Appleton Milo Harmon's early history and journal for his travels through the United States, England, and Scotland in 1850, 1851, and 1852... [microform]: c.1842-1853
Microfilm of Appleton Milo Harmon's autobiography and journal of his British mission from 1850-1853. The autobiography traces his childhood and his family's early conversion to Mormonism their travels from Pennsylvania to Kirtland, Springfield, and Nauvoo Harmon's 1842 mission to New York his journey form Nauvoo to Council Bluffs and Winter Quarters, recalling the winter of 1846-1847 and detailed accounts of his overland travels from Winter Quarters to Utah and back. Some of the specific incidents he recounts include the violent backlash of "enemies" after the election of Brigham Young as Church president in 1845 the formation of the Mormon Battalion and encounters with Indians, particularly the Omaha. The rest of the volume contains diary entries from Harmon's mission to England and Scotland. After a detailed account of his slow overland trip and ocean crossing, Harmon records his mission experiences in Manchester, Sheffield, Newcastle, Sunderland, Carlisle, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. Most of the entries focus on Harmon's attendance of Church conferences and notes on baptisms, births, marriage, and deaths. He also describes his trip to London (which included visits to the Thames Tunnel and British Museum) and sinful behavior he believed was caused by a "fever" for gold in Australia. The volume ends with an account of his return voyage to the United States in 1853. All inquiries about this item should be directed to the H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western Historical Manuscripts, the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Microfilm. San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library Photographic Dept., 1946. 1 microfilm reel : negative 35 mm. Forms part of the Manuscripts Department's Mormon file, c.1805-1995. Appleton Milo Harmon (1820-1877) was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania. His mother was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1835 and the family moved to Kirtland, Ohio. Harmon's father and siblings joined the Church in 1838 and they settled in Springfield, Illinois, before moving to Nauvoo in 1840. Harmon was baptized in 1841 and in 1842 served on a mission to New York. In 1846 he and his family departed Nauvoo for Council Bluffs, and they spent the winter of 1846-1947 camped at Winter Quarters, Nebraska. Harmon crossed the plains to Utah in 1847 and returned to Winter Quarters for the rest of his family in 1848. From 1850-1853 he served on a mission to England and Scotland. He lived in Salt Lake City until 1862, when he was called by Brigham Young to help colonize the area around Washington and St. George. He settled in Holden, Utah, in 1872, and died there in 1877.
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