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When we saw the question, our reaction was, well, that's easy. They will all get it! Amazing that none did, and all had the same wrong answer. But at least there is a University named after Young, so maybe it wasn't totally Huh?? where that that come from??

My brain went "Who were the railroad dudes? Okay, any of them found a univeristy?"

I've always assumed BYU was named for Brigham Young, not that he founded it and named him after himself. I mean, what kind of narcissist does that?

The origin of Brigham Young University can be traced back to 1862, when Warren Dusenberry started a Provo school in Cluff Hall, a prominent adobe building in the northeast corner of 200 East and 200 North.[21] After some financial difficulties, the school was recreated in the Kinsey and Lewis buildings on Center street in Provo, and after gaining some recognition for its quality, was adopted to become the Timpanogos branch of the University of Deseret. When financial difficulty forced another closure, on October 16, 1875, Brigham Young, then president of the LDS Church, deeded the property to trustees to create Brigham Young Academy after earlier hinting a school would be built in Draper, Utah, in 1867.[22] Hence, October 16, 1875, is commonly held as BYU's founding date.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigham_Young_University

[82lsju]

When we saw the question, our reaction was, well, that's easy. They will all get it! Amazing that none did, and all had the same wrong answer. But at least there is a University named after Young, so maybe it wasn't totally Huh?? where that that come from??

My brain went "Who were the railroad dudes? Okay, any of them found a univeristy?"

I've always assumed BYU was named for Brigham Young, not that he founded it and named him after himself. I mean, what kind of narcissist does that?

The origin of Brigham Young University can be traced back to 1862, when Warren Dusenberry started a Provo school in Cluff Hall, a prominent adobe building in the northeast corner of 200 East and 200 North.[21] After some financial difficulties, the school was recreated in the Kinsey and Lewis buildings on Center street in Provo, and after gaining some recognition for its quality, was adopted to become the Timpanogos branch of the University of Deseret. When financial difficulty forced another closure, on October 16, 1875, Brigham Young, then president of the LDS Church, deeded the property to trustees to create Brigham Young Academy after earlier hinting a school would be built in Draper, Utah, in 1867.[22] Hence, October 16, 1875, is commonly held as BYU's founding date.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigham_Young_University