ferry
\nMaple Creek Sawmill
\nMount Trumball Lumber
\nMutual Life and Savings
\nParowan Cotton
\nPerpetual Emigrating Fund
\nPipe Springs Ranch
\nPrice Convention
\nProve Bench Canal and Irrigation
\nProvo Canyon Road Company
\nPublic Machine Shop
\nRush Valley Herd Company
\nSalt Lake and Tooele Valley Railroad
\nSalt Lake City Railroad
\nSalt Lake House
\nSalt Lake Theatre
\nSan Pete Coal
\nSeventies\u2019 Hall Association
\nSeventies\u2019 Hall of Science
\nSocial Hall
\nThomas Howard Paper Mill
\nTimely Gull (Lake Boat)
\nTimpanogos Manufacturing
\nTooele Gristmill of Brigham Young
\nTooele Toll Road
\nUnion Academy
\nUnion Pacific Railroad
\nUtah Central Railroad
\nUtah Southern Railroad
\nUtah Western Railway
\nWarm Springs Bath House
\nWasatch Woolen Mills
\nWeber River Toll Bridge
\nWinsor Castle Stock Growing Company
\nYoung and Benson
\nYoung and Little
\nYoung and Morley
\nYoung and Winder
\nYoung, Little and Winder
\nZion\u2019s Co-operative Fish Association
\nZCMI
\nZion\u2019s Co-operative Rio Virgin Manufacturing
\nZion\u2019s Bank<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nThe list is implicitly intended to damn the Church\u2019s second president, but I wonder how many of these businesses Brigham Young really considered his own, and how many of them were set up by him as projects to further the settlement of the Great Basin and to benefit the Saints and their local economy. \u00a0My vague understanding is that corporate law was not yet as well-established as it is today, certainly not in Utah Territory, and that the first several presidents of the Church \u201cowned\u201d Church property on behalf of the Church. \u00a0Personal finances were not kept absolutely distinct from Church finances as they are today and under contemporary law and accounting practices.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMy wife and I are in Cedar City for the Utah Shakespeare Festival, and I don\u2019t have access to my copy of Mike Quinn\u2019s book on Church finances or to the various biographies of Brigham Young that I own or to my copy of Leonard Arrington\u2019s classic Great Basin Kingdom<\/em>. \u00a0Moreover, I\u2019m no specialist on this topic and have never been especially interested in it. \u00a0So I wrote to my long-time friend Tom Alexander<\/a>, perhaps the foremost historian of Utah and himself a biographer of Brigham Young.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nIn his reply to my inquiry, Professor Alexander acknowledged that the citations to Brigham Young in the index of Quinn\u2019s book are so extensive that he did not have time to reread all of them in formulating his response, let alone the time to reread the entire volume. \u00a0But here is the salient part of what he wrote to me:<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe corporation of the president was not established until the 1920s.\u00a0 In the 19th <\/sup>century, it was extremely difficult to separate Joseph Smith\u2019s, Brigham Young\u2019s, and the other three 19th<\/sup>-century presidents\u2019 holdings from the church\u2019s.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how you could show that he borrowed church money to invest, the two estates were so intermingled.\u00a0 Moreover, Young and the other general authorities received salaries from the church.<\/div>\nAfter Young\u2019s \u00a0death some family members sued to try to get more of the property and money.\u00a0 They argued that it was his, not the church\u2019s.\u00a0 The settlement of the suit gave them more of the assets than the executors believed were Young\u2019s, \u00a0as Quinn says.<\/div>\nUnlike today, in general conference the church gave a verbal accounting of the church\u2019s income and expenditures.<\/div>\nQuinn\u2019s book lists Brigham Young\u2019s properties. I believe that what he has written makes it clear that it would have been impossible to determine that Young borrowed from the church because the two estates were so intermingled.<\/div>\nLeonard Arrington wrote an article on the settlement of the Brigham Young estate that can give you more information.<\/div>\nI should say that this intermingling in the case of Joseph Smith was a large part of the dispute between Emma Smith and Brigham Young.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n