Harmer, Mabel, 1894-

Clarissa Young Spencer

Clarissa Young Spencer was born July 23, 1860 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her mother was Lucy Decker Young, Brigham Young's first plural wife. Clarissa was Brigham Young's fifty-first child and enjoyed a close relationship with her father. Clarissa was her mother's sixth child out of seven. She grew up in the Beehive House, which her mother who owned the title. She married John Daniel Spencer on January 19, 1882 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Clarissa wrote down many of her memories which have been published in several books, including ‘Brigham Young at home' written in 1940.

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