Woodbury, John Stillman, 1825-1914.

John Stillman Woodbury was born on November 20, 1825, in New Salem, Massachusetts. His family was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1841 and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, and then to Salt Lake City in 1847. In 1850 Woodbury was called on a mission to the Sandwich Islands by Brigham Young, traveling first with Parley Pratt to California before arriving in Hawaii in 1851. Woodbury remained in Hawaii for four years and returned to Salt Lake in 1856, when he also divorced his first wife, Elvira Stevens. He returned to Hawaii in 1857 but was called back to Utah in 1858 during the Utah War and subsequently helped settle St. George. He married Martha Alice Parker in 1864 and returned to Hawaii on a final mission trip in 1877. Woodbury died on December 21, 1914, in St. George.

From the description of Diaries of John Stillman Woodbury, 1851-1857. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 658045426

Mormon missionary and patriarch. Pioneer to St. George, Utah.

From the guide to the John Stillman Woodbury photographs, 1878-1890, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)

Mormon missionary in Hawaii.

From the description of John Stillman Woodbury diaries, 1851-1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367407690

From the guide to the John Stillman Woodbury diaries, 1851-1877, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)