Microfilm of the diaries of Oz Flake, kept from 1893-1899. The first volume is identified as Record of the Life of O.D. Flake, Snowflake, Book A, and is dated 1893. It opens with a brief autobiography of Flake's life through about 1893, and then transitions into diary entries beginning in about 1894. The diary covers Flake's life in Arizona and an 1896 trip to California. The second volume is identified as Record C and records Flake's 1897-1898 mission to the southern states, particularly Mississippi. The second reel contains a diary dated 1898, which covers the southern states mission in Mississippi as well as stops in Tennessee, New Orleans, and St. Louis. The final volume is identified as Record E and covers Flake's mission in Mississippi from 1898-1899. 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. 2 microfilm reels : negative 35 mm. Forms part of the Manuscripts Department's Mormon file, c.1805-1995. Osmer "Oz" Dennis Flake (1868-1958), a son of William Jordan Flake and Lucy Hannah White Flake, was born in Beaver, Utah. In 1877 his family moved to Arizona, and, along with Erastus Snow, founded the community of Snowflake. In 1895 Oz was made clerk of the District Court in Navajo County, Arizona. From 1897-1900 he served on a mission to the southern states, particularly Mississippi. After briefly living in California in 1908 he returned to Arizona and was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in 1916. Flake served additional missions to the southern states in 1925 and 1942-1943. He died in Phoenix in 1958.
Extent
Reel one contains 281 frames.;Reel two contains 195 frames.
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