Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-22
TWO OF BRIGHAM'S SONS.
The Good Luck which BefeIl the One
Who Was at West Point.

A correspondent of the st. Louis
Globe Democrat, writing from Salt Lake
CITY. saws: Within the space of five
minutes yesterday l was introduced to
two of the sons of the late Brigham
Young, named respectively, Brigham
and Willard. The former is the issue of
the first and legal marriage of Brigham
Young to Mary Ann Angel, who surviv-
ed her husband and lies buried by his
side in q new made grave. She died at
eighty, neglected and almost forgotten
bv the people whom her husband had
made prosperous. There was streak
of decency in old Brigham, even in his
last DAYS. for he willed it that his wife
should be buried by his side. His eldest
son and namesake has but little OF his
fathers appearance and none of his faith
er's brains Standing in his presence one
cannot help thinking of the old Latin
proverb, "Stdt nldgnj 7lOnl511tS Unl6rG"-
che stands the shadow of a mighty
name" The name of Brigham Young
was, indeed, mighty in its day and gen
Grafton, and it represented personal
force and power as leader and an
organizer such as have been owned by
few men of modern times. Brigham,
Jr.. has the name and chief vice of the
old man, but no more. He is Brigham
Young and he is polygamist, dividing
his parental and marital love by four.
When introduced to him, said that l
had come West to see how ''the
bad people" included in the Edmunds
bill were getting along well.
said he, trying to straigthen
himself into the proportions of the
old man, ''if the United States tries to
take away our rights, they'll find that
we are very bad people. We don't in
tend to be trampled on, My idea is to
go right ahead and do what we believe
to be right, and take all the conse-
Ouences. The gentleman became so
demonstrative that felt called upon to
assure him that l was not a commits
sioner of either peace or war. "But,
said I. eff Uncle Sam makes up his mind
to trample on Utah, he'll put on a big
pair of shoes and stamp the whole thing
out mighty quick" Brigham, Jr., then
recited the woes of Utah, and soon dis
appeared with friend.
''Heres another of Brigham's boys,
said Mr. Hooper.a fine looking young
fellow of about 80 approached and shook
QaQQS VIII lin. AuIoi odlu me- 10
Lieut. Young-Willard Young, Of West
Point" The acquaintance was pleas
ant one to make Lieut.. Young is a
graduate of the Engineer Corps at West
Point and is now teacher. He is one
of the polygamous sons of the "old
man." and has married within week
the daughter of Mr.. Hooper. What
ever his views may be on the
subject, he is not likely to ego
into poIygamy" during the life
time of his mother-in-law His father
in-law Will Vouch for that. He was at
West Point when his fathers estate was
being settled up, and when the litigation
began his agents wrote him to know
what they should do. He replied that
he didn't care about quarreling over the
matter; that he had a profession that
would give him living, and that he
would take what the others didn't want
So lot of railroad stock, supposed to be
nearly worthless, was assigned him. He
took ii, and the development of the
Territory has since made him one Of the
richest of the old mans heirs.