[Albert Carrington] During the exodus of the Saints from Nauvoo and their difficult period in the camps at Council Bluffs and Far West, three of the Carringtons' four children died. Carrington was chosen by Brigham Young to be a member of the Council of Fifty, the chief administrative body of the church, and was a member of the pioneer party to the Great Basin in . He returned to Iowa to move his family to Salt Lake City and became very prominent in Utah political and administrative affairs. He served as assessor, collector of taxes, treasurer of the provisional government of Utah, one of the men who helped draft a constitution for proposed statehood, speaker of the house in the new government, and personal secretary to Brigham Young. He also entered the practice of polygamy by taking a second wife. 1847
[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Albert Carrington, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/c/CARRINGTON%2CALBERT.html]
[Utah History Encyclopedia: Albert Carrington, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/c/CARRINGTON%2CALBERT.html]
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