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The Brigham Young Center The Brigham Young Center exists to advance two close related goals Brigham Young was born on June 1 1801 in Whitingham Vermont shortly after his family39s move from Hopkinton Massachusetts. A product of a strict Methodist upbringing he worked as a glazier and artisan before joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints serving out the remainder of his life as a missionary Apostle and finally President of the Church until his death in 1877. No historical figure had a greater role in the development of the American West than Brigham Young. His influence for more than three decades on the development and historical trajectory of the Church and on Mormon country was even greater.