{"id":42845,"date":"2017-06-15T02:13:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T08:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=42845"},"modified":"2017-06-15T02:13:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T08:13:21","slug":"remarkable-brothers-prophet-brigham-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/06\/remarkable-brothers-prophet-brigham-young.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The remarkable brothers of the Prophet Brigham Young&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6064\" style=\"width: 519px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2013\/09\/EarlyBY.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6064\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6064\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2013\/09\/EarlyBY.gif\" alt=\"9878\" width=\"519\" height=\"977\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A very early image of Brigham Young \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed this article:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865681688\/The-remarkable-brothers-of-the-Prophet-Brigham-Young.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865681688\/The-remarkable-brothers-of-the-Prophet-Brigham-Young.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brigham Young looms so deservedly large in the history of the Church that it\u2019s often pretty much forgotten that he even <em>had<\/em> brothers. \u00a0But he did, and they did some important things in their own right.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, my very first Mormon-related publication (I believe) was connected with John P. Greene, Heber C. Kimball, and several of the Youngs during their immediately pre-Mormon lives in Mendon, New York:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunstonemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sbi\/articles\/014-27-32.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cHeavenly Signs and Aerial Combat,\u201d <em>Sunstone<\/em> (March-April 1979).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Grindelwald, Switzerland<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I enjoyed this article: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865681688\/The-remarkable-brothers-of-the-Prophet-Brigham-Young.html \u00a0 Brigham Young looms so deservedly large in the history of the Church that it\u2019s often pretty much forgotten that he even had brothers. \u00a0But he did, and they did some important things in their own right. \u00a0 Incidentally, my very first Mormon-related publication (I believe) was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;The remarkable brothers of the Prophet Brigham Young&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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