Confirmation of Brigham Young Being Sealed to Julia Dean on September 15, 1869

 In their book, Mormonism: Shadow or Reality?, one finds the following claim concerning Brigham Young and 19^th-century actress Julia Dean:

 

The fact that Brigham Young did have Julia Dean sealed to himself was verified by Stanley S. Ivins when he was doing research in the Endowment House Records for August 16, 1866, to September 30, 1870. He found that on September 15, 1869, Brigham Young was sealed to the actress Julia Dean Amelia Folsom Young acted as “proxy.” (Jerald Tanner and Sandra Tanner, Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? [5^th ed.; Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, 1987], 212)

 

The Tanners do not give a reference to where in Ivins’s papers one could find this claim. Further, I could not find any references to this in the various biographies of Brigham Young I have read, nor in a PhD dissertation on Julia Dean, Ralph Elliot Margetts, A Study of the Theatrical Career of Julia Dean Hayne (Department of Speech, University of Utah, 1959).

Notwithstanding, I did manage to find the location of the record in “The Endowment House Records for Aug. 16, 1866 to Sept. 30, 1870, Vol. E 1 Jan 1867-16 Aug 1869 Vol. F 16 Aug 1869-30 Sep 1870,” in the Family Search Library in Salt Lake City.

 

My friend Tyler Golightly kindly offered to go to the Family Search Library for me. While he could not get a scan of the relevant entry, he did make this transcription:

 

 

 

Here is a cleaned-up version:

 

Names	Remarks & Names of proxy	When Born As before
Brigham Young
Julia Dean	dead	1822
Amelia Folsom Young	proxy

 

When Sealed:	By Whom Sealed:	Where Sealed:	Names of Witnesses
15 Sept 1869	D. H. Wells	Endowment Hs.	Jos. Young, Sr. Eliza R. Snow