Microfilm of assorted diaries, account books, and notes kept by James Stephen Brown. The microfilm includes fragments of diaries dated Ogden City 1860, Calhoun, Iowa, 1849, and Salt Lake 1859 a diary identified as Nottingham, England, which opens in 1857, when Brown delayed his mission work to participate in the Utah War, and traces his travels through Utah, his overland journey to New York, and his mission in England from 1860-1861 a second diary covering Brown's mission in England an 1872 diary tracing his mission work in New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts an 1875-1876 diary describing his travels through Utah and mission to Navajos in Arizona assorted family notes dated 1900 a typescript of Brown's 1875-1876 Navajo diary an 1875-1876 Utah diary a diary dated 1892 tracing a mission to the Society Islands an account book dated 1863-1866 and a diary dated 1870, which mainly contains account notes from 1866-1870. 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., 1968. 1 microfilm reel : negative 35 mm. Forms part of the Manuscripts Department's Mormon file, c.1805-1995. James Stephens Brown (1828-1902) was born in Davidson County, North Carolina. He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Illinois in 1844. He joined the Mormon Battalion and marched to California, and following his discharge in 1847 worked at Sutter's Mill. In 1848 Brown moved to Salt Lake City. He served on a mission to the Society Islands in 1849, on Utah Indian missions in the 1850s, and on a mission to Great Britain until 1862. After his return to Utah his lost one of his legs in an accident but still spent much of his time lecturing throughout the state. Brown was also the author of an autobiography, Life of a Pioneer, Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown. He died in Salt Lake City in 1902.
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