List of Brigham Young's wives

[6] Of his fifty-six wives, twenty-one had never been married before; seventeen were widows; six were divorced; six had living husbands; and the marital status of six others is unknown.

[1] At the time of Young's death, twenty of his wives had predeceased him, he was divorced from ten, and twenty-three survived him, with the status of four unknown.

[8] Artemus Ward, a well-known comedian at the time, shared a speculation of his own after a journey to Utah: "I have somewhere stated that Brigham Young is said to have eighty wives.

I undertook to count his long stockings on the clothes-line in the back yard, one day, and I used up the multiplication table in less than half an hour.

Near the end of his life, Amelia Folsom (m. 1863) would become his most significant female companion, and would often accompany Young to dances and to the theater, as well as on tours of the Mormon settlements.

[2] Young wanted to make his home a model which others could emulate, and is reported by his children to have been a loving, caring, and concerned husband and father.

This building remains a Salt Lake City landmark, together with the Beehive House, another Brigham Young family home built in 1854.

[16] Young also maintained a recreation room outfitted with a stage for variety shows and theatrical productions, as well as a long porch to serve as a gymnasium.