Microfilm of the diary and autobiography of George Lake, beginning with diary entries of his mission trip to England from October 1870 to August 1871. Lake appears to have been living at Workington in Cumberland, although he frequently traveled to Newcastle and surrounding areas. The mission entries focus on Lake's attendance of Church conferences and his interactions with local Mormons, including notes on births, marriages, and deaths. The remainder of the volume is a mixture of autobiography and diary entries, and recalls Lake's move to Oxford in Round Valley, Utah, following his return from England in 1871 his flight to avoid polygamy charges in 1874 his being placed in charge of the northern division of Arizona missionaries in 1876, including a list of names of fellow missionaries and his involvement in creating the United Order at Yavapai, Arizona, in 1877. The volume includes the text of the "last address by Gen. Joseph Smith the Prophet to the Nauvoo Legion in June 1844," followed by a brief summary of Lake's life in 1879. The final pages, in another hand, include a family record with genealogy up through about 1938 and the texts of patriarchal blessings on the Lake family in 1913. 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. George Lake (1838-1898) was born in Pittsfield, Illinois. He served on a mission to England from 1870-1871, helped establish the United Order at Yavapai, Arizona, in 1877, was made bishop of Brigham City in the Little Colorado Stake in 1878, and fled to Mexico to avoid polygamy charges in 1885. In Mexico he practiced medicine and in 1888 bought the land that became Colonia Dublan, where Lake died in 1898.
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