Item Detail
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17388
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English
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John Willard Young, Brigham Young, and the Development of Presidential Succession in the LDS Church
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Winter 2002
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35
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no.4
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111-134
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The ecclesiastical history of John W. Young offers a look into the historical development of apostolic seniority in the Church. There were four distinct stages in its development: "(1) age within group in the original Twelve, to (2) age combined with group date of ordination/entrance in the Quorum, to (3) date of ordination (the standard throughout most of the nineteenth century), to, finally, at the dawn of the twentieth century, (4) date of entrance into the Quorum and public sustaining." John W. Young was ordained an apostle when he was only eleven years old in 1855 by his father, Brigham Young, in a private secret ceremony. Pres. Young's fondest hopes were that his favored son would succeed him as Church president. John W. Young's interests took him to the East Coast where he remained aloof from ecclesiastical circles. His checkered business dealings and other interests caused him to be disliked by members of the Twelve. Policies were changed, in part, to keep him from becoming Church president and to prevent elite Church leaders from ordaining their sons to be apostles. John W. Young died in poverty and without a friend in New York in 1923.
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