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Missions and Missionaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

John Stillman Woodbury diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 168
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diaries for the years 1851, 1853 to 1855, 1857, and 1876 to 1877. These are all missionary journals kept on various missions for the Mormon Church to Hawaii. Woodbury comments on visits from Mormon Church Apostles and writes about leaving Utah for Hawaii during the Mormon "Reformation" in 1857 and being called to return to face the approach of the U.S. Army.

Dates: 1851-1877
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / John Stillman Woodbury diaries

John Stillman Woodbury journal

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239115584]
Identifier: MSS 9531
Scope and Contents

The journal of John Stillman Woodbury, kept during his third mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Kauai, Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii). The journal recounts his daily activities, beginning June 1, 1879, and ending October 8, 1879.

Dates: 1879 June-October
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / John Stillman Woodbury journal

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