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Title
Journal of Hosea Stout, vol.8, [microform]: 1829-1889
Creator
Stout, Hosea, 1810-1889
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Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Mormonism and the West
Rights Information
For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
Microfilm of the Journal of Hosea Stout, Vol. 8, 1829-1889. Divided into four parts. Part I includes letters to and from Stout and the Capps family, Stout's wives Surmantha and Louisa, Allen J. Stout, Benjamin Jones, William Fowler, Thomas Smith, John Larkey, Major General Wilson Law, Hyrum Smith, Willard Richards, Charles C. Rich, Parley Pratt, John Taylor, Brigham Young, and various letters related the Nauvoo Legion. It also contains proclamations and certificates regarding Stout's elections to the Representative Assembly for the Utah Territory and related events, as well as a family record of births, marriages, and deaths. Part II includes Stout's phonographical chart book and items related to the Nauvoo Legion. Part III includes references to Stout from the Journal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1838-1889). Part IV consists of family reminiscences of Stout by L. Lee. Includes a detailed index of contents. The reel also contains a printed biography of Stout. The Huntington also has a related printed photostat of much of the same material (FAC 1970). There is also a second microfilm reel containing the same material (MSS MFILM 00387). All inquiries about this item 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., 1948. 1 microfilm reel : negative 35 mm. Forms part of the Manuscripts Department's Mormon file, c.1805-1995.
Hosea Stout, one of the most prolific Mormon diarists, was born on September 18, 1810, in Mercer County, Kentucky. He attended a Shaker school from 1814-1818 before his family moved to Ohio and later Indiana. While living in Illinois in 1832 Stout heard the preaching of Charles C. Rich and became interested in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1837 he moved to Caldwell County, Missouri, and was baptized into the Mormon Church in 1838. That same year he married Surmantha Pack, served with David Patten's company in the Battle of Crooked River, and escaped with the rest of the Mormon militia to Iowa. Following Surmantha's death in 1839, Stout married Louisa Taylor, Lucretia Fisher, and Marinda Bennett, although each of these wives had either left him or died by 1847. The Stouts joined the Mormons in Nauvoo, Illinois, and Stout became a brigadier general in the Nauvoo Legion. In 1846 the Stouts left Nauvoo and spent 1846-1847 at Winter Quarters, Nebraska. Stout finally arrived in Salt Lake City in 1848, and was soon made a member of the House of Representatives and also served as attorney general and States Attorney, in addition to being one of the first practicing lawyers in Utah. In 1853 Stout served on a brief mission to China, and once back in Utah was made Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1856. He lived on the Cotton Mission from 1861 to 1865 and spent six months in prison at Camp Douglas for the murder of Richard Yates during the Utah War. In 1877 Stout moved to Holladay, Utah, with his wife Sarah Jones. He died in Holladay on March 2, 1889.
Type
text
Format
PDF
Extent
280 frames.
Identifier
MSS MFilm 00089
446154
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll15/id/4219
Subject
Stout, Hosea, 1810-1889
Illinois. Militia. Nauvoo Legion
Mormon families
Mormon missionaries--China
Mormons--Genealogy
Mormons--History--19th century
Mormons--Utah--History--19th century
Mormons--West (U.S.)--History
1829-1889
1889
Diaries Utah 19th century. (aat)
Letters (correspondence) 19th century. (aat)
Source
Mormon Manuscripts at the Huntington Library ; Mormon file, c.1805-1995.
Mormonism and the West, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Microfilm of original loaned by L.C. Lee, March 10, 1948.

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