Harriet Amelia Folsom Young

23 August 1838 — 11 December 1910

1 Born at Buffalo, Erie County, New York; daughter of Zerviah Eliza Clark and William Harrison Folsom. 2 Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, circa 1845; to Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, 1847; and to Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, circa 1855. 3 Taught school at Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska Territory. 4 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1860. 5 Lived at Salt Lake City. 6 Married Brigham Young as a plural wife, 1863. 7 Participated actively in the woman suffrage movement. 8 Executive committee member for the Utah exhibit at the Centennial International Exhibition at Philadelphia, 1876. 9 Died at Salt Lake City. 10 (See Document 3.16, 3.17, 4.28)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Jan. 2015); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 1721/520 (1910), Harriet Amelia Young. “Amelia F. Young Called Beyond,” Deseret Evening News, Dec. 12, 1910, 1.

  2. [2] Utah death certificate, file no. 1721/520. “Amelia F. Young Called Beyond,” 1. “In Memoriam: Amelia Folsom Young,” Woman’s Exponent 39, no. 6 (Jan. 1, 1911): 46.

  3. [3] “Amelia F. Young Called Beyond,” 1. 1850 U.S. census, Keokuk, Lee Co., Iowa, p. 438A, Harriet Folsom; NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 186. 1860 U.S. census, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, p. 16, Harriet A. Folsom; NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 338. U.S. census digital images from Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015). “Iowa, State Census Collection, 1836–1925,” pp. 790–791 (1856), Amelia Folsom; database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015); citing Iowa, State Census Collection, 1836–1925, Provo, UT.

  4. [4] “In Memoriam,” 46.

  5. [5] “Harriet Amelia Folsom,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Jan. 2015.

  6. [6] 1870 U.S. census, Salt Lake City Ward 13, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 637A, Amelia Young; NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1611. 1880 U.S. census, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 80B, Harriet A. Young; NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 1337. U.S. census digital images from Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015). “In Memoriam: Amelia Folsom Young,” 46.

  7. [7] “In Memoriam,” 46. “Amelia F. Young Called Beyond,” 1. “U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560–1900,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015), Harriet Amelia Folsom and Brigham Young; citing Yates Publishing, Provo, UT.

  8. [8] “Minutes of the 2nd Meeting of the Ladies Co-operative Retrenchment Society,” Feb. 19, 1870, Relief Society minutes and records, vol. 1, 1868–1873, Fifteenth Ward, Salt Lake [Riverside] Stake, CHL. Eliza R. Snow et al., “To his Excellency, the Acting Governor of the Territory of Utah, S. A. Mann,” Feb. 19, 1870; and Stephen A. Mann, “To Eliza R. Snow, Bathsheba W. Smith, Marinda N. Hyde, Phebe C. Woodruff, Amelia F. Young and Others,” Feb. 19, 1870, in Deseret News [weekly], Mar. 2, 1870, 1. “Amelia F. Young Called Beyond,” 1.

  9. [9] “Amelia F. Young Called Beyond,” 1.

  10. [10] Utah death certificate, file no. 1721/520. “Utah Cemetery Inventory,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015), Harriet A. Young; citing Utah State Historical Society, Utah Cemetery Inventory, Salt Lake City, UT. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed May 2023), Harriet Amelia Folsom L21B-Q9C.