Note: I will be adding transcripts as people contribute them (volunteers needed for transcribing—contact Ben Parkinson, webmaster). If you have additional histories of Seymour or other family members, I would like to add those too.

Seymour Bicknell Young

• Seymour Bicknell Young, Diaries, around 40 volumes, Historical Department Archives, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These mix family and Church business so are restricted. I have notes on several volumes, particularly on his 1857 mission to England and his experiences in the Union Army.
• ———, Diary, 22 Feb.–22 Apr. 1876, transcript, in Miriam B. Murphy Papers, 1970–1988, Utah State Historical Society.
• ———, Letter, 9 July 1910, relating events of his life, 3 page typescript on First Council of Seventies letterhead
• ———, Letters to Seymour B. Young Jr., missionary letters, c. 1891, in possession of Benson Young Parkinson
• ———, Note on Experiences Building Utah Central Railroads, in Kate B. Carter, ed., Hidden Treasures of Pioneer History, Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1952, 1:24–25
• ———, Account of Joseph Young's death and funeral, 6-pages, in Joseph Young Papers, University of Utah Special Colletions
• Emily M. Brinton, Letter to Young Women's Journal, 17 Jul. 1902, Young Woman's Journal, vol. 13 (Oct. 1902), no. 10, p. 465; note on Seymour's first mission, and an 1857 photo of Seymour and companion
• "Seymour B. Young," in Andrew Jenson, comp., Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia (1901), 1:200–202
• Seymour B. Young Jr., "The First State Mental Hospital," 26 Jan. 1938, 1 page typescript.
• Maryan Lambert Watrous, "Dr. Seymour Bicknell Young," 8 page typescript; edited version appears in Kate B. Carter, ed. Our Pioneer Heritage, (Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1958), 20:59–62.
• Louine Young Cromar, "Life of Dr. Seymour Bicknell Young," 2 page typescript. Heading on page 2 is "Dr. Seymour B. Young's Family."
• Preston Nibley, Biographical Sketch, in "Clifford E. Young: Assistant to the Council of the Twelve," Improvement Era, March 1957, 145–46
• "Seymour B. Young Joins Father in High Church Council," LDS Leaders of Prominence, Church News, 9 Feb. 1963
• Hortense Young Hammond, Interviewed by Leonard R. Grover, 15 Mar. 1980, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, LDS Polygamy Oral History Project, 21 page typescript, BYU Special Collections.
• Hortense Young Hammond, Interviewed by Scott Hammond, 1981, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, LDS Polygamy Oral History Project, 1959–1982, 14 page typescript, BYU Special Collections.
• Obituary, Improvement Era, Vol. Xxviii. Jan. 1925 No. 3.

Ann Elizabeth Riter Young

• Levi Edgar Young, "Elizabeth Riter's Christmas," in "Christmas Day on the Old Frontier," Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Dec. 1922, society section p. 9
• ———, "My Mother," Improvement Era, May 1958
• ——— and others, "History of Ann Elizabeth Riter Young, Pioneer of 1847," submitted to DUP by member of LaBrea Camp, 8 page typescript;
• Seymour Bicknell Young Jr., "Ann Elizabeth Riter Young," 2 page typescript, dated 3 June 1932, with comments added by Louine Y. Cromar on 1 Feb. 1981.

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