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At the time, Brigham Young, leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, was acting as interim governor of the Utah Territory. Young did not wish to give up his position and feared that the approaching army was coming to attack. He therefore declared martial law and sent Utah militias to delay the Expedition.
Benjamin Cluff Jr. (February 7, 1858 – June 14, 1948) was the first president of Brigham Young University and its third principal. [1] [2] Under his administration, the student body and faculty more than doubled in size, and the school went from an academy to a university, and was officially incorporated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Brigham Young (/ ˈ b r ɪ ɡ əm / BRIG-əm; June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877) [4] was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847 until his death in 1877.
Henry Johnson Eyring (born September 19, 1963) is an American academic administrator who served as the seventeenth president of Brigham Young University–Idaho (BYU–Idaho) from 2017 to 2023. [1] [2] From 2019 to 2023, he also served as an area seventy in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Warren Newton Dusenberry (November 1, 1836 – March 31, 1915) was the founding principal of Brigham Young Academy in 1876. [1] Before becoming principal of Brigham Young Academy, Dusenberry was the founder of three other schools in Provo, Utah. [2]: 49 Dusenberry was only a temporary principal and was succeeded by Karl G. Maeser.
Wilkinson was born in Ogden, Utah, one of seven children of Robert Brown Wilkinson and Annie Cecilia Anderson.Robert Wilkinson was a Scottish immigrant who arrived in the United States as a young boy, later married Annie Anderson, and worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad for 25 years, [2] where he supported the union; according to family, he once ran for mayor of Ogden as a Socialist ...
Kevin J Worthen (born April 15, 1956) [1] is an American professor who served as the 13th president of Brigham Young University (BYU) from 2014 to 2023. From 2010 to 2021, he also served as an area seventy in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). [2]
Having been ordained a high priest of the LDS Church by Brigham Young, [3] Woolley served in a bishopric, as a high councilor in the Davis Stake, and was ordained a patriarch in the church in 1913. [3] [1] He also was an ordinance worker in the Salt Lake Temple and he opened meetings of the church's general conference with prayer on more than ...