John Stillman Woodbury diaries, 1851-1877.

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John Stillman Woodbury diaries, 1851-1877.

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Handwritten diaries for the years 1851, 1853 to 1855, 1857, and 1876 to 1877. These are all missionary journals kept on various missions for the Mormon Church to Hawaii. Woodbury comments on visits from Mormon Church Apostles and writes about leaving Utah for Hawaii during the Mormon "Reformation" in 1857 and being called to return to face the approach of the U.S. Army.

13 v. (0.5 linear ft.)

Harold B. Lee Library

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Mormon Church

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Woodbury, John Stillman, 1825-1914.

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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...

Utah Expedition (1857-1858)

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