Microfilm of eighteen diary volumes kept by Oliver B. Huntington between 1843 and 1899. The first reel contains volumes 1-11. The first volume is a partial autobiography that includes a history of Huntington's early life and detailed diary entries on his mission to New York in 1843. The second volume is entitled "Compilations of short sketches and journals, commenced December 10, 1845," and includes a more detailed autobiography and diary entries with references to persecutions of Mormons in Missouri, life in Kirtland and Nauvoo, Huntington's 1843 mission, and starting on his mission to England in 1846. Volumes 3-8 cover Huntington's English mission from 1846-1847, and volume 9 was kept while he was living in Cambria, New York, in 1847-1848. Volume 10 traces Huntington's overland travels to Utah in 1848. Volume 11 was kept while Huntington was traveling overland to Nauvoo in 1849, living in New York from 1850-1852, traveling back to Utah in 1852, traveling in Nevada in 1854, teaching school in Utah, and serving on an Indian mission in 1855. 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., 1947. 2 microfilm reels : negative 35 mm. Forms part of the Manuscripts Department's Mormon file, c.1805-1995. Oliver B. Huntington (1823-1907), a son of William Huntington and Zina Baker Huntington, was born in Jefferson County, New York. In 1835 his family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and moved to Kirtland in 1836. They moved to Missouri in 1838 and later to Nauvoo. Huntington served on a mission to New York in 1843 and to England in 1846-1847. He traveled to Utah in 1848, returned to New York for a time, and finally settled in Utah in 1852. Huntington primarily lived in Springville and worked as a school superintendent, bee inspector, farmer, and stock raiser. He died in Springville in 1907.
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Source
Mormon Manuscripts at the Huntington Library Mormonism and the West, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Microfilm of originals loaned by Brigham Young University through Juanita Brooks, July 17, 1947.
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