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Utah Central Railroad Annual Pass (1871) Signed by Apostle Joseph A. Young (Son of Brigham Young)

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Utah Central Railroad Annual Pass (1871) Signed by Apostle Joseph A. Young (Son of Brigham Young)
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Historic Utah railroad pass for a railroad line that epitomized the early push from the Mormon church to gain more national recognition from Salt Lake City. Pass issued for 1871 to W.W. Walker, chief engineer for the Sioux City & Pacific Railroad. Signed by Jos. A. Young as superintendent. Reverse has conditions. Printed on cardstock with toning. Joseph Angell Young (1834-1875) was an apostle and the eldest son of Brigham Young, second President of the LDS Church. He came to Salt Lake City with his family in 1847 from Illinois. After serving as a missionary for the church in England in the mid 1850s, Joseph returned to Salt Lake City and worked for lumber industries and became involved with this railroad. His father, Brigham, appointed him and two of his brothers to the priesthood office of apostle without adding them to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Joseph became active in Utah Territory politics and served in Utah's House of Representatives. In 1872, Young looked over the Sevier District of the church (in present-day central Utah). He served only a few months as the first stake president of the Sevier Stake before dying unexpectedly in Manti, Utah Territory at the age of forty.



The Utah Central Railroad was the Mormon Church's response to the First Transcontinental Railroad. Brigham Young was not happy that Union Pacific had chosen to go through Ogden and not Salt Lake City: "We want [the railroad] in this city where it belongs ... the attempt to carry it in that [north] direction is an insult to the people of this city, for in so doing they have tried to shun us." In 1869 (the same year of the Golden Spike), he organized the Utah Central Railroad. The 40 mile line north to Ogden was completed by January 1870. Besides the Transcontinental Railroad, the Utah Central holds the distinction of being the first railroad in Utah. Young called it "the first railroad built and owned by the people of this territory." In 1878, Union Pacific took control of the railroad. (Prag Collection) City: Salt Lake City State: Utah, Date: Inventory# 41054