Levi Edgar Young

Levi Edgar Young

1874–1963 (89 years)

Hometown: Salt Lake City, Utah

Biography

Levi Edgar Young was a General Authority in the First Council of the Seventy for 54 years. He was a professor of Western History at the University of Utah and a great-nephew of Brigham Young. He reportedly expressed private doubts about the historicity of the Book of Mormon and once mentioned a document in church archives that contradicted the official first vision narrative.