Willard Richards records Brigham teaching that "we are all father Adams"; the title "Father" only properly applies to "Father Adam" who is "our Father in heaven."
Willard Richards Journal, February 16, 1847, Willard Richards journals and papers, 1821-1854, MS 1490, Church History Library
. . .we are all father adams . . . as soon at the time times I shall pass the chain to father adam. . . . I want to stop your calling me father Young. in the Priesthood. the term properly applies to father adam, & to our father in heaven.