The Deseret Alphabet was conceived by Brigham Young, who thought of the reform of the English language as just one more part of reforming the world. The idea probably came to him as early as when he attended some phonographic classes given by George D. Watt, an early Mormon convert in Great Britain. Watt had learned a method of shorthand called phonography, which was originated by Isaac Pitman. Phonography had forty different sounds, but was able to take less time and space to write than the conventional system. 1845
[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Deseret Alphabet, http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/d/DESERETALPHA.html]
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