Son of Brigham Young and Mary Ann Angell

Married Mary Ann Ayers, 9 September 1852, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Children - Brigham Truman Young, Mary Thornton Young, Elsie Vilate Young, Elisabeth Young, Catherine Young, Amelia Young, Joseph Angell Young, Bryant Stringham Young, Alice Young

Married Athala Elizabeth Grant, 18 December 1856, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Married Margaret Whitehead, 19 February 1857, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Son - Richard Whitehead Young

Married Clara Federata Stenhouse, 4 Mar 1867, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Children - Walter Stenhouse Young, Eugene Jared Young, Junius Young, Kane Lester Young

Biography - Joseph Angell Young was th first son of Brigham Young and Mary Ann Angell. At the age of twelve he accompanied his parents to Winter Quarters during the Mormon exodus of 1846. He remained at Winter Quarters with his mother during the winter of 1847-48 and accompanied the family (his father having returned to Winter Quarters in the fall of 1847) to the Salt Lake Valley the next year.

During the years 1854-56 Joseph labored as a missionary in England, where he presided over the Bradfordshire Conference. It was while he was returning from this mission in 1856 that he participated in the rescue operation described above. Although deprived of education early in his life due to the persecution and frequent moves of the Saints, Joseph studied hard in England and familiarized himself with the writings of Bacon, Blackstone, Locke, and Mill. An avid reader, he collected one of the finest private libraries in Utah.

Joseph A. Young, the oldest son of President Brigham Young, was among the Mormon missionaries who arrived in Utah from England on October 4, 1856, bringing news of the precarious condition of handcart immigrants on the plains that year. Relief efforts were immediately organized and within hours Joseph A. and twenty-seven other young men, under the leadership of George D. Grant, had started back into the mountains with sixteen wagonloads of food and clothing.

Failing to meet the immigrants at Fort Bridger, Joseph and three others were sent ahead with the message that assistance was on the way. When they found the immigrants, the toll of death had already begun to mount. Of the six hundred Saints camped at Red Buttes alone, comprising Martin's handcart company and Hodgett's wagon train, fifty-six had died of exposure and hunger.

As the relief effort proceeded, Joseph A. was sent back to the Salt Lake Valley to report progress and the condition of the immigrants. He arrived in Salt Lake City at 4:00 A.M. on November 13 to tell of the tragedy which, but for the effort of the returning European missionaries, would have been even more devastating than it was.

In 1864, Brigham Young ordained three of his sons to the priesthood office of apostle—Brigham Young, Jr., John Willard Young, and Joseph Angell. Unlike his two brothers, Joseph Angell would never become a member of the First Presidency nor, like Brigham Jr., a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Joseph Angell was active in territorial politics and was a member of the Utah Territory's House of Representatives in its 6th, 11th, and 12th sessions and was a member of the territory's senate in its 14th through 19th sessions.

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, George D. Grant Company (1856), Age at Departure: 21; Rescue Companies (1856), Age at Departure: 21; Joseph W. Young Company (1864), Age at Departure: 29.