Microfilm of eight diary volumes kept by Ammon M. Tenney between 1887 and 1921. The first volume is dated 1887-1890 and recalls Tenney's mission to Mexico. The following seven volumes, identified as Books 1-7, were primarily kept while Tenney was living in Mexico avoiding polygamy charges from 1901-1911. The diaries describes Tenney's daily life primarily around Colonia Juarez, as well as Mormon Church and theological issues and his visits with missionaries and fellow exiles. The final diary was begun while Tenney was living in Thatcher, Arizona, and covers his life in and around Arizona from 1915-1921. The first reel contains the diaries dated 1887-1890, 1901, 1902, and 1904-1905 the second reel contains the diaries dated 1906-1907, 1907-1909, 1909-1911, and 1915-1921. All inquiries about these items should be directed to the H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western Historical Manuscripts at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Microfilm. San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library Photographic Dept., 1954. 2 microfilm reels : negative 35 mm. Forms part of the Manuscripts Department's Mormon file, c.1805-1995. Ammon Meshach Tenney (1844-1925) was born in Lee County, Iowa. His family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 1840s and emigrated to Utah in 1848. The family then lived in San Bernardino, California, for a time before returning to Utah in 1858. In 1859 Ammon was called to work on an Indian mission to the Hopi and Kaibab tribes, and also did mission work among the Zuni and Isleta Pueblos people in Arizona and Mexico. He began settlement of St. Johns, Arizona, in 1879. Tenney served on missions to Mexico in 1876 and 1887-1889, and was made president of the Mexican Mission in 1901. In 1884 he was imprisoned on polygamy charges, and in 1890 returned to Mexico with his polygamous wives until about 1912. All of his wives later separated from him, and Tenney died in Thatcher, Arizona, in 1925.
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758 frames: Reel one contains 360 frames.;Reel two contains 398 frames.
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