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PORT BYRON, N.Y. (AP) — A descendant of early Mormon church leader Brigham Young has bought the central New York home where his ancestor lived two decades before leading the Mormon migration to Utah.
The Citizen of Auburn reports (http://bit.ly/1Iu9lTv ) retired federal prosecutor Richard Lambert purchased the home for $30,000 in April. The dilapidated two-room building sits on property in the village of Port Byron, on the New York State Thruway 25 miles west of Syracuse.
Lambert says old letters in the Mormon library in Salt Lake City prove Young and his first wife lived in the home in the late 1820s, a few years before he became a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Lambert is vice chairman of the Salt Lake City-based Mormon Historic Sites Foundation. He plans to restore the house next summer.
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