Harriet Page Wheeler Decker Young, one of the three original pioneer women of Utah, was in a sense the matriarch of the three, as she was the actual mother of one of them, Clara, President Brigham Young’s wife. She was born of Welsh ancestry on September 7, 1803, at Hillsboro, New Hampshire, a daughter of Oliver Wheeler and Hannah Ashby, was reared in Salem, Massachusetts, her mother’s home, and after a brief schooling, was employed in one of the local mills, where she became an expert spinner of flax and wool. When she was seventeen, she moved to Ontario County, …