BYA~BYH Faculty & Staff


Alphabetical Alumni
Young, Alice

Young, Alice
Provo, Utah US

Alice Young

Faculty & Staff. Alice Young, Shorthand & Typing teacher, 1901-1903.

Young, Aretta [Arretta]

Young, Aretta [Arretta]
Provo, Utah US

Aretta Young

BY Academy High School Class of 1884, 1886, and Collegiate Class of 1900. Aretta Young. Graduated Friday, June 13, 1884, with a Normal diploma. Source: Territorial Enquirer, Friday, June 13, 1884. ~ ~ ~ ~ BY Academy High School Class of 1884. Aretta Young received a certificate of proficiency in Physical Geography. Source: Territorial Enquirer, Friday, June 13, 1884. ~ ~ ~ ~ BY Academy High School Class of 1886. Arretta Young. Awarded Teacher's Certificate. She spoke at Commencement on May 21, 1886 "In Behalf of the Ladies' Department". Source: The (Provo) Daily Enquirer, May 21 and 25, 1886.~ ~ ~ ~ BY Academy Collegiate Class of 1900. Received a Diploma: Bachelor of Pedagogy (B.Pd.). Source: Deseret Evening News, June 2, 1900. ~ ~ ~ ~ BYH Faculty & Staff. Arretta Young, Art & Reading teacher, 1885-1886, 1897-1923. She apparently taught in Wayne County [Fremont] in the interim period. She was the Principal of the Fremont LDS Seminary in 1890. ~ ~ ~ ~ Aretta Young was born on September 10, 1864 in Idaho. She died on March 25, 1923 in Provo, Utah. Interment, Provo City Cemetery. [She apparently never married.] ~ ~ ~ ~ Springville Museum of Art: Aretta Young, born September 10, 1864; died March 25, 1923, is of St. Charles, Idaho, and Provo, Utah. She was an art instructor at Brigham Young University around the turn of the century (ca. 1907) in the School of Arts. A daughter of Frank and Anna Young, Aretta Young attended Brigham Young Academy (BYU) beginning in 1883, and then went to New York State's Oswego Normal School in 1885. Also studying at Columbia University (Columbia Teachers) in 1905, she became a designer, watercolorist, oil painter, and poet whose monogram shows a large "A" with a squared top, with a small "Y" inside it. Aretta Young became an art teacher back in Utah; she also did calligraphy and drawings as well as watercolors of boats and figures in genre scenes done in this medium-- all these in a painterly and richly colored style.

Young, Christina D.

Young, Christina D.
Provo, Utah US

Christina Young

Faculty & Staff. Christina D. Young, Domestic Art teacher, 1893-1907. She appears in a photo of the first faculty to serve under Principal Benjamin Cluff in 1892. The Art Department was organized in 1893 under the noted Utah artist John Hafen, with Christina D. Young as his assistant. Hafen shared the art teaching duties with Edwin Evans and John B. Fairbanks, both of whom also became famous Utah painters.

Young, James Ira

Young, James Ira
Provo, Utah US

Ira [and Ruth] Young

Faculty and Staff. J. Ira Young. He started in 1947-48 at BY High as Librarian. He continued into the early 1950s. He taught Core / Social Studies. He married another BYH faculty member, Ms. Ruth Wilson, who taught Home Economics. [He is deceased.]

Young, Joseph Don Carlos

Young, Joseph Don Carlos
Salt Lake City, Utah US

Joseph D.C & Alice Young

Architect of the 1892 Brigham Young Academy Education Building. Board of Trustees, Brigham Young Academy, 1887 to 1901. Joseph Don Carlos Young. ~ ~ ~ ~ A note about names, thanks to David Young Thomas, great-grandson of Joseph Don Carlos Young. J.D.C. Young did not use "Sr." after his name, nor did his son "Jr." have the exact same name. Don Carlos Young, Jr. did not have "Joseph" as his first name, but he was so often mistaken by name with his father that he added "Jr." to the end to make sure they weren’t confused. ~ ~ ~ ~ 1994 Master's Thesis: by P. Bradford Westwood. The Early Life and Career of Joseph Don Carlos Young (1855-1938): A Study of Utah’s First Institutionally-Trained Architect. (NA02 1994 W538). Early buildings in Salt Lake City included the classically detailed Church headquarters building, whose architect was Joseph Don Carlos Young. With one exception, formally trained architects were rare in later nineteenth and early twentieth-century Utah. The exception, Joseph Don Carlos Young (1855-1938), the last surviving son of Brigham Young, was the first architect in Utah to receive a formal education. He majored in civil engineering at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, from 1875 to 1879. After graduating, he engaged in railroading and engineering and was a two-term Utah territorial legislator before turning to architecture. In 1887, he succeeded Truman Angell, Sr., as LDS Church architect and remained in that position for fifty years. ~ ~ ~ ~ BYA Faculty. Joseph Don Carlos Young. From 1886-1887 he taught Mathematics and Architecture at Brigham Young Academy in Provo. During 1888-1889 he taught Mechanical and Architectural Drafting in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Utah. Young was succeeded in this teaching role by William Ward, a stonecarver and sculptor, who turned architect after his return to Utah in 1888. Joseph D. C. Young, returned to Brigham Young Academy for the 1899-1900 school year to teach Mathematics and Architecture. It was natural for Dr. Karl G. Maeser and other members of the BYA Board to turn to Joseph Don Carlos Young, to design the new Academy building, which was completed and dedicated in January of 1892. In 1906, Young practiced in partnership with his son, Don Carlos Young, Jr. - a partnership that continued until 1915. The Salt Lake City Temple: The temple, considered a fine example of Romanesque Gothic architecture, was started by Truman O. Angell on April 6, 1853. Mr. Angell did not live to see his work completed and his assistant, Joseph Don Carlos Young, the son of Brigham Young, finished the project on April 6, 1893. ~ ~ ~ ~ Joseph H. Young, the grandson of Joseph Don Carlos Young, Sr., continued the family tradition of architecture. At age 74 he had worked on more than 300 buildings and was still an active architect. His father, Don Carlos Young Jr., was a primary architect for the original LDS Church Office Building on South Temple and Joseph H. Young worked on the 28-story LDS Church Office Building on North Temple. Joseph H. Young said Joseph Don Carlos Young not only supervised the completion of the outside of the Salt Lake Temple, but also designed all of the interior. He also changed Mr. Angell's plan to build the spires out of wood wrapped in sheet metal to granite just like the walls below. ~ ~ ~ ~ Joseph Don Carlos Young, Architect, was born May 6, 1855 at Salt Lake City, Utah. His parents were Brigham Young and Emily Dow Partridge. He first married September 22, 1881 at Salt Lake City, Utah to Alice Naomi Dowden. They had ten children, six sons and four daughters. He second married Marian Penelope Hardy on January 11, 1887, in Juarez, Mexico. He died on October 19, 1938, in Salt Lake City, Utah. His eldest son, Don Carlos Young, Jr., was also an architect. He was born August 5, 1882 and died on December 8, 1960, both events in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Young, Laura

Young, Laura
Provo, Utah US

Laura Young

Faculty & Staff. Laura Young, Training School, 1881-1884.

Young, Louise Leonard

Young, Louise Leonard
Provo, Utah US

Louise & S. Richmond Young

Faculty & Staff 1960s, including 1962-68 - Core & English Teacher. Louise Leonard Young. Louise was born June 27, 1903 in Farmington, Utah. Her parents: George Marvin Leonard & Mary Ann Sanders Leonard. She married Scott Richmond Young [S. Richmond Young] on November 12, 1928. Louise L. Young died in March of 1989.

Young, Susa

Young, Susa
Provo, Utah US

Susa and Jacob Gates

Faculty & Staff. Susa Young Gates, Domestic Science teacher, 1897-1903. Board of Trustees, Brigham Young Academy, 1891 to 1933. ~ ~ ~ ~ Susa (Susan, Susannah) Gates was born on March 18, 1856, in Salt Lake City. A writer, publisher, advocate for women's achievements, educator, missionary, genealogist, temple worker, wife, and mother of thirteen children, she was fond of saying, "Keep busy in the face of discouragement." The second daughter of Brigham Young's 22nd wife, Lucy Bigelow Young, Susa Young has been called "the most versatile and prolific LDS writer ever to take up the pen in defense of her religion". Following private education that included music and ballet, she entered the University of Deseret at age thirteen. The next year she became co-editor of the College Lantern, possibly the first western college newspaper. In 1872, at age sixteen, she married Dr. Alma Bailey Dunford; they had two children, Leah Eudora Dunford and Alma Bailey Dunford. The marriage ended in divorce in 1877. The next year, Susa entered Brigham Young academy in Provo and, while a student, founded the department of music and conducted a choir. During a trip to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), she renewed her acquaintance with Jacob F. Gates, whom she married on January 5, 1880. The success of their marriage has been attributed to their mutual respect for, and support of, one another's work. Only four of the eleven children born to this marriage survived to adulthood: Emma Lucy Gates Bowen, Brigham Cecil Gates, Harvey Harris (Hal) Gates [BYH Class of 1909~H?], and Franklin Young Gates. During the 1880s and 1890s, Susa Gates focused her energy on childbearing and child-rearing, missionary work, education, writing, and women's concerns. After completing a Church mission with her husband to the Sandwich Islands in 1889, she founded the Young Woman's Journal. It was adopted as the official magazine for the Young Ladies Mutual Improvement Association in 1897. She founded the Utah Woman's Press Club, became press chairman of the National Council of Women, and founded the Relief Society Magazine, which she edited until 1922. She wrote biographies of Lydia Knight and of her father, Brigham Young, novels including "John Stevens' Courtship" and "The Prince of Ur" -- a pamphlet entitled the "Teachings of Brigham Young," and a history of women in the Church, on which she was still working at the time of her death. Concern for women's achievements was a prominent force in Susa Gates's life. During the 1890s, while she was most occupied with raising her own children, she became a charter member of the National Household Economic Association and was a representative to women's congresses in Denver, Washington, D.C., Toronto, and London, where she was invited to speak on the topic "Equal Moral Standards for Men and Women" and where she joined other women of the International Council, including Susan B. Anthony, for tea with Queen Victoria. At the turn of the century, Susa suffered a nervous and physical breakdown. Ill for three years, she was forced to terminate a mission that she and her husband had begun in 1902. A priesthood blessing that promised her she would live to do temple work marked the beginning of her recovery. She underwent a year of intense spiritual introspection and later wrote of that period, "I disciplined my taste, my desires and my impulses — severely disciplining my appetite, my tongue, my acts … and how I prayed!" (Person, p. 212). While maintaining her commitments to family and women's advancement, she focused her energy on genealogy and temple work. In 1906, Susa Young Gates organized genealogical departments in two newspapers, the Inter Mountain Republican and the Deseret News, and wrote columns for both papers over the next ten years. She produced instructional manuals for genealogists, devised a systematic index of names for the Church, and published the Surname Book and Racial History. In 1915, she introduced genealogical class work at the International Genealogy Conference in San Francisco and became head of the Research Department and Library of the Genealogical Society of Utah in 1923. She personally cataloged more than 16,000 names of the Young family. She spent much time in the last years of her life doing ordinance work in the Salt Lake Temple with her husband. She died on May 27, 1933. More biographical information

Young, Zina

Young, Zina
Salt Lake City, Utah US

Zina & Thomas/ Chas. Williams/Card

Class of 1880? Faculty & Staff. Zina Young Williams, Training School, 1879-1884. Board of Directors, 1918 to 1930. A daughter of Brigham Young, Zina Young was born April 3, 1850, in the "old log row the first house built by Brigham Young after he entered the Salt Lake Valley." She was given the name of her mother, Zina Diantha Huntington Young, by her father. The Huntington family roots dated back to England. The family immigrated to America in 1633 and established themselves in the state of Massachusetts. They were strict Presbyterians. Samuel Huntington was reportedly one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Zina D. H. Young herself, Zina Card's mother, was a notable figure of Mormon history. Married first to Henry Bailey Jacobs, then sealed to Joseph Smith and then Brigham Young, she was the wife of two prophets. She, like her daughter who would follow, worked in the Church Relief Society, was matron at the Salt Lake Temple and later, General President of the Relief Society. Zina Card and her mother, Zina D. H. Young, were close. Family papers are replete with references to this mother and daughter bond. In the Brigham Young family Zina Card, the daughter, grew up as one of "the big ten"--this was what President Young called his ten eldest daughters and it gave young Zina both refined learning opportunities and a position of prominence. She moved into the "Lion House" when she was six years of age and lived with twenty-nine other children. Zina wrote affectionately of her life in her father's home: "How joyous were our lives. There were so many girls of nearly the same age, and everything was so nice. Our mothers all occupied their apartments on the center floor. The upper floor we children had for bedrooms. Downstairs were the dining room, kitchen, wash room, school room, weave room, and cellars. The parlor, a large well-lighted, well-furnished and well-kept room was the place where our father assembled his family every evening for prayers. No scene is more vivid in my mind than the gathering of our mothers with their families around them, our loved and honored father sitting by the round table in the center of the room. We all controlled every childish display of temper or restlessness, and a sweet spirit of reverence pervaded all hearts. His presence was commanding and comforting, a peaceful control of his family that brought love and respect for him and each other, and his prayers were the grandest and most impressive I have ever heard." Brigham Young tried to provide a good education for his children and "to give everyone in his family an opportunity for knowledge, improvement and culture". They had a music teacher, a dance teacher and a governess. When they had learned a song, a dance or a part in a play they performed it for their father. Zina's first educational classroom experience was conducted in the basement of the Lion House, where Harriet Cook, another one of Brigham Young's wives, conducted school classes for the children. Zina was first married, at the age of eighteen, to Thomas Williams. Williams, age 40, was an employee of Brigham Young. He had worked as manager of the Salt Lake Theatre and as Young's bookkeeper for several years. Little was written of this relationship perhaps because William's death cut it short. John Taylor became the third President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving from October 10, 1880 to July 25, 1887. Some months after becoming President of the Church, President Taylor was visited by Zina Young Williams, the Dean of Women of the Brigham Young Academy in Provo and a daughter of Brigham Young. The Academy was less than a decade old and was experiencing serious financial difficulties that, if not resolved, would mean its closing. After listening to Sister Williams's plea for help, President Taylor took her hand "in a fatherly way" and said: "My dear child, I have something of importance to tell you that I know will make you happy. I have been visited by your father. He came to me in the silence of the night clothed in brightness and with a face beaming with love and confidence told me things of great importance and among others that the school being taught by Brother [Karl G.] Maeser was accepted in the heavens and was a part of the great plan of life and salvation; . . . and there was a bright future in store for . . . preparing . . . the children of the covenant for future usefulness in the Kingdom of God, and that Christ himself was directing, and had a care over this school." [Leonard J. Arrington, ed., The Presidents of the Church (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1986), pp. 108-109] Zina and Charles Ora Card's relationship began at the time she was Matron of Brigham Young Academy. Card had two of his own children, from his first marriage, who were in attendance and Zina was involved in counselling his daughter. Card saw his daughter's disenchantment with her father and his Church as a result of his controversial (polygamous) public life, and he encouraged her to seek out "Sister Zina and allow her to advise you." Card made several trips to Provo visiting his own children and was also reportedly heroic in saving some of the books and valuable papers from a fire which almost destroyed the school. The relationship between Zina and Card grew serious following the dedication of the Logan Temple. Zina and her mother had been called to work in the Temple, May 19 [1884]. They were considering the purchase of C.O. Card's home in Logan where they expected to live and work in the temple. It was on May 25, 1884 while at her home in Provo making provisions to move to Logan that she received a letter from C.O. Card proposing marriage: While she respected him very much she had never thought of marrying him. She deferred answering him until she went back to Logan. She had a dream that convinced her that he was the right man. They were married on the 17th of the following June, 1884. She was thirty-four years of age, he was forty-five. Zina returned to Logan from Canada in 1903 after her husband became ill, in Cardston, and after his death, at age 67, September 9, 1906, she moved to Salt Lake City where she lived the remainder of her life. Zina had five children--Sterling Williams, Thomas Edgar Williams; and Joseph Young, Zina Young (the third Zina) and Orson Rega Card. She was appointed as a member of the L.D.S. Primary General Board, where she served for the next fifteen years, and assumed the duties as matron of the L.D.S. Business School in Salt Lake City. On January 31, 1931, at 81 years of age Zina passed away quietly in her sleep.

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