Brigham Young calls God the Father and Framer of our Spirits and is a "Being," not a "nonentity."
Brigham Young, "The Power of Tradition on the Human Mind," Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: Horace S. Eldredge, 1871), 13:250
We believe in our Father, and do not apply this term to a nonentity—to a fancied something that never existed; the application would not be correct. We do not so use language. We use this term to a being, and we claim this title as children. He is our Father; He is our God, and the Father of our spirits; He is the framer of our bodies, and set the machine in successful operation to bring forth these tabernacles that I now look upon in this building, and all that ever did or ever will live on the face of the whole earth.