Microfilm of two of Henry C. Jacobs' diaries, kept while he was serving as a missionary in England and Scotland from 1867-1870. The first volume covers June-December 1867, including a detailed account of Jacobs' overland journey from Utah, which included stops at Bear River, Soda Springs, Fort Bridger, the Green River, Bitter Creek, Sulpher Station, the Platte River, the Laramie River, the Black Hills, Omaha, Council Bluffs, the Mississippi River, Chicago, Detroit, Syracuse, and New York City. He sailed from New York on July 6, arriving in Liverpool on July 18. The rest of the volume recounts his missionary experiences in and around Birmingham, including at Lichfield, West Bromwich, Walsall, Chasetown, Wolverhampton, and Moxby. The volume ends with recipes for hair oils and pomatums. The second volume begins in December 1868, and gives an account of Jacobs' mission work in Manchester, Oldham, Haywood, Radcliffe, Ashton, Bradford, Leigh, Royton, Stockport, Tottington, Birkenhead, Rockdale, and Bolton. He recalls attending a Church conference in Glasgow in March 1869, and he returned to the Scottish mission from July 1868 to June 1870. The diary also includes references to a trip Jacobs made to Ireland in April 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., 1946. 1 microfilm reel : negative 35 mm. Forms part of the Manuscripts Department's Mormon file, c.1805-1995. Henry Chariton Jacobs (1846-1915) was born in Lucas County, Iowa, the son of Henry Bailey Jacobs and Zina Diantha Huntington, a future plural wife of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. He was brought by his mother to Salt Lake City and baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1854. In 1862 he traveled across the plains and back with a company of Mormon emigrants under Ansel P. Harmon, and was frequently sent to St. George and elsewhere as a teamster. In 1867 he was sent on a mission to Great Britain, working in Birmingham and Manchester before leading a Scottish mission in 1870. In 1873 Jacobs was named to the first High Council of the Sevier Stake. He lived in Sevier county from 1872-1877, and from 1877-1884 worked for the Utah and Nevada Railway Company. He was made bishop of the Ogden Fifth Ward in 1909 and ordained as a patriarch in 1914. Jacobs died in Ogden in 1915.
Jacobs, Henry Chariton, 1846-1915 Mormon missionaries--England Mormon missionaries--Scotland Mormons--History--19th century Transatlantic voyages England--Description and travel Ireland--Description and travel Scotland--Description and travel West (U.S.)--Description and travel 1867-1870 1870 Diaries England 19th century. (aat) Diaries Scotland 19th century. (aat)
Source
Mormon Manuscripts at the Huntington Library Mormonism and the West, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Microfilm of original loaned by Anna Prince Redd through Juanita Brooks, August 1946.
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