A Study of the Contributions of Andrew Jenson to the Writing and Preservation of LDS Church History

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1971

Keith W. Perkins Brigham Young University - Provo

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This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. A STUDY OF THEJ HE contributionsCONTR BUTTONS OF ANDREW JENSON TO THE

WRITING AND preservation OF LDS CHURCH HISTORY

A thesis presented to the department of church history and doctrine brigham young universityilnitlni1 versityhersity

in partial fulfillment

0oc the requirementsrequirementyrequireimentsRequire denesdeneymenty for the degree mastermobber of arts

keith W perkinsper kins

may 1971 acknowledgments

the writer would like to acknowledge with gratitude the willing

assistance and helpful suggestions given by dr milton V backman jr committee chairman in the preparation of this manuscript and the en-

couracouragementgement and approval rendered by dr lamar C berrett department chairman and committee member appreciation is expressed to the staff of the church historianhistorians

office including elder howard W hunter church historian and A william lund assistant church historian special appreciation is

extended to earl Eea olson assistant church HishistoriankoriankorlanLorian and grandson of andrew jenson for his valuable help and assistance Cgratitude is

I1 t- 4 T 4 l 1 t 1 A I1 1 1 I t A l r B t A al A A V tjliatll AJL 1 k waalgaal ajlji t ll11 tt ta A tlt i zl J at loza lailail i J elx ty tl i valuable assistance other staff members that aided in this study were dean C jessee thomas G truitt and helen warr

gratitude is expressed to eva J olson and harold 111ho1 jensojensonn dauchdaughterter and son of andrew jenson their firsthand knowledge of their father and his work was extremely helheihelpfulfulfui appreciation is expressed to sue stockwell for her excellent work in typing the final manuscript the writer expresses his gratitude to members of his family for their assiassistancestance and catlpatlpatiencei ence especially is the writer grateful

1 tto0 hisI1 wife veilvellvelivalavaia a for the many hours she expended readireadlreadingng andand typiityppitypingig the preiimjpreliminaryI1 n iry manuscrilmanuscriptpt and for her patience and undersunderstandinglantan lingaingiing whilewhilleeleeie the work was in process li TABLE OF CONTENTS

page acknowledgments ii chapter

I1 introduction 1

II11 THE EARLY LIFE OF ANDREW JENSON 4 liiIII111 ANDREW JENSON BECOMES A HISTORIAN 21 IV THE historical RECORD 35

V CHURCH chronology 53

VI biographical encyclopedia 0 a fsas I1 a 0 10 4 0 0 0 ks 0 63

VII HISTORIES OF STAKES AND MISSIONS 4 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 75

JOURNAL 1 0 1 S vill HISIURYHISTORY 4 4 9

IXTX THE CLOSING OF A FRUITFUL LIFE 0 Q 4 10 0 4 16 0 0 12120

bibliography 0 0 0 0 0 0 a 0 0 6 0 0 10 0 6 lb 138

illlii CHAPTER I1

introduction statement of the problem many authors have written works on the history of the church of jesus christ of latterlatterdayday saints these histories have given us an Jnsight into the beginning of the church and its development to the present daydayo one of the most profuse writers of hurchchurch history was andrew jenson assistant church historian this thesis is a discussion of andrew bensonsJenjensonsjenosonsoalsonls contribution to the writing of the history of the church of jesus christ of latterlatterdayday saints and thebhe preservation of source material relating to the history of the church limitationdimldimiLimL tation of this thesis this study will not primarily be a review of the life of andrew jenson instead0 this will be a study of the contricontributionbutibutaI1 on that andrew jenson made to the writing and preservation of church historyhis Lory including a discussion of the background of the major works of andrew jenson some of the topics that will be discussed arearetares ffirst a brief biography of his life with an emphasemphesemphasisi s on what originally interested him in chchurchurch history second a study wihiljwiljll11 be made of his major published works as discussed in methodimethod of procedure JLPPSJjoseph smithselleil Ilevnetslaylayl8 J churchL jlsplsyronolochronoloCh v j101moraenstlernen11111 theIJL jlhjislal000historical record latterjatterlatter dazdavday SaitsaitbiosaiesalesaintsdiodlobiographicalBio grajxaljencyclogjdjaencyclopedia historvhjjhistoryhaj torjostorjotortoc JOof Jthe scandinaviancalilcalilzianyianylanZian 1 2 mijonmission and encvciopkjpedjd historyhistoxyH joplsjopLsfoptog of aheihe church offsullzjjesus christ of jllxjisaillatterlatterslayslaygiey le I1 n t YallyfinallyFIL tallytaily a study will be made of andrew jensons major unpubllunpublishedI1 shed works histories of stakes sesionsmissionsmi ssionsSs ionslons wards and branches and a portion of journal history of the church of jesus christ of latterlatterdaydayday saints methods ofoleoje procdurjprocedure each major work of andrew jenson will be discussed in the following manner

1 what prompted him to begin each work

2 the various methods he used to gather the material for his various works 3 the type of material contalcontainedcontal1 ned in each work 4 interesting sidelights that occurred while these works were

wy bingbiagblage ing writteni tttatt n 01or COFILPoi uplideuplided andA ad published sourcesS oujceounce s thattha t wrewere used some of the primary sources that were used in this study were andrew jensons journals Autobiutomitojjjlaeyocgrapiiy pjll03of andrewaudrew jenson f01901church chronoroiwpg1 agyogy thelielleile bistorhistornisjwicalcalcai record latterdatterjterzayalldavday saltsaitttsatssyorayocajocaM oscapogcaph 1.1 ca 1 ejcclpgedaencvclo ediaedla historvhistoryrishis lory jfofdheJthehg scandinavianScandi navLan misslonmasslonmissionmissjonmlsMis sJon encyclopediencyclopedicj1030c latozlstozhistory of thethejchurchchurch oiof jesusjejusbejus christ of ljagaaylatterdaylatter day saints journal history of the church of jesus christ of lallerlatterlatterdaydatterdablerdabber day sasaintsi antsnts and historieshistorbistor les of stakes tnissionsmi & 3 ionsybonsy wards and branchesbralbraiiches private journals diaritodiarieodiardiariesarlesieolemiem and letters of individuals closely associated withwichwlchwi th andrew jenson were studied periodicals and newspapers

I1 were another Jimportantimporlanimportant source personal interviews were conducted with sorliesome who were personally associated with andrew jenson anoanotherthecher 3 important source was the scrapbooks of andrew jeasonjenson these are primarily a collection of many of the newspaper articles published about andrew jenson and his works since andrew jensons private library and papers are located in the LDS churchfflstorlanlschurch historian1 s offoffice1cey this was the priniarylibraryprimary library that was used in this study other libraries that contain valuable materials are the brigham young university library utah state historical society library university of utah library and the salt lake city public library CHAPTER II11

THE EARLY LIFE OF ANDREW JENSON

on december I111 1850 a son was born to christian and kirsten jensen of Damgren 9 denmark this babe andrew jenson born while his father was at war was destined to leave a lasting impression on the written history of the church in the same year eidel erastus snow and two missionary companionscampcomp anions arrived in denmark to teach the restored gospel of jesus christchelst in 1854 latterlatterdayday saint missionaries visited the jensen home lowingfollowingFo a short period of investigation christian 2 and kirsten were baptized by elder christen hansen on december 8 8541854 although free education was provided by law and attendance at school was compulsory tor aidrenAldrenchildrencl j rom ages seven to fourteen young andrew did not attend for some time A qualification in the danish law allowed parents to teach their ildrenlidrenchildrenclicil at homehortie so long as they were able to pass a standard examination the jensen famifamljycamillysiyely welcomed thithlthis1 s

i 1.1llji I1r early in 11efeilfefife and-andrrwanderwl rww jenson changed the spellingbp ellin of hihiss name in 1938 andrew wrote a letter to elder richard R lyman giving a par taltiailiallallai answer for this change in regard to spespoilinglilill ag my nahnenatnename jenson insteadin teadlead of jenenjenonjensen when I1 caniecanlecamecamo heiehelehere at jaj5 years of age not having done much aszisais a boy I11 wasnas influenced to change my danish name andreas to ilsitslbsts equivalentI1 inm english naianamelynameiyielylely andrew and injji making this change I1 thought I1f might as well introduce the 0 in jenenjensen instead of the e as 1 the lceliscelicinderslccinderslc adersnders the anglishcnglisheihglish and scotch spell 1it1 jensonjonson to this day andrew jensonjonson to richard R lyman february 22 19381.938 andrew jensonjonson t papers 10locatedCat1t d in insIDSLDS church historbistorillsetis oriaorlaoelatoriatorlalants officesofficegoffice 47 east southbouth temple streelstreetstreec salt lake city utah hereafterhereathereaf terberbec cited as jensonrensonre nson papers 2 andrew jeljezjensonjonsonasonnson autobiography of andrewandrow jenson saltsaitsalcsaltsajt lake citycltysaltys deseret news press 19381938t p 4

4 5

provision since the school teacher was bitterbitterly1yay antiantlan tl mormon frequently denouncing the church and polpoipoisoning1 sonii ng the minds of the latterlatterdayday saint children against the faith of their parents 3 the main literary didiet1 et of young andrew was the bible the book of mormon and a few church publications including skandinaviens tameSttjmestiernestienneiernelernelerue the latterlatterdayday saint semisemimonthly1 monthly periodical printed in the danishdanishnorwegiannorwegian language during this time skandinaviensajidinavjiastjstlernestjerneern published a series of articles on the prophet joseph smith from which andrew first acquired his interest in church history these articles also probably helped determine his later style of writing as he memorized the dates of the important events about which he read 4 at the suggestion of the missionariesmis sli onariesfonariesonariesarles andrew began at the age ofot thirteenthirtpenpon to keep a jourjournal nlnal thithiqtolsghigwichiq wswqswa theilleloleloae IPQJJginningJTT cl nfof Aa lifeilfeI1 f nfn record keeping for himself and for the church of this chronical he later wrotewrotesprotes history has been my major interest since ai missionarymissionarys journal inspired me to record my personal history in keep- iingng his journal which has been uninterrupted since that dayclay I1 have learned that a person cant be a natural historian until he cormencommencesces with his own lifei 5 while still a boy andrew began selling lithographs throughout 6 denmark earning enough money to emigrate wiwilhwitheth his family to utah

3 31bibidaabidald9lda p 7 although andrew changed the spelling of his last nanienanlename many in the family retained the original ellingspellingspi 4 4ibidbibidibid p 8 5deseretdeseret news salt lake citycityj december 11 1936 p 17 6jenson L 11 ppo 12 crom jenson 9 autobiograjpbiogjciiiy1 Pllx in 1866 the fare fronfrom copenhagen to wyoming nebraska was 42 6

on may 23 186621866 thetiletlle hensensjensensJensens sailed from denmark arriving in new york city on july lathl7th17th during the voyage fifteen year old andrew recorded

the dates of marriages 2 births and deaths of the passengers after experiencing hardships from the weather and from the lack of food this company of saints arrived by ox team in the great salt 7 lake valley on october 8 1866 years later andrew relived the hard-

ships of this journey with mr william ff jackson while traveling east from salt lake city mr jackson related how heilellefie followed behind a wagon load of apples and 1 I ate apples until I1 couldntcouldrt lift another one andrew replied

yes I1 know here it is1 s in my journal the record of coming along the next day I1 was a hungry youth of 15 and I1 saw those elingspeelingsneelingspe you maymayntnit believe it but I1 collected all the peelings I1 could find and ate them they were pretty thin but they tastedlasted higheynughtymighey good to me then

young andrew first owct W aieulehiellieL lieile GLCBLi L saiusalu0 a I1 t lake valleyvailey iromk ro ni a bluffblblufyuff located near the present location of the utah state prison he and his companions shouted for joy at the first slsighti ahtght of the valley andrew then explains the reason for this joy As long as I1 can remember I1

7 fifty years later in reflecting back on this experience andrew remarked 1 I have often thanked the lord that I1 came that yeayearr and nonotnoct later the reason for this statement was that in 1867 the railroad had built 300 miles further west and in 1868 they had built half way to the valley the next year 1869 all the fun was over afafterter thathatthabt all the immigrants had to travel allailalia 111.1iili the way by alimilratirailradl laughter and the ox team travel became a thing of the past so I1 say T am very thankful that I1 came when the last opportunity in this world was given the lormonmormon endgrantsemigrantsendenu grants of crosslcrossicrossingi ng the plains with ox team the whole distance fronfrom the states to the salt lake valley As a fifteenfifteenyearyear old boy I1 hoofed it nearly all the way conferenceCon fg060fGferencefereneeceo rqpr 1 salt lake city the church of jesus christ of lavelagelatterlatterdayr dayd ay060saints october 1916q1916 p 114 8 jhejdesectthe deseret news salt lake city june 13 193591935 p 4 7

1199 had prayed and hoped for thetlletile opportunityopportutillyily loto10 gather to nolholmolzionmol11 upon hishi s arrival in salt lake a new life and career were beginning for young andrew jensjensonon the jensen family remained in salt lake only a short time journeying south they found a number of their acquaintances from 10 denmark at pleasant grove utah and made their home among them andrewandrews first years in the new land were marked by hishi1 s propen- sity for change a trait that affordedhimafforded hinhim an astonishinganastonishing variety of occupations and experiences he began by herding cows for a brief period of time but found it too 11 tedious11tedious and irksome 11 his next job laboring oilollon011 the railroad being built in the echo andlandtand weber canyons proved unsatisfactory mainly because he received no pay for much of his work while working on the railroad he herded mules at ightlghtnightn-i but found it very difficult hunting stray mules andrew finally realized the cause of his difficulty he was nearsighted it during thetlletile winter of 1869 he worked in plesant grove but longed for better and greater things

I1 aspired to do something worth while and I1 could not derive much pleasurep1casure in associating withw ith the boys of my own age as many of them seemed to have no aim in 111.1jiifeifoafe but werewencwene satisfied to spend muchmilch of their ttinetimeL me inin idleness and inactivity and forfoetoe the lack of something better to do woulwouldd spin yarns and occasionally do mis- chief in various ways to the annoyance of older people 1 nevertheless at the age of nineteen he decided to buy sixteen acres of farm land butbul success again eluded him he next tiledtritedmilimili- tary iliclifeifieilfe joiningjo jninganing the nauvoo legion utah militmilitia1aaa it was an

9 10 jenson9jenson au 0 b t 0 P ra p 26 10ibid appp 262726 27 autobiographyi t L ibid 11 12 ibid9ibid p 30 ibid appp 363736 37 8 enjoyable diversion but shoitlivedshorlaived sisince1 ticelice on september 15 1870 covernorCogovernorvernor J wilson shattershaftershaffersilsllSti affer issued a decree forbidding the annual muster of the 13 legion without hishi s direct order once more andrew began working for the ralraiilroadmilroadrailroad the chief engineer took a liking to him and offered andrew a complimentary pass to omaha nebraska since it was more than the boysboy free spirit could resist he began a journey that took him through the states of wyoming nebraska kansas iowa and missourif during this extended trip he not only worked on the railroad but sold lithographs and maps and 14 finally took up the occupation of cowboy during this journey andrew firmly established his religious ffaithfalthai th many older members of the church varnedwarned him about the dangers in leaving the cloistered shelter of utah and especially in mingling

i or c ingi l wri b litof ito110 dolabronoenno o ancypo mempm p ahojhr4ho thort7or x 1 rn 1 alro YC wohmohib th rolab0 C ks of fr ofl 0 lro id but thetee J th would not I13 iistens ten arriving in foilfottfollfort leavenworth andrew discovered a very different way of life than that which he knew in after lilifeefe I1 fully reallrealirealizedsedzed my narrow escape from becoming a victim of vice but thanks to a merciful providence and my early training as a mormon boy I1 saw the danger inln time to avoid ruin and when I1 years later took an innocent girl to wife I1 was just as pure and innocent so far as sexual sin is concerned as she was but had the spirit of god not prompted me what to do those memorable

13 one week after governor shattershaftershaffer forbid the muster of the nauvoo leglegtonton and disarmed them a mob of about forty united states soldiers from fort rawllinsrawlligsrawlings near provo made a raidrald upon that city they attacked several ofoc the aldermens homes in november 1870 at thebhe regular time of muster of the legion about one bundledhundred men assembled many with wooden guns this incidenincidentincidentin cidenit is commonly called the wooden gun rebellion joseph fielding snithsmithsnithysmithy Esessentialsentialsbalss in churcchuoclyjhsh historbistortormor salt lake city ulahutahutahs deseret book companycompa ny 131963 appp 551554551 554 14 jenson autobtograA utobjograjthyy appp 42494249042 49049 9

1 might beonbe on and my nights in leavenleavenworthworth itt have been herwinotherwinotherwiseotherototherwispwispV whole career in life might have been changedclliangebiange d entirely after nearly a yeayearyem of adventure andrew turned homeward to his parents and zion paying his way by working as a cowboy this was an exciting time for the young man the ever present danger of stainstarastarnstampedespedes seldom allowed the cowboys the luxury of relaxing their guard usually these disturbances were caused by indians thunderstorms or cattle rustlers who would scare the cattle then simply pick up the strays the cowboys did not find during several of these stampedes andrew nearly lost his life 16 during his life as a cowboy young andrew realized again the importance of his early religious training finding it very difficult to have his regular morning and evening prayers he later wrote

0 0 there was not always opportunities for me to slip away 1 P rn I1 e- r n rn v 4 1 A 4 4- 4 A A V d 4 1 L 1 dark I1 generally managed to bow the knee in a secluded place thethanksinks to my early training as a mormon boy but I1T have to admitadraitadrain loto10 1jwjj3js1sa cj the strongest minds are not above or beyond being impressed by his surroundings enviedvienvironment1 rorulentrorunent has much to do wlwilhwithlh the life that most people are living had I1 remained in suchslichstich company as I11 was in on hatthat journey for a long time I1 am not so sure but I1 might have for- got my early trainitrainingi ng and become like the rest of them 17 one year and ten days after leaving pleasant grove andrew arrived back home by rail on horseback and on foot he had traveled 181.81 R about 2800 miles and had earned 300 in utah andrew continued to change jobs doing railroad work

15 andrew jensoisJenjensonssoissors Jonjonrnajoitrnajoujonanarna Aay p 231 located in ththebhee LDS church historians office hereafter cited as jensonsJensoissors journal 16 jenson atitoboprutojio8raklly9rahvrhv PP 506150 61 17 Jenjensonssors journal A p 231 18 og p 626 jenson autobiopzraphyautobjeegographyaraphyL K begwrwra ili 10 selling lithographs working in the bingham canyon mine and smelter 19 and clerking in a grocery store A number of inspiring events in the life of andrew jenson occurred in 1873 on april ath9th andrew became a clcitizenI1 tizen of the united states the following morningmorning he was ordained an elder and received 20 his endowment in the endowmentendowmentlendowments lousehouserouse atsaltatsattat saitsalt lake city in the afternoon he was called on a mission to his native land of denmark andrew later described beautifulbcoutifuuyly thetlletile impact of this momentous day this introduced me to a new experience in life and I1 must acknowledge that the thought of filling a mission inexperienced as I1 was caused me many sleepless nights from my earliest child- hood I11 had been taught to pray to god aandalidiidlidild to live a virtuous life as a lormonmormonIT boy should do but now I1 prayed as I1 had never prayed before realizing that I1 needed divine guidance in order to become a successfulsuccess fulCul missionary and I1T plainly saw the necessity of gaining a betterbelterbetted understandiunderstandsunderunderstandingstandistandaung of the principles of the gospel than I1 already possessed 21

theredheremere were also more prosaic mattermattecmatters3 to be attended to andrew had recently received a shipment of lithographs and maps from new york thesethose helieile transferred to hisillslilsliis agent to sell and in various ways arranged his affairs to defray traveling expenses to europe

on may 4 187321873 helielleile was ordained a seventy and setet apart as a missionary by george Q cannon and given a wonderfulwon derEul promise not only for his forthcoming missionMLs sionslon but for his entireent re life

I1 was promised that if I1T would be humble before god in heaven and devote my entire soul to doing codsoodgodgods will I1 should be a chosen

19 ibid7ibid apppapoppo 636563 65 20 an endowment is a sacred ordinance performed in a building constructed for the higher ordinances of the gospel it isI11 s called an endowment because those receiving this ordinance arere endowed with power from on hihigh1 gh 11 bruce Rro mcconkimcconkiemcconklemcconkie1 eg MPJPPPJllormon doctrine11 8 la11saitsaltl1 akelake cilycihyC 1 1 y bookcraft inciticI licticric 19581.958 p 209 21 1bid9ieldaiblda p 66 11

instrument in the hands of the almighty to accomplish a great and mightyi work in life and that I1 on this mission should beblessedbe blessed with the power of utterance so that I1 should bear powerful testi- moniesmon les to mmy countrymen and bring many of them to a knowledge of the truth 222 while preaching the gospel in denmark andrew experienced the persecution of many early missionaries which neither hampered his zeal nor his effectiveness infallingincallingin calling lihisliisis native countrymen to the truth at one of his first meetings a detdetractorrcactorreactor called hihim1 m a liar so upset was the fledgling missionary that helielleile reverted to his cowboy ways clenched his fifists1 stsats and squared himself off against the man happily his better judgmentiudgment prevailed and the meeting continued with no blows struck 23 on january 2 1874 elder jenson made his first attempt at writing for a newspaper thentheunhennheuwhen he wrote a letter to skandinavienssjkandj nayiens sjjj6rstlerneStstjernelerneierne

4 1 n tx7 r thic rpracticea of contributingla t articles to variousa r i0 u s nnewspapersTP e r S cocontincontinvodn t i n-vodueevoed

1 throughout iiiili111hisS life A few years later he expressed his doubts as to his literary ability in the newspaper field

I1 learned that my literary ability and aspirations were in the and that I1 was less qualified for ededitingltingalting and pu- historical field 24 blishing a llelieilewspapernewspaperws paper muchmuctimucci of his mission was spent in the aalborg Confereconferencencencc where 25 helielleile wrote his first historical work other than his own bournajournajournal it tooklookkook about 22 years ttillflfl1milmij 1 I1 started to make history but I1 found that I1 commenced to write history by paying particular attention to the aalboaalborgaalboe rg conference on my mission I1 wrote a history of the confconferenceerencearence and so that is how TF came to myself and

22 jcnsonlsjenson journal B p 13 4 23 24 jenson autoriautobiautobiographyog raP p 69 ibidibidy p 138 25 A conference was a geographical division of a mission 12

found myself walking about in tthehe aalborg conference preaching and commencing my hlstoricalhistoricali storical career 26 after serving two years andrew was released from his mission on may 31 1875 missionMissi oliotioll president C CG larsen made sspecialpecia I1 refreferenceerencearence concerning the tireless energy of andrew jenson a quality that would prove such an asset to him throughout his entire iifelifeilfeeife ayouiyouyou have done 27 a good work and have labored ailaliall11 day longlongiong 11 that he did a good job as a missionary was also noted by a companion peter 0 hanson 1 I have a first rate helper in brother andrew jenson from pleasant grove I1 9 8ft could not have wished for a more willing and zealous young missionary lr1 on june 25 1874 andrew returned to utah with an emigrant company of 765 people shortly after his return he was baptizedrebaptizerrebaptizedre into the united order a rather common practice at that time but remained 29 iinn itI1 only about ononee month1110ri th iindicatingndeudeI1 ca ting some problems within the order ilellefiehe gave thellielite following asay inhisis reason lordorcorforcor wiwilhwilhdrawingsi ladlhddrawingsawingIrirawingdrawing the three following days I1 worked in the united order haulinghatlhatihaLl ling corn home with a pair of old lazy mules I1 had intended to join the order with heart and soul but I1 soon discovered that I1 with my ambitiambitaambition1 on and aspirationasplappl ration could not prosper in the order under present conditionscondicondlcondIt tionsiOtIS and therefore I1 withdrew quietly from it without contention 30u

26A andrew jenson excerpts of a sacrament meeting held december 27 1939 honorlhonoring1 rig andrew jenson jenson papers 27 jenson au toiiogjapjiytob p hy p 84 9 pi 281thehe deseret news december 9 1874918741824 p 714 299 histhisrl united order was organized in utah at the 44th annual conference of the church held may 7 1874 with brigham young as presi-1 f dent thecherhe linltedutiitedlinsted order proved unsuccessfuunsuccessfulunsuccess fu 1 inI1n pleasant grove and lasted only a shodshohshorlschorl time andrew jenson comcompP churchchurch ronolochronoloChchronology salt lake citescitycitys deseret news press 1899 p 91 30 jensonjensons journal B appp 292293292 293 13

in denmark andrew met miss kirstenkirston mahemarlemariemane mary pederson and though he found herilertierller attractive the circumspect young missionary did no courting whilewhitewhillesieeie on hishi s mission responding to the call to gather to zion mary left for utah with a large group of danish saints and after andrew returned to pleasant grove malymary was among those who greeted him on august 30 1875 andrew and mary became husband and wife in the endowment house at salt lake clcitycihyt-y they returned to pleasant grove 31 where theymadethey nademade their home life was busy for the young couple andrew sought to provide for their needs by farming and there was always plenty of church work to be done when the young mensmen mutual improvement association was organized in pleasant grove on november 151.5 1875187318 75 andrew was chosen 32 president describing these first meetings he wrote

4 1 q A 1 1 1 t 1 ty1tyc t T r V 4 t jy A sjo Ji V av 1 al A i gli rsj1 k lajiLAbaji JL t jlijalij AAXO ciuiru C tL 1vJV Iliv l lively they gave the young men an opportunity to bear their testimony to the truthtenth of the gospel as well as getting their first I1 experience I1inn ppublicU alicblic speaking rhefhe topics treated upon wewerer s many and various being religious ethical andalidaridarld moral in naturenaturel this was to be thebliebile pattern of andrew jensonjensons adult lifeilfe devotion of almost all his time and talent to the church which his parents had chosen more than twentytwe lityrity years before on sunday he attended his regular meetings and visited twenty families in the nortnorthh sectiosecciosectionn 34 of pleasant grove as ward teacher

3133 9119 jenson 1 autoblogra hy appp 90 91 autobiography 9091 1

32 1 it11 was I1inn the year 1875 that thebhe young mensmenmon mutual improvement association was first begun the firsfirstt YMMIA was organizedorg 7inizod at the thlrteenththirteenth ward in salt lake city june 107loy10 1875 by junius F wells under the mediateimmediateilaiiaira direction of president Brigbrigharnharn young jenson chroouronologynolo p 94940 33rt 343 jenson autobiogrllIpy PP 9192 ibid 14

mary ffouadfoundou nd 1ifelife good in the new andland her joy increased when she gave birth to their first child on november 24 1876 a strong husky boy whom they named andrew alexander it wasas now time to build a home of their own to finance this undertaking andiewandrewaudrew helped build a tramway up the little cottonwood canyon for 2 per day the mountains were pleasant but most evenings after work andrew retired to a lonely place to reflect upon his present condition andalida iidlidild his prospects foifolfor the future he had learned from experience that farming was not his natural vocation 9 and that helielleile was not gifted iini ii doing mechanical work as was his father from his youth he had been of a studious nature particularly fascinated by the reading and writing of history in describing theethese troubled reflections he wrotewro le

JL 11 daxdpx ooooo u lillii fclijje j 16 6 I1 wwumlttuuu i a U I1ifL CHL-L u tI uiU L ct licidtlicadI1 a U ilu110I1 I1 U i 0illiilili I1liililL 16 elseiet 15lsenlse1E for me to do except workingworlcli ng with pick and shovelshovcj I1 thought that the columnconumncommon manualmanua laborjabor to which I1 hadllad been subject could be done by anyone possessing physical strength and ordinary intelligence should I1I1 not see the day when some of my dreams would come tiuetrue 1 my natural inclinciinclinationination to study and to engage inlnL n literary pursuitspurs ul ts having impicssed me from my earliest recollection would I1 ever find a field fortor its application was I1 doomed to follow activities which were a burden to me and do work for whichwh ich I1 was not qtialiqua li tiedfiedfled should I1 continue a life frafeafraughttight with dissatidiseatidissatisfaction1 sfactioa or a litelifeilfe whwhichich meant loto10 eke out a miserable existence these werwereweye serious reflections with me as I1 wandered up and down the canyon and climbed the mountainsmolititainsin in 1876 by day and in the silent hours of night I1 had pleaded with the almighty to show me his will concerning me the answer came the still small voice which I1 had learned to know1 now to a certiincertaincertion extent spoke peace to my troubled soulsouisou and seemed to say the lord has something of importance for you to do in life therefore be ofgoodosgoodof good cheer then came the thought as if by direct inspiration from heaveheaven11 to take hold of the work which towards the close of 1876 demanded my attention 353 this work that had demanded hhisIs attentlattentionattentoi on at the close of 1876187611

35 ibid p 95 15

was a treatise on the prophet joseph smith andrewaudrewandrews early exposure

to the prophets history in kariditnaviskmdjinayjcjS ens Sttjjrcstiernestienneiernelernelerue plus more recent articles on the subsubjectactect in the juvenilejjjyenue structorinstructorinI1 ntjuc lortor had led him to devote what time he could to a translation of certain parts of the his 36Q tory of joseph smith 1intoincotito danish As a result of the vivid impression receivedrecelved while on the mou-

ntain andrew wrote to president daniel 11 wells of the first Psilencysidencypresidencyre sidency

expressing his desire to pupublishblishbilsh a history of the prophet josejosephPh in the danishnorwegiandanish norwegian language president wells replied that the first

I1 37 presidency approved of thithlthiss proposal

publication of the book was not an easy flattermatteri andrew con-

ferrferredwithferrededwithwith president daniel H wells gave himhinihinl a sample of his trans-

1 lation which in turn was sent to presidentpresipres1pres1 dent brigham young in st george

T e1 4 1 TT va 1 rr 1- 1 omegmev r t aa h p1pa 0 hk n 0 r in vrsi vr r r enrnn n n Q r C s tri t5viclthr v1 1tat t1 0 vnr crlorlott 0c11rt1 to Aa1ivlivr 31131 erasttukullk ull snow who because of his mission to denmark had some knowledge of the danish language andrew wrote a letter to elder snow explaining his plan of writing a history of joseph smismitheth in the danish language and received a reply dated january 18 1877 stating that the brethren touldwould very much I1ieeleeikelike to see Slichulchsuch a work wriwrittenweiwelotten so as to be easily read and understood heilellelie also suggested that andrew have one or lwotwokwo humblespiritedhumble spirited scholars look over his work to avolavoidavoldd errors and ensure a full and clear rendering of the original this marked the beginning of a long and

36r bensonsJenjensonssons journal bab9B appp 297298297 298 the juvenile instructor was a periodical originally published by george Q cannon as a tool of the sunday school organationorgaorgan nation 37 jenson 1 autobautomautobiography p 0 94 16 productive relationship between the historian and the apostle from this juncture elder snow was the general authority with whom andrew 38 workedi andrew decided to publish josephJ sllsjjsajsmiths levnetslbyIyi161lel161 lnin monthlynonhly installments and to charge ten cents per month enabling practically everyone to afford the book to meetmoet expenses he then decided to sell advance subscriptions traveling on foot to wherever the scandinavian saints resided 39 andrew at last met success the many emigrants from scandinavia who could not read english had been thirsting for such church lit- eratureera ture in many commcommunitiecommunitiescommunitiveunitie 3 every scandinavian familyfami1y subscribed to ivnetslblevnetslb undoubtedly some of the success in acquiring subscriptions can be attributed to a letter of introduction from erastus snow

j C 3 G C cl t0ta tilatilc tcclijljjiiclvji aijiuiji ocijiil L 0 we take pleasure in reconmiendlrecommendingi ng andrew jenson of pleasant grove to publish in the danish language a history of the prophetPropiletliet joseph smith in a series of numbers and I1 have advised that he canvass for subscriptions in advance to help him ililii111in printing it as soon as it can be revised so as to appear entaentjentirelyrc ly correct and I1 trust he will meet with Liablesuitablesu encouragement from the in so doing in which he has the approval of the saints Z in first 1 0 prpresidencye s 1 d ency

by february 4 1877 about one third of the book had been written gifted though he was andrew recognized his inadequacy in the technical aspects ofwritingofoc writingwri tingbing he said thetiletiietlle whole will reqtllrequirei re a thorough revision from a grammatical and literary standstandpoinstandpointpoin t before being sent to press for I1T am as

38 39 ibid9ibid p 95 1b1d1ibid1 p 96 40 jeniJONIjonsonsSOnS journal B p 317 17 yet not possessed of sufficient literary ability to get the manuscript absolutely ready for thetlletile printer singlehandedsingle handed I1 need help 41

erastus snow wrote to president daniel H wells stating that president brigham young approved of this work he mentioned that he understood andrew planned to attend spring conference in st george and 42 would bring his manuscript for elder snows inspection on march 21 1877 andrew arrived in st george he was so impressed by his first sight of a temple erected by the latterlatterdayday saints that if instinctively I1 raised my hat uttered a short prayer and expres-

sed my gratitidegratitude to the lord for the privilege I1 had to behold the sacred edifice n 43

while on his mission andrew had met johan A bruunbrutinbrulindrutin who was then translating for aslskandinavionsisli111stlernestjerneSt lerneierneei cl memeeting1 eting again withbrotherwithwichwlch drotherbrotherbrocher bruun A 1 A 1 4 I1 I1 r in st ceorgegeorge andicandrc cckcd hishie accictclncc14 ll11 lr preparingJ illitiILI 6 tilleJ bookti ilikny LN forfoeJ publication brother bruun accepted the proposal and the two men drew up a writtenwylitten agreement whereby they would share equally in the cost with andrew because of his extra work on the book taking the first 44 25 per cent of the profit aftrafaraftertetorr which they would share equally

1 1 the rrevisioncrisicvisi on of the manuscript was 1raniedimmediately1 atelyabely begun it was appatentparentapparent that a number of changes and improvements were needed these necessitated long hours of editing but the work progressed satisfac- torily on april 4 187791.87791877 the deseret news published an announcement of the coming forth of josephjojsejh seijsmijsmil lisilshs levnetslalcvnjeslb signed by andrew and

41 424 ibid p 314 jenson Autoiijslpbyautobiographautobiographybiograph P 97 43 jensosjendosjensons journal B p 324 44 andrew jenson and Jjohanoh atlati A bruunbrutin agreement jenson papers 18

johan the notice stated that the book would be publisheddubpub II11 shed in a series

i of monthly pamphlets each part consistconsistinging 0off eteenxteensixteens I1 pages enclosed in a paper cover and costing tenhen cents postpaid to anywhere in the united states A postscript by erastus snow encouraged the scandinavianScandinavlan

1 45 saints to support thtlletile work while in st george andrew attended general conference and the dedication of the st george temple helielleile was heartened by his meeting a number of thetbeabe general authorities at the conference all of whom en couragcdcouragedcoucouragerraged him in his liliterary project and gave him their enthusiastic support particularly encouraging was the opportunity to briefly explain his plan to president brigham young after the meeting bro snow introduced merae to prespros brigham young who asked me a number of questions in regaldtegardregard to my literary f undertakiundertakeundertaking1 1 g and I1 plainedplaidedexplainedex my plan to him brieflyb C efly which seemed to meetpeet withwi th his approvalaparapproval and yet I1 shall never forget how helieile seemed to size me up witriwiw i ttl nislqis ercingarcingpiercingp-i eyes aseaseedsads it tietlene woulawould ques- tueme by you do say tion sayingbaying do think you can it he did not 46 that but I1E thought I1 could read his thoughts in hah1hishib3 countenance

after a pleasant and productproductiveli ve month in at3tt george andrew journeyed to pleasant grove stopping along the way to sell subscriptions by the time he reached home he had raised hihis1 s subscription list to 650

on april 27 johan bruunbrutinbrulin arrived in pleaspleasantint grove the following day the two men traveled to salt lake city to make arrangements with the deseret news foifotfor vupi ijctionkllcation of their book near the end of may eideleldereider erastus snow visitedvii sited pleasant grove

i to learn how the book was progressingprogress L tig after andiewandrew and johan spent

45 the deseret evenin r awsnwsneWS salt lake city1 liii71.71 april 4 1877 46 jenson aufobioautobiograpgiaphygraphylivluy11 p 100 19

two days reading parts of thetiietiledhe manusarmanuscrmanuscript1lptapt to him helielleile expressed his sat 47 factionisfactionis with their work july 3 1877 dawned brightbriahtght for andrew the years of frustra-

onn 1 tion the doubts 9 and the failures were erased thattha t day the firstf Irs t sheet of lcvnctslblevnqtslb was published andrewandrews stubborn beliefbellef iin1 ti hisbis talentajentalentstalentsytsy his refusal to accept as inevitable the drudgery which was the usual lot ofoc the emigrant his burning desire to contribute to the church he loved something of worth and beauty all was now vindicated on july ath6th andrew mailed 900 copies of the first sixteen pages of levnetslajevnetslb to his subscribers by the end of the year 112 pages had 48 been mailed and the subscription list had grown to 1825 rutbut as with most beginning authors the cost of printing pre- cluded mediateimmediatelraira financial success andrew had given johan some money

1 11 11 Q L C v 111 1 C L L J c1ca S 1 S LJLL I1 j V t L J I 1 1 k uuojk 11 Jf iidlid cl 0 ijilt UUJLUU J U 0 il lillicliilicli iLiCd C tfaocs J 1119ig WJJ tlttlli elleilllI 0 Q 0k 9 UUll t 600 jdljlal&l 11dlidiidctd ulclwliU LCI wri 4 9 next to nothing of the means which had been received from subscribers at the end of 1878 they had published elevencleven parts of Jleynetslbvijbviebvi Jb bringing the total pages publishedpub L shed to 288 durduringlngang the first part of 1879 andrew finished printing pub lishlishinglishingyingy and mailing the last ten parts of leynetsajevnetslblevupeynetsaLeyn etsAetso the bootboolbook was now complete containing 448 pages at this time the first edition of levnetsialevnetslb was brought to a quick conclusionconcjusion by andrews call to his second scandinavian mission

la10thethoibol0 deseret0.0 1 news10 8gave thisthlthithis s estimate of the work by jenson and bruun

it is1 s an excellent and reliable work and is growing favor with

47 48 49 ibid pep 102 ibid 1I p 103 ilalinlihibidid 20 50 those familiar with the language in which it Is printed financially the book was not as successful at the time andrew left for his mission he and johan owed 675 to the deseret news for printing and were waiting for 1800 to come in from their subscribers the first edition of levnets10lovnetsub was to last until 1904 when andrew was called by the first presidency on a special mission to scandinavia to publish a new and revised edition of this work he finished this edition in three months assisted by president christian

D fjeldsted of the scandinavian mission

this first work of andrew Jenjensonbensonsjensonssons josto9tpe ph snismiliithsthsohs jgvnetglevnetsub1 b holds an important place in the history of the church it was the first foreign language book published in utah 1877 and the first 51 publication of a bound book dealing with the prophet joseph smith thus bebeeanheebeeeaneauganan joseph smiths levnestsalevnestsb and for andrew jenson a lifetime of compiling and writing church history levnetslbleynetslb had set the pattern for andrew jensonjensons future

50 1 saa 1 50ilcjrldeseret eyieylayieveningEY i news saisalcsaicsallsa3 t lake city apriapril 28 1878 51 ibid august 24 19049.190491904 p 10 j CHAPTER liiIII111

ANDREW JENSON COMESBECOMESBl A HISTORIAN

on may 21 1879 andrew jenson departed for his second mission leaving behind his wife and two young ch11drenchildren1lidren this mission served nolnotnou only as a time of spiritual growth and administrative training but it laid the foundation for his future lifeslifers work soon after his arrival in denmark he was sustaisustalsustainedsustainedasnedasas president of the copenhagen branch this appointment at copenhagen was made partly for the purpose of enabling hihhimim to study the danish language under distinguished teachers such an education proved valuable for as andrew jenson said

1 off 13 0 thehe authorities of the church desired that should obtain a better knowledge of the danish language so that I1 might be used by the church in the future as a writer and a translator 1 in his missionary work he was able to make arrangements forcoreor a fine private teacher he met mr L moth iversen who was courting a latterlatterdayday salsaisaintnt girlgi rl who had refused to marry him unless he joined the church since mr iversen was a scholar oiof considerable ablabilii lityty

I1 i andrew agreed to teach him the principlesprincI1 plespies of mormonism ifI1 f he would gigiveve andrew lessons in the danish language rulaaianbulAA i agreement was made and although it took andrew longer to learn danish gragrammarnimar and composition than it took mr iversen to be baptiesbaptiedbapuizedbap tiedlied both werlewere very pleased wiwithlthalth

andrew jenson autobiographyivitobivito biobi o rajivrajhv of andrew jeojjeomjenson sallsailsojsaltsaj t lake city deseret news piessplesspress 1919388ptriop iloelioe1100 21 22

the end result andrew was soon taken into the mission office as a 2 translator and writer for sldskandinavienssidald iiaeiistjjernestiernestienneStiernelerne while on this second missionmiss ionlon andrew said he had his first encounter with evil spirits two elders had met a man who had been tormented with an evil power for some time they had battled with him all one day and afterwards baptizedrebaptizedre baptii zed him for the remission of sins but he still was troubled andrew and the mission president niels wilhelmsen blessed him confirmedreconfirmedre him a member of the church and 3 sealed upon him his former ordination as a teachertoachtoteachacher then andrew noted we rebuked thetlletile evil spiritspi rit which had tormented him but at that moment the malimallman began to rave making the most hideous expressions of the ffacecaceace and twist and turn hihiss limbs in a fearful manner but we continuecontinuedI our administration with increased energy using all the power and faith which the priesthood we bore would allow us and at last thetlletile devil departed 4 presidentyresidentpresident wilhelmsen was so weak after this administration that elder jenson and another elder had to assist him back to the mission office about one month later they found this man in the same condition again they blessed hihimm elder jenson being mouth on this occasloccasionoccasoon after the blessing the evil spirlspirispiritit seemed to attack the man worse than before elder jenson and the others again laid their hands on hihinhim1 me they rebuked the evil sspirit in a strong voice which had the desidesiredf red effect when sometime later the man was againagahanagaan attacked they were

2 candrew2andrew C andrew jensonjensons journal appp 0 505150 51

ain3inin the early days of the Churchchurch it was a practice to re ministeradministeradmirid nister the ordinances of the gospel on special occasionoccasionsse this practicepractlice is no longer continued 4 4jensonsbensonsJenjensonssons journal C p 56 23 perplexed until they discovered thatthaithac helielleile had ledaed1ed an unclean liflifeilfee they refused to administer to hilmhiimhunhonhum again until he had repented histhis ex- periperienceence with evil spirits taught me thlthithischis1 s lesson andrew testified that ilit is riotnot a desirable task to attack the devil on his own ground or endeavor to drive him away from places where he has a right to be this man had made hirahirnhimself liableselfseif to the attacks from this evil source becauseofhisbecause of his unholy practices 5 andrew had now progressed in his knowledge ofoe the technical features of thedanishthe danish language so he could put his efforts into the primary reason for his mlsmismissionmissionsionslon call helielleile began editing a monthly periodical inln the interest of the young people of the mission which he called ujigdomjnejspagommens raa&jverrd g v he edited a pamphlet which contained a Ilisttst of bible references in theuhe danish language thistills little concordconcorrconcor- dance of the bible was used by the missionaries in scandinavia for a number of years he was also appointed assistant editor of skandinaviensskandiizaviens

v cisnS isnI1 rnerue andrew now began translating the scriptures into his native tongue presidentpres I1ident niluliwilwilhelmsenhelmsen and he worked fforor many months on a newnow edition of the book of mormon in danish andrew also prepared an index for this newnow edition he was very pleased with their work absolutely is the prettprettiestiestlest and finest book which has ever it 1 been published by the saints in scandiscandinavianasianavia 7 this third edition was a careful revision which corrected the inaccuracies and errors found in the former ededitionseionsuions the third edition of the book of mormon was to be used until goo9001900 when andrew was asked to work with elder anthon H lund of the

5jensonjenson autobiograjhyautobiographyautobio raph p 11111.1IIili11 6ibid9ibid appp 113114113 114

7jensonsjenson journal cyC p 2059 05 24 council of the rfwelvtwelvee to edit a fourth edition A more thorough revision was possible since they would have accaccessess tobo all the other translations of the book of0 mormon andrew felt this was a better translation than his previous one because elder lundslund knowledge of the danish language was very good and his own knowledge of the danish 8Q language had greatly improved after completing their translation andrew was asked by the first presidency to accept a special mission to denmark to publish this new edition he indicates this call was not unexpected it would be unaiunwiunwise1 se to trust the publication of so iimpo-apormpor rtant work to any but the revisersrevi sers and inasmuch as bro lund himself could not go the choice naturally tellfellfeilfeli upon me as the only other reviserreviserdeviser1 9 the church leaders apparently hadllad great faith in andrew jensonjensons ability in completing this work this is a work for which he is eminently qualified his attention to detail and his thorough acquaintsacquaintcacquaintanceince with the differences of expression in the two tongues his quick perception and capacity for literary work will be particularly adapted to the task before him As the revision of the text has been conducted under the supervision of president anthon H lundiundlund whose scholarly and inguallinguallinguai acquirements are exceplexceptionalexcept I1 onal our danish friends may rest assured new mormon a that the edition of the book of will be as perfect 10 translation from the english version as it isLS possible to be made all of this literarliterakliteraryy work was very satisfying to andrew jenson on his thirthirtiethclethLieth birthday thinking back over all that he had accomplished and the various occupations that he had tried thus far at last he seemed to have found his place in lifeilfeilee

80 andrew jenson to joseph F smithsmtthsmjth may 6 1903 jenson papers 9 jenson autobioAuutobiograjhytobio ra ny Ppo 407 10 thee desertdeseret eveningfninnewsnews sallsailsallsalt lake citicity may 13 190291902 p 4 25

nolnotnob until I1 was called on my first mission in 1873 did the aspaspirationtratiotistratioti and desires of my youth awaken in me anew and with increased strength and I1 began to see the right and to have hope that after all I1 had a possible future inln the direction of my natural inclinations I11 therefore made the resolution that I11 would put forth every possible effort to make myself useful in the pro- motion of godsoodgodoods cause on the earth and that I1 would endeavor to attain to such a degree of knowledge by developing the talents god had endowed me with that I1 could become a useful instrument in the hand of the lord to preach the gospel of salvation to mankind A bright and happy future seems to open before me and I11 have the promise that the lord has a great work for me to do on the earth the historian was slowly being formed president niels wilhelmsen became illlilliiiiiili111 and had to be taken to the hospital to receive medical care andrew seemed to sense that something might happen to his beloved president

I1 followed bro wilhelmsen to the hospital and on the road home I1 so depressed in my feelings that I1 burst into tears felt 12 and could not regain my equilibrium for some ttimelmealme every day andrew would go to visit president wilhelmsen at tirsttirbtbirst he seemed to be doing quite we11weweinwelly11 but then heho began to fail president wilhelmsen seemed resigned to his ultimate fate for helielleile told andrew 1 I am not afraid to die but I1 would like to see niyatyntymy ami&mifamilyllyelyaly 13 first if I1 die it is the will of the lord with this premonition of death president wilhelmsen gave minutem instructions on his funeral

and the affairs of the mission on august 1 1881 president niels ilielmsenwilhelmsenwi diedd led this appeared to be a personal tragedy for elder jenson

oh how I1 love pres willielmsenwllhelmcen sincerelysincebincerely never before had I1T labored with a man eleitheleltheleitherther in the tylissioncissionmissionilslis sionslon field or elsewhere

111.1liii 12 jensonjensons journal C POp 1471471014740 ibid p 216 13 jensonjonson autobiographytobitoblographyOgraphy p 116 u tiprip iiw ahw L tobtii si allaal 26

with whom I1 had been so intimate and confidential as I1 had been withwilhw 1 th hhinhimim I1 could not iovelove t4tamy own father wwithI1ithath a greater devotion than I1 loved this man 0 4 with the instructions that he had received andrew took imme- diate charge of the mission as acting mission president one of hish is concerns vaswas the emigration of some scandinavian saints to utah this took a lot of planning and arranging but itltI1 gave andrew a chance to show his administrative ability president albert carrington european mission Preidentpresident took special note of his work I1 am pleased with the manner in gitilwhichvitil1 ch you are conducting matters and with regard to instructions I1 have only to say at present go on asa well as you can according to the instructiolinstructioninstructionsIs of prest wilhelmsen and as circumstances require untuntilii11111.1 a successor to 15 prest W arrives from zion

finally a new mission president was assjassaassigned41nedD I1 so andrew could now take hisQ journey home thlthithisi s had been a very important mission for

A Xauuttjw11 t t cew itjeub0iiaisocl helielleilefl had difeddiued much vailiablevalVaIacuvcu udLIableulebleuieL ekperlenceI1 elic e tthaethacna r wouldaouwou id be of graitgreatgroatgrait benefit to him the rest of his life shortly after returning from his second mlssionmissionassionLs sionslon andrewlvidrew began preparations for one of his major works mogenstjeor ele L enencuen morning star he wrote to erastus snow telling him of his projected work and requested permission loto10 publish a historical igazineagazinemagazinem igazine in the danish language at first eldereiderejder snow eemedseemeddeemed reluctant to grant his permission since presidentpresidentpres ident john taylor did not understand the object of the work elder snow finally gave his approvapproveapproval0O along with the prayers and blessing of lgig16.16 yourY ou r 1brethrenre thren andrew began to conlcompilecontcoutpile materials for morchenmorcgenmajmpjjenyen tjjrnetjernet en included

14i 15i bensonsJenjensonssons journal cyC plap 2202120202.0 ibid p 234 16 jenson aitonaitobmitobjographyLO raph p 126 27 in the ffirst issue was a history of the scandinavian mission from 1850 to 1880 a biography of erastus snow a summary of events in 1881 and other articesarticles this would actually be his first authored work since levnetsajlevnetlb was mainly a translation of already published iterialiderialmaterialnv this work would be an especially finec contributionontricontrilbutioul to church history since andrew had just completed his mission to the very mission he would be writing about because of his work at the mission office he had access to many valuable records that were of great value to hinhimhifa in 17 completing an accurate and up to date history

on january 12 188291882 in company with erastus snow he had a conference with president john taylor and some members of the council of the twelve he presented to them his plans for this new publication erastus snow was appointed by the brethren to supervise the work of

1 1 1 T 1I 1I T j tZ 11 13 1 1 & i r i A i 1I 1I ly11.111 1 JL A S 1L J hsihoi J JL Cld C 1 S2 VJ4 t l L L 4 jl J J s LJL 1 ceigei JL U 0 0 uilvj ai tt ajljjl c14acita U U 50qij J tl t U tjltjiajl lulleulleuel laucalxuca lkiakiJ lil aulalla Jul scandinavian salsaisaintsi ntsants in the letter he indicated that andrew jenson had the full approval of the brethren in this publication it was also explained that the work would be submitted for i3pectioninspection1 n and approval snow to the first presidency 5 the church historian or erastus elder snow then concluded the letter we are confident that such a work cannot fail to prove interesting and valuable to the saints generally indandaudiudlud to the scandinavianscandlscandaaianialaviaiavii an people particularly any of our scandinavian brethren diodlomiowho have journals or historical items should contribute such items to andrew Jjensoncnson in hish lsworalsworworkk praying god to inspireinsptinapt re his nindmindm hid and gulguiguldeguideede him to correct sources of information indand enable him to be discrete in1aaa his sel- 1 ection and accurate in hillsliis1 9 statements and thatthacbhatbilatbilac his labors alaymay re- dound to the glory of codoodgod and the welfare of his people 18

17 181 ibidylb d p 127 jensontensonsjensons journal C p 302 28

certainlyI1 this last slacsLatslatementstatementement jI1iss wor thy of0 consideration by any historical writer

1 the same method that was used 3inti selling j levnetslbvffctglb would be employed for morgenstlernensjtjsj tj ernen andrew would sell subscriptions to his

1 magazine and mail it oatout Iin1 n sixteen installmentsins t ailments of sixteen pages each A sixteen page supplement entitled kirkensjkijjeijs histories a continuation of jvtsublevnetsl4b would be issued four times a year the annual subscription for these two publications would be u25125 once again andrew took to the subscrisubscription1 ptioti traitrailtrallll11 journeying from city to city when publication began the subscription list was 19 only 300 this later rose to nearly 2200 on thesechese sales trips he acquired on a loan basis many private journals for use in writing his various histories this made his works

PSHPCNVicalICAI flhrfahr vlnnblpirqllln hlfble andq arlnrl iintorpstln in coacou t inoiI1 no 0anonoapnpn of thoh 1I mot orormnpntkromlproml n eiat rfof thoothpptapp journals was that of erastus snowsnowasnowe andrew was carrying the sketch which he had prepared from this journal when helielleile met elder snow traveling on the train from provo he spent an enjoyable evening reading 20 aloud to him from the sketch because of the many trips he was making especiaspeciespeciallyallyaily to salt lake andrew decided to move his family there during the time andrew was building his home helieite and his family rented four rooms from anna snow wifeWifeiccifc of frastuserastus snow while in the snow home mary had a serious 21 fall that almost proved fatafatal

191.9lgig 9 jenson mitobjoraphyautobf appp 129 131 20 21 umiibl d p 129 1ibididlfalALIALI d 29 As popular as lilgelilg2mormonsfcjcrncnjcrnen was becoming itft was not enth- usiastically received by all the scandinavian saints heilellelie made note in his journal of a visit to one of these settlements I1T here met some peculiar cold and indifferent members of the church who appeared to be as ignorant and careless concerning anything of an intellectual nature as any I1 have ever sosenseensoenen it seemed as easy to make them fly to heaven as stainsustainsilsulsui anything ofoifoff a literary nature if people are to be saved according to the knowledgevenythethey gain in this lilifeilfeefe however will suchpeoplesuch people ever get into heavenheadeavenyheaveny this also seemed to be a period ofoj spiritual growth for andrew on a number of occasions in his private journal helielleile explained how he went alone to pray about something which only the almighty god and the 23 heavenly host know one day while his wife was away he prayed earnestly for a special blessingblessbiessblessingsblessingyingy andand felt that his desire would be granted if helielleile continued faithful uhenlihenwhen I1 went up in the center of town in the evening about the timeeimecimeelmeeimeelme i was praying one ofot luedielneuieulecue leiealealeadaleleadaneieaclinaclinaadane metimeilmen oiot the lhurcnchurch had teendeenneen making diligent inquiries in regard to my faithfulness traitraitlt of character family affairs etc what does it mean the future will undoubtedly unfold theche mystery it surely has a meaningmean ing 24 one month later the meaning of this experience began to be demonstrated as helieile stated further in his journaljournalsI1 becausedecaBecalisetiseilse of elder john van cotts death there is a vacancy in the quorum of the first bevenseven presidents of seventies and niymy name has been brought up in the council of the first presidency and twelve in connection with otherothor names with a view to fill the vacancy by a brother of scandinavian origin if the lord and his servants shall be pleased loto10 give me that position I1 shall surely try to magnify my calling to thellielile best of my ability I1 have 1 in the past trtriedied not to seckseeksock for officeoff i ce or positioposidiopositiont 1 but I1T can not deny that I1 would consider myself much favored by the lord if he accepts me as his servant in this respectr 253

in his journal 9 andrew now made clear the reason for some of

22 23 Jenjensonssors journal C appp 339340339 340 1bid7ibid p 322 24 25 ibid D appp 1011101.110 jl11 ibid appp 192019 20 30

his intensive soul searching helietietle revealed between april ath7th and ath8th 1883 helielleile had a pleasant drdreamam in which lie thought he saw himself sustained as one of the seven presidents of the seventy although he was not sustained in the pospositionitlonatlon this was a time of xreatgrealgreatareat spiritual ex 269 periperienceence that would come to rich fulfillment not many years later in orderodder to reduce expenses andrew bought type cases galleys

and other materials and set uupp a miniature printing office in his home here the type was set for MorgensmorgenstjMorgenmorgenstastAtJjeernenrnon then the forms were wheeled in a little handcart to the deseret news office where the press work was done the printing from thilthis s type was very pleasing to him and he 27 wrote that the new format received considerable praise along with his literary talents andrew possessed a keen business sense and was constantly searching for new better and cheaper

1 1 11 c F vy 1 e aq 1 r 1 T N T rnerI1 1 T 7nanr r 11 rfr 4 01 gryb rl 4TI1 t 4 tq I n t I e in A f fyf Y m n r F titeit f rnnrrnn nr problems he would encounter were dlediodue not to mismanagement but rather to the nature of the profession he had hewn for himself As andrew commenced hisulis second volume of morgenstlernenmorgensmorgans yejnen he seemed anxious to make available more of the scriptures of the scandinavian saints he had actually started work on the book of abraham while

289 J still on his 1condsecondSU mission to denmark but the first licationindicationincinelneli cationlibation that he planned to include the pearl of great price in mpstjj1morgenstiernen was a note injin his journal on monday march 26 1883 the remainder of the

i week I1 spent in1n translatingtraustransbraus latingkating the uriurlwriwritingselings of moses from the pearl of 112929 great price and mailing no 4 of morgenstleroj&gjjil6nen rethe next entryaltyatty

26r 270 7 ibid jenson autobiopebieblubi01Ubi01raphy P 134 2800oo 299 Q Jensjensonsjournaljensoillsoills courtialjourtial C p acl5cl50 ibid D p 11 31

in his journal was on april 10 1883 whent he explained the evening

I1 spent with erastus snow at his place on the lilill111hilleliali111 we worked together 30 on my translation of pearl of great price until 2 oclock at night after this preliminary work elder snow recommended that andrew write him a letter explaining his plan so that he could present it as a proposal to president john taylor on april 11 1883 andrew sent the

following letter to erastus snowsnows0 in my subscriptsubscription ionlonjon plan for the 2nd vol of itmoimorrgnstjeijletfajtj ernen I1 promised the subscribers to publish the book of arahamabrahamfjt inin thethe paper together with the accompanying illustrations as they appear in the pearl of great price but in translating that fraction of the work referred to the idea struck me forcibly that the whole of the work which never before has been published in the danish ought to be translated and printed in full for the belefbenefbenefitit of a vast number of my subscribers who cannot read the english language not wishing however to laketakecakehake any liberty in this respect without taking councicouncil1 I from the properproporpoopor course I1 now layay the matter beforebe forefoce you and kindly ask you if you think proper to council with the first presidency about fti and if is deemed adaiadviseableadviseadvi1 seableseabieableabie toID have this J it it dildikJJLq1lqq I1J wuujjWOU 1 U niuiiilucli tu have illymy llartsloartslj alib 1jalioad ciotiatioa thuluugalythuehueho uuglij y eduxalfuuecimined and proved by you personally so that no error in any way creep in it being somewhat a difficultcliffacliff11 cl1lt task to translate a work of this kind correctly and accurate I1 have been asked by scoresscoresrep and I1 might say hundreds olourofourof our scandinavian brethren to translate and publish the pearl of great price in danish hence I11 know that the work would be very acceptable to thenthemtheniatheni my plan would be to publish ilit inL n the current numbers of my magazine continuing it until pub lisheddished complete 311 during the next few days andrew jenson read his translation of the pearl of great price to erastus snow on april 17 1883 andrew received from brother snow the following reply to his letter of the lith

rresreespresprospees john taylor says that I1 am at liberty tot o help re- visevjsc your translation and that you will be allowed to publish the pearl of great pricepricell in11 P the danish language in your magazine morgensljernenmorgenstjernerl 11 upon this conditconditionflon that the translation be approved and made as correct asgis possible that che deseret news publishing company be allowed to use your forms and translation of

30 31 ibid p 12s12 ibid 32

abraham etc so thatthalthab said publishing company can issue thebhe pearl ofoc great price inin book form in danish it being a church work he says it should remain thus and not be turned over to prprivatei1 vate individuals 32 andrew continued to read his trantranslationlation of the pearl of great price to erastus snow but it was not until june that this translation was ready for publication XIon june ath7th and ath8th8tjj andrew shipped volume

1 l two9twostwo numbers sixs x and seven of morgenstiernenorg1ti eri eltiefel to hi131 subscribers contained in these two issues was the lsionelsionvisionV of moses the wrjwojwritingt ng of moses and the book of abraham andrew finishefinishedd publbishingpubishingpunishingpu ishing the rest of the pearl of great price in morgenstlernenmorgens tjernetjernc in the fall of 1883 in numbers ienteutenbenbeu and eleven of morgenstmprgenstjjrnenlernenbernen he included the following items an extract from a translation of the bible matthew chapter 24 A key to the revelation of st john section 77 of the present doctrine and covenants A revelation and prophecy on war section 87 of the doctrine andaridarld covenants extractsextracts fronfromfiflonflomom 1hethe history of joseph siaisisidisnithsmitha i ith from the doctrine and covenants of the church A revelation on the eternity of the marriage covenant 9 including plurality of wives and the poem truth this compilation is identical with the 1878 edition of the pearl of great price 33 in the same year 1883 that the pearl of great price was first published inln moensmoramoro ens tjernentj ernen the pearl of orealgreal pliceprice was alsoaisoalboaimo published officially abas a church publicpublicationatlon in the danish itlanguageguageinguageIn and it was called den kolKotkoteligekosteligeKostelige perle this work was identical alahwitnwlah the pearl of great price as it was published in mqrgenstjernenMQLOIIS tjerjcn with one exception

32 ibidlbd5 appp 14 19 33 andaudandrewaudrewanorewr e w Jjensonen s 0 n eedd moienstjerncnbernenjernen saitsaltsaltsail take city deseret news company 188318841883 1884 1i7TI 81107818tjoymtjoy107 161178igi161 178 33 as noted by andrew jenson in hihiss journal I1 spent the week writing for my paper and reading on the last form of den kosteligekostoligeKosteligeolige perle 11 pearl of great price which was printed on saturday nov 24 I1 have already publishedpubl lshedlashed the work in morgenstjernemmorgens tjernentj ernen and instead of distributing the type they are arrangedrearrangedre and put in smaller pages it is church property as I1 am merely reading proof 34 thus came into being the first official edition of the pearl of great price in danish this made the fourth language in which the pearl of great price had been published and the third foreign language edition it was preceded by the english in 185191851 the welch in 1852 and the german 35 in 1882 about one month before october 14 18831.883 andrew made this statement on how the preface of den kosteligeKostelige perleperie came into being 1ff I visited bro erastus snow in the forenoon we wrote preface to the danish ayqy

1 f136 cdiadiA 4 4t 0 0 V I r rl I1 checypn i p1prpa f1p1p r andrew worked on one subsequent ediedleditionti1 on of the danidauldanishsh pearl of great price on friday november 27 1903 he made this comment itinin the afternoonafternnonafterntion I11 divided my old translation of the pearl of great price in danish into chapters andaridarld verses like the last glishenglishEinebn edition pend 37 ing the revision of a second edition

onli january 122 1909 andrew was set apart asas president of the scandinavian mission and it was while on this missionmiss lon in november 1909 thatchatehatchalbhat he nisheddishedfinishedfaf3 reading proof for a new edition of the pearl of

Q jejensonnsonfs journal D appp 525352 53 3 ajoseph5josephjoseph fielding smith essentlalsessentialsesjent aj s inn Jijijhjiehchurchjh hiojhiljhistory salt lake citescitycitys deseret news prespressS 192819 Ppt 6746747 36f Jenjensonsbonssons journal D p0pap 54541s 37 ibidibidqibad HIH p 450 34 QQ great price in danish 38 once again we see the fulfillment of the prediction in the book of mormonmormons and thus we see that by small thingsthivngs the lord can bring about great things tf 1 I1 nephi 1629 through the efforts and enterprise primarily of one man andrew jenson this book thetilctile pearl of great price was made available to a large segment of the converts of the church for the fjfirstrst time during 1882 and 1883 morgenstjerneng9tj ernen was published as a monthly periodical kirkenskjjkenskjrkens histories was a supplement to these first two volumes for one year it was changed to a semimonthlysemi monthly publication until in 1885 it reverted back to a monthly publicatpublicarpublicationpubl icati1 ons mocnjjlol&ijltj enenrieb 39 consisted of four volumes and 960 pages

38 ibidib idoaidog Iiq1 ppo 1521520

39 1 andrew jenson ed the 111iiiili1historical11 s tor 1 calcai redrecord sasalt1 t lake cityci ty andrew jenson 1889 v9vaV p 1271204 CHAPTER IV

THE historical RECORD

near the end of 1885 erastuseras lusbus snow and others of the general authorities met in a conference where it was suggested that morrenst jjjrnena be changechangedd frfromom a danish to an english publicatpublicarpublicationpubl icationlon one of the brethren commented could not bro jenson do for the whole church what he has already done in the interests of the scandinavian mission and the scandinavians in utah 11 thus began jheahethe historical record one of andrewandrews most quoted books

on november 885 188588518851.885 there appeared injn the deseret news the prospectus for the historical record in it andrew explained the purpose 0of eheche book and outlAnoutlineded itsLs coatencontencoatenlyscoilletileilbenlnnl8lys in thithlthiss periodical we intend to publishpub listi such historical chronological and statistical matter as will lay a foundation for what might properly be called a mormon encyclopedlencyclopediai a among iitsets lcadingabingleading features will be thedhe following 4 1 A brief description and condensed history of every place and settlement locatedlo10 catedbated or inhabited by latterlatterdayday saints since the organization of the church 2 short biographical sketches of the prominentprociiinent and leading men in the church both ilyingflying111ving and dead including the members of camp mormon B zions the pioneers of 1847 5 and the battalionattaliontailon also a number of others 5 both friends and foes whose doings have been connected withwl tiitil the saintssaints 3 condensed hishistoriestorlestoriestortes of all forelforeigngiigai nissmissmissionsliol1101 1sas established by the eidersciderselders some of the most importantimportant branches and conferences will be described in separate artarticlestclesacles aj1j k a descriptions of temples tabernacles andaridarld other public buildings erected by the saintsaintss 565 a A complete chronology giving the most important events inln

andrew jenson autobiographyautoblographyautobl 0pap ravivravhv of andrew jenson salt lake city deseret news press 193819387 p7i39p 1396 35 36 church history from 1805 to the plesentpresent time this villviliwill be published initi111 suchstich a shape that it1 t ccinaa be bound separately when compcompleted1 eted 2 this was an ambitious project for oaeone man to attempt the prospectus Pprovedroved to be not only a preview of the historical record but practically ara prospectus of all andrevandrewandrews future writings in it he also aaptly described the style ofoc writing that helielleile antiantlanticipaanticipatedcipaI1 ted employingemploy inglug1 no attempt will be made to use flowery language as theuhe main object is to present facts in truth and simplicity accuracy asa to dafdatesdaj s dayanddjyf ipetesetcsetasU re s willwilllii be a predominantpredominent feature so thalthatthatt the entire work may be considered good authority in all matters upon which it treats 3 the HistorichisthistoricaloricalaJ record was published in monthly installments of thirtytwothirty two pages each and cost 125 per year each installment was

f equally divideddivadiv1 ded sixteen pages of general history indcindC sixteen pages of chronology since this woikwolkwork was in a sense a continuation of 4 1 C 0 1 ijcrctigli j c mnL X L JL L1.1 t bagarbcgarocgaxi wJ I- h vo J aricinic141441 zricill Ji J v3vao J-333.3sicadJ I1 s U cadtead olof01 vcvvo1.1 LUHICL leiwilc onen in theth e issue carrying the prospectus the jjcsejetdeseret news commented brother jenson has established a reputation as an accurate and efficient hilhitstorianhistorian aandalidlid his efforts 1inn theuhe new field whiwhichch he has mapped out for himself will doubtless be marked by ability and must result in good for the community 53 because of the works helieile was now publishing andrew began to receive many ininvitationsvitatlvitagli onsona and aisigassigassignmentsc1111ents to deliver lectures on church history he loundfound fulfsfulfillingfulf1111ing these eiigagementsengagemcnt& a source of great personal 6 salisfactisati sfactionoon

2deseretdeseret eveningeverievert g news saitsaltsa t laketake cityci tyllyl november 12 1885

3 1 4 ab1bibid1 C1 italiciitalic3itajico added jenson aulALIyjbjotob gigraphegraphvapjiy p 101110 5deseretdeseret evening news sanisaltfsaltsau lake citycitylcetyl november 12 1885

6jensonjenson kutobiograautobiography p 1401400 37

itillibl waswrlisalsEIS in 188518853 according to andrew jenson that the crusade 7 against plural marriage was commenced by the federal officialsoff 1i cialsbials because of this action many of the leadingloading church authotitiauthoritiesautho titikillkici1 es went into

what was called the mormon underground I1 andrew frequently visited some of the leaders who were hiding from government officials and received much encouragement in his undertaking one day while he was engaged in

research in the historianhistorians office the building wcwasis surrounded by deputy marshals who had warrants for the arrest of several church leaders in the office were two of the twelve apostles wilford woodruff and erastus snow elder woodruff became very nervous about the situation one of thosethobe present suggested a dissouisesguisedisguise so elder woodruff put on a slouch

hat which gave him the appearance of a farmer in hhisLS work clothes limp- ing out of the office on andrewandressandrews arm brother woodruff escaped detection 80 hv t bp rlprmfv rnnrbr 1 1 s during this tinietimetinte andrew also entered into plural marriage four years earlier he had attended the annual conference of the church in which there was much discussion of the recently passed edmundedmunds bill andrew was disturbed with the various aspects of this bill iincludingricludricaud ing

the provision which denieddeaildedenildealvailalvniv ed the vote to anyone having more than one wife the form of the oath antheontheon the other side lnoairionanoa membersmembersj is worded in such a way that the gredgreatestgrea lesttest whorewhoremungerwhoremongermunger libertines and

7ibid9bid p 138 8Q 1bid7ibid appp 140141140 141 wilford woodruff was so impressed with thithlthiss event that he made special mention of it in1 n his journal11clory glory hallelujah to god and the lamb for his mercies durethendurethEn forever let all theehe earth praise the loidlorddoiddoiddord the history of this day is one of the most iimportant1 events of my life and iiss well worth a place in the records of the history of the church wilford woodruffwoodruffs journal february 8 188691886 LDS church lit113storiansiiistotias1stormansstoriansorlans office 38

and may prostitutes the worst morally corrupted individualsilldividuals vote 9 as freelycreely as any fine american citcitacitizenA1 zen poor corrupted nation at the close of president john taylortaylors speech at the april 1882 conference pledging their unalterableunalunai lerable1erablemerable belief in the divine prin- ciple of plural marriage the congregation shouted three times hosannah hosannah to god and the lamb the shout was so lmmenseimmenseammense that the 10 tabernacle shook alparapparentlyapparcrittycritly influenced by this conference and the tremendous

persecution of the next few years andrew decided to talitaiitaistalcetaicee a plural wife on Dpcemberdecember 19 1886 andrew married emma howell in the endowment house in salt lake at this time many other church members alsobeganalsoaiso began prac- ticing plural marriage the persecution evidently strengthening the saints determination to prove their worthiness through this most difficult test because of the oppression suffered by many saints andrew and eimaseigaselgasemma marriage was kept secret for a few years A short time after his plural marriage andrew was asked to speak to the brethren who had been placed in the utah ltentiarypenitentiarypenipenl for the practice of plural marriage this was a very touching experience

for him especially when the choir sang 1 I aiamn praying forfox you the words of the chorus being the children are praying folforfox me7meame As this was sung tealstears flowed freely from the brethren I1 shall never forget thisthtintidiss visivlsivisitt to see our brethren many of whom I1 was personalpersonally ly acquainted with clad I1inn the s tripodI1 garb of convicts and forcedfoifol cedcod lovoV10 o mingle withwj th criminals of the worstwort kind was hearheartrendingtrclid ing I1 was led to exclaimexclaims 110hoh lord how long shall thy i 1 servants thus suffer indlfniiesind L enitignities from the hartishandshautis of theltheithelrtheirthear hearheartlesstleblebie s and wicked oppressors when will the hand of deliverance be stretched

9 10 9jensonJejenoonsjenyonsnoonss journal C p 339 ibid p 319 I1 I1 jenson aujobwgrapliyautobautom L 0 gyrwyr a taivdaiv p 1421420 A 39

oulout inL ri behalf ofoc these men who have been imprisoned because they would not desertth theirr families ny12121

i it was during these trying timestunesbuneshimesbimes that another triaitrialtr J al was placed on andrew his first wife mary became seriously ill with what the doctors diagnosed as tuberculosis andrew nursed and cared for mary and sought the lordslord help through the power of the priesthood but on january 3 1887 she died her death left a voldvoidmaidmald in andrewandrews life which he felt would never be filled goodbye my beloved mary wife of my youth my first love she was a good and noble wife to me 1 0 she cleaved to me through troubles and adversitadversityadver andaridaarldrid shared with me the burden of sitB13 life m6renoremaremore than eleven years after about two months he engaged his wife elgaeigaemnaemma as a housekeeper since only mary had known of their marriage three weeks later he made a trip to ogden conveying the idea this was for the purpose of marrying

T 41 1 hn or am ranvanfan q T dlanaduana 41 becausejj of the pcrcccutionr cf theche acripcricri i rr ngomqgom arpprpr P terableferablefearable to announcing her as his plural wife although he received some 14 criticism for marrying so soon after the death of his first wife two years later he married hah3hiss third wife bertha howell the sister of emma because of the extensive persecution andrew had to be

1 i very cautcautiouslOUS in having this marrmarriagelage1 age consconsummatedummatedabed they arrivedarrI1 ved in manti about midnight july 14 1888 while there andrew met one of the

citizens of mantimantlmafiti but the man could not recall hisliislils name sinceS I1nc e helieile was

not anxiousacxanx itous to 1discloseI ts close his identity helielleile left him wondering the follow-

ingeve eveningn lnoalno july 15 1888 andrew picked up bertha at her lodging and

11heythey ProprocekprocecproceededceCcee ded foto the mnntiunxitlmannti tenpietempletempie where presidentpresidentpres ident1dent daniel FLH wells

12 13 jensonjensons journal E p 17 jenson autobiographyautobautom logriplograpiry p 143 14 abi1biiblcltd p 144 40 scaled themchem for linelimetime and all eternity but the fear of discovery was not over on the Iddivideividell between fountafountainin creengreen andaudlandsaudyaud salt creek canyon we met some deputy marshals who were searching for polygampolygamipolygamiapolygamistsi1 stsats had they knownwhatknown what bertha andand I1 knew they could have made a haul r1ahtright there and then 15 it was not unusual therefore that during this period andrew wrote an extensive article on plural marriage for jethe historicaliipjil 16 record although this articlearticieartarts clecieicleicie on plural marriage included valuable his-

torical evidence 1indicatingi that plural marriage was begun by joseph smith and not brighambrilghambringham young it was not accepted with enthusiasm by all the brethren the attention of the twelve has been called to your numbernumierber of 1 the historical record for july 188791887518879 in which you publish a list11 st of names of women who were sealed to the prophet joseph WP do not qjjestlon vonryovir pondpoodqoodp rt in rn4kirntonpriq ampnmp niipstonA dovir rf oodondnod pirp J thore public bulbutbuu we areai e led loto10 quesiionquestionquestionqueblion theuheune propproprietyrielyriccyrICLY 01of giving thischis publicity to them at the plesentpresent limetime 0 we do not think it is a wise slepstepskopstopscep to give these names to the me world at the present titime 5 in the mannermauner in which you have done in this historical recordrecordtf tf advantage may be taken of their publication andiandandy in some instances to the injury perhapspcrhapsy of families or relatives ofoc those whose names are mentioned 17 this last statement has since proved to be almost prophetic jerald tanner an antiantimormonmormon publisher chose to republishre publjpublepublishI1 sh olonlyilyllyliy this 181 0 article from all of andrew jensonjensons works

15 ibidibidd appp 147148147 148 16 historical andrew jenson ed ahe2heth historicalw recrecordordond salt lake city andrew jensonjonson 1889 VI 2192219240219 2240 17 Wwilford woodruff to andrew jenson august 6 1887 wilfordwiliford woodruffs letlettertertor books LDS church historians office 181 Q andrew jenson liutaibluraliii111 Marrimarriageagellagett salt lake city modern microfilm 1964 41 inen order to assure accuracy in his work andrew frequently compared notes with othetother historians spending considerable lunelimetimetune at the historianhistorians office on february 20 1886 he wrote a letter to franklin D richards church historian asking for permission to examine material in the church historians1 office to assure accuracy in his various pu- licatiblicationsons he further requested that his labors be thoroughly supervised and controlled by the church historians so that it may be considered authentic inj n every respect I1 hold m- yself ready at any ttimelmealme to deliver tiplipup every document or notes of historical value that I1 have if the authorities so desire and continue my labors for the church and let it realize the financial benefit that may accrue from the record if I1 canc in only have suffi-1 cient for my familyfamicamillyoly to live upon 19 he felt that if theqjlsjoyijalhistorical jcrecord verewereweccwecewe cc published as an authentic church publication it would get a larger circulation than as a private venture he also mentioned that in order to make the record

I1 1 jaj1 as s culcuttccuTcuticcutte ttc s possible1 e h feltfeit 3 tn hrohHraroh oh mismlsS Ssir ttpisTttupisT nisnfsPOpis ohio new york and other states would bebenecessarynecessary this letter revealed andrews desire to become attached to the historians office on october 28 1886 helielleile wrote to presidentprespros ident john taylor asking for em- ployment in the historianflistorians office president taylor indicated helielleile had made inquiries about such a possipossibilityebl 111tyaty but that it would not be con- venient at that time he spoke of andrewaudrewandrewsanorew birchmirchchurch jipnolpgchronology and ahejhethe historical recordREC 0 M stating thatthai for those interested in history they will find them fullfulicull of interesting and useful infoimationinformation TT heilellefie also offeredolioffoij ered bornesome fatherly advice about the difficultdifficultiesdifficultjiJI es befalling a publisher of books it frequently iiss the case that publishers have to sLruggierugglestruggle for

19 Jjensoiisen Is orlori Is journal D appp 182183182 183 42

a long ttinetimeame before they ccancan sesecurecuriL a proper recognition for the matter they offer to the public uhenwhen your works become better known their value vilwilwllwillwiil doubtless be more appreciated and you will be able to overcome any of the pecuniarypecualaryiary difficulties with which you are now harassed 20

apparently andrewandrews vorkvockwockworks were not as financially successful as he had hoped and helieile was seeking the endorsement of the first presidency president taylors letter continued

you seem desirous of having youriyourlyour works endorsed and recommended by the first presidency this we are reluctant to do not in your case aloneolone but in all cases of this character it is out of our powerTnowcoweowc r to examine the voluminous works which are publishedpubis1 shed by one and another and pronounce upon their correctness or give an un- qualifiedquailquall f cedled opinion concerning them andaridaarldrid so we cannot do this for all we retrainrefrainre train from doing it for any this leaves all publicationpublications to stand upon their own merits and the people to be their judges although andrew did not at this time find a positionpo sitionaition at the

1 wo he become a bistorhistorhistorianants office 9 itt woulduld not be long until would very important part of that office the deseret newnewss continued to comment favorably on jlljjthe historicaloj record apparentlyapparent Jyy to encourage sales itif continued as begun and pat- ronized and read as it should be it will accomplish great good and fill 22 a mucmuchh needed want 11 the deseret nalsnewsNCTS also 1indicatednd 1 caled that the history

11 1I of the1 he normmormnormonmormonon people haridhridd never been written inL n a concise and succintsuccinct 23 manner for ready reference 1 f23 but the papers finest compliment was printed after volume svenseven had been published

20 ohnjohn taylorfaylor to andiewandrewjensonAndrew jenson brunyfebruaryrp 20 1887 prepresidentsidentaident john taylorsfay lorloc s letter book januaryJ inudxy 31april31 april 151 88718871.887 p 1962196 LDS churchchin ch historianhistorianss office 2121. ibibidi d 22 deseretdeserojtDese reftreflrojt eveningavenillevenillEv enitienill r news salt lake citycllyj march 2 1886 23 ibid 43 itII11 is a book whose valuvalue cannot be adequately estimated as its usefulness increases as time rollsroilsrolis on it iIss destined to be a guide to the future historian who will write a popular history of the latterlatterdayday saints as a communityCOrUn Unity the editor and publisher brotherdrother andrew jenson is particularly gifted with the ability to compile facts of historical interest and the care which lie exerciseexercisess in that department of literature enables him to avoidavoldavoid blunders that a less scrupulous compiler would commit 24 andrewaudrew attended april conference as usual in 1888 and was unex- pectedly called upon by president lorenzo snow to address the congregation this was the first of what would be many talks given at general conference and demonstrated that his name was becoming very well known in the church it was also at this time helielleile began to receive an allowance of ffifty dollars each monthmouth to assist him in his historical labors this was the first assistance hehadhe had received frofronfromeromm any source it seems to indicate the appreciation of the first presidency for his historical 25 labors1 z on may 27 1888 andrew visited hisllisliis good friend erastus snow whom he found very ill that evening helielleile had a speaking assignment in one of the wards but when it was hishi s turn to speak he felt so depressed in spirit that he could not speak duongduring the meeting a inessmessengermessengeeugernger came in with the news that elder snow had diedd led andrew mourned the death of

1 elder snow fortor he was a good and faithful man whowiiowilo I1 loved dearly Hhis1 8 f death caused all imodernfmodernimodean israel to mourn f126 andrew was called in september 1888 to fill a special mission to the sites of historical interest to the church in new york ohio tsourissourimissouriML i111illinoisnoisnols it will be remembered that two years before he had

24 ibid january 30 1888 25r p 26tj bensonsJenjensonssons journal E ppe 71737173071 73073 ibiibidfdad9 p 78 44 requested suchsuehstichslichsuich a trip this was the first of many trips he made in the 27 purselpursulpursuitit of accuracy in his works accompanying elder jenson was edward stevenson and joseph F black elder stevenson had previously been over the same area and elder 28 black would go as a companion

1 franklin D richards gave andrew a specspecialal1allallai1 blessing as he departed god we ask I1 our heaveniheavenlyheavens y father I1 to give you abundantly of the inspiration of his holy spirit so that the vaywaykay may be opened before you to obtain and attain unto all the knowledge and information which is desirable and important for you to have and by which you may as a historian write competently and creditably and faith- 1 fully of the doings of the lord on the earth iiniii i the latter days and of the doings and experiences of his people and we bless you Is that you may be able to derive great consolconsolationcation as well as information of great value in walking over the sacred places where the fathers have trod and where the angels have visited aadand where the favor of god has rested upon this holy and much favored land of .29 zionnonomonemono a 0292929

ineytheyaney departed september 6 1888 arriving in independence missouri september 9 As they walked over these grounds so rich in the history of the church they reminisced when we remembered that it was on that square the mob assembled with murderousmurmucderois intent and decided to drive the saints away from thelttheir homes andaridarld possessions aad that there also bishop edward partridge and brother allailalienallenailenn werewore cruelly stripped and tarred and feathered we could hardly refrain from shedding tears especially when we remembered that this goodly land of zion is still in the possession of our enemianemienemies1 es 30 not only were they able to see many historical sites butblit they

2797 289 ft jenson autobiography p 1491490 ibid 29 franklin D richards blessing given to andrew jenson september 4 1888 located in private papers of eva olson LDS church historiansiihstorianshistorian1s office 30 deserettlsa8eveajevenjlj saitisaltfsaltsalt lake citycityj september 15 1888 45

alsoaisoa so interviewed a number of people who played a r-roledoledoieie in early church

historyhis lory in independence they met an old missouri mobocramobocratt 11 who was proud of the fact thatthalthac heho had been an enemy to the saints for over fifty years they received a lot of information on the fate of those who had played a leading role in the persecution of the saints many of these suffered rather violent deaths they feltfeit that this fulfilled the pro 31 mise of the lord vengeance is mininemine1 ne I1 will repay they were also impressed with the great destruction that had come upon the land of missouri especially jackson county nearly every house on both sides of the big blue iriveriverij the very section of country where about two hundred houses belonging to the saints were bburnedburneo in the beginning of 1834 werewere ddestroyedes troyed during the guerrilla and bushwhackers campaign of terror in the tinetinietime of the civil warwar it was a war between neighbors and neighbor- hoods and the whole section of country was laid waste at several points there are still iemlemremnantsnants to be found of the chimneys and foufoundationsadatindati onsous but not a single house is known to be in existence 32 they also had theche opportunityoppor tunityeunity to visit a number ofoe thedieuieule descen- dants of the whitterswhitmersWhitwhi truermerss and their relatives they visited with john C whitmer son of jacob whwhitnerwhitmerltmeratmer mrs bisbee a daughter of jacob whitmer

philander page a son of hiram page 5 and daviddavi d J whitmer son of davidavidld whitmer they all gave some valuable information about the witnesses to

the book of mormon andalid tlicialicitheir r Leslestimonytestimonylcblimonytimony of its validity john C WhiLtwhitmerwhiltmersmers testimony was especially valuable since helielleile heard the dying testimonies of oliolooliverver cowdcicowderyy jacojacobb whitmer john whitmer and david whitmer all 3 bearing witness to the truthfulness of the book of mormon it wiswas aisoalsocaso johnjotin C ehltWhitwhitmernier that related thetiietile story of a twelltwelftwelfthth witness to the book of mormon this was his ggrandmotherrandalother mary musselman

31 32 33 ibidabid1tbidb 1 d ibidTWA ibid september 1713 1888 46 whitnerwhilmerwhitmer heilellelie related her experience in the following words

I1 have heard my grandmother say on several occasions that she was shown the plates of the book of mornionmormon by an holy 1 whom e 0 0 was angel 9 she always called brother nephi 0 it at the time she said when the tralistranslationtralislationlation was going on at thetlletile house of the elder peter whitmer her husband he went on to relate how with alallailali the many extra boarders that were at her house because of the translation of the book of mormon she was frequently overloaded with work that proved to be a great burden one evening after she had finished her usual household chores she went out to milk the cows on the way out she met a stranger carrying what looked like a knapsack on his back at first she was a little afraid of him but when he spoke to her in a kind friendly tone and began to explain to her the nature of the work which was going on in her house she was filled with unexpresslbleunexpressible joy and satisfaction he then untiedun tiI1 ed hishiI1 s knapsacknapsackknapsackk and showed her a bundle of plates which in size and appearance corres- ponded withwi 111 the description subsequently given by the witnesses of mecne mokbookboomWOK oior mormon inis strange person turned thetriechecrie leaves oiot luecueune book of plates over leafloaf after leaf atalidandatldld also showed her the engrav- ings upon themthernthermthemm afafterter which he told her to be patient and faithful in bearing her burden a little longer promising that if she would do so she should be blessed and her reward would be sure ifjf she proved faithful to the end the personage then suddenly vanished with the plates and where helielleile went she could not tell from that moment on my grandmother was enabled to perform her household duties with comparative easecase and she felt no more inclination to murmur because her lotsot was hard 341 they were thrilled as they received permission to examine thetiietite manuscript from which the book of mormon was printed this was in the possession of david J ehiehlwhiwhitmerotnerotmer son of david whitmer

we satisfied ourselves beyond a doubt that it1 was the copy from whichwhi ch thethem book was printed a copy of the origoriginalL tiai manuscript we noticedno iiced at least three dllfferedifferentrit handwritings tthebhetietletic most of it

bellig slislllot however beingbeltig written by oliveroiiver01 iverlver cowdery 0 it is supposed that eunaeumaemma smith and perhaps christianchrlsChris tiati and peter whitnerwhitmerWhitnier wrote the balance

34 jenson historical record VII 621 47

the signasiguasignaturestures of the witnesses were allailaliaj I1 written by the same scribe whichwhawhj ch laIsl& another proof that this isi not the original manuscript on which each witness signed ilshisins own namenamee there were 464 closely written pagpagesas2s each sheet being arittewrittewrittenn on both idesadessidess 1 35 following their visit to richmond missouri they made their way to liberty jail in clay county it was here that the prophet joseph smith and a number of the brethren were incarcerated from november 1838 to april 1839 they were able to gain entrance intoaltorlto this dungeon they were immediately struck with the foulness that penetrated the building the smell from the decaying timber and dead insects was something sickening and a couple of minutesminutestminutes11 stay there made us wish for the fresh air outside lowhowilowIliow the prophet anahisandhisand his fellowprisonersfellow prisoners could endure lifeilfelife in such a hole for upwards of five months is more than we can comprehend of course it wwasas not so filthy then but the openings for ventilationventju1atjon and light seem to have been so small that it cannot 39possibly have been a healhealthythychy abode for human beings alat any time

they also had an extensive interview with james H ford who had

1 1 camyn I A Q rn 4 c1ca cmyn IA 44. k s J L served as oedutvdeputy shehshensherisherl H of0 f clayV county att the timtime ththata josephtn p h smith1 and the others were there he was directly charged with the care of the prisoners while they were there heilelle commented on the time that the prisoners tried to escape ffromrom priprisonsotlSOTI helielleile firedfiredfixed his pispistoltoltoi but hoped he did not injure anyone he explained that otionoui many occasions he had taken thetiietite prisoners folforfox a walk one at a binelimetime around the town so they could get sonicsonesome fresh air and some better meals oaon these walks he had often had lengthy conversations with the prophet who to him appeared to be far above the average of man in intelligence and seemed to bbee very deep and thoughtfuthoughtfulthoughtful1 although good natuiednaturedna turedaured and evenieven jocular in his malmannersmatiners 37

in palmyra they met major ninnlnmia 11 gilbert the man who set the

35 dscrcljjlsdeseret eveni 1 nesnews sailsallsaicsalt lake citycjly9 september 17 1888 36 37 lbldlibid1 september 28 1888 ibiiblibidld 48

type for the 1830 edition of thetilctile book of mormon they were especially

interested in the manuscript from ahlwhichwhl h he set the type rishis1111is manners went to prove that it was the copy now in possession of the whitterswhitmersWhitmers in QQ riclmiond9richmond mo 08 mr gilbert explained that there was no delay in the printing of the book of mormon because of financial embarrassment as believed by some he indicated that he had set in type about 500 pages

of hethet 580 pages Iin1f n the first edition the printing of the bookhook he

remembered distinctly was commenced 1inn augustaugustaaugusty 1829 and finished in 39 march 1830 11

while in palmyra they visited the smith home by taking the road locally known as stafford street which brought them to the old smith home they found the frame house still standing the residentsres ldents of the

1 home explained some of the events they thought had occurred Iin1 n the home

it11 1 1 1 1 thethallieillelile oldoidgj d ladylauy inothermother of the prcsciit owner andCmu herhechee alamiablelil11111.1 able f daughter took considerable pains I1inn showing lisilsus the room where joseph supposed to have kept the plates receiving them is after 40 from the angel in this however they may be mistaken 0 when they left the smith home they turned east to the canandaguaCananda gua

21 road when we about 22122 miles south of palmyra passed the Anuanuingtonarmingtonington school househousel 11 ittt was in this old school house that joseph and some of 41 his brothers and sisters were supposed to have attended school their next visit was to fayette new york in search of the whitmer fainfarnfaimfarmhousehouse wherewhore the church was organized april 6 1830 they

38 39 1 1 ibliboibidd 9 october 11 18881388 ibid 40 ibid for a later description of the smith home seetseesees andrew jensonjtonsonjhonsonJT ensononson Is this the identical room the deseret newsNJGWS chulchchurch news salt lake cityci byjbyi october 595 193591.93591935 p 7 41 ibid 49 were discappointeddisappointed in thenchen findings the old whitmer house in which the church was organized and in which the first three gengeugeneraleralcralcrai conferences oiof the church were held and joseph received a number of important revelations 9 was a one andahaand a hahaflf story log house itlt was torn down years ago but the site on which it stood is well known and was pointed out to us42us at nauvoo illinois they met two very interesting men the first was major lewis C bidamon the second hushusbandband of emma smith he explained to them at times wilhwith great emotion the troubles the saints experienced in nauvoo in 1846 he also gave them aca description of the prophet joseph smith

in regard to joseph smithsmithy candor compels me to say that he was a no man man 11 1 h noblenobieblebie yes a nobunoblenobie 9 indeed I nevetnesernever met hisis equalaquequal in all my life and I1 only saw hhinhimLM oticeonce but that occaocccoccasionIsioisiotltl I1 shall never i forget A certain ahrephrephrenologistpologinologi st had infitinvitinviteded me to1-0 o accompany him to nauvoo to pay joseph da visit the professor desidesiringf ringcing to make an exexaminateexaminationaminat lon of hhiI1 s head we found joseph walking in the garden he examinat i received us kindly aandaadad soon invited us 1intonto the house where I1 had a two hourshours1hoursh conversation with hinhimhimehimo hismis manners movements and 1 1 1 I r i p 1 1 e 4 T 1 TT ritoriimn P rlnalncinrtcinatr r r irniinnrnrrynn i- pip ni 0 dionrjnnranne T enrnnrr 0 f n clcr idicidtcI P ovi iittaitt q n rl convincecconvinced1 me thalthatthau he was not the impostor and wicked man hene hadnaci been represented by his enemies to be to me he appeared to be da good honest aadanda ad nobleheartednoble hearlhearteded man and from all 1L have ever learned about him S I1 have not had occasion to change my opinion about him slucesince 1 I As they asked major bidamon furfurtherlherther concerning the prophet joseph smith he described his physical appearance in the following manner

lleilehelie waswasjwasa a very good looking nanman wwithth light complexion and

light brown hair he was stronglyCD built and wellweliweil proportioned was about slsixi x feet high and weighed 200 pounds3poundspounds43433 they next visited thomas C sharp the once notorious editor of the warsaw signal who did perhaps as much as any other man to incite the populacepopitiaceilace to murder the prophet joseph andaridaarldiidildrid his brother hyrum 11

1 heilellelie was now editinedidinediiinped itin the carthagecc xtbageebbage gazettezette they tried to visit hihinhimiliilliii but they found him quite unrenniesponsivepoupensiveponsiveponsive his son WILILLwilliamairainaln sharp treated

42 43 ibid ibid october 20 1888188801.8880 50

thenithornthermathenithemm very kindly heilellefie did ask lhcmthemkhem one very important question

I1 I1 do you think sasaidsaldL d 1lleileheie thatlhatahat the mormons would kill my father if helielleile were to visit ututahahlahr we replied that we were not a bloo- dthirsty people and did not seek satisfaction in retaliation the younyoung man said that helielleile belibellbeilbelievedeved his father was sincere in what helielleile didi i 444

they were able to look over the bound volume of the warswarsawaw sipnalsignalS i gnadgna1 for 1844 they read with interest theextrathe extra number issued in june 1844 calling for thebhe extermination of the Morcormonsmormonsmons bound with the signalnalnai was also a copy of the nauvoo expoistor published by the apostates in nauvoo june 7 1844 it was the destruction of this newspaper office that led to the arrest and finally the death of joseph and hyrum11yrum smith the three travelerstravetravejersJers completed their mission and arrived home october 15 1888 they had been very successful in their mission they had located many important church history sites butbuty they also interluterluber

1 1 c r r n el t 4 r I k 11 1 fy nr n A if ove i 1I yic17 a numbermb r of significantgr fI1 an t peoplet hc gave them semesome important 45 information on church history after andrew jenson returned home he continued his publication of jhhjsjthe histohist1pjicajlorical record volumes seven and eight are especially valuable because of this liewnew iinformation that helielleile had acquired on his recently coicoialcotalcotcompletedalistedicted mission andrew could now write authoritatively on the eight witnesses to the book of mormon as well as on the important places in missouri and illinoisi11inols he was able to publish for the first time information that hadllad not been known before this was possible because of his personal visits and intlutiutinterviewservi ewsaws in september 1889 the last number of0 volume eight of thetoe historical record was completed helielleile bound the four volumes five through

44 45 badbjdibid 9 october 27 1888 ibid october 31 1888 51 eight giving it the subtitlesub title of huchchurch encjcjojedjaencyclopedia bookdookbo okanpnone he later added to this work volume nine which consisted mainly of the 46 beginning of a journal historyli of the utah pioneers of 1847

having completed foutfour vollvolumesVOIL111103 of Vthe historical record he again wrote to the first presidency about a number of concerns ever since I1 commenced my historical labors about 13 years ago I1 have been under the impression that my work ought to be performed under the iiiiiniiliediateimmediate supervision of the church authorities and that everything I1 publish pertaining to church history should by them be subjected to the stristrictestctestchest aicllsmcricliticismcriticism before being printed such was indeed the case as long as I1 published in the danish language elder erastus snow being appointed by the late presprospeespyos brigham yoyoungung and subsequently by the IClateite pros a john taylor to supervise my labors rutbut since commencing the historical record four years ago I1 have published on my omown responsibilityresponsibility no one having been appointed to supervise my wolkwork this I13 may scsayly has often grieved neismellneteme 10 0 9 I1 am under the impression now more than ever that my work ought to be published by authority or not at allailali 07

andrew then offers his servicesserv j ces to the chuichchulchchurch with or without material compensation oneoueonce againagainapag ain h offersof forstotstors the historical1tisto r1ra 1aaa 1 record to the church as a freewillfleefree will donation finally helielleile reminds them that for the last year and a half helielleile has received fifty dollars a month from thetiietile church to assist him he reports that by the end of the year he will be able to deliver to the chulchchuichchurch documents and information that 114848 will fully compensate for what I1 have received intn februaryfabFeb zuary 1890 andrew received two letters fronfromcrom president wilford woodruffwoodruifoWoodru ifo the filstfirst indicated that because of additional inimical legislation against the church it would not be wiwise1 s e at tthatliaiiaila t timelimehime to add loto10 the foiceforce of the histotpistothi storiaisstoristorliauslausiansaisals officeoff iceo the secolsecondid letter continues the allowance of fifty dollars a month in consideration of

Z46 6jensonjenson atiatlantobiogtaphytot iogjaphy p 1861860 47 48 bensonsJenjensonssons journal E appp 197198197 198 ab1bbidid 52 the proposal you make therein loto10 conLincontinueuc your labors in fatheringgathering fi4949 historical data 0 0O on september 2 189091890 he wrote his valedictory for the last issue of jhgehgthe historicalhis torjcaj recordrecords heilellelie had found collectcollectingling from his subscribers too difficult and time consuming and felt thatpeoplethat people did V 50 not seem to appreciate literature of a historical nature at that time A though thisthl s brought to an end the jnhistoricalstocjjjreodrecord part of it was to be reprinted at government expense a congressman from utah a non mormon wanted the information and he acqulacqueacquired1 redaa copy of volume 9 of the historical record carrying the day by day journey of the pioneers and then helielleile asked before the hearing to have 1itt extended in his remarks to finish the section of volume 9 of the historical record so father inserted this story and filled up thelheahe few pages and so it was printed at government expense and distributed by the thousands at any rate it had a very limited subscription ftheathethe historical recordrccojdq the governmentgoveramentoment printed thousands of these nd gave them aaway

tn I1 927 andrewa1aa11 r t4ta rp mihimihamih1h I1 f abodahodcbpdq b P d lwoiwotwot170ao7o vrvntiirpps111- 0 e- ofr the hi tontom 1 pppnrri 52 these were volumes seven and eight although andrew never completed all that he had set out to do in his prospectus helielleile laid a foundation of some important works to follow

abid1 b 1 d 231 21342352134 235 tbid 9 he 2311 50 jenson autobiography appp 1891901.89190189 190igo i 51 parleypatpar ley P jenson excerpts of a sacranientsacrament meeting heldheid december 27 1939 honoringhono lingxing Aandiceandicwndrewdrowd rewrow jenson jenson paperspceipersetpers 52 jenjonjcnsoasons Joinjolojournaljoun nalnai m9maM Ppo 1601.60 CHAPTER V

CHURCH chronology

the ciujhhojiogchurch ronolochronoloCh undoubtedly received greater distrdietrdistributionibution thanchan any other work of andrexandrevandrew jensonjensono this work hadacadhcad its beginning in

november 188218825 when andrew was asked by george Q cannon and solissollssotissonssous to work out a chronology which was later published in a booklet entitled I A landbookhandbooklandhand bookdook of references 1

this work was also published as part 0 f a number of other works it was publpublishedshed as a series in thehe deseretdeserejnewsjnews beginning august 25 1883 it waswa s included in rickenskirkens historicflistoriehiishilsFlis torie church history which was a 2 supplement to Jenjensonssoissots morgenstjernenmorzenstMorzmorrenst

when the historicalflistoclisto r ical record replaced morgenstjerncnmorclyeenst earncnearnon andrew announced that as a part of this mormon encyclopedia he would include

A complete chronology giving the most important events in church history fronfrom 1805 to the present time this will be published in such a shape that it can be bound separately when completed 3ijj in januaryjanu adyary 1886 5000 copies of the first sixteen pages of churchchurch chronology were published which accompanied the first number of ahejhethe jhlsjxricalhistorical record it was antiantlanticipaanticipatedcipa tedled originally that for the next four years the thirty ttwowo pages of the hishljstorlcajlorllori cal record would be

andrew jenson autobiography of andrew jcnsojnjenson salt lake city deseret news press 193877938 P TJT1311.31 2ibidbibidbid apapoppppo 131 133 146 3de adedoeretdoebets er e t evenieveningnzyanzy news isaltlsaltsatt lake Caltycityjlty november 12 188588518851.885 53 5455 4 4 accompaniedaccompan ied by sixteen pages of chronology

in october 9 of that sarriesame year the first copies of the church chronolroialchronosChroroiwlnol og were published as a separate work thithlthis1 s was a volume of 140 pages with seventeen pages of index 5 after being sustained as an assistant churcchuocchurchli historian andrew felt the need for adequate and safe storage for the churchschurches historical

1 records heilelle probably recognized7 the need for a new IIIiiistorihistorianstoristorlans office more than anyone else since he was forced to use a room in his own home as an office for the lack of space in the historianhistorians office since he needed almost daily access to church documents andcand papers this was very inconvenient iloliohoweverwever financially the church was unable to under- take such a program in 1898 this economic plight was the result of a number of factorsfactorssfactofaccofactoressrss thethavie contiscatconfiscationconti scatI1 on of chuchurchrch ozopertypropertyoberty as partpar ofot the artiartlantiantipolygamypolygamy campaign the cost of completing the salt lake temple the risingrising cost of church education welfare expenditures incident to the depression of 1890s1890 aarldandaridrid the efforts of the church to promote new industry in utah all contributed to a staggerstaggeestaggeringjngingang debt in 1898 of 12500001925010000 tithing income in that year was only 600000 which was hardly enough to meet the current costs of church administration andrew reallrealireailrealizing1 ziligziiig the financial condlcondiconditiontion of the church had a proposal he would give to10 thetll2uhetlly church the copyrights to church chrono- logy0 undnunderlundn the agreement that a second edition of 25000 copies be printed and the profprofitsits be used inin the erection of a new historianhistoriansI1 s office andrewlindrew was optimistoptimistiloptimistic ilc in his belief that this edition would be sold in onene year and 10000109000 Iin1ll11 profits would resliltresults finally he

J 4lbidbid p 40140 5ibid9bid p 6 142 6 james B allenailenalienalieuatlen and richard 0 cowan mormonijsmiorriionism in the twentieth provo 1 centarcenturcejituryY proveprovo utahutahs extension rubitrubilpublicationscationscatcanionsions bri-brighamham young university l967719677d67 p 12012 55

I1 I1 was so confconfidentident of success thathati he provided the oioriginaligina money to 1ini-n 1 tiate the project 7 one month later on may 10 1898 the first presidency and councicouncil1 of thetlle twelve favorably responded to andrews proposal you are therefore at liberty to make the transfer of church chronology to the church when the work is revised and roughtbroughtI up i to date and then to 9roceedproceed to ralrairaisese the proposed sum through its publicationpu blibilblicationplicationcationcatlon anandd saleC andrew immediatelyimmeddimmed lately began revising the lihchurch j3hjonchrono1q&yq which took him several months to complete to make certain that the work was accurate franklin Ddo richards church historian appointed a committee composed of idereldereiderelded14 lder john jrjaquesiqueseques and chatlescharlescharies W penrose assistant church 9 historians andcand A milton musser an associate 1inn the historianhistorians office on july 18 1898 the first part of the work was printed and the work completed on january 18 1899 the work necessary to revise church chrortoloachronology for a second edition was a great personal burden to andrew when the lathl8th18th or last form of church chronology went to presspr ess I1 felt relieved of a heayheavy burden which had nearlyne clyaly rly crushed me never in my life have I1 been subject to such mental strain as in the compiling of this work and at times I1T fetfelt as if I1 could not possibly complete it I1 often worked till past midnight god grant that the chronology which has cost so auchmuch labor and anxiety may be of

7j I1 1 ajjensonsenseus on s journal G appp 262826 28 thithlthis s was not thetiietile first time andrew had offered church chronologychrono 0 to the church in 1887 andrew made i wh 1 olt m a similar offerof or 9 ahnwhnen he thouthoughtjit the church mightahtght be interested in pur- cchasing it presidentpres I1ident john taylor indicated that with the persecution that Is now raging this aouwouwouldad1d be impossible john taylor to andrew jensonjcnsonjanson february 20220270 1887 president john taylolstaylorsTay loLs letter book january 31 april 15 1887 p 196 LISLDS chuchchurch historians office 8jenson0 jenson Aill01utobioraphv0 pp8pa 393 9 candrew9andrewandrewanddew jenson comp churchquirch chronotchronologychronos og salt lake city deseret news 1899 p ivalvaivoiv 565 6 arcalarealgrealgreat benefitieneflenefdenef lt to the saintsaints be wellweliweilweiwel l received by them and the fin ancial outcome be of susuchii a nattnatternaturelr that a new historian111istorians s office 10 nattlr may be the resultresuit 6 apparently there was another reason for this mentalmendalimentalamental strain helielleile felt so strongly

just before the edition went to press president george Q cannon took the position that the church should be able to provide its own building and could not afford to put itself under obligation to any man in the way proposed although mr hensensjensensJenjensentssentssens jsicjsic offer was highly appreciated the work was issued but the titletitietitletible page did not nanienanlename the presidency as publishers as had been intended and the proceeds did not go to the bistorhistorhistorianlans office fund 11 this statement can only be partially correct since president anthon 11 lund indicated that 3000 had been turned over to the church 12 by april 7 1917

the problem of the first presidencypres ldencyledency not bebeisbeingji ng listed as the publisher was not the only problem associated with church chronologchronologyChrono 106log

1 T Aatt t1 i aqmq if ippippearedappearedA eeareda tthata t even hhislisils ffaithfaltha I1 I t11 t7ntanwouldI1 id be tsttestedbestedd overn 1 r N problemsn ro b I1 cm arising from church chronochronolo5rvlogy andrew threw all of his energy behind the selling of this book As soon as the first copies came from the aderynderybinderybil he immediimmeimmediatelydilately began selling them in his home ward the church historianhistorians office attempted to sell one copy for each ten members of the church andrew himself traveled to varvariousLOUS parts of the church en- couragingcou raging others to purchase the chronologyj it was also advertised by the first presidency on a number of occasions A few months afaflerafterlerleeuee the book was released president joseph F smith speakingspeak lngang at the davis stake conference ssaidsaldiidildlid

10 jenson autobioAuipbiograpjtobio rairalraihyrachy hy p 394 11 lilaillakcjacrsaltsait lake herald octOcioctoberoctoberober 24 190191901.91901 POp 33. 12 andrew jensonjensons journal K p 193 57 it lchulchchurch jtonojogyjchronolo is a vvaluable book of reference for those who desiredeside to keep posted in relation loto10 the history of the church and I1 think every family ought to be possessedposo essed of one or more copies of 1itt if they cacann afford it a I1 I1 therefore commendrecrecommendxecommendxe ommendammend that the latlatlerlatterlatterdayter day saints become interested iinn this workworky and avalavail theirtheintheirselvestheinselvesthemselvesselves of the opportunity that soon will be afforded them of obtaining a copcopyy forfoefoc their oniown use and the use of the children 13 on october 18 189991899 the entire first presidencypresii dency issued a statement encouraging thetlletile saints to support the erection of the new stoianhistoianhistorianhistoriansHi stolan office by purchasinpurchasingg churchjhurchchurch chronology we heartily cecotrecommendmaend to the saints the chiccichicjichurch hrnougychronolmy recently issued from the press As a work of reference on mattersmalters pertainingp rtaarta lniilg to the history of thetiietile church itjl is exceeding valuable and incesinces the proceeds accruing ffromrom the sales are to be used toward the erection of a new historianhistorians office church chronology ououghtahtght to meet with favor throughout the entireelieileTI tirltith community we trust that presiding officers and leading men in allailalia 11 the settlementsettlements3 of the saints will piareplace the matter before the people and take such steps as may be proper towards obtaining the poipotpopularilar salesaiesalesi advocated in the printed circular previously forwarded J1 although many of the presidipresidepresiding1 ng officers in the wards and stakes urged the saints to purchase the book in many instances some fault was 15 found because we seemingly pushed lootoo100 hard for the sale of the work andrew felt it was because of these diffdifficultiesiculties that only 3000 was raised towards building a church ristoHistofistorihistorihistorianshistoziansrianszians1 ans office instead of the 10000109000 contemplated one stake especially seemed upset over the way church chronolchronoschronology0 py was bebeingi ng advertised one day elder james E talmage wewentwencnt to the his toriantoransI1 s officeoff ice and told brother jenson thathatthact the brebrethrenthren in box elder stake were disturbed because of the way huehhurhchurch chrchronologchronologyonologymonologyr was

13 i3dojejde eret eyeninnwevening newsnows aitsallaltsalt lake citycuty march20march 20 1899 p 15 14 lorenodorenolorenzo snow and joseph F smithjmjsmj th to whom it may concern october 18 1891.89189939 andrew jensonjensons scrapscrapbookbook C 1899 p 20 located in the LDS church historianhistorians officeofficcy hereafter cited as bensonsJenjensonssons scrapbook 15 jenson aulaut obiojrajhyautobiography p 394a3940 58

161.6iglg being urged upon the saintsalutsaintss the stake president wrote to andrandrewew jenson concerningi the matter since receiving your letter I1 have either by phone or personal conversation spent several hours on this workworke now I1 have reached the limitlim lt of it and do not propose to go further with it it 10 10 some of the members ofoe the blshopricsbishopricsi shoprics did not feelceel themselves financially able to take the books others did not have the inclination some made criticisms saying the items ofoc interest in the organizcorganizeorganiza-11 tions of their wards were not mentioned etc 0 0 in relation to the question what was done at your last quarterly conference there was nothing done at the conference I1 have never under- taken any small thing as I11 regard this that has taken so much of my time and been so annoying to me I1 am sorry ttacitthcitha t we have notno t been more successful any further business you have to do in connection withwiatil any or all of these books please take it up with the bishoybeshoybishops direct or else send osme silisillsisii J one herehero to look after it A ij events at thistills time seemed to all turn against andrew at the october conference in 1900 andrew was not sustained as an assistantass stantstaut church historian11istor ianlan he was also informed that the new historianhistorians office would probably not be built tor some time all that he had worked for the last numberofnUmnumberberofof years now seemed to be fading away however he still continued hisillslils work and started new projects it appears he began to contemplate leaving the church Historianshistorianhistoriansisti oriansorlans officeoff i1 ce for he began making 181 0 plans to organize the andrew jenson history company

As time passed he becanebecamebecztme more and more depressed because of the situationsituationsituation what would he do where could heticilelle 909googo if the brethren would not recognize him in the position helielleile felt he deserved he would take his problems tofloiwo the lord xionXi august 11 1901 andrew took a lonely walk

16 jensonjensons journal K p 189 17 oleen N slobbslohb to andrew jenson may 25 1915 jenson papers 181 pi jensonjensons journal H apppapoppo 75975 79 59

into thebhe mountains behind ensign peak there he s loppedstoppedshopped and engaged in secretitsecretIt prayer and meditations for some limetimecime 1 I1 lailaliallaidld before my creator the clingsfefeelings of my heart sincerely and openly and awaited the inspiration of the holy spirit andrew did not walk away disappointed he recorded the following manifestation that came to him my son be of good cheer thy prayers are heard and shall be answered upon thy head with the blessing thou so earnestly sirestdesirestdcsirestdcde the loldlord hath not electedejectedrejected thee but helieile hath pehmPETMpermittedatedabed thee to pass through trials and afflictions in order to try thy faith and thy integrity the lord willwirlhiljwilj forgive thee thy past sins and prosper thee in thy labotslabors thoutilouiliou has not lost thy posiposlpositiontion in the church as an historian thy zeal and integrity in that capacity are known to god and are pleasing in his sisight1 ahtght and it is god who hath inspired thee to do the work which thou has already done but thou hast been too ambitious and hast cared too much for the opinion of metimellmelimenmeu and this is thetiietile main cause of thy present disappointment those who have sought thy destruction and have endeavored to harnaarniharmharni thee shall be humbled and destroyed unless they repent let not thy domsticdonesdomesdomdomitic ticstic affairs trouble thee thou shaltshallshailshaitshaib then havellave mastery overOVPX thy household and all the members of thy family shallshailshali yet bowhow to thy counsel and be obedientobed lent thereto I1 1 CI s 11 ah1h n A L ir1 citjci1 L al L tjiientjiblebie il J L C GJ VCAVC i1 xiil i alal& il cncniicgCL C I1 C 3 i uo0 zotnotnc prosecuter U s C c u t c 1 ienaene i nnor0 r rresurc s 4 J- sctlctact scenes of the past let them alone bear thy losses likeilke a nianman of god fear not because of the affliction of thine eye thou shaltshallshailshait never go blind i19 andrew remained in the mountains until after sundown lifdifdlfliftedted tipuipulpup by thithlthis revelation andrew made his way home fully determined to take a new stand and obey the words that had been revealed to him but the lord had told him in this velationrevelationxe to be patient yet a little while and helielleile was his patiepatiencence was rewarded when at april conference 1902 insteadinsleadins lead of golgoigoingi ng to the morning session he retired fasting to his room in the historianhistorians Officoffice01 again he lifted his voice in earnest prayer after prayer heho took his doctrine and covenants and opening it at random he came to section 98 and read verses 23 to 32

19 teutoujontensonsS on Is journaljouenal fl appp 54555455954 55955 60 thistills section states if a person comes against you or your familiesfamicamielleseiles once and you bear it patpatientlylentlentlybently ly you shallshalisha be rewarded and so on until after the third time after three times I1ifff you spare your enemy you shall be rewarded unto the third and fourth generation yet he is in your hands and you are justifiedustifiedL I1iflf you reward himI1 according to his workworksS andrew 20 felt that this was a didirectrect answer to his prayer that afternoon he attended the closing session of conference where he wastiasvlas once again sus-

tained as assistant church historian along with orson F whitney A milton musser and brigham el11 roberts

this I1 consider right and just since bro lund was appointed church historian in 1900 no assistant istorianshistorianshistoriansh Istoriansorlans have been salSAIStainedsustained this was according to the plan of the late PresidepresidentnL lorenzo snow but was not in harmony with the eingsfeelingsfe of bro joseph F snithsmithsmith who considered as I1 now understand that I1 who was the only one of bro richardsrichards assistants left was treated unjustly this was also what I1 thousthoughtht and if there had not been a change I11 should 1 undoubtedly have withdrawn from the fistorihistorihistorianant el0 office having al- I n AIT ontylmninonaam r1ra c r nQ r C 1 i rr 11 t 17 1 Q q ay rcv r rr r arrimyrlmrri r VT aci ti husibusih fieficfle fSISsuscusff ainndn or-p v n rlr n ulilltisctqtr0O rr advrn aSLVqy 1 wlwithwichwlchtii that object inI1 n vieuviewv ew but nonoww afaflerafterafleetertee being acknowacknowledgedledged and sustained in the position I11 think I1 am entitledenli tied to I1 shall once more hrowthrowarowj my whole soul into the worlwortworkwock at the historianhistorians office and have no other object in viviewi ew than to work lorfor the benefit and in the interest of the historical work or generalgenera welfare of the church 21

the darkedarkestst days were over and now he could put his entire efforts into the work of the historianhistorians offofficeL cesceo As the years passed andrew contincontinuedcontintiedliedtied to update hihiss chronology until 10141914 when helielleile had another edition completed there were about 8000 copies remaining of the ededitionL tiotibioti in 89818981 to this helielleile added his supplement from 1898 to 190539051.905 and another bringbrinabringingbringingiting it to 1913 also additionalI1 injn formationforrriation was added on the genergenerageneuail authorities and thetiietile line of authority

20 I jenson autobloarautobiographyM 1 p 406 21 jensontensonsjensons JOUrjournalrial II11 appp 119120ilg119 120 61 of each was traced back to joseph smith this listlistingluging apparently made it possible for many bearers ofoe the priesthood to trace their I1lineatiettie of 22 authority back to the prophet joseph smith of this work the first presidency was very complimentary it is a very comprehensive and valuable work bringing data concerning prominent persons and incidents in hurchchurch history down to present times the utmost care has been takentalken to insure accuracy in everything recorded rendering the volume practically indis penpenstensiblepensibleibleibiesiblesibie to every library of importance in the church 0 40 although the work isI1f s thetheithem result of the earnest arduous and continuous labor for years of elder andrew jenson it is not his personal property but is under the control and direction of the church it is desired that presidents of stakes bishops of wards supersuperintendentsin tenden ts of auxiliary societies presidents of quorums and of missions and of other organizations throughout the church use their influence to place this useful volumeVOILIMC in every library public and private for the diffusediffus1diffusion1 on of valuable information for the benefit of the historianhistorians office no ward or quorum or assoassociatiassociateassociationciaticlatlon or publication should be without thisthlthi s volume and we recommend it to the latterlatterdayday saintssalsaii ntsants everywhere as a reliable work of reference worthy of their suppertsupport 23

but as weae 7e have seen many of the local leaders did not encourage its sale some apparently still felt it was for personal gain A year later the brethren were stillst1111 trying to get greater fin-

i ancial support for jcjiurchchurch chjorolpgychronolchronos 0 gy t at a specspecialI1 al priesthood meeting on april 7 1915 president smith asked andrew to speak on church chronology but andrew suggested that someone else reconrecommendu nendanend the book since helielleile had spoken on it six months before president joseph F smith then asked presidents penrose and lund to encourage the sale of church chronology both responded and president lund indicated that andrew jenson had already turned over 300013000 to the church as a result of the

22 jenson autobograhautobiogriey p 517 23 pjlyj40deseret eveninyevening news lsatasatsaltsait lakeflake cit june 30 191491.9149igl191 p 2 62 24 profits from this edition afteraf thalthai date 9 support for church ahrochronolpchronhronojogyolp was no longer publicizedpublcizedby by bhe general alttioritiesauthoritiesU in conference just before his death andrew was workingwork anglng on bringing cliurchqwrch Chronochronolouhrpnologlouiou up to date through 1939 a task helielleile left incomplete however jhurjhhtonolychurch chronolopir was not buried it isLs still kept liptipup to date in manu bcrsciiptscriptscr pt form at the church historians officeotficeo many feitfeltf 0 it that this was one of andrew bensonsJenjensonssons motmolmok t montimonumentalmental works president joseph fielding

m smithsmithy who worked with hihim for many years in the historians officesoffofficeqice 9 stated one of his important works was the compilation of church 25 chronologychronology11 the value of which has never been properly appreciated

24 jensons journal K p 193 25 andrew jenson letterlettellLet telltollloiL of0 commendationrommeddationy tf rncycopedicencyclopedic llislohistory of the churchctiurch of jestsjesus chrlschrischristt of tatlelatlalial tettotIOTldar daxdayda saints sallsaltit lab-lakedakee city beebeezeftzeft news pubitslii ng c0caco19 1941 CHAPTER VI

biographical encyclopedia

while andrew was working on the historicalhistorlhistoryicaical record he began gatheringgalhexing material for a biographical encyclopedia of prominent leaders who resided in the salt lake stake thesethose sketches were wilttenwritten mainly as they were dictated by the indiindividualsduals andrew had just published in toriitoelltoeiithe historicalstojIcstojicajlailaJL record a history of salt lake county with a large part devoted to the salt lake stake heilelle compiled about 300 biographicalbiographical1 sketches he had written arranged them alphabetically and published them in a little booklet of nininetysixninetyf nety six pages as a supplement to the hi oricalstoricalsthistorical record twelve years later it was suggested that this collection of sketches should be expanded into a major biographical encyclopedia containing information on the general authorities and other faithful men and women who had taken an active part in church affairs from the very bebeginningginningi i during most of 190190 andrew was busyblis y sriwriwritingitingbiting sketches for his newlynewby contemplatedcomtemplatedcomtemplatcd work the first bound copies of volume one came off the press on may 12 1902 volumeVo turrie one consconsistedtstedasted of 828 pages and contained 690 biographical sketches it included most of the general authoriliAuthoauthorrillribiriLioesCs up to 1902 it also containedconLained a number of articles on prominent latterlatterdayday saint women the rest of the sketches were

deseretdeseree evening news salt lake citycityj may 28 1888

63 64 mainly stake and ward leaders some early church leaders who left the church were not included in biographicalojcjimcjjclopedaencyclopedia since andrew had been called on a special mission to denmark to publish his new translation of the book of mormon the job of distri 2 buting this edition of 2000 copies was left to his son parley the news biographicalA encyclopedia was well received by the wwtwww UWK ya WMWdeseretW buumal muu one of the most useful books that has been published in these latter times has been issued from the press 0 these biographies are of very great interest and embody the principal incidents in the lives and labors of the si bjecfcssubjects of the work they are much more elaborate than might be expected considering the number of persons thus represented 0 the style of the writing is lucid and tersteiseterse E and very readable and pleasing dry details are not indulged in but the aiaimalm1 m has been to present each subject in life- like character this is the first book of the kind that has been published since the church was organized we confidently recommend this impressive work to the consideration of the latterlatterdayday saints everywhere as the beginning of a series of volumesvo lurnes which will become necnecessaryneg essary as time rolls on and furlnerfuelnerfurl11621 information is oolaineoobeal ned oteotae f this advertisement provides a good description of this work and its importance in church history literature the deseret news correctly assessed andrewandrews efforts to obtain accurate information accuracy has been one of the chief alainsaimsalms1 ms of the author and he has taken great pains by personal communications and by extensive 1 1 travel lnin foreign mimib&ionaryissi onaryconary fields as well as 1inn thetiietile various stakes of zio111ziozionily111 loto10 obtain correct information such as may be relied upon by his adeisadelsreadersre 4 undoubtedly no oaeoneoaooue in the church had traveled so extensively in gathering church history tn 1888 andrew had beenboenboon called on a special

2 2atidrewandrew jenson autoriautobiautobiographydily of andrew jenson salt lake city deseret news press 19381938t appppp7ppa 402403402 403

athe3the news may lo101.0 p ljfz011deseret evening yi fsaitsalt lake ajcilycityyj y 10 y 190211902 4 ibidsbid4ibid 65 mission loto10 visit most of the chuichchurch historyhllhilhinsborystory sites iniiiiti new york ohio missouri illillisillinoisnoisnols iowa and nebraska on this trip he had an opportunity to interview many people acquainted with early churchhistorychurch history he had also visited every stake in the church as welweiwellweil as all the settlements of the saints in the rocky mountains mexico and canada in 1895 andrew was called on a special mission to visit all the countries of the wotldwoaldwoiwol id where latterlatterdayday saint mission fieldsfl1 elds hadllad been established this travel gave hinhihim1 m an opportunity to gather historical material that 5 undoubtedly had not been given to any other man

1 while andrew was uncertain as loto10 his position I1inn the historianhistorians office helielleile had organized the andrew jenson history company the main object of thithlthis company was the publishing of the blogramcalbiographical jenclencencvclo pledialedlajcdiajadialajlay but with his position flflimlyflimey1amlyrmly establestabaestablishedisheddished in the hihistorian1 storiastorlars 6 nfficraoffi r n 1009 thorho1hp1 hp Ccomoemmonm lamtam 11nv tratiawratimWTA q drj i 1hnrlpdn ri n r undoubtedly andrew intended to publish other volumes of biographiesjbiodiodlo raphicalgraphicalraphcaph ical encyclopedia very soon after the publication of his ffirst volume but his time was not hishi s ownMMID he was calledcalcaj led on two special missions immediately after publishing volume one he was only home a short time when helieile was called as prespresidentident of the scandiscandinavianf navif an mission As a result he did not begin work on volume two with any degree of 7 effectiveness until 1913

in 190igo1904j after the publicpublicationallonaLion of volume one he was called to

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6jensonsjansonsjcnsons journal 11 appp 75 79 7 Jjensonen s0 n auautobiographyt0 bioblo r jaj2 appp 512 518 66 80 testify at tthelaelie reed smoot hearings in washington DC the summons s fatedstated Purspursuantllanttiantilant to lawful authority you are hereby commanded to appear before the committee on privileges and election of the senate of the unitedun L ted states on tuesday the firstarstfirst day ofoc march 1904 at 10 oclock am at their committee room in the city of ashingwashingtonucashingUc ton in the district of columbia then and there to testify what you may know relative to the subject matters undertinder consideration by said committee hereof fail not as you will answer your default under the pains and penalties inI1 suchsuch case madlandmadeandmade and provided 9 on february 27 1904 andrew left salt lake for washington DC in company withwi th joseph F smith francis M lyman hyrum M smithysnithsmith abraham 0 smoot and 0 fliersothers president smith of course was the main witnessw 1 and he was carefully examined 1.1foceoror a number of days andrew was asked to testify for a few minutes on march ath9th he stated that he held the positionpo siLion of assistant church historian and was publisher of biojraphbiographbioblo raph ical Jncvciotccifcncvclopcci laLB and churchhurburnur ch cfironolochronoloevChrono loevv heliefiefle alsoatso stated that hoh hafiharj two wives the next day in the afternoon session andrewanddew was again called to testify

I1 was called to the witness stand and kept there during the whole session subjected to a most vigorous cross examination the lord gave rileme utterance and I1T was able to answer the questions pro- pounded w1waithoutwithoutwithout being confusedconfused1 0O

Q breed8reedreed smoot as apostle of thet he churchchurchy was elected to the senate of the united stalesstates on january 20 1903 his seatscat was challenged because he was a selfseif perpetuating body of fifteen men the first presidency andacid the lelveleivenelvetwelve apostles who had complete spirituals iritual temporal and political control over the Churchurchtchurchycht that thethem church believed in and still practiced plural marriage andaridarld that reed smoot himself was a poly- gamistg ami s L many witnesses from the church were subpoenaed to testify to the committee oilon privileges and elections includinginclliding president joseph F smisno lhtiltii finally reed smoot was allowed to retain his seat james B alienallenailen and richard 0 cowan mormonismMormonmormonsmmorneomornuocismnismsm in the 17enticthtwentiethtwenticth centarcenturcenwrv provo utahsU tah extension pub ijcationspublications bridribrigham1 gl iamlam young university lg1967 appp 181918 19 9 10 Jerjetjerljeridersonsjersons8sonson Is journal iqI1 pa 23023 jenson luybjyby2 ioogau9uranhraphphy P 428 67

A greatdealgreat dealdeai of his testimony was directed at his publishedpu b I1 is hed works helielleile was asked where he obtained the information on the first presidencyPresildency and the apostles that helielleile published in biographicalbijggjcap hlcalhucal eqcyciosy pdaediaedla andrew jenson replierepilerepliedrepliedsds about the early apostles I1 obtained my information from the public documents of theche church and as to the recent members I1 have copied some from bishop orson F WIwhitneyi ineystneys sketches that he has prepared for the fourth volume of the historyhah11shorysborystory of utah and also from M F cowleycowleys history of the lives of the leaders mrmrwortmrigtonsworthinrtonworthington you made it tipup then from previous publi- cationscat ions mr jenson yes sir partly so although some of the material on the first presidency and the apostles was obtained this way this was not how most of the sketches were written letters were sent to bishopsbisliops stake presidents and other church leaders with instructions to complete the accompanying sketch forms which asked for various genealogical and ecclesiastical information as weilwellwoll as a short biographical sketch of their lives to get maximum coverage of those who should be included in Bbioaghicllorr cicalhical encysjapediabjey0 6 a elteretterietterletter was alsoaiso3 iso seatsent to bishops asking them for their assistanceass is lancetance we arcareace mailing you several letters sketch blanks subscription blanks and soniesonesome pres3presspresa clacinCIAclippings1 pplappli ngs the lettersjettersjotters are intended for former bishops and bishops counselors and the clerks of your ward in each instance where the individual is alive we would kindly ask you to glgivei ve hihimm theche letter and in case helielleile is dead kindly give it to one of his children or posterity who you think would be able and willing to render aidaldaidoaldo aayany old velveteranst2tatansrans in your ward are incincludedludedeluded lnin tthh e triviinvitationtation to send sketches11 those sending in sacilskcilsketcheskchesaches were asked to send 12 to assist in

proceedingsproceedimrs bbeforefore the committee on privilegesprtvilep es and elections of the united states seilseliSetisenateateabe cdreed smoot vol I1 washngtonwashingtons government printing office 190611906 pep 52152t 12 andrew jenson to bishops may 13 1907 jenson papers 68

thethoche printing 6 for the sketch and 6 for the portrait if submitted apparently no sketches of nonnou generalgenera authorities verewere published unless 13 this money was paipalpaidd in 1913 andrew again commenced publication of bjlhiajB cicalhical encvclopediaencyclopediaejicycjopedia with volume two seemingly with the purpose of encouraging the sale of this forthcomin9volumefor comingththcoming volume being printed at the deseret news

press the0 deseret news again wrote a very favorable enforcementendorcementendorcement this biographicalbiographical work is of great historical value and deserves the support of the general public no library of church members will be complete without this work 14 although andrew was busy with this volume of biojrajhcal encyclopedia the year 1913 was eventful in other respects at october conference andrew spoke at a special priesthood meeting after he

was through speaking president joseph F smith remarked good boy

audleaaudlew oodood boy during uhlsLILIS ldlaldlblciik rl61cieeicpteidenc smith nolnot only endorsedeudorendur ed the talk by andrew jenson but he also expressed his gratitude that the 15 lord lladIiadladhad inspired such men to do the work they did for the church

131.31 3 A number of years ago the author receivedrecelved a telephone call from elder earl E olson assistant church fistorihistorihistonaiiylan asking if he would like to inspectillitispect a box of biographical sketches that they had discovered in the church historiansHisto nansmans office in examining these sketches he ddjdis-J S covered a few biographiesbiographies that 1hadid the following written across the top 1 wwillilllil111 do nothnothingi ig or paidpaid nothing 0 none of thesesket sketchesches appear in biographical encyclopedicencyclopediat the widow of charles smith responded to karewandrewslarew s requestre q li es-l forfor a sketchskc tch of herilertierller husbandlitisbarld butbu t sstatedta ted she couldcou ld not 1 afford to send the boneyomoneymoneyo charles smith was a high councilor in1 n the st george stake helielle had assiassistedsLed mary fielding smithsmithy wife of hyrum smithsmithpsmithy in leaving nauvoo illinois heho drove a teatbeatbeaiteatfttearabearaft for her to winter quartersqi i arters hisitis sketch is nalnolnatnot in biographicalbiodiodlo V 17aphical encyclopedia letterdetlerledebterdeblerdehlerhler of mcsMLSmcq charles smith to andrew jenson apriapelaprieapri1 I1 29929 190igo1907 located under the namenarne of charles smithsmi irh LDS church hisloriarsHIL orlanstarlanstorlanstorianstorian Is office 14 r 1 deseret evenings news laiclaikidlkidakisaltisaic akelakehake1.1 ctycityjacty1 november 29 191319133 p 4 15 jenson autobioqautobiographyraptisraptiv 5 p 517 69

on novembrinovembeinovemberNovembeibel 24 1913 the first presidency again endorsed the

1 bilosapilcj0 deil cicalhical encvclopediaencyclopediacyc oeloeiocl a they indicated that volume one was an excellent work that was suitable fortorfoe every library in the church and the jdeeretJDeedeseretretreccec news reported

A second volume about to be published bringing the woikwolkwork up to date it will prove most valuable for general information and par- ticulticularlyarly in furnishing reliable data concerning the lives and lalaborsbors of prominent persons connected with the great latterlatterdayday dis- i pensatipensantipensationpensapeusa tioncionclonon suitables li I1 tabletabie for referencerefarenceerence by writers and reporters we regard the labors apotupotuponi therathemthern as evidence of the diligence perper6 6 veranceserserverance and accuracy of elder jenson which we hope will be julyduly appreciated by our people everywhere 16

others Linlnn the church were also beginning to express their appreciation for the work that andrew was doing with the publication of biagbiqgdiggbiographicalical encyclopediafincycjlopedi a presentativerepxesentatre ivelve of these comments are whatwhal you have done for this people and this work will perhaps never be appreciated during your lifetimelife time but the students and workers in a church capacity i ze to some extent the value of 1 reallreailrealirealize I1 I1 A I1 1 1 4 1211teti1211.211123 1 r 02 c L n jL I 1 3 y lujtcitlgczllelllikllc1ll arkwrkwek to0 prscrcrcsteg rve anlkanakand icccrdr ecc r A tthebhei I1 historyi S t-c r ofc J teisthisthic ylploplepcoplepoopepoopc

the faithful energetic y and longiong concoucontinuedtinuedlinued labors of elder andrew jenson in gathering and preserving materials for church history 5 callscalis for general commendation and should be appreciated by every latterlatterdayday sasaintinttnt and by the public at large lie is the one nanmanmau who hasliasilas gone around thetlletile world for this laudable purpose he is to be commended also for putting into print the results of his diligent aalidarldandaridlidildrid painstaking researches his published works cannot fail loto10 be of great value to the saints as sources of information11 1018 I1 trust that the work will have theehe wide distribution deserves it 1 and that yoliyou will flfindi nd rich reward for your longcontinuedlong concoucontinuedtinuedlinued and efficient labors in the compilation ofoj these volumes in the assurance that you have rendered a real and lasting service to both the church and the several stages in which tiie subjects of youlyour biographical

161.6lgig deseret eveneveningIvnlnniunininglug news isaltfaltfaithalt likelake citiecitijci tyjbyj november 29 191371913 ppo 4 17 susan young oatesgates to andrew jenson february 77yay 1914 jenson papers 181 Q orsonocson F whitney to andrew jensonjontonyjonbony october 15715 1920 circular jensonjensons scrapbookscrapbooksScrapscrapbookybooky J 1920 p 54 70

sketches reside very few outside the circle of literary niennieumenmeu can realize the taxing and unremitting labor of which the three volvoivolumesunies of the latter day saints biographical encyclopedia are tangible results 19 the culmination of the year came when on december 16 hetielle and his wives emma and bertha receivedrece ived their second annointings in the salt lake temple his wife emma also stood proxy for his departed wife mary in receiving the same blessing

I1 shall never forget the blessbiessblessi lagsingstagsi ngs bestowed upon us oaon this occasion prespros anthon H lund officiating after we were through with the ordinance I11 repaired to the eastcast room in the touptemptomptempletempiele and prayed earnestly to the lord for a special blessing whiwhwhichi ch I1 feel satisfied will be given nieme if I1 am faithfulcaithful in the evening we had a pleasant social in our house 20 the final segment of Bbiographicalh cal enclpedjaencvclopediaencyclopedia was printed january 26 1915 how relieved andrew was in completing volume two that volume had annoyed me more than any book I1 had so far published and I1T had been at it so long that I1 had grown sincerely tired f f thebhe hoiebolc business butut rss promisesproropeoroiselsecsc1scIS hadhaj beebeobe en marliemandie indnd sinalssoana I1 amounts of money paid by suissubssubscriberscr ibe tst in advance I1 could not with draw from the task ihadahadT had practically publishedpubIll shed two books within one year hethet first one being church Chronochronoloychronologyciironologyloxloy which was issued from the press inlintinjin july 1914 21

this second volume contained 1180 biographical sketches ofoc pro 22 miaentminentmanent men and women in the churchchurchechurchy on august 21 1914 andrewand rewrow wrote a letter to the first presidency asking if they would like to take over the publishing of volume threethrete

0 f jjjejiip10j3jjwj 2jpjjical encycloralay000 7 theyfheyahey repliedrepi I1 ed in the negatidegatinegativeve but stated that they would take11take pleasure in recoaffiienditicrecommending the book to thetlletile bishops

19 james E talmage to andrew jenson ibibidld 20 jenson autobiographya1jtob horhopLOP rapjjy p 517 the second aenoiannoiannointinganno inting is a sacred ardiordiordinancetiatice performed in the salt lake temple very little has been wwrittenr1raitten on thischisthi s subjectsubj ectact 21 22 ibiiblibidld2ldaady p 519 ibid9ibid p 518 71 23 and church schools as an aid in promotlpromotepromotingi ng its sale on september 30 1916 and on october 10 1918 andrew again offered volume three to the church in sponsereresponsespense to thithlthis1 s first request joseph F smith and his counselors indicated transfer of ownership could not be consistently done

f sinces I1 nce it was an individual enterprienterpriseenterpri se entereden teredcered intolutoI1utonto bbyy you which1 you yourself had better carry through which we hope will be done to your entire satisfaction financially and otherwise in the later letter president heber J grant and his counselors also responded negatively to andrewandrews request but they didd id send him 1000 to assist him in pub 242 4 iishingbishinglishirbishirig volume three andrewand rew wawass elated your magnificent gift of one thousandt1iousand dollars to assist in the publication of volume 3 of the biographical encyclopedia will enable me to do what I1 have desired to do from the beginning namely to writeweitewelte and publish biographies of worthy men andincl women embersmembersr ti of the church who have done things that the people generally are inter ested in without catering to people of means in order to obtain on 1 Tsi s oplpopalp to r ay tapitbpi monev nr A payA tbpix bonev indiaindivincllviduadurlduridual1dual accounts I1 that if ask pop4 iy fotfortottor r individual sketches to be printed in bublipublishingpubli shing the firstfirst two volumes I1 did the best I1 could by publishlpublishingng sketches of dead people whowiiowilo were worthy of note but with your aid I1 shall be able to make volume 3 an ideal volume that the public ought to appreciateappreciate2525

like thebhe previprevious1alisolisolls0lis volume volume three was delayed in its printing due to world war Iio1 it was also a great burden to andrew to complete thisthithl s volume because of the worry and anxiety thetiietile biggest worry was the finances this was partially resolresolvedved with the gracious gift of the first prepresidencysidenicy but because only a part of the 1500 copies of volume three were by subscripsubscriptsubscriptionIA1 oriorl financesfj bancesnances continued to be a great

7323 joseph F smithsmich anthon ILif lund andcharlesand charlescharies W penrose to andrew jenson august 24 1914 jenson papers 240 bensons K Jenjensonssons journal 5 appp 522 5319531 532 25 ibid p 559 72 concern 26

to further assist andrew in meeting his financial obligationobligationssg

i contracted by publishing koumevolumevoume three the first PresiLpresidencydency againaga L n wrowroteini n a letter to illallaliaillii stake presidents recommending that every stake and ward in the church purchase a set of the boajgliicajbiographical encycloediaeicyclopedjaencyclopedia we sincerely hope that your efforts to dispose of this work which hasliasilas consumed so much diligent labor and time wilwillwiil be patron- ized in the way indicated in our letter as well as by individuals who may be able to possess it for their own private libraries 27 with all the financial trouble connected with volume three andrew once again wrote to the first presidency suggesting that the work be continued but not by any private individual 11 he feltfeitcelt the work belonged to the church and should be done under the 11dlrectiondirectioni and res 289 P ponsibilityponsisponsibilityibilityability1 1 of the authorities of the church

aithoAlthoalthoughalthotightigh the first presidency ststiliostilililill1111.11 did not feel that the ijiographicabiodiodlo r ra cicalhical cyclj3j3cdljiencyclopedia should be a church sponsored work andrew felt impelled to publish a fouithfourthfou th volume it was published because a number of people fitlfitifinallyfitiallyfiliallyallyaily began to understand the nature of the work

for some time past in looking over hethe1 three volumes of the biograailbiographicali calcai encyclopedlencyclopediai a I1T was reniindedreminded of the fact that a great many biographies of meimetmetimellmeilmeni and women which should have been inserted m had been left olitout of thesthese volumes bubutbubbum1 through no fault of mineine As there was a small expense attached to the undertaking for printing and binding quitequi te a stirnntirnnumberaberjber of people who otherwiotherwise1 se deserved mention inirl a work of that kind had turned it down and would not contribute at ailallali towards the publication although the literary work from the beginning had been done gralisgratisgrabis at uiedietheule liislilsflisflistorihistoriantoritorl1 ans office 4 9 and as laterlaleridler a number olof01 people who hadhod not understood thistills caniecanlecame forward and wanted their biographies printed I1

26 Jjensonnson autobautomautobioraphyjachyaphy p 535 27 bensonsJenjensonssons journal K 1687631681691631691.63169168163 169 28 tbidqibid p 159 73 29 conceived lhclheahe idea of preparing another volume foifor publicatpublicarpublicationpubl icat ionlon thus was launched the ourthfourthI1 and finalinaifinalfinai volume 0off deidelgyigyijc11jcc a 1

i enycloyodjalcy like two previousprevI1 OU s Vvolumesolurtiesiles ththiss too was delayedd in its final printing because of the depressiondep t ess lon and the resultresuitresultinginglugtug1 lack of fin-

ances in october 1935 andrew resresumedces umeump d his publication of volume four

i f which was finally completed 1inn 1937 zililzibilthe saltsait111l11 jlj1illi11ake tri bun e was impressed with this volumevotumcy as they slatedstatedstatesstateds of invaluable worth to officers and members of the L D Ssa church isib volume IV of the latterlatterdayday saint bio

1 30 graphical encylencydencyclopediaapedoped la ft1130

A good summary of these volumes oiof Bbiographicalh calcai encylencycencyclopedialoped ia was written by the intermountaininter mountamountainin republican the whole work is of decided value as a part of the material absolutely essential in1 n the mastery of the statedslatedstates history it is written in the spirit of partisanship for the subjects all of whahornwhornom if living1ivingy are members of the mormon church but it is the L 01 kiikil J I1 I1 U J L I1 L LOL une gaca pabi tj0al10liaijol cAocaoiiicaoili Iii jj ti I1f aci fjiludJ t 9 holHOGa0aa woLUU lluutluuthuubluui edud utieuttsuhe necnccnecessaryebsaryessary dadaladacagaiaca which tiono history canconcobcaacoa ri safely omitorailt the book will be a thing to treasure in thebhe families of thetlletile men mentioned alidarldandarid it is said to be the aim to include all in the completed work but it will also be useful as a reference volume at all times and everywhere 31

7 with the completion 0of1 four VOILvolumeslinesiines andrew felt justly proud of

his accomplishmentaccorap 1 i s hmenahmen t

these encyclopedias I1 wish to leave as a monument to myself which will live afafterter I1 dmam gone andaridarld as a token of service and gragratitudeli lude to the churchchurchychurch3323 although there were no further publications of additional volumes

29 ibid9ibid p 59393 andrew had gathered enough material for 15000 sketchesskeLches 30 JMfhephe saltsaitLLJlakedake jelujf10tributribunene april 1.1 25 193791937 p 10 C 31 Tnierntornantorter motinmotiumountainla in republican march 25 1906y1906 bensonsjensonsJen sons scrascrapP lookbookbooky F 1906 p 32 1610 p 0 3310 the salt lake telegram december lo 3 1919 9 74

1 r i I1 z 0 LP TeoeyoeL L pS a tle I1 1 liIIIUPIIIUPLPL li j aly002 A h thet10 chulctlh10 historiaiilhisfcoriansI office still con- tinuesfinuesS to gather biogiabiograbiographicalp cicalhical sketches on church leaders CHAPTER VIvilVIII1

HISTORIES OF STAKES AND MISSIONS

andrew jensons work for the church officially began on april 1 1888 when he receivedreceived his first compensation for historical work he was doing for the church he was to receive fifty dollarsdollarddollar3 each month from the general tithing office helleliefie felt that was evidence of the apprecia- 1 tion of the brethren for his historical work A few months after thisthinthik he was asked to complete a special mission to the church history sietessltessites in the east this mission lasted from 2 september to october 1888 in may 189938991.899 he began his firstfilfiafla rst of many years of travel to the varvarlousvdjioubbarlousLous suslcikustkesakes of L he Chichurchilchlich andrew aluompciniedaccompanied elderseiders george aoQqo cannon and franclfrancifrancisi s M lyman to a stake conference of thetlletile wasatch stake while there helielleile perused several private journals of some of the older settlers in order to obtain some localocal church history this was the pattern he would follow traveling to an area culling information from the private jojournalsurlials and originalorigitnal records bringing the information home 3 and arranging themthorn into a historyh of the area on september 20 188991889 heho sent a report to the first presidency portlreportlreporterereportingporti 1 ng on howtiow helieite had used cheuhe fifty dollars a month the chuichchurch had a I1 lottedaiottedblotted to himl

1 2 jjansonsjcnsons0n S 0111 sjournallsjoynaljomnal s eaEe1 p 70 see chapter IV 3Q andiewandrew jenson auto biography2jjridy10y of andrew jenson sallsaitsaltsail lake city deseret news press 193871938 pyt857p 1850 75 76

diningduring bhe last year and a half I1 have received from thebhe church fitlyfiftyfinty dollars a month inln tithing kdersoldersorderso aders 1aaat being atan allowance made lain order to enable weme to sustain my family witliewhifleoleoie gathering historical information of the several stakes of zion nolnot having access to the documentary history of thetlletile churchchurchy I1 have deemed it unwnnwunwiseise to publish the iiinformation thus falfarcalcat rainedgainedgitneds and I1 propose to deliver the manmanuscriptsliscriluscri ptsapts to the church historian together with a complete index to the history of joseph smith as it has been published in the millennial star thith-l 3 index alone has cost me months of patient labor and before I11 am through with my work this year I11 shallshailshali be able to deliver to the church documents aandaadad information that will fully compensate for what I1 have received when the time two years of my lowanceallowanceai expires 4

although this allowance was originally0 just for a two year period the allowance was again renewed on february 21 189011890 by president wilford woodruff still andrew was not to be attached to the historians 5 office even though he had rrequestedeques teeltedi it in october 1890 he was asked by franklin D richards church historian to go to sanpete county to gather church history elder rilricalcaikalkkciluoial1iuliiala 6 bt11lbelileul da leljetleujellleckleekleflerlejtej oiof iinlilloLJOUUCLJ OUUCU U 11L 011oilolioii011 wllWILwi ihiniih andiewanrewU ijensonCitisoll explaining that helielleile was being sent to compile a hihistoryshorysborystory of the sanpete stake wiwithth the ffiftyif ty dollars a month allowance andrew was expected to sustain himself and his familiofamilyfamilyo As 0a resultresuit he often traveled undertinder rather unplea-

1 on 1 sant conditions hethe jjourneybourneyoijrn y loto10 sanpetesanpetosanpetro county he went by r1rario0 o crandegrande western railroadtailrallrali road to the thisucthisilc ast&stationaaionstation helielleile was finally able to catch a ride from thistle1 his tiebieble to indianola on a ilatflatfiat car loaded with rails sitting on a keg of railroad spikes allaltali the way theiesheietiitil re was a terribleteTi ibleibie wind and hailhallhalihailstormslorm and as a result he arrived in indianola alive although cold 6 11 ineandindlne I1 chilled through heilellelie then walked a mile to a memberiiiombers house

1 staying there a horthorlstiertstiort time helielleile left folforfox miimilm3maaburnburn1burn ridingz I1 ding on a lumber wagon

4 4jensonsbensonsjensons journal E p 97 5 bidibid appp 19620091.962009196 2009200 206ogezog06e 6ibid7sbidabid aleplep 2812810 77 aadand then walked two or three milestulles into town arriving alat milburn he wrote history and then walked five miles to fairvlewfairviewfalrvjew completlcompletacompletingCompletlpietii ng his work in fairviewfair viewglew he traveled to mt pleasant by his own conveyance the bibishop1 shop at mt pleasant then was kind enough to give him a ride to 7 ephrainephraephraimi1 m

andrew felt repayedreplayed for his vlsivisivisitlt to this ireaarealrea because of the number of origoriginalinai records he was able to locate and preserve

L ij1 found itinitii the house of the late HILI L F peterson the documents on loose scraps of papers and small note books which would make a fair history of ephraim if properlyproperty compiled they were papers concerning the istanceexistanceexistenceex of which the authorities in ephraim were en titirely1 rely ignorantignorantoignoranteignoranto I1 indfindf that the ward clerks are and have always been very slow in keekeepingP inglugI1 their records after visiting several parties in ephraim in order to obtain historical infor- 1 mation I1F rode by chance to thetlletilehouse of wlwidowdow olsenoisen north of manti where I1 found some valuable rcrecordsords kept by the late rasmus olsen of ephraim deposited on the leftloftlentkoftlofbienn of aran old house where theylheyahey served as feed for mice I1 spent most of the afternoon sorlingsorting the record 8 4

the foregoing is a samplesampie of what hehie subsequently dididld I1in nearly all the other stakes of the church no sooner dicdid aiidrewandrew arrarriveacriveve home than he recereceivedved another assignment from franklinfrankilnfrankiinFranklinkJIn D richards to make another journey to emery and san juan stakes to gather information to compile a history of those stakes brother richards wanted andrew to make the journey at this time so when winter came and it might be too severe to travel heilellefie could work up the materials he had gathered into a history of these stakesbro brotherdrotherth er richards then gave him imporLantimportant and interestingIL counselcounsels I11 also desdesirere thatbilat you wwillillgligil make it a point tofco enthuse into the presipreslpresidentsldenls and bishops withwilli tlielalieltheirf r counselors the importance of mak- i ing up to date a correct and faithful historyhah3 ststoryory of thetheirtheirl r stakes andI1 nd ward1presidenclesward presidenciespresidencies theathen for each to keep a catcarefulcar efuleaul account

7iblditbicl ppsppaappp 28128328128128302832830 8iiri98lbld p 283 78 of thatthatwhjchwhich transpires in their jurisdiction please turn your mind on it and show up lheahe isportanceimporlancomportancemp ortance of every stake having a recorder and thatthalthai he do hishi 5 duty anin1n keeping a faithful record of all important transactions such a record would be of inrainenimmenseeliseetiseellse value inln 1 a ffewew years to come 0 ab1b let the spirit supply the defidefldccicieiiclescienclescienclenclescies with good earnest entreaty to have the work done well 9

the year 89118911 burst upon the scene with blightbright prospects for the future for andiewandrew jenson it11 was also a time of great anticipation for many members of the church this is the beginning of the year which many of the saints have looked forward with much interest aadandaad to which they have attached a great dealdeai ofor importance some expect that christchelstghrist will make his appearance this year and that some extraordinary event will transpire 10 whether this will be so or not remains to be seen but there is no doubt in my mind that the year will be an important one and that allaliail latterlatterdayday saints should be prepared for any event that may transpire I1 look upon this yeayeatyeart so far as I1 aingiramgln concerned as the beginning of the second chaplerchapter of my usefulness in the church T 0 10 0 fa I1 expect to travel most of the limetime in the interest ofoe church history with or without any financial remuneration I1 expect to devote the remainder of my days forjor the public good and use what taltaitainttalnttalenttalantnt andCind abijilyab ilityclity the lorddord has given me for the buildingupbuildingup of his imnciomtdnictotn on uleuieulkme cajliicarlilecaelileca fulifulljLii although many of the saints were disappointed in not seeing the fulfillment of their dream andrew did not havellave to wait very long before helieileite saw the fulfillment of his prediction for the future

9lbid9bialbielblenbicl appp 286288286 288 10 apparently thithlthiss feeling came from two statementsotatements by the prophet josephjosegh smith on february 14 1835 joseph smith in speaking of the 11evenegen up second comingD of christ stated I1 even 56 years should wind the scene joseph smithsmithy history ofofjihethe church of jesus chiistchrist of latterlattedlymattedlyLattedlydavday tilytibysaintsrli9 ed B II11 roberts 72dad2d ededir saltsaitsattsate lakeI1 ak c citycityt Desoedeseretdesoetokdesee Tokvokbookdook cocot 19465019461946 50 ilyty p 182 ilelielle was also told that if helielleile livedjived to be eightyfiveeighty ffiveli ve years old helielleile would 11seesee the face of the son of man doctrine nd covenants 1301417130141.713014 17 this would bring the date of the second coming to either december 23 1890 or fobiuacyfebruc ry 149349 1891 forfoz an excellent treatise on this subjecsubjacsubjectt see richard lloylioylloydlioydt andersonanderjonyAnder jonysony joseph mithonith aadahd thelheahe millenarian ticetimerime labletabletabie j3righamB lfftam yolin university studie-studsludlosySlud lesylosys iliIII111 nos 3 and 4 summer spring and suitu110summetr I1 l9619196191961 appp 556655 66 11 jensosjendosjensons journal eyE appp 309310309 310 79 lil1 I had an interview wawithji the firstFJ ist presidency who desireddeside si1 red to engage me as an jtcheatlachejecheat Lache to the historiansI s officeoffof ficericeice and pay me 100 a momonthn lh I1 told the brethrenethronbrethren in answer to their question if I1 was satisfied with this andcanddaudgand would accept of the popositionaition3ition that I1 had always kept myself in readiness to comply with any call that might be made upon me and that I1 would be satisfied with whatever they wanted to giveglive me andaridarldanid whatever honorabletionorable work they want me to per- fformorm thus I1 am permanently engaged as a historian to labor in connectionconne clloncLion with the church historianshistorianshistoriansIstoriansorlans 12 many years later andrew explained that thischisthisethis3 call came as a direct

result of the history he had wrwrittenwrithenltteatte ri of the salt lakedakedrake stake ilchlichwhich was published in volume four cf the historical record augustaugustaaugusty 1887 the attention of the atithorauthoritiesiltiesillies of the church being called to these compilations a special appointment followed by which I1 was instructed to write similar hihistoriesf of all the stakes of zion 13 sloriesclories ithwithw1 their wards following thithlthis1 s interview withwilthalth the first prpresidencydencysisilencysidency andrew wrote to frankiinfranklinfrankilnfranefrank in D richards telling him of his appointmentappointments he stated that he hadllad no voice in the amount of the remuneration the brethren having decided upon that before they told memeo he asserted that helielleile was ready to serve in any capacity that elder chardsrichardsr3ra1chadds felt proper and to visit 14 any stakei helielleilez was assignedA

wotwo months later he received a telegram from franklin D richards asking him to come to the historianshistorians1 storiansorlansstormans office heilellelie resentedpresentedP to him two letters dutlioutlioutlining1 n 1 ng his future assignment be forecore he left he was blessed and set apart as a historian in zion by elder richards he was promised that he

12 ibia9ibidibias p 316 italics added tat3 1 news cityjYJ november 25 1922 p iiiibiIIthe deseret salt lake cit 1 9 9 XII 14 andrew jenson to franklinfrankiinfrankiln D richards februaryfebruaryauary 13 1891 jenson papers 80

should be the means in the hands of the lord and under the guidance of the holy spiritsp i r it to do a great work in the midst of the people and when way in the future the books should be opened to viviewf ew the importance of my labors should become apparent and the good work done by me should bbringi ing its benefitsbeneC lisits and blessing to all israel I1 was also admonished to cultivate a spirit of humility and meekness that I1 might gain the love good will and confidence of the saints and be able to make proper impressions upon them and thus benefit them and be the cause of an improved system of keeping records being introduced in the various stakes of zion 15 in the letter directed to him andrew jenson was told that a meeting was held in the assembly hall april 7 1891 for all stake presidents and bishops at thithlthiss meeting they were notified that elder jenson would soon be visiting them so that helielleile could prepare a correct and complete history of the stakes of zion and of the wards which compose I1 them the letter further explained some of the specific details that should be in these histories this information should include dates and particulars of the earliest and succeeding settlements of each location not only should a history of the settlements be written but also of every organization of the church in that area which would include the names of each officer sustained in the organization finally it was recommended that in order to assure accuracy a meeting should be held in concouconnectionnectlon with quarterly stake confconCconcerencoconccrencoconCe rencerencocrenco where the manuscript could be read loto10 some of the arlyearlyariy settlers for any possible correccornec 16 tionslionseions the letter to the stake presidents and bishops explained the mission of elder jenson and nidicatedjndlcated thatthal helielleile was not coming on a private venture but in behalf of the church to help solve some of the earlier problems he had with transportation and food the slakestake presidentpresidents

151.5 161.6lgig jensonjensons journal E appp 324325324 325 ibid appp 325327325 327 81 and bishops werewe tieloeioe encouraged to conttibutecontributecontribiltecontrIcontTi butebilteblite loto10 his personal comfort and assist him with the proper conveyances ft so helielleile could visit the various places necessary to obtain the information he would need not only would helielleile be working in the general church interest but he would also assist

1 the stake presidents in inspectinspectsinspect1inspecting1jig the stake and ward records add-

1 I1 titioitionallynallynailyanallyonally y he would glgivevel such suggestions as will enable your clerks to keep their books in the most correct and competent manner a labor and duty that has in many places been very sadly neglected 1117 andrew now began a concerconccifedconcerledconcealedLed program of visiting the various stakes of the church during the rest of 1891 he visited the saints in the box eldereider sevier panquitchPanquitch summit morgan beatbeardear lake and cache 181 Q stakes although he found most of the church records in a deplorable condition helielleile felt that it would not be too longjongiong before a molemore perfect 191.9lg 9 and systematicsyscematic method of keepin hurchljiurchi records woulwould1I be inaugurated

on hisillslils visits to the variouskariolisvariolisvarivarlollsouisOLIS settlements of the saints he found the saints much more willing to assist him in1 n his labors after the letter from the brethren

on my whole trtripL p I1E enjoyed the hohospitallhospitalshospitalityspitallityety of the saints who treated me kindly furnished me with gratgrahgratisis lodghodglodginging and meals and arranged transportation foifolfor me from settlement to settlement1 20

As 11898 9 2 dawneddownedd upon andrew jepsonjenson he began two very important assiassignmentsgnments first he went to the utah penitentiary to peluseperuse the records oiof the warden concerning the brethren that had been incarcerated

171 7 ibidibicl appp 327328327 328 Jjcrbonjersoner S oln autobautomautobiographygraphylographyLo p 1971970 19 arldrewadrewandrew jenson to FanklinIiiianklinfrankilnbranklinn D richardsrjchardby july 13 189118913891 jenson papers 20 J p jejellensontensonlsonison aubiogjaphyytoblobio r iyay 1 19595 82

11 for plurcpluraplural ibarrinarrmarriage1 lageeiageegagee although there wereere only ten members of the church

incarcerated there in 1892 from the terecordscordscoeds helielleile dscovereddiscovereddiscovered1 that from 1885 to 1892 there hadbad been nearly one thousand latterlatterdayday saint men 21 confinedcofifcofie lnedened in the prison second helielleile was asked by president woodruff on january 21 189291892 to fulfill a speespecspeciallialpiaiplai assignment gathering all the 22 informationinformaLlion he could concerning the mountain meadows massacre orson

F whitney had bcbeenbeenen selected to write a history of utah and the first presidency was anxious to obtain all the details they could about the mountain meadows massacre the first presidency sent with andrew a letter explalexplaining1 ning his mission to the people in southern utah many facts havellave already been published concerning this affair but there is an opinion prevailing that all the light that can be obtained has not been thrown upon it the ylfirstrst presidency was also concerned that many people who had liaalidaiidabeldheld da ijlblrj lblabl hcujdllaftl knowledgekdowicigz ofaj0j uliculleLIICthe alicaffairtictir were abingayingdringodyingo thede rirsipirsuripsipirau kreslrresiaresi dency was afraladralafraidleloeiodi that soon everyone would be dead who personally know the facts 9 and ereore long there will be no person alive who will know anything about it onlyodly as they learn it from what has been written they were therefore sending andrew jenson to interview these people that had firsfirsthandLhand knowledge sincebince we are anxiotisanxious to learn all halhatthatthatthall we can upon this subject not

21 ibid appp 19271929192 197 222 the mountain meadows2 massacre occurred september 11 1857 A group of arkaxknnsasare asasmsas and missoinmiscoinmlsmjssotiMis soinA1 l emigrants on their way to callforncaliforniaL a were backedLackedattackedau by indians and viIiwhitesites at mountain meadows utah the missouri wildcats had boasted of many atrocities against the cormonsMormormonsmons the company had also irritated the IndindiansindlansindiansiansLans by various acts of vandalism only the smaller chIchildrenIIren WPOwerewecewoewoo sparedsp irod in the irasinasmassacresacre juanita brooks the momountainun tain meadows massacre SLCirifordlstanford mfordststanford university press 1950 83

necessarlnecessnecessarynecessarilyariarlliy for publication I1 but that the church may have the details in its possession for the vindlicatiovindicationn ofoe innocent partiespartiespartlesies and that the world may know when the time comes the true facts connected wiwithwichwlchth iti L they assured those concerned that andrew could be trusted and

and information that was given to hinhimhj m as confidential would be treated 23 as such butbuh much of the information would be bublipublipublishedf shed andrew was able to locate many who could give him valuable information about the massacre which they importedinipgnip d rt ll freelyllfreely ll11 however he ffound one I1individualadlndlvilduaj who wanted to sell his information for fifty dollars apparently andrew felt his information was worth the price heilellefie therefore

1 sent a telegram to abraham II11 cannon requesting the fiftyflfhyatyfty dollars the following day andrew received the reply

I1 receivedireceived an answeranswetwer to my telegram of yesterday to the effect that they would allow wilden no money but as helielleile refused to give 1 the itiformationinformationinformation without I1 agreed 10loto pay hihinhimm myself if neither the r kirlkarluarlkuriuicnirlariarl U t UI or0 11 lantioncannon andanaano sons woulaWOULO

I1 andrew spent all of the following day and hethe1 next morning at elliott hilhllwildonswaldonswilderilsWilderWil donsoensoonsitsils home getting some valuable informeinformedinformationitionaition on the massacre apparently andrew had previously felifeltfellfeil that only indians were involved in the attack upon the emigrant company for he reveals in his journal

that he oaswas very distressed over sonesorciesome of the facts

rj have been successful inL n gelgetgetting41ng the desiredde aired3ired infinformationorma lionbionblon for the first Presidepresidencyricy but itjt has been an undlerunpleasantunpleramantasant SinessblisinessbusinessbuibulbLI the informiatlinformationon thalthatlitah I11 received i-liademade nieme suffer menimentallyailyally and deprived me of my sleep at night and I1 tired and fatigued both inenmentally felt 25 tallytaily and physicallyphysghys icalcallycaily when I1 returned home AEaflerafterterber returningreturning home a-andreuandrewndrew began compiling and arranging the material tlelietie hadhaollad obtained on this special missionmissions helie then turned his

23 bensonsJenjensonssons journal E appp 409410409 410 24 25 ibid p 412 ibidabidTtbidbid 84 26Q notes over to the first presidency andrew did nonott record much abouaboutt the information he had rceivedreceived but he did stawthisstatestamstaW this As to the information I1 obtained I1 can only say this that while some white people were implicated in the mountain meadows massacre besides the indians I1 learlearnedliedried nothingno tiling that in any shape or form could connect the seneragenerageneral1 authorities ofoff the church with the affair in fact he felt that brigham young did everything in his power to stop the massacre even if it took all the militiamiliala of iron county 27 to do it 1127 andrew continued to receive informationinformabionablonaLion on thetlletile mountain meadows massacre from those people he had interviewed on september 18 1919 john chatterley wrote to andrew jenson stating that john D lee came to HariuhariulonyharmonyyharmoneyHarmolonynyynyx utah prior to the attack upon the arkansas emigranemigrantsLs all dressed up like a military officer he lead a gang of forty or fifty

T 1 4 T r 1 n rn n I j tnrl jfrii ach HHc 14- I1 D k E t 11 1 L tarl trntrofan rch around thebhe1 hcironyironytrony forfod I 0 jjohn0 in ijle lcillu oul0 severals evera I1 times aliailfailfalialltall that wish success to israel say amen 1 11 few people in the fort responded

follofollowingwllwil ng the massacre john chatterchatterleylcyicyley maintmaintainsa ns that the emigrants had considerableconfideconside rabierable money and john D lee got a good portion of it he took the roneynoneymoneymoney to blipbripbrighamhanham young who11who swept itfti off the table and would not have atlyailyany of itita chahChaUchatterlyerly states that brigham young gave john 1da lee a good scolding and said the action of massacring the

26 i theTI1 te author hasliasilas been totally utisticcessfulunsuccessful in tryltryingI1ng to locate I1 these notes ththee fifirstr s L lrcsidoncy1pr e s id ency Iss office has no rerecordcord of 0verever receeccecece lying them 27 jenonrus 3 n autobiographytob op rapharaphvraphy p 1981980 85 289 ft emigrants would put thedhe church acklackbackL twentyfivetwenty five years andrew continued his travtravelstraveisIs to the various stakesstaires in the inter-

1 estO st of church history his next visitsvi sitsitss were to the stakes in southern utahU talitaiitail prior to leaving he purchased a new buggy for hisMS travels since 19 he had already worn out his old one having now visited about half of the stakes of the church and their wards he wrote a letter to the first presidency informing them of his labors thus far he reported that during a thirteen month period helielleile had traveled 4684 mlileselesmiles most of it by team in gathering a history of the various stakes he had gathered sufficient information to write a history of all the stakes and settlements helieite had visited he explained how he did ililii111hiss research he would first go to the stake presidency in each area nrynr1 n rucrijj q eci j I1 t F V i F i t- s HP thpn orlorb se lirtirapnpL regularr schedule 0of visits he tbenaben heidheldholdhoid evening meetimzmeeting for the general public where he would give instructionsinsiuslus tructeructionslons then he called

J for a specspeciall al meetingrleetbeetieet j ng of all the old settlers ward clerks and secre cariescarles of all the auxiliaries they were to bring their records with them so they could kivegiveg ivelve their informationinformainforms tion to brother jenson these meetings would last from three to six hours he then proceeded to the next settlement where thebhe same procedure was followed he gave this report on the conditioncondlcondi tion of the records lie foundfounds

289 john chatterleychatlerleyChat lerleytenley to andrew jenson septseptemberemleremlcremier 18y18.18 919gig1919J mountain meadows massacre Ilpapersapers church historianhistorians office chatterley had little regard for john D lee slsincef nce helielleile felt that lee had cheated him out of hish is fathersfathcrs inheritaninheritinheritanceance whewhenti chatterleysChatter leys father died lee was made the administrator of the estate tillsthis fact may taint thethocho above remarks 29 jensonyjetjetlsonlsonison autobiography p 198 86

I1 have found the church records in a very deplorable neglected condition injn many instanceslilliiitistances no regular records areC being kept at allaliailailyally and those few which are kept are as a rule kept inln the several wards and branches have long ago bebeenn lost misplaced or destroyed and consequently about half the members of the church are in perfect ignorance today as regards the dates of their blessings baptisms I1 confirmationsconfcouf I1 nua U onsous ordinations etc as most of thenihavethemchem have relied on the public records that are lost heilellelie further reported that as a result of hishj findings he had in- structedstruc ted the members to keep a record of their own baptisms ordinatiorbinatiordinationsor dinati1 ons blessings elcetc lieilellefiefle also recoidecoirecommendednmendedunmended thatthaichat they keep a family record on all important matters pertaining LO the famicamifamilyliylly and each individual member of thefamithe familyllyoly the members generally responded in a very favorable manner it seems they had never realized that such record keeping was required of them andrew concluded thithlthis1 s lengthy letter to the first presidency with the following recommendationrecommendationsrecolfullendationsrecommendationssss

I1 take the liberty to suggest that a circular letter issued by the first Presidpresidencyeticy or the churchchurchchu rchach historian or both setting forth in plainness what JLiss required of the stake ward and branch clerks as well as heads of families and individual tuberslubersmembersme in regard to keeping records would have a deeper impressionitfipression andalidatidlid leave a inorlnormore ng i Uni lasting effect besides bebeing the means of introducing uniforniuniformityforni ft36 and dystesystesystemcu in record keeping throughout all the stakes of zion becausedecaBecatiselise of the condition of church records andrew frequently spoke on this subject in stake and general conferences the angels were keeping records but they were not at present accessible to mortalmortals 85 and we should keep records for ourselves those of early churchchurrChirr ch history were vcveryy valuable and very scarce and it was deplorable thalthat so I1it tletieuieule was being written in the L 31 variousvar LOUS wards and blanchesbranches of itthe church

J among ouroto t ir many other dubicsdubiesdut Jcsc1s bretbrelbrethreniiren and sisterssilslusiusters letietjet us

30 jensonsJensors journal K1 appp 435440435 440 31 t deseret eveevening11lnp news saisalsaitsaltL lake cityjC august 6 1887 87

therefore reinreinemberememberembe r thischis essential duty of record kekeepingaping2ping in the midst of our busy lives do not let us be lootoo100 modest nor too negli- gentgen-uI1 to record some of the things the lord has permitted us to do in connection with his great latterlatterdayday work 32 itif it were not for records andaudanelauelandl historians we would have no bible book of mormon pearl of great price history of joseph smismithfsmithyth eetctc we have lived long enough and labored long enough to be colvconvconvinced1 acednced of thtillsI1 s fact that events which 0originallyriginaI1 I1 ilyllyliy seemed trivial and unimportant at the time they happened have as years rolled on become matters of the greatest importance owing to the grealgreatreat results that in many instances come from small begin- nings 33 my advice to everybody would be thisthiss write something concerning your esperieexperieexperiencesacesnces in life and iihatcihatwhatwhal you have seen and witnessed in connection wivithvilhwithth the church of christ tto0 bequeath to your posterity so that it may be said of you like that which has been rccordedrecorded of abel of old titafita1111though1111oughOUgh dead he yet speakspeaketh3peaketheth 343 As a result of hihiss concern and interest iinn record keeping he was appointed by the first presidency as a member of 0a committee on 35 church rccordsrecords this conunitteecommittee was organized december 14 18991.899 the

111 1 1 I1 I1 0 ca 11 L L Z N L Z c1cthjIII I L 1 J LuiiulnelubL t t k j alojloL UafufA- Lthelnebhei C gull111uluniiui LUukulleuueeLCULLCUlk k w I1i e eudacoeldaEUdaeudacjruan7ldncibcj PI lyman andanaano rudeckuderruger ullawsonLit awson later anthon H lund replaced francis M lyman as chaixchairmanchainmanchaixmanmanmau of the committee they prepapreparedradred a report for the first presidency and the council

of the twelve suggesting some forms for ward records recommends etc0 tc these had been prepared by andrew jenson and were later adopted for gen 36Q f eraloraledalodal use 1throughout theuhe chuchurchachcch this oommittpommittcoinniitteeec issued two formal statements on record keeping

323 conference re2orrecorreportt salt lake city the church of0 jesus christ S 4 OC 19179 p 90 of latterlatterdayday saintslj ntsants I1 octobertoberbecbe r j91791917 33 ibidabidibidtbid appp 84 86 34 ibidiblcl april 191691916 appp 118119118 119 35 F deseret eve11evellnevenlni nc news 1sjtsolsobsat 1lakehakeike citocityj april 7 1906v1906 p 4 36Q jensonjensons journal 0 p 253 88 37 tto0 thetiletiie members of the churchchurchechurchy As a result of heirtheirl labors and recom- mendationsmendat ions the first presidency and council of the twelve announced a coaveconveconvenlionconventionconven eionelonLionritionaition of all church recorders to be heldheid at the assembly hall friday april 6 1906 this was the first meeting of its kind ever QQ held in the history of the church 38 andrew continued his trips to the various stakesslakes of the church untiuntil he had visited allailali the settlements of the church in utah except

1 san juan stake nevada tdahoidaho and wyoming this left hihimtfl only six 39 stakes to visit according to his origioriginaltiai assignment by the brethren on august 24 1893 helielleile was assigned by franklin D richards to visit the worlds fair in chicago he also visited some of the sites associated wiwith1 th church history during his journey helielleile stopped in missourimi ssotrri on the way and visited offshoot groups of the church the

I1 fhernciahednciaA e d ri r K 1 lestesces and thefieflelie Rereorganikeorganitesorgani lestes w hennen honc arrlarriarrivedvedvea ac richmond Missomissouriuriurl he memett david J whitmerWhiltmer and george schweich who showed him a record book 40 written by john whitmer andrew felt thatthac it was laoremoreraore than an acci- dent that helielleile was able to see this book A few years later he expressed it this waytwayways 1ftI was prompted to go to a certain place in missolimassolimissouriri where

37 report of committee on Recorrecordsls february 5 1901 and february 1 190igo1902 Jensonjensonlsls scrapbook D pape 3 38 deseretdeseree veningevening1venina news valtvaitvoitvolthaltgait lake city march 19 1906 p 6 39 jensohgjenson aulpblojaphy p 207

t 0 john whitmeremmi fierfler wasw s appointed by velationrevelationro as church historian and recorder to replace oliver cowdery march 8 1831 doctrine andA I1 covenants 474714471j 4 when helielleile apostasizedaposuaslzedI1 in 1838 he refused to ggiveVC tipLIPup the reco-recordsrds ofoc the church in his possession andrew jenson attlaillalllaidteeidaybidayrd 1 I1 ltt saints biographicbiographical al encyclopedialencyclodedialencaencc I opadopcd a salt lake citescitycitys andrew jenson tlhistoryy company 3901 1papJ 12520 89

41 1 I1 found the old whitmer recordrecords 11 helielleile then contconccontinuedconlinuedcon muiedLinuedI his journey to chchicagolcagoscago and the worldsworld fair helielleile accompanied B ha11 roberts loto10 the worldworloworlds congress of religions heldheidfield in conj ur1ct1unctiononO n with the fair lieilelle was quite impressed withwi th many of their remarks

I1 cannot denydony that some lofty and excellent thoughts were made by these blebieablea speakers on religious pointspo ints but after all what do the wlswisealswis men of the world know about god and true religion without new revelationrevelation4242 andrew left chicago and went immediately to richmond missouri where heticileluc received permisslpermissionon to copy the whitmer record I1 went to work iimmediately1 copying john whitmerwhitmers old record in the store of ocogeo schweich who assisted me some in reading proof mr schweich did not think that tile little old book with faded writing was the very book that I1 had been huntihuntingligaig for but as I11 perused itj t I1 came to theche conclusion without telling hihim1 m soyso that it contained allaliail that john whitmer ever wrote on church history hence I1 was anxious to copy every word contained in it mr schweich reluctantyreluctreluctantlyreluctarillyantyanly allowed rtmete to take it to my hotel where I1 spent allailalj night coplitcopyitcopyinglg and in the morning returned the original Q T 43

andrew explains in his journal that he was very careful to copy verbatim Eeverythingvery lhing which the record contained heileeiehie indicates that john whwhitmerwhii tmeramer closed his history with chapter nineteen and then added three more chapters vithwithwaith a totally differentdirferentdifdirdlfdif fferentferent spirispirlspiritft john whitmer also changed some of these last three chapters as was evidenced from the erasureseraeras tiressures he had cut out the part about his assocllatiassociation1 otioll with jamesjairlesjarriesjarrles strang and 44 added his association with david whitmer andrew jenson was very pleased that he was ibleableibie to obtain the history of john ehltuhicwhitmerWhitnier but was disappointed that 1 Iitt contained only

41 coufconferenceConfconreconroprencedencerence report october 1917 p 85 420 jenson autobiography p 209 43 44 1bid7ibid p 209 bensonsJenjensonssons journal E3 p 617 90

a little of historical value yet john whittnerWhi tinerciner recorded events which are not recorded elsewhere 45

llefiefleeleeie then traveled to lamentlamoni which was the headquarters of the reorganized church at the time and metmebineat joseph smith illIII111 this was the son of joseph smithsmithy jr the founder of the church youngyo aligulig josephjosephil

cordially received hahim1 m and invited andrew to eat supper with him and 46 his norwegian wiwifeffeafe As andrew continued his journey back to salt lake he stopped at garden grove mt pisgah council bluffs iowa and florence nebraska

at all of these places 9 he was successful in obtaining considerable 47 historical information which he desired for his histories andrew was very pleased with this special mission because of all the histbisthistoricalbistoricalorical information he was ableab le to acquire however this

n 7 vervvery ctrcnjoug ailalinilz L zoelJ- j ionlonOEL Jio61 j lluiiallublu I1 have during my absence lost several pounds of flesh as I1 1 have had my meals very irregular P and being short of means I also wentwont short sometimes of realsmeals on this account and subsisted on cakes crackers etc but thanks to a number of the saints helielleile was able to obtain the means necessary to travel on hihiss next viovisitvioltit to the settlements of the saints in southern utah a bishop nielsen from bluffbluffy utah surprised him by giving him 11 which he had collected to assist andrew in his travels this was the first time any presiding officer in any of the settlements had taken steps to raise means to assistassiass isl him in his travels god bless bishop telsenteisennielsenN and the saints iinn driffbluff for their I1 generosity I1 really need the ioneyloneymoneyti as I1 had nolnot wherewith to

45 46 jenson autoblogAutoautoblojrapiiyblog aplisapliv POp 209 ibid 47 ibid ppa 211 bensonsjensonjensonsJen sonssousIS 0journaltot rnalanal E appp 621622621 622 91

bear my traveling expenses from mancos to the san luis stake of zionzaon where I1 had to go by taiitailrallrali 499 andrew now started on his visit to those settlements that he had not visited in arizona mexico california and canada this would complete his assignment of visiting all the settlements of the saints in thetlletile rocky mountains canada and mexico he found the saints in these settlements very appreciative of his visits he made special note of his reception in the snowflake arizona stake

I1 was practically overwhelmed by the honor which was shown to 1 me in appreciation of my labors and activities I1inn gathering material for the history of the snowflake stake 50 on november 19 1894 andrew attended a business meeting at the historianhistorians office where the genealogical society of utah was organorganizedlzedlaed franklinfrankiinfrankiln D richards was chosen as presidepresidentpresidetitlittit and andrew was selected as 51 one of the directors the year ended on a rather sad note with the death of his faithful horse tony he had carried andrew many thousands of miles after all these miles tony became sick and useless and had to be killed it seemed cruel to do away with lilitihimi m afierafteraft-er helielleile had rendered me such faithful 115252 service 11 andrew now recelreceived1 ved hisillslilsliis biggestblibin agestggest assignment after considerable

Cliberationdeliberationle the church all11horitiesauthoritieshorihorl ties assigned him oii0on01111 a mission that would take hlhimxa around the world he was to travel to all the countries of the

i world where litterlatterditterlitterdaylatterdayday saint missionaries had been assignedCessltssl enedgned he was to

49 bensons3ensonlsJenjensonssons journal E apppppa 632633632632lm633l633 50 jenonjenson autobiographyaulobiooblooblographygraphy 1 2172170 51 52 JensonbensonsJenjensonsjensonlssonsls journal E p 752 ibibiditdiid p 759 92 gather material for church history the same as he had done for stakes of the church 53

on may 2 1895 many of the general authorities of the church gathered at the andrew jenson home for an evening of dinner and enter- taintainmentment at the close of the evening president george Q cannon blessed and set apart andrew for his forthcoming mlsmismissionsionslon

I1 wiwasis told in the blessing that the lord was pleased with my past labors and that I1 had been inspired to do what I1 had accomplished so far in the historical line the lord was pleased wiwithwilh1 th 1 niymy motives and muldmuidquidwould continue to prosper me in my abersaborslabors 1inti the interest of the churchchurchy and that on my approaching mission I1 should be greatly blessed and have much joy and success in my labors 0 and return to my home laden with ririchf ch and valuable information to be useduse d in the future history of the church54church 54 he then received a number of fine compliments from some of the leading brethren on his past historical labors presidentPrebidentsidenb wilford woodruff told him 11 prophetically11prophetically that he would be greatly blessed on

I1 litiseliisL liiialibia mission andcind accomplish muchILULCII 6001goo da hellelic also loilolloldtoldloidd I1lilliiitlilthimII 1 it it1 L waswa theme lords will that I11 shouldshou id go on this mission and acconioacconipaccomplishll11 sh much good for thebhe church so impressed with these blessings from the leading brethren 1inn the churchchurchy that although he had previously considered hav-

1 55 ing hihiss life SUredinsuredLn he had now changed his mind on may 9 18189595 the frstfrotarstF rst presidency issued him his missionamissionalmismlsmissionarysionaslona ry certificate this explained that andrew jenson had been

M 0 0 duly appointed to a missionlssionassion to the various nations of the earth where aldaidsaidsald church is established to preach the gospel and loto10 collect informcadoninfomatlonyinformcadoncamon by the examination oiof records ac&c essentialessentlalcsenljal or desirable fotforcotcor ttheilelletic wittingwriting and preservationpreborpreboypreseyvation of the correct bistorhistorhistoryy of the varvavariousr loustous missionsMISS lonshons of the church and we pray god the eternal father to bless elder jenson andaridarld

53 jenson Atobiokraphautobiotaphy p 228 54f 55r r F p 4444454 45 jenson ais OJ 1 P 230 jensons journal 445 autobitogralftyall oiaelzOIaoyaZ ElZ 93

1 all who receive hihimm and ministerini ni ster to his comfortcolnCOLD fort wilh the blessings of heaven and earth for linetimebime and all eternity in the name of jesus christ amen 56r 0c on saturday may 11 1895 andrew jenson began his mission around theth e worldwo rl d his first stop was vancouver B C aadanda ad vancouver island vancouver island is the island that was recommended to the latterlatterdayday 57 saints when they were driven from nauvoo illinois while in vancouver canada he was interviewed by the daily world newspaper mr jenson is a pleasant gentleman to meet and a veritable per ambulating encyclopedia of ininformationinformsinformaforma tioriciori giving dates and figures without a moments hesitation lie has traveled a great deal in connection with his work and expects to be about two years on his present mission helieeieede is full of enthusiasm for the work and is lintindoubtedlyundoubtedly a useful man 58 the first mission of the church that he visited was the hawaiian mission he found the church records there in thetlletile same condition that helielleile had found inttlirlfri most of the wards back homehorne in fact it would require a strenuous effort to make a complete history with the material on hand 59 so far as the hawaiian mission was concerned 11 andrew continued on his mission traveling to the islands of fiji tonga and samoa while at these islands he gained valuable information

1 to assist hihimai in compilingcorlicorri piling a history of each of thesethcsethasellielile e missions on october 9 1895 andrew arrived at auckland new zealandze ilandliandlland he also found problems with the maori records in new zealand

56 andrew jensons missionary certifcertificatecertiaicateacate may 9 1895 jenson raperspaperspapery 57 andrew jenson cded q the historicalhis ioricalmorical record salt lake citycifcysciocys Q andrew jenson 1889 vulvill 1 822 58ro dallydailydaliydaldallydaliy l v world vanvancouver0 U V E r canada may 17 1895 bensonsjensonsJensons scrapbook C 1891.89189551 p 7 59 jenson altoAItoaiitobpraphyaitobiographyautobiographybiography p 235235s 94

inI1n cullingCuiliulliI1ng from the records I1 experienced great biffidiffidifficultyI1 culty I1lnin keeping trace sicalcselcdelcjlj0slc of aojlimaori names the natives of new zelandzelanozealand are in the habit of chandlchanglchangingi ng their names repeatedly in the course of a life time and thus we often find that a native has been baptized in one name ordained to some office in the priesthood in another and perhaps set apart to preside over a branch inln 60 still anoanotherL he r A number of the elderseiders from the united states aloaioalsoaiso caused prob-

i lems by writwritingL ng their names in a half a dozen different ways thus 61 makinamakinpmaking it impossible to trace them without an interpreter at a time when the newspapers in the united states were continuing their attack upon the mormon churchchurchy andrew continued to receive some very favorable newspaper coverage on his special mission the wairaraspaWaira raspa standard in new zealand made this comment about andrewandrews visitvisits we have had a very pleasant interview with mr jenson he is also mormon historian and chronologer and a genial and earnest S rnpn0 er roarorpprv tot o eiplexplcapcxp nn nnonoon0 i Q Q off tvtntvanmorninmornionrno nO inririnrilociinrig rineyidein ton shh 0 wb0 7 o want to know and to answer questions which might by a less genial man than he be put down as impertinent we can assure those 1 who may go to hear hlinhimhirn that they listen131.3 sten to a very interesting speaker an observant traveler an tipulpup to date man of the world and an earn est worker for the faith he professespro fosses 62C 0 there was only one thing worse than the poor records the missions were keeping and that was no record at all As andrew traveled to the society islands mission his first stop was at papettepapeetePa peete tahiti he discovered that no inslasmissionsionslon records had been kept and therefore it was 63A no easy task to compile a history of that mission andrew concluded his historical labors in the south seas at australia because of the

60 61 lbtdyib mam2 ppo 271 1ibidbl d 62 wairarasapa standardstanda rd bewjnewanew zealand december 27 1895 bensonsJenjensonssons scrapbook C 1895 p 63 63 jenson autobiography0 b p 294294. 95 condition of many of these mission historieshis toriesloriestorles andrew could properly say a number of years later we have gone over some of these old records repeatedly and have also entered into the study of the records kept in various organizations and branches of the church in its missionary fields throughout the entire world and in some instainstancesanstaacesnces we have had to lay the very foundation historically for some of our missions 64 on mayy 13 1896 andrew departed from australia for ceylon and egyptegypt in egypt andrew was captivated with this ancient land like many other ordinary tourists

some time elapselapseselseks before anepnejpney9ne is able to disentangle his confused iimpressions and realize each feature of the marvelous picture after awhile one begins to tinderlinderunderstandstand that he is indeed in a As purely oriental city he examines its bazaarsbaz iarslarsaars and passes 65 through its streets he seems carried back to the days of antiquity

1 As andrew took in the tourist siatessltessites hisdoggedhis dogged dedeterminationtermI1I na tion again came to the fore hetielielle was told before hetielleile left the hotel that no white man could po6siipossiblybly clilliclimbcalillib LO theche loptop of0 mecheoheone orealGLCBL pyramid without as616lanctcisbisbisbis lance andrew proved it could be done but though I1 found it quite possible 66 I1T shall never wishwj s h to repeat the exerciseexerciserexerc iselse 11 he next visited syria and lebanon he waswats impressed with the fact that this area seemed to have chancedchanged so little since the days of the apostles initiitt damascus he found the jewish quarter was still located near the street called straightstrcsarclight his gulguiguidesldesedes showed him every spot of importance recorded in the bible tt appears that after the christians began to hunt forfoccorcoc places 11 of historical interest 9 the moslems concluded to go them one betterbebberbetter11 9 hence they seem to know thehe exact spot where eeverythingvery U 1 urig has happened from the days of adamadcabc im down to theuhe present time they claim

6zaz coriconferencefarenccrenc e report october l9179191791917 p 86860 65 66 jenson autobiographyautobjo rraphv p 317a7 tbid9ibid p 319 1 96 67 thatthac many actually believebelleve their statements ulenmienwhen he arrived alat haifa palestine he located a family that

belonuedbelonged to lileLlielleilethellie church he discovered that theletharetherebhele were now five membersmenibers of the church aidingresidingccaidingcc at haifa slncos1sasanco1 tico the mission was opened in palestine in 18861.886 twentythreetwenty three people had been baptibaptizedsedzed into the iy68 church most of them had since gathered to zion it was while helielleile was with the members of the church at haifa that he had a rich spiritualspibpi ritual experience one sunday june 28 18961896y they held a sacrament meeting and bore their testimtestimoniesonlesonies andrew states I11 addressed those present in a manner hitherto unkunknownirowntrown in ailallali amyly missionaryJ I1 experience bbutut I1 was undersunderstoodtood for the spirit of god rested upon all and causedcause d our hearts to rejoice and our souls 9 to be drawnL together in the love ofoc the gospel of jesus chrischrlschrist 1 69

liislils1lisilshis visit to citiescjtcitcat lesees made famous by christ was interinterestilinterestingestilng but a isoano disappointingdisappodisappio 1 olooboati ng because of the many claciaclaimsins about which sltessitess tes were authentic he finally came to the conclusion that nothingnoth ilIg certain is

known regarding roslrost of the1 ho places or the exact spots pointed out as

I1 11 70 havhaving1 ilctic been visited by christ Is after leaving the rolyholy land hetielleile traveled loto10 italyitallyitalyy france and englandeng I1 aridaalidarldlidildrid heho then traveled to denmark norway sweden Ceroergermanymatiymarlymariy swiswitzerlandtzer land the netherlandsnetheriandsy wales ireland1rar 1andq scotland and back to england heho was able to locate and preserve many historical records that would otherotheyotherwisevise have been lost llderildereidereadere1der andrew jeasonjenson commetcommencediced his historical research and fofoundund some oiof the old records in a decayingdec lying state stored away in a dirtydi ctyacty loft over theche meetingmee t julo hallhalihail helielleile at once had the records

67 68 ibid9ibid p 326 ibidihidoyibidoy p 328 69 70 tbidqjbicl p 330 abidlbidqtbid p 349 97

cleaned and aftersafterwafterwardsards labeled and some of them made ready for ship- being ment to the headquarters of the church ddnjdnil n salt lakeldakel beingbe ing assisted in his labors by otherollieroltollierler elders he had now been gone on this special mission to the mission fields of the world for two years on may 13 1897 two years and two days from the time he had left he became concerned how much longer this mission should last he was doing his historical labors at the conference house at south shields of the british missions after the missionaries left he engaged in secret prayer and asked the lord to show him whether helielleile should return home the next week or go to norway helielleile strongly go felt that the answer to his prayer was homehomeihomechomevs this caused him much joy and satisfaction he had enjoyed an experience that few men had ever had but it was now time to go homeihomeshonehome hehd arrived in new york on may 30 1897 he had brought with him nanymany church records including

CA 101uo ulluli apiliticttelyk FL ue liialelinale jy 49049 books aadand was ableabiecibiecible 101.0 kelkeugelet these boolsbooks000ooo KS throughgilrogiero ugh diedlelil e custom house wiwithoutthoutphout much expense thus andrew had completed a mission 72 that had taken him about 53820 miles

on JLIIjulyy 113 1897v1897 he wrote a formal report to franklin D richards of his historical labors since 1888 concentrating on his recently completed mission

on my extensive travelstraveistravois I1 have collected a vastwrist amount of his- i torical information by peruperusingS I1 ng thebheU ie recorrecordsd s and documents and also by culling froinfrom private journals and I1lnterviewiinterviewingng many persons of note andarldarid longjongiong expertexperiencefcacecmce inI1 the church I1 have also sent and brought to thebhe llhistoriantstorastor i an s office hundreds of records from foreign missionary fLfieldselds which were not needed abroad any more i and maaymanyma ay more records which I1 packed for shipshipmentmeillmetiL 1inn different

71 scandinavian mission history 189619001896190031896 190031900 DOCemberdecember 7 189691896 LDS church ihstorians111sto rians office 727 jenson autobloizraautobiographyhy p 386 98

places can bebo expected heherere soongoon30011 with returning elders amy jyfycmyjyry noted constitute the1 foundalloafoundationfound alloaallon and outline forcor histories of nearly every stake ward branchbratich quorquorumLira association etc of the church 9 in its gathered state andaridarld of every missilmissionoulony conference branch etcOI01 C abroad from the organization of the church to the present time 9 I1T have also discovered that a great number of falsefaisefalbe and inaccur- ate dates and statements are continually creeping into our writings and records in the absence of original records or owing to care- lesieslessnesssiless in consulting these many people attempt to give dates and other technical matter from memory which injn most instances when criticized are found to be incorrect 73 his many efforts riin the interestnterest of church history did not go unnoticed by the generalgenera authoriauthoraauthoritieslieslles of the church on october 191.9lgig 9 1897 at a meeting of thofirstthetho first presidency andrew was selected as an assistant 74 Chchurchtirch historian andrew continued to travel to the varivarlvallousvariousous stakes and missions of the church gathering additional historical informatinformantininformationformationlon but much of his titimeme was spenspentt inillliliii compiling a manuscriptmanus cliptcript historyhiI1 story of each ward branchbranchy stake and mission of the church with the close of the nineteenth century andrew was determideterminedde termi neinel to brb r ing these histories up loto10 date fordoridor several years past I11 had spent muchmuichmulch time in collecting material fotfortotfoctoy that purpose and now I1 expected to be engaged for some timetinie in wortrportrworkinging my ffieldid notes into proper shape so that the different groups might be connected tiplipup from the beginning of the church as well as the beginning of the wards stakes and missions and brought to the end of 1900 T had visited all of the stakes and raissionsralsraismissionssions of thebhe church for that purpose except the south african mission I1T ffirmieirmlyfirmiyfirmly believebelleve that I1 had not mistaken by callingcolling in bttbliatt L CU my many life 9 butt thattha t the work thathatthab had been nearestne es t heheartar t these years was the work that the lord wanted rienieme to do and so I1 puputt forth my best efforts to discdischargehaige my duties in thithltills1 s respect and 7 trust to god folfor strencsprencstrength1 ti and ability to do sorso 75

73 jensonjensons journal F appp 742745742 745 74 imid9ibidimide appp 771773771 773773e the steps leading to his call aadandaudaad his subsequent call as an assistant church historian will be discussed in detail in the next chaplerchapterehichieha plerpter 7755 v jimonJIM I1 on autobiography p 402440 99

whiweijwhijliellewie0 heho was on another special mission this time loto10 scandinavia to publish a new aandnd revised edition of joseph smithsjmithssmiths levnets10lemuelslbLemuels lb he accomplished a great deal of historical research again in europe lieilelle gathered important records which he sent back to salt lakellakelakey and culled 76 from the ones he did not send back much historical information after completing this mission he wrote an extelextensiveasivensive report of his past historical lblaborsbors to the first Presipresidencypresl lencyJency this is an excellent summary of his work to thithlthiss time I1 will quote just a small portion per- taltaitainingi nli ng to the histories of the stakestakess and missions

0 0 4 it isi for you brethren to decide whether my efforts and labors have been satisfactory to you or not I11 need not tell you that I1 have put my whlewhiewhole soulSOUI into the work I1 have traveled about 250000 miles inln the interest of church history and besides culling from the thousands of written records in the different stakes and iassionarymissionary1 fieldsefieldsqfields I1 have gathered to the historianhistorians office about twoI1 wo thousand old records from different parts of the world many ofoc these records are 9 in my judgment worth more than their q weightC in golddo a 0a As a result of all these accumulations the church is now in a position to compile a complete church h1lsloryillililit story 4 oybut I1 T need more assistance I1 made an estimate 10 lladiianfthatfohatiiaq I1 might finish one yearsyearns history in all its branches and segregations mo 0 means 36 on my in about six monthsathsachs thistills years of hard labor iny part 77 to compile the contemplated history froinfrom 1830 to the close of 1900 this would mean that helielleile would not complete the work thatthalthabbhat had been outlined untiuntil helieile waswcIS ninetytwoninety two years old I1 suppose many men might have been discouraged by the sheer magnitude of thbthfejhbf goal but not andrew he was determined to push forward until as much as he could accomplish was completed lietieitette felt that the stake and mission histories should be completed first sincsinrs5 they would form the foundation for a general his 78aq7q lory of the churchChLITCh

7766 ubidqubidebid appp 439 441 414494494344341433 77 787 bensonsJenjensonstensojensosonsnis Journjournal11 I1 apppppe 422427422 427 ibid1 100

I1 apparently andrew was nonotI1 satisfsatishsatisfiedediedtedI with the action lakentaken as a result of his iashloshjastjost leuerleherletter approximately six years later he wrote

f another lettelietterletterleatter to anthon 11IL lund of the first presidency askiaskingng him to usens his influence to have 11 soniesomethingth dwig done right away or I1 am afraid that it will be too latelale 11 hetielleile then revlrevireviewed1 ewed what he thought should be done we have at thetiietile office nearlynearjynearby two thousand valuable records brought in from the missionary fields and alsoa so thatthau I1 have depositedd epo sited in about two hundred paper boxes the notes and documents and letters that accumulated on my hands during the yearsyears I1 traveled in the various stakes of zion and the missionalmissionatmissionaryy fields throughout the worldworld7979

there were three majormaj or hlstoiiesbistorhistor I1 es that he felt should bbee pushed inimeanimeimmedid I1 atetysa tel y a journal history of the chinchchurch flomfrom 1830 to 1900 a com petepletepieteplotepece history of every stake and ward of lliebliebile church and all theirtheirthe lr various unitsuniteunito and a history of every mission of the church along with the wards and conferences attached thereto ot the stslakestakeike and mission historbistorhistoriesles he had completed only a history of the british mission from 1837 to 1900 btbutit not the conferences and branches and the scandinavian mission from 1850 to 1860 he had also written a history of about twenty wards in salt laketake dutlibutiibutbut it will be seen that the work thus far ionelonedone is scarcely a commencement of what we have set out to accomplish he felt that in order to do the wolkwork as it should be done helielleile would have to glean information from luotuowotwo thousand records on lllefilcalle inin the historianhistorians office from allaliaila1aa printedperi periodiperiodicodi cals of the church from hundredsliuteliutidreasidreds of private journals from the many letters in thetlletilebhe riothiotorlanshlstoriartlsHiotorlansorians office and hilbilthenn work inloenio properpropec shape the many notes which he had gathered in his extensive travelstraveis throughout the

79 ibidabidibid9tbid kqaqK appp 152115 21 101 worldworiclworick he strongly fellfeltfeil thathatt ifi he did not do the work the history would never be properly donedotiedo tieitette

I1 claim that any man in order to be efficient in collecting data and putting them into shape must serve at least 25 years as an apprentice and travel around the world and in the stakes 80 visit in the same as I1 have done 4 0 andrew felt thousands of dollars would be saved if he was permitted to do the work helielleile had outlined but it would take additional help in the historianhistorians office to insurinsureansure accuracy of the history as it was w some W writtenrlnten I1 he should travel almost every sunday somewherehere in the church to read the written history to the local people again he expressed the concern thathaethatthac unless something was done right twayawayuway the histories would not be finished he gave the following as justification for his statements

the sources frolafrom which I1 gathereda thered a preatgreat deal of mvmy informatinformantinformation10 n 1- 1 4uau liin11 1 1 141 4 A- V 1 IL 1 11in e J v j 11 V eji arc closed foreverIY aas thathec partisparties t-thatl a I interviewedin t- ewe d in myLY tticivela eil are with us no more A further delay iinili1111 1 my estimation would be equal so far as I1T am concerned to destroying my life at least in part as no one can put my notes and the material boso closely associated with thenthem ntoutoinlointoli shape which will resemble that contemplated by you and myself 81 apparently andrew still was not happy with what was done for on september 30 191691916 he wrote to the first presidency in the same vein the first presidency agreed with most of what he had saidsaldsaidosaldo they too felt that more than one person should be engaged Jinn gathering and compicompil-ll11 ing church history but the additional help could not be furnished until the new church office dulduiBuibuildinglAing was completed however the compilation was not heirtheirl biggest concernconcerns what we feel more concerned about now is the notenotesis taken by

arqr Q i 80 81 acs ibid ibid italitaijlallcs1ics added 102 you in your extensiextenseextensive1 ve travels for that reason it is our desire tliateliat froiaroifromln now on thekhe whole of your time be devoted to putting those notes into thetiiellie form designeddes lgrled by you when you made them and sso0 anxious are we in regard to the matter that preprespees3 iundlundlund as the church historian has been asked to keep in close touchtolich wiwitheth you and report from time to time the progress made until all of the notes are writtenwrjwojaten out and thus disposed of820f82 obediently andrew followed counsel being obedient to council

I1 think I1 did more real historical labor during the year 1916 than I1 had 8300 doneclonecione in any other previous year ostensibly at this point andrew began to feel the brethren were not galvig1lvigiving1 ng him the support he felt he needed with the death of his good friend apostle francis M lyman on november 18 1916 he expressed his concernconcerns thus my truestruestt and bes t ffriendsri ends were passingpas s insing away one afafterter another and I1 sometimes dreaded bliebile thought of being lefleftt in mortality to awaiawalawaltawaitlt the decision of otheroilierocher Pharapharaohsohs who did not know joseph fiafim11

periodically for the next few years he expressed his concern for the acceptance of his work many times he referred to having prayed about something that had depresdepressedsed him on sunday june 26 192191921 he spent most of the day in the historianslilsillslifs toritorflorf ans office engagedeng agediged in prayer and meditation thephe following day helielleile had a long conversationconvercouver ationatlonaaion with joseph fielding smith church historian on istorianhistorianhistorian11 office matters he was still depressed in feeling on october 717 1921

before going to sleep that night I1 teltteitfeltfeit1 somewhat depressed in feelings as it scorned that pres grant takes tiono interest inliilil111 my labors andaaridarldrid my independent nature asserted itself until I1 inillili my reflectre electionsiotlsiotes thought of easing up in inymy historical lalaborsbors and if the i church tlierobyberobythereby lost 1importantaportamporta ti t databatbydatby I11 would not consider it any fault of minemitie but in the night I1 dreamed that I1 in going up to

8200 iblibiJ bidi dj appp 344345344 345 83 844 jensoJcjensonnsonn ftpatitobiogrraphyitp bjoabjon phy appp 522523522 523 ibidibi d 103

a cercor laintainbain hoheighti471it chose a road a sort of cutoffcut off shorter than the one traveltraveledcd 9generally but jjustust before reaching thehieuieule top I1T was i stoppedshoppstoppshoppededledy I11 th0ugthoughtlit11t in a aarro7aarronnarrow sLstalstaiairwaystairwayiway and coullcouldC not extricateestrextr I1 cate myself without calling upon friends for heiphelphelpshelpa uhenwhen I1 awoke the meaning of my dreandreatadream came upon me like a flash to the effect that I1 i had better remainremain in line loyal and nueL ruecue as hlhithertochertother to not I1T therto if 85 might place myself in a poslposipositionitilotilotis on where I1L could riotnot help myself

although there wabwas much work yet to do andrew was proud of the work that he had accomplished thus larfar heilelle therefore made the following report to the church in general conferenceconferences

0 we have written the history of every settlement of the saints in the rocky mountalmountanmountainsf ns cotritcouritcountryry extendingxtendj n as they do from mexico on the south to canada on the north we have visited every nook and corner in the mountains and have gathered and written something in the shape of history of everything thatthai has an istanceexistanceexistenceex within ththe meanlngmeaning of church organizatiorisorgan atioiib I1 bellebeilebeliebellevebelieveve I1 can say truthfully that no organization dating back to the nineteenth cen- 86 tury has been entirely necneoneglectediz lecterlected in 1921 the first prespresidencyjdericy again called on him to fulfill

I1 another mission to gather church history in all of the missliolmissions15 iinn ththee united stalesslatesstates and mexico once again he sablewasablewashablewaswa sabieablnbl e to procure ia great deal of riewnew informatiininformationformati 0114 in texas he acquired considerable information on thelilebile careers of lyman wight and georgegeor c- millerMflierllernier whowlio had lead an apostate group injn texas in 1846 in new orleans he was able to gather a great deal of infortanfortinformationnation on church emigration from europe from the early newspapers infn st louis again from early newspanewspapersnewspapnrspers he amassed a great deal of data onou the saints in that regregionLlo011001o0 ststesta louis had been 87QJQ J connected with church history sitsilsllsinceslucesiticeice the biglbcglbeginningnning oiol01 1831 on jajanuarynuary 5 1923 andrew entreated the first presidencyProsLprose clency for

85 jensons journal taLt1 p 125 86Q conferenceconference report oceooclooctoberlerlec 1917 Ppo 87 87q7qa jensonyjenson autobio4raihyaut obiciobipi lehyiphy apppapoppo 538540538 540 104 permisslpermissionon loto10 nuke a trtilpi p to central and south americaamer J ca permission was granted and andrew was on the research lealleaitrail once afainacainagaineagaline on his way to south america helielleile stopped off at calforniacallcailcalicaliforniaCaLifornilaornitafornia where he was able to find some valuable information of the latterlatterdayTatterdayeldayday settlement of new lopehope hisphisaphis settlement was founded by the latterlatterdayday saintsaints that had sailed from new york on the shshipip brooklyn the trip was interesting for andrew jenson since this was the only vacation helielleile had ever had since he started his historical labors fortor the church although a cationcatlonvacationvci andrew did considerable historicalillsliis lortor ical laborsjabors after his return these locumentsdocumentsdocumencsdocumencs were 88QQ arralarraarrangediagedlged by andrew so he could include them inan church history still concerned that he might never finish ihelheahe woikwolkwork that had been assigned hinihimhinl andrew wrote to joseph fielding snithsmith church histori- laansn

c rp a f 1 bp ti J n 6 1 Q i-n l n 1 n fn q r1ra v 00n n y7ya rrqreq q ampQ ornnmpin thrpehrp arin jv P srhonchopt i r rffafff I ln i noanon j obo 200 conferences and noienolcnoremore thinthan a inousthousandana branches of thecne chugnutclrc4rca to fitilfinishfatil sh foifolfor the 19th19tli centurycenceu lurytury 10 there are noremorerlore than a thousandtho Lisand written records that I1 have gathered from the raissionsmissionsralsraismjssionssions perhaps 500 private journals and tens of thousands oiof letters to leadread and cull may fronfeonfrom so that the cream or gistgiot fiodflodfrom them be introduced into 890 history before the historical woikwolkwork assigned to itielileme can be completed although andrew was afxaldafraicl helielleile might never complete the histories of the stakes and missmissionslonsionstons bvby july 1921 he had completed the history of the scandinavian misionmission to 1900 by the end of 192439241.924 helielle had finished the history of thetho scandinavian nishissionhisslonHismlsslonsionsiou with its respective conferences

L and branches fionflonfronfrom its beginning 100 o 1924 this was a work of seventeen volumesvoltfflesies thus the mission that urnisurnishedurnlshodfurnishedhed the church this historian was

88 ibid appp 576 58158110

89 1 andiewandrew jenson to josrphjosephjosoph fleldingeidingfieldingI snithsmith may 24 1926 jenson paperspapersopaperno 105 the firsfirstt missionni iss lon11on history completed by him this mission history was also unique since itfti was the onlyony missionmi1 ssionassion manuscript history ever published on march 17179 1927 andrew received permissiperpermissionmissi1 on from the first presidency to publish the mission history in book form he had already gathered through agents 13001300 to publish the bookbooksbooko xion december 15 90 192791927 the book was printed in the preface andrew explained the reason for his desire to

publish this particular mission history 1 it is the authorauthors tribute to his race the stalwart sons and daughters of the north and he fondly hopes that afteraf ter helielleile shall have passed to the great beyondbesondybeyondy helielleile may live in the memory of his still1 stilI fellowfellowmenmen as one who during his sojsojournourn in mortality endeavored to the best of his ability to tell the story of a godfearingoodgod fearing people whosewhoso devotion I1 integrity and noble characteristicscharac teris ticsbics may serve as an 91 characterscharacteris inspiration to future genegonegenerationsrations 1 I

andrew was now beginningleglogbog inning to accomplish much on the missionmi1 ssionassion his

lleI tj 1 L I A Z- 1 tcrlcc i ithh ththe help of11. 1 tw tcncraphcrc0 r i 1 I heileI1 leI eadeailhadhaj nearlymearlybarlynarlyxjaj finishedL Q the histories cfallofallof allailali the missions in americaabaeraraer ica from 8301830 to 1840 helielleile still was concernedconce ined that the work would not getet dodonedouedotiedorietletierie

I1 do notrotnot expect to live long enough to finish my contemplated hishistoriescoriescorlesLories of every church organization both at home and abroad for the 19th century 5 implysimply because I1 have not been given the necessary help but I1 have done enough already to show the proper authoritiesautautnoxynoxyatiesities what i1 had inteintendedintendedabedaded to do and could have done just as well isas not had I1T been given more assisassistancelauceLance to help the work a ionglongong 92

wiwilhth ddiligent work andrew and his associates were able to complete by 193091930 560 manuscript volumes slsincei nce andrew was able to live

90 jenson utobiogrhyautobiography appp 583 593 91 andrew jensonjonjonsonson history of0 f ththebhee scandinavian mission sallsalisaitsailsalt lake citescitycitys deseret news press 1927 p ivkv 92 bj ographyog p jenson 9 autoautobiographyraphyof 583 106 to see thebhe one hundredth annlversajyaniliive r s t ry of ulehiemie1 llelieile churchchurchy he decided to bring his historieshs tollestories tipLIPup to the year 1930 instead of 1900 as heticlleile had pravionsjyprcviol131y planned iehe thereforethereloreeiore made a final trip to aliallail the different stakes 93 to enable him to brinsbringbr ii ilstig their history up to 1930 the first stake history that was completed to the year 1930 was the salt lake stake this was completed april uyiliici 1930 this was the 94 stake andrew had lived in most of his adult life it was now decided to bring the histories to the end of the year

19301.930 instead of theehe contemplated april 656 1930 thisth LS was necessary because it was impossible to get the church statistics until december 31 9301930 the brethren therefore granted permission for andrew to attend any stake conferences he wished in order to complete his historical 95 laborsi k

hnPP nmnnennwf onniomnistestonnntnanntlodiod17j nprvnervnarvneatlynearly ein oruoryvervvprv nnrtv itat a different stakes 1 ako ini n order to completecomp Jete his stake histories the work had progressed so well that andrenandrevandrewr now decided to publish a churchchtircharch encyclopedia whiswhichch would be a 96 condensed version of these large mantlmantimanuscriptscript histories

1 the work was now progressing wiwithaaia1imiimil great rapidity on apriapr1 1 1

93219321.932 andrew sent to president heberlieber J grorantgrantnt a list of 13133 volumes of stake hiishilshistoriestoriestorles and 179 volumes of missionmissmjssmass lon hihistoriesstorlosststoplosorlesorLOS heticilelle also met a number of stake presidenpresidentsLs at april coniercnceconlconi arenceerence and read to them the 97 history of their respective stakes

0393 94 ibid9ibidinid appp 6027602 605 607 ibid p 608

95 aq 96 ibiiblibiddq appp 619620619620a619gig 620 a 11ibidildJId p 622 97 bensonsJenjensonssons Joinjoinnaljournaljoun nalnai N pep 97 107

1 c v r 1 r av ad 1 although0 heticilelle had fellfelbfeibc many timesi that thechec work wouldbcrrcr 1d vrnot boc doneyelonecloneeione y byy 1938t 33 hem had1 conicontcompletedje cc ththe historiesc c ofa slakesstakesa andteliel missionsitiiri s avsonsovs wawilhwithf

1 1.1 x11 CC their3 respectiveV unitsitt S to0 the1 endtl ofJ 1930 0 this represented7 tc1eriecitch C a sizableS t rt E ailoamountvt ofc workacarrcar 1 thele stistakec historiess oreorc with rtheirher wards andc brancheslrtlc es filledlieile

150U largea e volumesc lincline r thetiletiie historytoyvoy 0of missionsti it their1 jaj7 conferencesatlolioii0tl leiietlciEtlc andLC branchesJ c T 1 S filled1 C 250J volumesva lilitcl1t the1 histories1 l S f 1 aof Sslakesstakes andaddiai7 tiltiimissionsS S 0.0 lisils arec1ca

k v C stillti beingr kept att thec churchc historianssv r s 0officec 0 CHAPTER VIII

JOURNAL HISTORY

it is very diffdifficultlcultscult to Lerminedeterminede the exact date the journal history of the charchchurch of jesus christ of latteriatterlatterdayday saints was begun in none of the journals of those whowiiowilo worked in thelh historianhistorians office

is there a statement indicating that athisthisithis day thellielile il journal historyhistory11 of the church was begun the historians office journal sheds no light on this matter andrew jenson indicated in the first volume of journal history that it was begun in 1906 but let us examine more

closely the genesis of the journal historyifistory 1 1

on apriaprilll11 6y6ay 18301830y the lord commanded thatthal a record should be kept by the latterlatlerlatterdayday saints doctrine andand covenants 21121 1 oliver

1 cowdery served as church storianhistorianliilitIII111I stoslorstorri and recorder until march 8 18311831p when johnjohll whitmer was called by rerevelationselecaitioneition to that position doctrine and covenants 471 he commenced keeping a record of the

church but when he was exconununlexcommunicatedbatedcated in 1838 helielleile refused to turn his history over to the churchchurchy john corrillgorrill was chosen as church historian april 6 1838 after his excommunicationexcommunik ationatlonaaion in 1839 hezehezefusedhemelielleile refusedfused to turriturnturciburn 2 his 1historical record to the churchchurchechurchy

on june 111I 18398397839y james mulhollandMuL hoiland commenced wrjltjwritingng a history

1 andrewandrewjensonJenson latterlatterdayday saints Bbioraphicai102109 aqcq hic al encyclopedia salt lake Ccilyoity andrew jenson hishisloryhistorylorykorycory co 190igo19011901. I1 252 2ibidqbul appp 241242 108 109

of the church underu-nd r thebhe dictationdicta lionbionblon of joseph smith joseph smith had commenced a history of the church in 1838 and james mulholland incorancor 3 boratedporated this history into the history he was writing for joseph smith at the death of joseph smith the history of the church was continued this manuscrimanuscriptmanu script history became known as the documentary his-

tory of the church the history was taken from martymany sourcessourcsoura es much of the early part was taken from the lifeilfeai1i fe of brigham young there are a number of other sources such as newspapers 9 journals etc the last entry in the bound volumes of documentary history of the church is april 30 188091880 which is an entry from wilford woodruffswoodruffe private jour- 4 nal by this time the documentary history was mainly just handwritten copies of newspaper articles it is not clear what happened to the documentary history of

1111 T- T 1 11i T 111 11 lith r r aroraL L 4 a tec enaco thebhe church frora thicthiolis I1 ij date en itt appears thalthatt thctheteetec littaur1111curdocumentarycur entcot historyhietoryHi cloryetory took the form of being simply a scrapping of newspaper articles on may 1 18809 in the journal historyliilil141i ststoryory there are simply newspaper clicilclip-p pings but at the top of the page it states documentary history 11 the pages of clippclippingsli ng s are a different size than thethle previous pages of

journal history when andreandrew7 jenson began making Jojournalurna history he probaprobablybly took whalwhat originally had been done and made it a part of 15 hihiss journal history

3 adean3deandeandeau C jessecyjessceqjessemy the early accounts of joseph shilhsmilhsmiijis first .1 vision bribrhamabrhamam ypjjyoutiryoutie un 1 versltv stud J esL IXixyaxy 3 spring 1969 275277275 277 documentary history of the church of jesujesuss christ of latter dayclay sasaints1 n ts apriaprilll11 30930 j880y1880 p 12851.28512857 LDS church historians office 5 journal historyleilelILi storystocy of the church of jesus christ of latterlatterdayday saintssaintsysaintey may ly1 188091880 LDS church historianhistorians office hereafter cited journal historyhis lorytory 110 I1itJA alsoaisoalbo appears that no further writing was done on church history until 1896 the jusulfjusulajustificationicationmication for this statcmestatomestatementnt Is the fact that the journal history from may 1 1880 to january 1 1896 is exclusively 6 newspaper cl1cilclaclippingsppingspipings

on december 16 1895 charles W penrose vaswalswaswaus gigivenven a special assignmenta s si gamegnme n t by the first presidency the entry in his journjournalal readsreadssreades received appointment and instructions from presidents wilfordwilf ord woodruff george Q cannon and joseph F smith to work for the church in cotapilincompilingY and writing chuichchulchchurch history commencing at once as they said without dayany interregnum 11 historlhistoryhistorianan F D richards not being in town meeting was postponed until tuesday the presidency said they wanted a complete organization of help in the historiansbistorhistor latilslaties office and history written and compiled scrap work not being sufficientsufficients 7 he was further told on january 8 1896 that he should

wwriteriite up leportreport of the books I11 had found connecting astoryhstoryhistoryI1 from date of cessation of its publication tbto november 7 1885 with the exception of a gap from march 1880 to january 1882 8 brothers ienroselenroselenrosebenrose and ricliardsrichards1 were busy matmakinganglng decisions on how church history should iebe kept and what work would need to be donedolie on january 10 189691896 they were ready to give their report to the first Presipreslpresidencydancy

talked with bro F D Richarcrichardshs on arrangements loto10 compile history reported to iiihimm the numberandkindnunibpt ardand kind of books aviableamiableaval lablelabie fortortoveor the 1 0 A purpose went withwilh him to1 o secseeseq the irstfirstF h bt prespresidencyidency arranged for interview at 2 pm at that time met withwjw jtiitilalitli 1 hemtheuthem and read the written report I1 had preparedpreparedoprepa tedoredo after long conversation it was decided we should keep a daily journal of correct events and that bro Gga F gibboG ibb fsecretarys ecretecretarysecretaryary to uhetheyuhey irstarstfirst presidencijpresidenciaprcsldencyj should furnifurnishslisiisil duplicates of hissi-typewrittenlypetype writtenwri ttenaten lriminuteslaiIRI UteSriutesaiutesrI to be incorporated infn bistorhistorhistoricaltcalicalacal journal

6 1 1 bidd 9 188018961880 1896

scharle7charlecharless W penrose journal december 16 189591895 xerox copy of original journal LDS church historlahistoriahistorladsris office Q bibid8ibidibid Jjanuarytntiaryinttntlaryiary 8 1896 hiililiiIII111

1 bro richards arranged that for the present I should keep this 9 journal and see how we could getgot things into shape for history newspaper clippings were not to be eliminated in this new history but they were to be expanded

historians F D richards john jacques C W penrose and A M musser met in the historianhistorians office and confconcconferrederred about the work of collecting data fortor church history it was decided that brother it 1 A M musser would receive and mark newspapers andaridarld other publicationspubl icationsous for scraping selection to be with a view to furnishing items for compicompilationlaLlon brother john jaques was instructed to prepare a list of the papers outside of salt lake Ccityty which would be needed for historical work with a request to them to fornaxforwaxforwardd copies regularly a to this office in order to keep current history all the data 10 collected is to be handed to brother C W penrose to be compiled it was on february 4 1896 that charles W penrose was set apart for this important assignment by the first presidency

elder charlescharies W penrosePenroso this being his goth birthday was set apart by prespresidentsdents W woodruffwocellwooellliff and george Q cannon as compiler and wwriterrl ler of church history prest cannon beibelbeingln 9 rilomouthu th 19 the spirit of velatrevelatrerevelantrevelationli on and prophecy with discrimination and ccqrtpMITDA nowerpowernott to adollavollprrarr djoehjoe m f r czomictlectoictelect ardanannapd N frir tfpe to N 10 flrpnnn C r tanceranceranee of codoodgod and the church authorities were sealed upon sheadhisheadhishi head with other blessings in the name of jesus christ 11

charles W penrosepenroses work was given further importance when he was sustained as an assistant church historian iiinn april conference 1896 brother pendorpenrorpenrosee ulyonlyouly0 continued his work on church history for a few years untuntiuntieunti1i I1 the turn of the century

9 9ibldibid january 10 18963896 charles penrose refers to this daily journal in llisliishis own journal as the ristoriaHistoriahistoriaishistoriansianislanis office journal that this is not what is called the hiristolbistorhistor1 stor rantsantsuanlants isofficeofeice Journk3ournaljournalftaittalfialft11 today is very evident because of the slslightahtght and insignifinsigniainsignificanti cant information that Is contained in the historiattsnistornistorjaisJais office journal n 101.0lo jouinajournal history january 288 189691896 p 2 thistills is also recorded in the illtiltiiistorianshistorianhistoriansistoriansorlans officeof ficerice journal under the same date it should be noted that andrandrewew jetjerjcrtellsonjerisonfe isonlsontisonlison on fltillslistisils date was traveling around the world on a special church historyhi story mlsmissionMis slonslousiou 11 ibiiblibidoebido february 4 18961.189611896 p 5 112 andrewandrowanorew jenson had now beenboenboon officiallyoff 1ciallyscially1 attached to the historlhistoryhistorianans office since february 9 1891 helielleile was sustained as an assistant church historian on april 10 1898 it is evident by thithlthiss tinetimelime that andrew was beginning to lay a foundation for journal history111 story 1 1 at the beginning of 1901 he stated helielleile was working diligently inii n order to bring the

11 general11general history of the church tipelpup to december 31 1900 he also felt that the work he had been engaged in the gathering of materials was the foundation upon which he would erect an important historical struc 12 ture 1 undoubtedly part of this historical structure was journal hihistorysborystoryscory 11 it is interestinterestinganglng to note that at this time andrew jenson had a promising young man assigned to him as a special assistant joseph 13 fieldinjzfiel diugdingdlug snithsmithsmitth

A A agn 7 oron arrarearkoapkor r I1nT AQ 190 adrendrep bgn akingwo rkingrkn 010n a special committeecOMMomm7 t that had been appointed to revise the history of josephjoc eph smith I1 commenced actual work again at the fistorihistorihistoriani ans office by reading church history part of the time with president lund B 14 roberts and othersothcrso the history of joseph smithsmithy as published in the millennial11mluennial star 11 was being revised and footnotes added in book form but before sendlsendisendingi ng the manuscript to the press it was referrodreferreddeferred to a committee of which I11 had been chosenchousen a member this work was continued almost definitelyindefinitelyLn usually there welweree prelpresentsent at those readings anthon ho11 lund 11bo 111he1 roberts joseph F smithsmiffig iunluinjun and myself it was decided that each forenoon commencingcorcuuencing 1 I1 wilhw 1Ah april1 15th should bbe devoted to this laboilaborlobor of revision 10

the journalJOLErnal of history was now beginning to take shape and was a part of andrewtandrewlandrewsandrew1ss extensive plansplaris to write a number of vast manumanuscripmanuscriptmanuscriptscrip t

121 2 13 jensonjensons journal fl p 402 appp 4069406 423 1 ibid 14 ibiibidib5d191.915 p 4234230 thistills work was published under the title of01 church ofoc jesus day by history ol the w christ of latterlatterday auntsjuntssaints edited B tl 7 ro b etlettt s 113

historieshis loriesbories As helielleile began journal history he explained his reason for compcompilingilingailing such a history r f the work of compiling a journal history of the church was com- 1 menced by the undersiundersignedenedgned in the latteriatteriallallat lerter part of 1906 up to that time attempts had been made to incorporate every important eventevents connected with early church history under the of the history title jiso 0.0 off joseph smith but the work of the lord even in the days Tof tthee 1 prophet joseph snithsmithsmioth himself 5 grew to such dimensdamensdimensionsions and had so many minor organizations both in america and europe that it was impossible to properly incorporaLeincorporate every event connected with the church in the prophetprophets personal narrative if a profusion of foot 1 nonoteslestes qscjI1 was atroducedintroduced1 therefore the gigantic undertaking of corncorucompilingpiling a more complete church documentary history by gathering information from all possible sourcessourcescos was inaugurated and it was decided to place every important event that had transpired under its proper calendar date as far as possible this made provisions at once for elasticity and to add later newnow material or new corroborative testimonies as might be obtained by the further dis- 1 covery and perusalperusal of oror1original1 ginal documents or of public and privalprivatee records that mightml1 ahtght be brought to lighfcjligh tJ we can trace sonesome of the work being done by andrew by his gener al conference talks in october 1917 conference andrew indicated they had been very busy at the historians office pulling into shape that which will form the basis of the authentic history of the church heilelle continued by giving some idea of the vastness of this work of several hundred volumes we do not expect any one of you to ever read all of these lengthy manuscripts histories but they are all very important as works of referencerefe reacerence these volumes and the many that herehereafterrfterafter will be added may consistently be termed the fathers of the new dispensadispensatidispensatedispensationti1 on and be classed with the socalledso called fathers of the earlycarly christian church we have recorrecordeddeel nearly everything that has happened since the organiorganizatiorganisationorganizationzatizato on of theelleeile church ini n 1830 titiderliderilderunder prdpcproperr date and we arc stillsteill recording events as they occur daily lustjust as regular as i the sun rises and setsbetsasetsa thisidt111 I1 S compilationCOM p 1 iatilatilats1 on of historicalhi1 stor 1 calcai events Isis whatwhal we call thelilleutile journal historylilsills lory of the churchchurcl1 160

15I1 journal history 1830 first page 16 onfpraceconference R epotapotreport october 1917 appp 85878585437404374087 114

in Octooctoberborrborcboyr 19191.919 conference he explained that a number of years ago helielleile realized that much of the church history injn the historians office was fragmentary it was quite disconnected and so the decision was made by titelitebhe brethren that andrew muldmuidwould travel extensively in order to fill in marlymariynanymany of the gaps from his many traveltravelstraveiss having examined many state and county historlhistorieshistoryi os he felt very proud of the work they were accomplishing at the storianshistoriansiiiili1111 storiansorlansstormans office I1 would like all the saints to understand that thisthiis work is one of considerable magnitude it represents so far as I1 knowknobyknowy hihistor-f stor ical work of a nature which never before has been attempted in writing histories of any communitycortmiunity in this or any other country I1 do not believe that a better has ever been put forth anywhere effort 17 in writing historieshistories of anyany comiiiuncommunityetyltyalty in this 0OLic any other country the work on journal history was not one thatbhat he assumed on his own he indicated several times that years ago I1 was given a special appointment to write a detailed history of everything in the church up

V 080.8 to tmehe aist3ist31st of december 9 loo1001900 the brethren had apparently asked andrew to continue the work charles penrose was assigned toto do a few years before elder penrose diddjd j d sortiesonesome extensive work from june 1896 to 1900 As andrew assembled the journal history he took the work of charles penrose cut it up and pasted it into journal history along with newspaper clippings 19

i As we have seen 1inn the previous chapter 9 his biggest concern was that he was not going to be able to finish the work that had been 20 set outououet for hmhim rutbutbuiduidut the work slowly moved forward on march 29

17 ibleibidibldibtdibid octobaoctobeoctober17 19191919 appp 1279127 1291294 18 1911j jensonjansonJcjcnsonjennsonsoalssontsso alsats journal lqL p 159 journalourna 1.1 11historyI1 story 189619001896 1900 200 1 bensonsjensonsJenjc1130lissonssors bournajournajournalI y 1 appp 422427422427.422 427 liii111.11155 t913 he could reportrcpoj 1 to president anthon 111 1 lund that he had almost Isingleingieinglehandedsinglehandedsinglesingie handed assisted only occasionally by a typist completed journal history from 1830 to 1852 in olderorder to accomplish this work lieholleile had perused and culled up the year 1852 from all the early periodicals of the churchchurchy hundreds of prprivateixaleexale journals stacks of letters and his notes which he had gathered while on his church history missions stillstilly his bbiggestlagest concern was that they needed more helpheip in the historbistor lanianlantsIss office if they were going to complete ththec workwo rk helieife wrotewro te to president anthon 11IL lund requesting him to use his influence with the first presidency to have something done right away aboutabout getting additional help alat the historianhistorians office or he was afraid that it would be too late 21 at last andewandrews pleapiea for additional help at the historianhistorians

1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 k 1 ri uaU wolIOL urtoat A T I c P 4 vol A u4 A .1 4- r 6 li i ji j A L A 0 L 1 i 0 L 1 cco i 1 131s1 TL L nrj v 111110 t I1 A 0 shj ci iai li vljl ial k i i if s 6 A t1ta J acosistacosmistaCoii cistSistio ajxj ij fA tTLXJIXJ1 2 rA in compiling journal history on october 232jy 1818 harold commenced 222 work on journal history for 1875 by 1922 a good share of the work on011 journal elfbifElihistorystory had been completed andrew wrote this report to the dcsretdesz leiletaeiiei news on his progress but the main work done at the historiansh I1lsloriI1 nis office during the past 35 years Is the compilingcampilcompil angylngy and writwritingin g of what iiss now 1knownnown under f the title of journal historyI of the church sirsics ic j it iiss practically the annalannalsannais of the churchchu rchach rangedarrangedai I1inn chronological orderordery conraencingcommencing with the ath6th of0 april 18301830y1.830 and continuing to the present time for the ninetenineteenthc nth century alone about 520 large typewritten manuscript volumes have already been compiled and arranged iiinn their proper

21 jejensonlison aulautAu t 0ojloialojaiojaiojaphybiographybiographnphy pp 512UIS51251351251.3 513 22 bensonsjensonsJenjensollissollissoussons Jojoiunajouinaljournaluinal K appp 561562561 562 116

23 1 order these volumes willwiliw1waiili11.11 undoubtedly serve as the foundation or source of informalinformationinformalionionlon foifor all future historieshis loriesbories of the church tn thetlletile journal history has been embedembodembodiedled everythleverythingevery thli ng written by the idy earlycarly church historians 9 partpactpantpare of which liastiasilas alreairealreadylay been published but as the chinchchurch has grown great it is but natural that the hihis-1 s toriestorii es of theU ic present day should attach more importance to details thantharl the historianshistor1history ans dldidd in the early days of the church when the organizations were small many events which in the early days seetsectseemedliedtied to be insignifiinsignificant1 cant can tiownow consistently be enlarged upon as they in many cases were the commencement of great things which followed 24z andreuandiewandrew now began a concerted effort to make certaicertainn that the record of the saints coming to sallsaltsail lake valley were accurate hetielielle traveled over the pioneer traitrailll11 agagaintin in 1923 helielleile took an automobile over part of the pioneer trailtraittrall by 1924 he had written the history of the utah pioneers of 1847 which hehadculledhe had culled primarily iromfrom the journals of orson pratt wilford woodruff erastus snow william claytonclay ton thomas 25 bullock and rowardhoward egan to insure accuracy hetieilelle had part of the jour nalsnais tthohp mninnep rqaq I1 on ilongalong nqls A publlsbed aa nl of thetho ninnecorvrsorvas dubli shed hffprcdiffprpnrt datersnaterspapersa6 along the pioneer trail he questedrequestedze any of the old settlers to verify the location of

I1 i the spotsspots mentmenkmentionedL onedboned and submit other information they mmightahtght have thathatt would enable him to locate the original trail of the pioneers to the vavalley1 1 ey thistills nolnotnob only insinsuredtired accuracy for his wolkworkworicworlc but the favorable publicity that was gained fronfrom these publications ouldouidcouldc not be estimated

23 this ISis undoubtedly too large a figure in 1932 andiewandrew stated they had completed 726 volumes of manuscript hlhistotyhistoryhis totystory this in- 1 cluded 518 voivolvolumesunies journal hah1historyaloryslory 1 1 133 volumes stake histories 178 volumes mission histories and 30 miscellaneous volumes of history this totals 859 volumes it is more likely that journal historyHisto ryff representsleprep lpscnts 385 volumesvo lumeslumps of the total in 1938 andrewandrews secretary stated that helielleile had completed approximately 40000 volumes of journal history by that date jeasonjenson autobiofautoblcgr5pjiyraphy appp 6239623 673 24 pap 303 the deseret news salt lake citycityj novemberNovembpi 25 1 192291922 p0 25 jensonjonson jl510gtap1autobiograplavliyllyily P 583 117 rinkinminmanyY newspapers along thebhe traitrailI1 devoteddevo ted pagepapagoe afierafaerwer prpageige and week after 260 C wejaejveekwedweek to these accounts from the journalsjourn 1I Ls of the pioneers andrew alsoolsooisoadaoadoo waalwantedd photographs of the pioneer tralltrailcrailhrail and so on julyju iyay 5 1926 in comcornconncomm pany with a photographer andrew began to retrace part of the original 27 tralltrailtrai I1 others became interested in thetlletile work that andrew was doing flydfly1hyrumuraurn jensen asiastaskeded hinihimhint to accompany him to visit many early church history sites traveltravelingilig wasWCpispbs becoming much calcakeakeasler1Illerllenaierjier f6randrewfor andrew than it had been before for he and hyrumhy rum jensen made this trip by pullman railroad car and brother jensen bajpajpaidd allalitheajlaji the expenses for andrew this was certainly different from his earlier travels whenvihon he bore most of the expense himself traveling mainly by horse or foot blighterbrighter days were ahead 2890 for andrew jenson

r jsn i ccrccarc 41 aytart sriiisrini h P ai orivrh psnas n bbe0beieeleobea 0 rnnlannl orrncr fvorpiipt t atyt rc

i getherytogethertogetheryto especially over the pioneer trailtralaral 1 l on one of thesetm se trips andrewamdrew asked elder smith if he knew any where in turchchincht hilhistoryhiahikstory or in any other writings where joseph smithssmithes prophecy of the saints coming to the rocky mountains was recorded george albert mithsmithS replied initiirliri the negativenegatives they arrived jnm orangevilleOrangeville utahlitah where eldereider smith called on a few 0ofF the earlier setsettlerssettierstIers to bear their testimony one of the oldoid settsetterssetuersjersaers arose lilidondd told how lie hadtiadllad beheard7trd joseph smith make the prediprediclionpredictionclloncLion of the saints coming to the rocky mountains drotherbrotherbrodro the r snithsmithsm eth then reportedrepoxfed ataldrewardrewandrevandrewdrew JjensonansonssonsinsonsIn sous reactionsreacljl6n

26r jensonjensons scrapbookScropserapserop book N 1927919277 appp 172417 24 27 Jenjensonsoli autobiogripcipyiipyii PY 58888 289 tensonstonsonsTon sons journalJourjournaljournaijournaenaInal M p 177189177 189 118

I1 thinkthink I11 shall never forget the expression on the face of brother jenson withwithinin a ffewow hours afteraf terber asking where a report of0 f that incident might be eoundqfound thisthio man who was tinuinknownunknown to me- a man who at one time hadllad been excommunicated iromfromfronfromerom the church and later complying with the rules of the hurchchurchCj came backbac k humbly into the church perhaps the only living martman at that time who could bear radttadtnesseunesswunesstAdtness of this remarkablerenairenatremai kablekabie event stood liptipup WittIwithoutOUt knowing what was in the mind of our assistant church lilsflishistotiaaflistoriantorian and gave the information at hand I1 have thought of that many 1 mes and seeing titstfirsttitsh titinstims29 brother jenson here today brought I1it to my attentiattenniattentionon by 1932 andrew had completed 726 volumes of manuscript history about 385 of these volumes were ijoubijoujournalenal historyhi story in spite of his

i many other labors 9 andrew was making lealleaireal progress 1inn his assigned duties 30 by the time of hishiohlo death aldrewandrewandreq had written journal history from the organiorganizationza tion of the churchchurchy april 696 1830 lo10 the end of the century year of the churchchurchy december 31 1930 accordingAccoiding to his secretary mrs Mmarymcarycary kelly pye this included 400 large volumes she also wrote a good description of how journal history waswa Luallyactuallyac vjitlcliWCLbleablenlluaallua endrew&ndrewandrevandrew jenson woulf glean important data from original sources historical aotesnotes minutes of meetings correspondence private jour- 1 OWIA nals 9 and histilsills own field notes all of wllmilwhichch he arranged in chronological order 0 much of thisthib information wwasLs gained from records perused by bro jenson during his extensive travels or from books sent back by him to the historiansrishis lorlantorianborian s office fortor safesofe keeping many items also were clipped from the deseret neasinewsinensnews f millenniamillennial f 11 I scarttstar11stalstaistarscar rndandcmd oherother church publicationsptibl 1 cationscatcanionsiousionslous a to each item a piece of papetpaper was LISUausuallyllyliy attached upon whicliwill ch biodiobro jenson or one of the head researchresearchersero wrote an introductory paragraphparagpacag raphcaph which was copied by nographersstestenographers before fixingaffixingai the clippings all the work was care-car e by fully proofreadproof read and slassedpassed upon brodro jenson before being bound in looseleafloose leaf covers 31j that andrew caiecaiccalecaictullycaz tullytutlyfullyefully proofproofreadproo freadf read the work is evideruevidenced ed by the numnumberber

29 the deseedoseedesererdedererenesnews valtpaltpaitfsalasal t lake city deccinberdeccmbez 27927 1924 p VI 30 jensonsjenson1 s journuinalJojouinaljournalti N p 97 31 3 jenson alatoralatobautobloiapliyLO phy appp 67367467367 16743674674 a 119 of notes written in penpem in bhodhothe lypcwriltypewrill I1 enon manuscript in the hand- writingi of andrew

the church historians officeof ficerice has contcoutcontinued1 anuedagued journal history

1 to the present time 1however it11 isI1 s simply a collection of newspaper clippings CHAPTER IXTX

THE CLOSING OF A FRUITFUL LIFE

after many years of disappointment and discoiiragemediscouragementnt because he feilfeihfeltfeitcelt that his work was not being appreciatedasprecapprec lated by the church andrew began

to realize that his wor7worlworkwora was appreciated far01 more than helielleile had ever con- ccceivedivelve d in 1921 the jpjoyemenimprovement fc erara wrote a very complimentary article about his works

1 0 9 a in hhiss arlwrlwritingting helieite had one notable end in view that his data must be givenalvenluenc lvenLv en correccorneccorrectlybly ththisLs latter is the great asset to the real histhistorianorlanorian history may not be rhetorrhetoriclc rhetoric alone Is not histonhistoxhistoryy but andrew bensonsjensonsJen sons dat-dataa and publications are history they are as near accurate in statement of timeylimeyL almelme place and no event 9 asos human care and inquiry caticatlcan make them man has done more if atatlyanyly hhasis done so much in the cause of abundant and correct talalauatauaciara lorlonroror liliuieulelile1113 bucuk111uflnucu11 rcojdleoid andrew appreciated tills article very much and felt 1it was a fair evalualiievaluationevalualliaLii on of his type of work andrew explained the reason for his accuracy

I11 have found from my experieliceexpezicace that to rely liponupon memory alone Is unsatisfactorylllnsatisfactory butbuibul one should latherrather rely upon documents such as dailydallydaliydully jourjourmcjournalsmc 1 3 in which the authors have recorded events on the 2 identical day on which carc&rcertainta ilaLIA events took place

1- ttethetie compliments came from 111anynanymany sources and places jinn the1 he church and outrideoutside of the churchchurchy from church ajandid poliullpoliticalclalealeai leadersloaders inta july 1924 thetlle edlieditoieditortorbor of the nebraskathenebraska historbistorhistory magazine visltedvlsltedvisited dlediethe ifitorianhi8torianls

janjaddanesdamesjameslesies it andersenanderson one andrew jejensonasoasonnsonn theJ he improvement era XXIVXXTV bilyrilyjuly 192191921 786787786 787 2 andrew jejensonnson aqtqbautobiographytographv salt lake citycitescitys deseredeserett news press 9381938 p 542 120 121

office inin sallsaltsailsaiu lake city and was impressed althwlthwithwi th vhalwhal he saw thephe work done by these people iiss another western wonder A roupgroup of very scholoarly and able men and women are constantly at work compiling and publishing the istoryastoryhistoryh of the people of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints among the most active in this work isI1 s andrew jenson a veteran scholar and speakespeakcspeakerr 3 the ediedldj lorstorsbors of many newspapers outside of utah were deeply im-

n pressed with this mormon historianhistorians heilellelie didd L d as much during his time to spread good willwil among nonnonmormonsmormons as any other person in the church notable among these many newspaper articles was one in the fremont evening tribune fremont nebraska professor jenson has devoted his 11lifeilfeefe to the study of mormon history and in his exhaustive research work through a period of more than forty years has come to be regarded asa one of thebliebile fore- most living authorities on that era of midcenturymid century expansion that preceded and coincided with the civil war perloclperlockper lod although he has devoted himself iduouslyassiduouslyass to the perpetua- the work has tion1 of vivid history of his particular falthfaithfaithyfailhy his I1 1 1 1 A ajzja 1i liealieulleull11 U A ejiunjiuI1 I1 Jdaltdaitaltait W lueL A tucoiuL C C a J LIULJLi- ll deyoueyoliu UULCII t JL i L JL L 4

senator william ILHI L king fronffromtomconrom utah also wrote him a very complimentary letterietterjetter tellingte1111 ng hincimhowhimhowhim how much he prsonallypersonallyo appreciated the splendid worwoyworkk helielleilehad done for the churchchurchechurchy you have given your 11lifefe to its advancement and have been one of thethoeflectiveeffectilve workers in the great cause your historical and oilier wiitwillwrit inasings stashas laudbaudbandlidtid out as a most rcmarkableremarkable achievement and aiebieareaue olof01 incalculable aluevalue to the cnllreen I1 irelre membership of the church andrewandrews work was becobecomingbecoraingraing so well known and accepted that even

I1 iI1 mormon the once ant newspaper 9 the salt lakelakejtrjbimetribune7ribune began to show an

interest Jinn his work andrew indiudludindicatedbatedcated thatt 11 a t fotforfor svseverals e v ra years the

3 nebraska historyhi s tory magazlney jensonjonson I1 s scrapbook L 1924 p 33

ononomon Eve T Tibjedb d MImy 1925 ppa 95 bromonJrjromonbrenonfremonbremonenon t evanineeveninehvenirgniuenine ribunerabunetribune tb I1 5 william H KIkingng to atidabidandrewrew jenonjenson june 2424y 1929 jenson paperspapezspapeas LDS church ihstorians11istorians officeofflceot fice 123 rttjbimfribuiv began shovingshowing a very frendlyfriendly altitudeattitude towardtowarJ the churchchurchy in

april 1934 andrew stastalledstartedrted writing ai ionglong serrisendisendlbenesbonessenesIS of articlesirtI cles forcoreor the

salt lalelake trtribuneibuneabune glgivingV illglllg them Isisoraeoraesome ororlonioriginalJ gi ilallial inforrmtlonix1formation about thetjie utah pioneers of 1847 this was a day by layday account from the time they left winter quarters until the time they arrived in the salt lake valleyvailey

1 on atlyjulydily 24924 1847 most of the 1information was taketakenri from the daily 6 journals of those thalthat made the journejourneysyis andrewandrowsandrews son harold jenson himself a fine newspaper writer for many hearsyyearsyearsy maintains that the pu- liblicationcation of the trekfrekprek of the pioneers of 18471.847 across the plains

1 published in1 n the sansaltsallsau lake trlTritribunebunel gained thousands of subscribers 7 for that newspapernems paper not to be outoutdoneoutgonedone andatidabid perhaps also as an indication of the success of the articles in the tribune the deseretoeseret news asked andrew

rnr n n hr vietvielr tytietiel r c it f r y harnhnrn

I1 agreed to furnish material for thechetinne DeserdeserctdescretdeseretdesereedespretDes eretcretct newsnewsy thetiietile church orgaorgann wldtchi ch riataurallynaturallyurally should show iterestinterestintoresiinteintoR reslresi in thetiie history of the saints more than any other periodperiodicalical in the stateseate thistills led to a v111miliousvoluminous0 iiiili111miLIOUS contributicontributeContriconCOD itibuionbutibutlon on my parlpartpar t boutabouta the activitiesI1 I1 I1 of the pipio-10 neers afafterter their arrivalarrival in creatgreat salt lake valdey and the foundifoundsfoundingng 1 of thetlletile settlefltesettlementsYititsS III11 I utah up to and including1 ticlhicl tiding the year 185013501.350 ththis1 3 was published under the captibapticaption1 on the building of utah and her neighbors f8fa

1 this pubpublicationI1 ica tio-li in ic11le1cac beecebesece t news led to the later pubpublicatipublicationlicati0 TI ol001 encyclopedicyncvclopedic history11 of ththee church71 Wwiltaichhichch railrallraliran for many yeyearsars in the deseret news 9

anqnD maymay31131 19321.932 andlandtaudrewandreww jenson was taken to the hospital after

c atlle6tlle IL iniina 5 le salt ilkoleeikeikoleq trjtajtrhunpJ in2 april 193419 34july1934july34 july 24 y 1934 aj7j jnnsoxir ns 0ti 9 auautobiographyt 0 b i 0 pap 671673 saidy 8lbidvbid p 63e632 sbidyI1 p 632 124 having suffered for some time from urinal trouble he110lleile1 10 spent three days in the hospital going through extensive exexaminatexaminateexaminationaminat iouiontou whiwhawhichch caused hinhim the most excruciating pain and sufferingsuf fering 11 for a roannoanm in who seidonseldom had aFL sick day in histilsilisllis life11feg this must have been an ordeaordealL afafterter extensive examination the doctors concluded that atiatlan operation would be necessary if helielleile was going to regain his health Wwithin1 thin a few days andrew had a long conversation with presidents reberheber J grant and anthony W ivins who eticouracedencouraged0 him not loto10 have an operation without giving 1itt a gregreata t deal of thought as he was now eightytwoeighty two eparsyyparsars old andrew decided to take heirtheirt advice1 10 andrew frequently carricarrlcarried1 ed with him a metamebametal cracker box which

f contained some 01or thetiu numerous historic reilrellrelicscs helielleile had gathered& I thered in his many iniliesllesmiles adailarlayay11 yeayearsyearsrqaq of travel hetielielle took great delight in displaying

4 414 1 rr llo110 t 1 l ccl1ccle tc the young chiljci ignjigna fi ct 0o 11 relics was a hatful of small pieces of the original manuscriptmanusciipt of the book of mormon he had obtained these from mr lewilewis s C bidamon oilotion his vvisitL s it1 to nauvoo in 188818880 andrew tirturned1 ned these fragments of the originali na

mormon 1 manuscript of the book of over io0 o the church historianhistorians office on august 5 1931 on Decemdecerrbrdecembierbier 101.0lo 0 19327932 andrew jensonjerison opened his long

I1 WOLL C u10Uuieule10 many contemplated memorial hailhall 5 which wouldwolt houshouse the storicalhistoricalstorical relics thethlethye hallhalihail also containedcontcained a lecture room with a large map of the united StstalesstathesatlesathesalLes shshowingowino andrewandrews approximately one mullon miles of travel

intn 1934i andrew hadllad one of the nostmost thrilling experiences of his lifcolefco heac1c was incitedinvited by uljleduajicdt air lineslihicsacs to flflyblyY over the same route he had walked as an emigranteniemi giant boyhoy illiliiti1111.11in 1866 for a man whowiiowilo had walked and

10 ibid9ibid p 624 lbldqbid appp 62296 626 125

rridden in horse and buggy fortor much of 11his1 S lifeI1 thisthltheI1 S muslmustMU 3 t hhaveave been

qquilequiteu ite1 an experience helielleile traveled by rarailroad1 iroadbroad car to omaha nebraska here he was greeted by newspaper men and united air line officials whereswhereqwhere true to his calling he explained the history of the church inin that area heilellefie was then taken by car to the very spot where he commenced his journey across the plainsp lains in 186618660 andrew expressed his feeling about this ex- periperienceence in thistills manner 1 I was deeply impressed with my days experience and seemed able to bring some of my boyhood happenings back to a vivivividld recollection 1112n 12 on july 24 1934 the anniversary of the arrival of the mormon

plonepionepioneerser s in the salt lake valley 9 andrew commenced his journey by air- plane from omaha to salt lake city this journey would take hihim1 m a thousand miles over the original pipioneer1 aneeroneer trail andrew expressed his

1 ga 1 pleasurep 0 a zlal A c overV 1 1 thebhehe tripsk lal111 P it

I11 titothoroughlyroughly enjoyed the trip and was able toro recognizecognizerecognlzerecognizececognizece the pioneer route over aichhichwhich I1 traveled as an emldemlcmigxanti graantgrcant boy in 1866 the course of the plattepiatte river I1 in many cases serving asas my principal guide a I1 was just sevenseaven hours on thetlletile trip aiichabichvthichilichillch I1 could not help contrasting with the journey of the oriorloriginal1 g Jlnalanal pioneers who spent 111 days travelingtiatio veling the same distance and with my 13 own trlptriptalptx i p acrosse the plains in 1866 which looktook us 62 daysdacsodayso

to clclimaxamax1max this eveovefvertfuleventfulrtfulartful day helielleile traveled to odgen utah where 14 he spoke over radio at the ogden stadium in honor of the ututahdi pioneers As the years were closing on andrew jenson his life seemed to

1 bebc opening bto0 tielietlenewW and exciting experexperiences1 encesances rishisliistils last days were truly hshish s iestlastbestlestelostebosto eaoaeaofoilyfailyeailyboilyly in 1935 thetllerhetile daughters of the utah pioneers decided to send a pioneer covered wagon to denmark this hachadhagI1 come as a request to

121.2 jensorsJencensorssorssolsts journal N P 262 13 14 ibidabid 1 2680 ibJbjbididd I1 p 267 ibid I1 p1pap 268 126 governor henry H blood of iftalitailtaiiutahulah ffromeromrom the secresecretarytaryeary of the rebuceburebuild1 id national park in denmark andrew volunteered to assistass 1 st them in locating a wawagong0n ilelielle immediately began to look for a suitable covered wagon aftafterr much disappointment it was decided to build a wagon from new 15 material 1

xion april 16 193519351.9351935y andrew jenson received the following appoappoint-int ment from governor bloodbloods this certifies that I1 have today appointed andrew jenson as a representative ofoc tthetletielle state of utah and as myony personal repre- sentativesenta tive to convey to denmark a covered wagwagonon typical of the wagons used by danish emigrants who iiinn the year 1853 crossed the plains of western ununiteditedcited states to salt lake city the said andrew jenson was himself an emigrant he has been an imborimpor 1 tant factor in the buildingupbuildingupbuiupbuyup oldoid li ng of thlthithiss state and is known fatfar and wide as a historian author and a contributor to migazinesmagazinesiga zines and 6 newspapers 1 16

As a result of this appointment andrew received many complimentary letterskeetersteeters andanaang expressions fronifromfront nanymany people rresioentpre s i a en c orantgrant expressedexpiebsed his fullheartedfullfuli hearted approval of thisthiis special assignment the editor of the mantlmanti messenger waslotas especially complimentarycomp 11men larycary

I1 know of no ioaninanrilannilanroan wiiowilo can fill this assignment with greater didig- nnity1ity and effefficiency1 clency than you your profound knowledknowledgeknowledg 9e of the danish langualanguage cuscustomstorastorns and standards of life your vast knowledge of pioneer conditions Wcreerewerewece in limerlymeramericaacalca and our church in general your love for the gospgospellelyelyei and your many other unendablecommendablecon traits combicombine1 ne to make you ailallalian ideal choice for this important mission 17

Bbeforedeforefore he leftlefty andrew eccivcdreceivedi many letters of introduction from prominent people in utah some of these included george IL111 1 dern

151.5 kansaskatisaskaticasgansas city Jourjournallial losttostposlpost bensonsjensonjensonsJen sonss ScrapbookscrapbooksscrapbookyScrapbookyi S 1935 p 312

161.6iglg bensonsjensonsJenjensontssonssonts journal N papm 367 17 william HIL petepotepetersonrsoricsori toL0 o andrew Jenjensorlyjensonsorly march 11llyily 1935 jenson papers 127 secretary of warworwarbwars william HHL king senator from utah elbert D thomas senator flomfrom utah W L payne chief of police and mark E petersenpeterson 181 managing editorEdit olioiiolt of the rosezetdesdedosezetDosezetseret news heho also received a special blessing from1 rom president reberheberlieber J grant before he departeddep rtrtedarted ed

I11 earnestly and sincerely pray to the lord that he will strengthen you and that helielleile will fit and qualifyqu afifyalify you for this mission that has come to you to go to your native land to meet with people who will celebrate the very wonderful pioneer journeys across the plains from the missouri river to this valley I1 rejoice in the knowledge you possess regarding the travels from the missouri rivriveri er to the salt ukemke valley perhaps as great if not greater than any other man in the church who iis1 s now alive I1 blebieblessbiessss you dear brother jenson lorfor your untiring labors as a historian I1inn the church working early and late and with energy and 1 a firm determinationde termina t 1onlonionaon inilliiilii your heart to accomplish all that it is possible for you to accomplish for the good of thepeoplethe people in preserving the histhishhistoryory of thethe people and of individualsofindividuals who have been prominent in the church 19

1 on may illljl1313. 1935 andrew jenson in company withwri th his wife bertha and his daughterdaugahterhter eva olson who repierepresentedrented the daughtersdaughtersghgatersters of utah pio-PI10 neers left salt lake forfor denmarkdennlDenniark across the united states they met with different danish groups and were received with great honor in new york rhexwhexwheree they were well received andrew and his daughter eva spoke to a large group olof01 prominent danish gentlemen the new york timeslimes and the new york tiibunotribunotrimune pphotographers and reporters verewerevetwetvec e pro- sent and gave coverage to thetlletile event on june 2 they arrived in copenhagen denmark where they were greeted by the mayor of copenhagen and presidentpres almaidouit petersenpatersenPe terseatersen of thetlletile danishdan lshash misionmission from denmarkdeildelldezimarkdemimarkDezimarkmank andrew and his family visited most OL thebhe other european countries on july 4

181 Q jenson autobiop apciplrycipleyyq appp 6396410639 6416410gole autobiov r2paq 639641 19 tensonsjensinsjensonsjcnsonstenJensonssous journal n9naN appp 330331330 331 128

the celebrationcelebratiori for which they had come began in rebuild paikpalkpark dis- appointedlyap pointedly the day was stormy this stormy veatherweather cut down on the anticipated attendance of 40000 people As a result only 15000 were present for the observance at 3 oclock the radio broadcast was beamed

from denmark to the unitedunieted states A umbernumberti of prominent individuals

from denmarkdenmarkDenmaikmark spoke inclinciincludingtiding the prime minister of denmark andrew jenson also spoke on the same program two hours after andrew had de- livered his address over thetiietileche radio from denmark to the united states helielleile receivedicccived a cablegram from his son leo telling his father that he had just heard the program in the united states it was one exciting event after another that evening a banquet was given in andrew jensons honor where he satat next to the prime minister of denmarkdeiimarka with the memoly of the events of the day flooding into his mind audrewandrew jour

1 4 17 I T V 4 TT I1 4 I1 r1ra rl T r tyla ai fl TTUQTT M P in n 0 tila 7 n 0 j 1 0 1 r ir acidci .1 n t c h ri31 7i th I rttqr carcsr lc 1 in hjlcorar cf cur 20 livesilvesilyes a day novelneveruevernover to be forgotten andrewandrewsanorew visit to denmarkDeliniark was furtherfutcherfin ther clicifclimatedclimateeclinicliniaxedaxedmated by a visit to the king of denmark king christian X

I1 was deeply impressed with the kingeingskings cordiality he exhibited a naturanatural 1 smilesirusirnSITU ie and ppleasedleased countenance through the enlieulileentilere 11liii1.1interiterlter view motMormormotillmormonmotill elderseiders could not greet each other with moiemolemore warmth 1 of feelingfee hingbing1 ing than the king of denmarkDeurnark exhibited when he shook hands and spoke freely to two monnonmormon elders on the 15th of july 193591935 f 21 illliiluiin the chrichtchi I1 stiansborgstiaiioborg castlecastiecas fleeflew

1 on july 30 1935 they arrived Iin1 n the united stalesstates they w re met by andrewandrews daudaughterahter llcoaoreeleo nore reynolds and hetbetherhe r bonlsonisonzonuonuson parley who took thenthemthom to their home in new york diewsandrewlandiewsandrewsAn s wife bertha was especially pleased to be on land asalasaiaainagalaaen1 n because of continual seasickness she had

20 21 iblibiibidid9idaidyody p 3299 ibr19ibid appp 375376375 376 129

lost considerable weight they arrived inio salt lake on august 14 andrew was overwhelmed with the honor and pralpraipraise1 se that had been given hinhim on this trip to denmark helielleile could not help but contrast this visit with the one he had received when helielleile was scandinavian mission president

in all the experiencesexper lences of my life I1 never was in the newspaper limellaimelllimelighti ahtght so much before I11 had the opportunity of associating with some of the most prominent people of denmarkbenmark and to receive their praise and favorable mentsgentscotcomments howliowflowrow different the situation 25 years earlier when I1 presided over the scandinavianscandif navlan mission and was subject to severe attacks on the part of the lutheran clergy and others and was scorned by newspaper men repeatedlyrepeat 2 dlyadly because of my preaching the principles of the restored gospel 2 lietielleile was further overwhelmed at a luncheon given in his honor by the salt lake chamber of commerce tributes paid to andrew jenson venerable historian of the church of latterlatterdayday saints were such as few men or women ever hear of themselves seirseifselfseldomlom are they uttered until the object of affec- tionate attenathenattentionllonLion has passed besongbeyongbcyong thetho fluttering veil that hangs

Y 1 between here and hereaftehereafter I thoohpthothp omtprrionornocr rfof theth ttotanstatostqtottn t-thh mflmal oorwor nfof tthefhehf PIc 1I f theeheh roridriorintorantr P 1 r1nran TJntt c onu charli a e d orlorlnt of0 thedieuieule commercialhercialnercial chamberber 9 disdistinguishedti aguisnguis h aapostleP 0 sti e of the church george albert smithsmithy united in prpraisingalsing the aged traveler writer historianhis torian and diplomat for his industry perseverencepcrseverenceperseveranceperpec severence patience and 1 painstakingpainstakirlg interest 1ninan the ecclesiasticale calesicclesi atticalasticalas ticalcical organization of which he is a valued member I1 i the kuestguestgaestuest of honor at the luncheon I1Iss credited with havinghavI1 ng traveled 8000008005000 miles in the Uiinterestkerestterest of hishi s church such zeal un- abated by four score years andaridarld fivecive wins applause not only from fellow rellgiollistsrolleelieoll glonisaglonis tsy but from all who appreciate the backing of faith by works 23

in 1928 andrew conceived the idea of wriweiwelwritingftingefting an encyclopedic history of the church this would be a veverytyt condensed version of hiillslilsliis1 s manuscript histories andrew wrote to the first presidency telling them of his desire to publish such a workworko

2277 j ibid9ibirliberl p 418 see also the deseret news saitsalt lake citiecitijcityj1 august 14 1935 p 1 laa 23 thehe salt lake tribltrltri bamebjmeinelne august 23232 1935 p 404.04 130

if I1 am entitled to any pplaceI1 ace in the literaryI1 world I1 would naturally belong to the group engaged in tiriwritingTirl ting works of refeiencereference eary As earlycarlycary as 1886 I1 commenced a igainelagainemagainetiagazinema calledcil led the historical record whichwh I1 ch as far as it went a1aaaimedalmedaimedalmedmed to be en csickfsicjcsicj encyclopedcncycopedtala of important eventseven ts in church historyhi stolystory lateerdauerdaherdatterlauerlatter day rydlsaint church his-11 IS i tory and ever sinces 1 nce that time niymy favorite dream 01or ambition has been to write a work of reference in encyclopedic form alphabeti-alphabetlbetibebi cally arranged covering the geographical and biographical features of the church since its firstfinst organization i 1 maketuake work I would like to this woik the crowning and final effort of 24 my life and I1 sincerelysinc exely truistrulstrustt that you will not turn itlt down andrew had almost ffinished the liteliterarykiteiary work on his culminating book by the later part of 1931 heilelietie ommendedcommendedrecrecommendedommended that a reading committee be appointed by the firstbirst presidency or the church historian to make the finalinaifinalfinai revision andrew was convinced that this work would help answer many questions that arose in the church such a church encyclopedia in the field used side by side with chinch chronology and the thieethree volumes of ddsidsoLDS biographical encyclopedia airalreadyady published would as wolksworks of4 f reference so I1 explained to the church adeisleadersle contributecoticoricorl tribute verymuchveryvecy much towards answer 1 1 U 1 LO I1 fj wglif allailali tubitubiiousqll2 su10fisionsiouslons afuf jmpoj icincicino ppeipellailalaligtadtajLal niliaLig lu ilclicileiilic uioliyuionimulm0 Liyl-kiyklyo uj latl chuichchulchchurch as the encyclopedlaencyclopediabncyc lobedialopedia to hebe published would contain tidestinesrticlesarticlesaja on every stake ward and mission and also nostmostnoomoo t of the conferences or districts inlin the church besides s1saletchessketches of the temples and such organizaorganiatjonsorganizalionsorganizationsliousLions as zionslonionjon camp thetiietile mormon bahBaUbattalionallon and the utah pioneers of 1847 25 A committee was appointed by the fjfirstaslrsl presidency on july 6

19329j932 to judge the general arrangearrangementtrient and contents of thetltiietileie work before 26 having it printedprinprim tedtod in 1932 andiewandrew became concerned that encylencycncyclogedicloped ic historvhistory had not yet been approved for publicatiollpubiicationpublication heilellelie was anxious to have the work

24r andrew jenson lo1010 theth lirstbirst10it st presidency june 19I1 1928 jenson papers 25 jenonjenson autobiographyatttob 1opra1av p 6226 26Q andrew jenson to jo-josepheph fielding smith july 6 1932 jenson papers 131

1 doneclonecione before lootoo100 much more timelimehime11 1 me hhadhaoid elapsed

I1 trust thaithat thekhe book willwll be published at once as any further i i delaydolaydo lay would seriously interfereinterfere with the didistributionst3131.31 ributl on of the same 1 31 the historical trend in all instances IIs1 s broubroughtgit up to decbec 3111 1930 and ifJU the book is not published until many changes in the presiding officers in the stakes and mission fields throuthroughoutghostghout the world have taken place the book wllwilwill not have the prestiprestige1 ge that it has now or what wouldlouid have beenbeertbeeri bettebetter1I stillstall hatthatthalL it had a year ago it represents the essence of my lifeslifers work and any delaydejay in its publication would from my standpoint be very serious at least to me personally who have doted on the comingcorning forth of this work for many years I1 trust the brethren of the presidency will see the necessity of first 27 inmiediateimmediate action 1inln this matter having received this letterietter joseph fielding smithstulftheth took up the

11 matter with the reading committee 2 the councicouncilll of the twelve and the first presidency on december 8 193291932 he wrote andrew that thebhe decision of the mAtteecommitteeconmatteeeoncon with thetlle approval by the first presidency and the twelvenarinajirAjielveeive was that the work would not be published in book form at that time becausebecauset

1 it a ththee material preparedprepaxprepay ed would fill two volumes iti t wouldaouwou I d be a matter thatthab the people outsieoutsidete of the church and very few inside would want and the cost and distridistributi0ldistributtondistributionbuttonI would amount to thousands of dollars the materialmateimater ial cdocancao all bebp preserved in thellielile storianshistorianhistormansstoriansorlans office for reference but atalt this time of financial depression it would be unwise to publish it 28 it was finally decided that the deseret news company would be peralpermlpermittedted to publish the encyclopedic histojjhi stor as daily installments in

1 the deserbeseeldeseoldespolt newsnewogewo wlwithth the undcrsiandingunderslariding thatthac the work would uitultimately1 mately be publishedpilslpilbl i3hed iiiniiii book form this sersecseriesserlesiesles of articles began in jlhejahethe jedesesodsorret news in 1935 in announcing its incluscinclusinclusionL oii011 liiIII111in the paper liilifILIthe deseret news Jindicatedaidicatednidi bated that the work would later be published in book form

27 ibidabidibidtbid october 21 1932 289 R josephjo s e ph neidingfieldingI1 si-shilhsmilhileffiemmi to andrew jenson december 898 1932 jenon papers 132 they had some high praise for the forthcoming work histories ofor the ledslodsdodsLDSdds church have been written and published before you probablyhaveprobably have one or several such valuableinvaluableilliti workswocks but this is the first comprehensive encyclopedia history of the church which has ever been attempted this CHURCH encyclopedia is a stupendous work and abazamazingamaz fiig1119iiig achievement the lifeilfelifo work of andrew jenson widely known assistantSosi slantstant churchhichurch historianhi storian it will eclipse in scope and importance anything which he hahass heretofore published forcor it is a veritable compendium of practically allailaliai of his important research 29

finally in 1941 the encyclopedicencyclopeclic histohis toryy off the church ofoafojf jesujesus christ of latterlatterdayday saints was issued from the press for many years andrew had tried to get 11hethe chuichchulchchurch to copyright some of his books this goal was almost realized when church chroiiologchronoloorxr was taken over by the churchchurchy but it was stilstiistill not copycopyrightedrighlhighled by the church it iiss therefore flfittingtajttjtigrigalgrlg that his final work would receive full chuichchulchchurch support and approval jlyalyibyencycloedicencyclopedicJ historbistorastorylstoryls torztory was copyrightedcopercopyr iglitedcited by the Corpocorporaticorporatecorporationrati on of the

T c T 1 IQ 4 at7t i PT 1 1 F 1 I c r 0 r i t nfof thethlethie church of J suscus cest oc11 t 4 cuseuscvsavs carlstchrlstnistrist lttrlatrt J slnalnnc As mostmo s t of0 f hisai1i is other works received manywnderfulmany wonderful endorsetiieendorsementsantsnts so did encyclopedicedic historyhjstoryhiHJ storstory in the ptpeiacepedaceeface ofoc eacclopedcencyclopedic historyhistorbistorHi stor joseph fielding smith and A william lund wrote this eendorsementsadorsndors ament this historical information gathered by elder jenson diningduring hishi1 s many years as a historian in the service of the church form the foundatllioundationinundationon of this velyvery valuable work the encyclopedic history of thetl he church As associates of elder andrew jenson we heaililyheartily recommend thlthithisS volume to the ui embersmembers of thelliecileclie church and those interested inin church development and hishistoryoeyoxy 30 therherho tniprovemerittmprovomeat era indicated that this woikwolkwork was the crowning achievement of0 his lifelire andalidaridarld a condensatcondensatecoadcnationcoadunationcondensat lonbon from 850 volumes of

29 i i 29the 13 1 1 5 newnenewsW 119alt ginGIUY 1 1935 pispiep 9 iheahe deedeorejdeoreodeserelDeodemerelreirej st lakeeakedake citycin maichmarch 9 19359 30 andrew jenson lefeitorllerleer of rccornmendationyrecommend a ti on encyclencvclopedlcopcdic histoidhistoijflistorvHistoij of the hurchchurch of jesus chistchchmahmistst of latdat lerlecI1 or dixdrydayd iyay Ssaintslintsints saltsaitmsallsdlt lake citescitycitys deschotdescjot news publishing co l94io 133 31 manuscript historichistories90

A letter was sent by the presidingI1 bishopricishopric to all stake presidents and bishops encouraging wide distribution of thistills work the first presidencypres idency is desirous ofgettingof getting the book wiedelywidely d 1 among and stributeddistributeddistributed the wards of the church suggested that each 32 ward should have one as a nucleus towards a posslblepossiblepossibje ward library

andrew accomplished many unique things in hishi S life not the least of these waswa s that which he accomplished othinwithinwi his own family it certainly must stand outoutt as an unusual accomplishmeaccomplishmentnl when a man can celebrate two golden wedding anniversaries in one lifetime andrew jenson celebrated his first golden weddingweddingwe1ding anniversary with his second wife emma howell jenson on december loy10 193619360 his second golden wedding anniversary was celebrated with his third wife bertha howell jenson on 33 july 18218 1938

on sonienibrseitsett elmr r 4 1941l941r at a mpptinp of tbethabe p aridrow jsonjensonjonson memorialt association with his life drawing to a closecloser andrew expressed his rea- sons for constructingcons trustingtructingtruc ting his memorial hall

1 desiredesiredes ire theahe1he building to become permanentpermane nL and represent the life works of andrew jenson hoping that future generations will be benefited by it and cause my name to be held in honorable kememremem berance orlorton the part of decendantsdefendantsdecondants and the general public and es- peciallypeci ally to the latterlatterdayday saints 343 in SepseptemberLember and october of 1941 andrew and his daughter eva olson werewece busbusy making a revrevisionislon of lheahe stake histories otion november 2

31 1 3519 thephe liimprovementfiproveraent era sianslanjiunjune 1B19414 9 appp 3519351.9351 5 364 32Q r deseret news church newsN C isaltjsaltsalt lake citycityj october 4 194191.94191941 POp 8168 33 bensonsJenjensonssons journal 0 appp 53 198199198 199 34 abidjbid1 b 1 d september 44yay 19411.941 there atearearcore no pagepa e numbers in1rar andrew 19410 jcnoasJcjns0a1snoasnons journals for all of 1941 0 134

i he wrwasIs asked to give a leclareleclurejcclure in ward priesthoodpries lhoodchood meetmeetingL ng on november

1 15p35 1941 andrew recorded thithlthisS aveevellevenl2vent in hishj s journal the destructdestructidestructsdestructioni on of the british warship farfayfarkIAYrkk royalroyalt was made public these are the 35 last words thatthai andrew jenson recorded in his journal or on earth duiiiigdiiringdairing the last few months of his hielifeilfe andrew told his daughter eva olson that shesliesile would have to finish his journal when he passed away therefore the last few pages of andrew jensonjensons journal are in the 36 handwriting of lvaeva on saturdaysa turdaturdcly november 15 19411.94194j andiewandrew spent most of the morningmorn inganglng going through his journal taking notes that could be inserted in the stake and ward hllhILstorieshistories that afternoon heilellefie left the church historianhistorians office about I11 olockoclock saying helielleile vabvaswabwas tiredoled and aouwouwouldid rest thelheahe remainderremainderofoi the day and sunday helielle took a twohourtwo hour nipnap afaflerafterler his lunch and thenLI1 hen sorted papers until 7 pm at 7 oclock he was

SeJbejeasejzeqbeceazeaZeQ WLUIwi ui Ai niallnijllCIIIII aaaanaauaanoany elewklewkrewyrcwgrew sleactijyworses L caauwcaauy woreworo ilie ochoraocioiocuord was caiiedcadieucabiedcallea anddudanu 37 he indindicatedlcatecated that andrexandrevandrew had sufferedsliffstiffered a heart attackattacks altlioughAI1 th 0u gh heh e spent a restlessresrcsre llesliestiesstIeSS night he seetseemedseertiedseerliedtied betlerbetter the following day

the following night november 171.717y andrew talked11talked11 incessantly only part of his woldswords being understood helieile also sang a number of sonossongs hihishib1 s voicevolce sounding very deaidearclearmear the following layday november 18 he told his wife belthabertha lleilehelie was going homehortie today and when she aldaidsaidsald he

a 11 waswao at home heilellefie saidsald he was anggoing loto10 a home far Cliwayaway from here

on the 18thj8lh apostles charlescharies A callicalcaigal lislibs and john A widstoeWj IsLoe andaudalid

A w111iwilliamam lund administered to him Asao they walked Iiaina andiewandrew seemed

35 T ibidI1 november 1513 I1 19011941 36 jenson 0s journalJouinjouinalyaly 0 listt writtenwr i ltenalten pages 37 salt lake ipleiamybergramergram novembernjovem ber 18 194119419 p L 135

to be in the act of writing somethingsolu ething brotherdeother lund reached as lfif he was taking a pencil from his handbandhandy telling hinhimhilm to rest

the family fed hihinhimm sonicsoniesome sousoupaqpq but after ealeateatingealingI1 ng iitt helielleile commenced reaching out his hands as tho he were lckinglackingpickingp some kak1kindnd of fruit and eating it and oh how good it seemed to taste as he smacked hishi s lips and seemed so satisfied at this time a decided change came over andrew

jenson lie lapsed into a coma until 835 pm november 18182 194191941 when 38 ihelielleile passed away

0onn november 20 194191941.91941 the well known new yorkyjrkyirkyark timestunes carried the announceannouncementfientnient of andrew bensonsJenjensonssons death accompanied by his picture in their factual article they stated

1 mr jenson as assisassays Is lonttantbantlanb historianhistorbistor ianlan of the1 he mormon church since 1898 compiled and edited 850 manuscript volumes of the churchschurchy history covering periperlperiodiod 330830183013301 to 190091.9009i900 and histories of stakes wards and conferences of ulctheuleUIC churchchurche Mmv vi oto t i t i i 1 i 1 rrrarr n r 0 1 p i 11 i ki i r wicemicetwice circling the globeglobeyglobed collectingcollectlngcollecttng on the way much material for lice 39 his comprehensicomprehensecomprehensiveve personalpersona 1 library1 1 b x i ry on morimortmortronmormonronnon church historyhi1 s torycory

1 18 with the deatdeathh of andlandiandrewI ew jenson on november 194191941 the tributes began to flow in the death of elder jenson closes one of the most colorful careers in the history of the churchchurchechurchy hisbislilsllis faifalfaithfulnesslhfulnessfajthfulness in the discharge of hisillslilsliis duties as an assistantassi st pt church hlstorianhistorian had bloubroubloughtbroughtht remarkable results and had addednoded vovolumeslumesnumes of material to church history that might not otherotherwiseellsewilse have been obtaineduobtainobtalune140edu for forty year-yearss elder joseph eldingeidingfieldingFiL hithmithsmithc had labored withtithlith

andrew2 jenson at the jili&torlanstor lati 1sass officeofeicco llelieile111 1 wrote this tribute to him

ardrewandrew jenson was a niturannturai intianti traiirai historian nithwithw1wa th a ostmost1 PI ramrnmremarkablechablechabie

38QQ jensonjensons journal 0 Llatist written pages 39 the new york times november 2020y 1941 located in bensonsjensonsJen sons jourjournalaalnal oa 40 deseret news salt lake cityj november 19 1941 p I11 136

memory for dates and accinrcyacctnxy ofor events connectedcouneconne chedcLed withwi lh church history he loved his work exceedingly and for more than 60 years was ener publ geticallygellcallygeligeLlgetic allyailycallycaily engaged in the compiling and publshingpublishingpubhohingpub HohIngshing of history 5 which i became thebhe great joy in hishatshais lifeI1 I1 co througthroughthrong h hishi s utltiriuntiringrig ebergenergenergyy and devotion a greabgreat fundcund of vauavaluablebaua blibil data has been collectcollectededi much of which would have been hopelessly lo10lost3tat without his thoughtful labor I1 have learned to love him for hhis1 s sleatstealgreatreat aliabilityallail lity de votionvot lony and loyalty in1 n the faithful performance of hihiss chosen calling which has occupied most of the laysdays of his uiortalmen taltai life 41 the saltsalbsaibsa t larelakeeake tribune which had during the time it was ariarlan anti mormon newspapernewspapery ratherrattierdattler viciously Lackedatattacked andrew jenson now was

1 42 especially1 boccvoccvocajkocaj11 in the praise of hihimm and hhisillsis work anchandrewew jenson was the possessor of certain attributes to be rerecornirecommendedcorniiiended in any person of any falfaithah iin1 n any countrycoutitry ilelielle had the will and the persistence to follow a itneline of abstemious coilcollconductCOri dUCt con- ducive to health and happineshappinesshappines helielleile hadllad the inclinationinclinci iuaina tiontiou and dedetermina-termina tion to become a historianhlstorlstori an his lonaloneionelongiong and active cacareerreerreec as an uthorauthora 1 ofoc many historlhihistoryhistoricalstorl cal works pertaining to theuldnidUIE origin vicissitudesV I1 c1ca S S i tudlud es micralmigrationsmigral ionslons and achieachievementsvomentsmoments ofoe latterla helhexhexdaylatterdayday saints attest the perspi- cacity and tensility of the man intensely sincereSJI1 nierencere without ielleibeibeinglagtag intolerant eruditecrudite but not pepedanticdantico constantly busy yet itwaysalways serene thlthi nonagenarian had

5 f N J p onuono f ft 0 i n rr 1 0n n ciloilpli Q 0 rnr rni luilulaijii- ijii iyv i r mT n pi fetcdtTrej iq j t h it i F cillciti t-lieticllej r 11ii Ull i energies ununimparlunimpdriedimparl ed andreandrewi jensojensonn ionwoniou andarid retained the re spedspectspew of his fellow cicitlenoaizensaikensmizensieno and of all diodlowho knew him the salt lake tribune pays tribultributee to andrew jenson and offers sympathy to hhisis berebereavedived relativesrelareia tives audand friends 4 3

41 3 ibid 5 p 424 on aprilapril 6y6ay 1886 the tribune wrote under the title of all thefcheache big gunsguus being absent at provo 1fwoawowo howitzershow 1iazelazelazersrs are iredfiredl the following article atoutaboutaboiit andrew Jcjenonjcnonjanonjennonon ththee bbigig glitigaitigunss no refrfeienrearenceerence to cantioncamioncantlon I1inn 4 endeduendedbendedepded being alabsentsent kreereheretre were two popgunspop guns brought out and fired 0offf f 1 to relieve the excelexcetexcessivesive nionbonotonymonotony of 11thei e 0occasionc ca s 1 011a the ffirst one to leadbeadjead 1 0offff vaswaswa an absass by thethlethee nailienalliename of jensen ccs miomlomhoho wore a pairpa 1rar of spectacles p c he d upontt p 0n n s ig n at-L li n 0 s e d iii i b 1 e g perchedr an iiiisj 0ni fcfica noe 9 doubtless0 t I ss to giveivelveivo hidhim a 11iteillteiajyary air 9 fallefaliefailed1 because hisillslilsliis hair came down so0 o loselobekobeclose to 1hishig eyebrowseye brows thatthabthaeha t it only juocdllowedallowed aboutabout two itichesincheoinched of foreheadloT headhedd thisihischis lensenjensen ci3citciasic3.3 prayed away for a littie oveloveroger an hour 1inn a laboredliboilaboi ed stupid ellorteffort loto10 prove that lleile joseph snithsalitasalit1smith1 was a piophelprophet 0 0 he talked whilewhite lieine audiencaudience yawned untilurit 1aaa1 you could almost detect nhatwhalwhat theychey had eaten for dinner mdaxidabid every 1 one of themthlemahlem ferventlyferverltlyatly playedprayed thatehat he would finish rrightdightJ 6ht soon allailal 1 things have an end fortuiiatelyfortunabortuna lelytely and tinoiehieote harangibalanguebarangueharangueie ffinallyly canecamecoane to aC1 closesclosed0 theghe dailydally tribuneJ i I1 bune salt lake city april 696 188091886 p 4

431 0 O 19417 16 rhefherholieile salt laketake trtribunoT irimeibimeribuno boveinnoveinnovembenovembreNovembeber 20 194171.941719 y 1p 160iga 137

dale morgan who was the assassistantlstantlastant state supervisor for theuhe utah writers project watewwteWID te the following tribute to andrew jenson hishi1 s works had given himhira such immortalityimmor talby as we can expect of thistills life that historians will turn again and again to hihis1 s great pioneer labors and exist in an indebtedness they will hardly be able to realize in its full dimensions I1 am durejuresure that ilit will be aca confortcomfort to you now to remember the regard in which andrew jenson is and has been held by his associates and contemporaries and to remember the splendid flowering permitted 1 5 few men so much s his life are vouchsafed and your sorrow at hishi 44 loss must jebe tempered by pride in the accomplishments of his 11afelifeilfe on november 20 194191.9419igol1941 the deseret news announced the plans for his funeral service including a list of speakers presidentpres idetlt david 0 mckay of the first presidencypreside ney9ya joseph Ffielding smith of the council of

A m the twelve and church historian 7 willia-william lund 9 assistant church

B historian 9 and kate carter president of thebhe daudaughtershtersaters of utah pioneers these speakers at the funeral on november 22 1941 were lauIaUlaudabledable in

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perhaps we can best sum up the v7vaorkwork of andeeAndreandrewiq jensonjonsontf nson by quoting the tribute that the first presidency paid him at his deathdeaths

in the passing of 13rotherbrother andrew jenson the church has lostlosios t one of its uniquetatalltali 11 LT 0 charactersCharac ers and one who has rendered a great service rishiselisells devotion to historicalhislorical research was of the highest character he rievernever wearied in finding facts and making a record ofoc bileblie1110dlenulendiemm I1 r 1 nnie1 hisHLst testestimonyL il11011y was perfectP r A e C theflie gospel was his whole concern the church WLwiilwillwilif miss him5hima 5

4JL14ta f aa dale L1 morgamorgaamorgana to mrsmcsMCG andrew bcrthajcberthaj ijensonensoneuson november 19 1941 jenson papers 4 5deseretdeseret news rssalaltaitsat lake citcitycltylcetyly november 19 19411.941 p 1 italicsitaica lleslies added bibliography

A PRIMARYprimiPRINIfaryIARY SOURCES confconferenceerenee reports salt lake citescitycitys the church of jesus christ of latterlatterdaylattlautlaucerddayay saltitssaisaltiesSalsaynlitstitst s 189719411897 1941 biographical sketches MSS 1inn LDS church iliIII111historians torian s offofficelceace salt lake city 5 utah documentary history of the church of jesusjestisjesuis christ of iatterlatterlatterdaydalterdaller day saints 11 184418801844 1880 LDS church historianuslorians office salt lake city utahUt Ii grant reberheber J letter books LDS church historiansHistorlans offofficeiceaice9 salt 3 1 lake Ccilycityity1 ty utah hale reberheber Qqa personal interview may 30 1967 Historiahistoriaishistoriansifistorians 0officeorliceffice journalTo urnal 11 1891190018911.9001891 1900 LDS church historians office salt islake city uisutahah alstornlstorliistorlesillsliis torLesles ofot slakesscareshearmes anclanci fissionsnissionsNismismlsmiss lonsionssions hb iatn ildiidtjblijbtab wiltrchwiltschnurannurcn MJISLOT lau s ufi ece salt lake cilycity utah iiiiiii1history of tlthebhei church 1 183818441838 1844 LDS chichurchlecharchirch histoiianhistorianhisHistotct iianlianllanc jaadj1ad 1 office 0O salt lake CciteycityyI1ltyalty utah

T ve renson41 9 aut obiobjoprathv andrandrewew jenson aty jenson 7. andt lake andrew aufaufobi 7 of andreu clcitysity fenson orathyorayhyr t i1ia I and saltsallsatt cites deseretDes eretcret newsnows pless1 19389 3 8

i L 1 journal LDS church historiansIlisthistororlansans officeof ice faltsaltsallsailSait lake city totahtjtahU tah

I1 1 papers MMSSt3 S in LDS church 111historian 1 I1 stor I1 ans office salt lalakekc cityC t ty utahTJ talilaiilail scrapbooks JJSJTSjis chulchchurch idi141storianshistoriansstormansstoriansorlans office salt lake city ulahU tah

L je-jensonnsonnoonason harold Hha Porsperspersonalonalonai luitintorvlew1 cv 1cw1 aarapraprilapell 20920 1967 journal hjototy of the church olof01 jesus christ of latterlallerlatterdaydatterdallerdatner day saints 183019411830 1941 LDS church historianshisristHist oriansorlanstenantshistorlans office sailsaltsallsalbsaib lake city utah

1 I1 pa idalda141 R mountain meineameameadowswowsmows Mobmaamoamassacreacre paperspapernp ors MSS jiati LDS churchyurchU risthistoriazhistorianHistI1 stotstororiazL nss ofofficcyJ c c 0 saltS a 1 t lalaker c cltyaltyC lyl y utah 138 139 olonolson eva Jja personal interviewsintexviewsinuervlowsl 196619701966197041966 197019704 penrosepen loseloberobe charles W j011journalraalnal xerox copy of originoriginalnj located in LDS churchchu rattrctt lif111storiansstormanslustorlanblUstor Lanblans officeiofficesofhieofhce salt lake city utah proceedings beforbeforebedfor the committee oton Priprjvilegosprivilepribilevilevlie gesges and elections of thebhe united stalesstates satiatesetiatesenateSetiate reedreod smoolsmoot vol 1io washlnglonswa s hi ng ton government intingprintingpr office 1906 smitlismitlesmi th jojosephs 0 ph detidefldetidefi kosteligeKostelige perle salt lake cityci lyttyttys desertdeseredeserot Nnewsws co 188318834

niHIhistorynistorysstorytortoc ofoj the churclchurchcluirchi ofJ jsushjjesus christis of atlerlattertatlerlatlerT ldajidajdavday sallsaints ed B IL11 robrobertscr ts 7 vols saltsaitsatt lake city deseret book co 195919601959196001959 196019600

1 smith joseph F letter books LDS church 111ililil1storianshistorians11 storiansorlansstormans office saltsailsallsait lake citycley utah snow lorenzo letter books LDS church historianhistorians office sailsaltsaitsaibsalb lake cityci ty utah

i taylor john letter books LDS church flisfllilselibtoriansis lorhorbor I1 ans office salt lelke city utah woodruffWoodr tiffLiff wilfordWL lford journal LDS church historianhistorians officeofficerofficeo salt lake lt 1 r TT n 1 04 4. riji jj i4 y k f t- nli j 4

books LDS wu letter church historians office salt lake cilycityci ty Uulahutahlailtalilaii

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Cocoloradoorado magazineMaga zirie deaver colorado 193919401.93919401939j939 194igo1900 deseretde er e Veveyllinge ujiujj nenew fsas altaita 11 lake cityC 1tyityatytyjbyj 186619141866 1914 l01illleb101deseret news0.0 lilll1111111saltsait lake city 1866118661866194119411 1 41 deseret sea&sunson1111 weeklyweek aj1j newsnows fsallfaltfaithaltsalt lake city 186619221866 1922

I1 1 nebraska lli3toryilisborysuory magazinemaga ine 011aic01nlincoln nebraska y 1924 7 1936 nevada nisthisthistoricalo rical society papers reno nevada y 192519261925 1926 saltsailsatt lakei heraldheraldsheraldo naannasa J t lake te 1 egrarn the contributor salt lake city 1891891895891891189501891895189350 140 rhethedhe inpjvemejjeimprovement era saitsalt lake city 1898195018981.9501898 1950 the new york T eli 1904 1935 1941 i111L ne 1886 1941 yeleydiethe saltsaitsafsaj t bakejakeike triunefridlifribli 18861941 jtahllahatahulahutah genealogical audand risthistoricalHistorica magazineMa azine salt lake cityqcity 191319221913 1922 utahtah historicalhtpj quart erly salt lake city 192819641928 1964 illi&lj1utah marazine salt lakedake city 193619371936 1937

C SECONDARY WORKS alienallenailen james B andaudalid cowan richard 000oo mormonlsimormonisma in the twentieth provo L centurycen li r 9 utah publicationsypubl 011ssy9 brigham young t-1 1aaa extension Publicationicat unitiruniversiityuniter sity 1967 anderson richardrichcard lloyd joseph smith and the millenarian times tablettablertabletabie brbrighamjzhamjoham young jljnivejsityuniversity studies iliIII111 spring and suiSursummermier 1961 55660555 57660

1 S brooks Juajuanitailltailitariita the mountalmountainmountann meadows massacre stanfordtcanf 0 rd 0 stanford university prepressy13s 1950 0 clark james R comp message of the firstfirsafirsj presidency ofjthethe chinchchurch of jesus christchrist of lcatecatlatterlatterdayer day saintsa 7iai S vols 3 & 4 salt lake citticitycityi bo okcrifttnc77 jenson andrew comp clutchchurch chroioloychrolio10 u salt lakeLICakelke citescitycitys deseret news 191419140

7 1 1 L 09 Enc vclopedic church of jesusjestisjeslis oj eitherelther encyclopedic hiljhisjiislorvorfory besaesof the christ of latterlitteritterither 1 aws pulpui day jaj5 ai inrt t13s S aatj t lakeakc Ccity1 ty i 3esD e see rriE t nwsN ews tublismngalilblilbillbilk J 1019 co r 1941 history of thetajthj scandinavian mission salt lake city Dedeseretsetetseretsoret news pressapressppress 1927192701.9270 lufInfinfancyaticy of the churchchurchy H the historicalhistericalprical recordrecords Ssupplementlip p I1 emlen t salt lake citycilyCcittyitty andrevandrew Jenjensonsotisotlsofi 1889

joseph smith as a prophetPpropeopyoro iletlietbietiiet predictions uttered ly1vav him andanclanciauci L news company theirthele fulfillment salt lake cityJ it deseret newnow 1891

t S B i or 1 y 1 p d 1 0 lailatterblattert e r davday saa iintinf1nfn t s i 0 g r appjli icali c a encvclopediaencyclopediaenc c 0 e i a 4 volsvoisvo s sal t lake city aalrewandreuaadrewandrew jenson history co 19011119611901 19371103737.37

mo evus 1 neosnews3 co y 6 edd morgentjernenr etuserus t e rnan&n salt lake city deseret nevi coy j188301.8830 1411.41

olnOUILsOLU s tandlandinging events ofoc chutchurchurchch history momon cenlurvcencon lurytury boodooapokbpok nay pil cotgoigot sailsaltsallsait lakedake ciaaylytlyse thetiletiie pioneeroilieroileer centennialcent cnniai publistitigpublishing uulueecommittee 1930

1 plural marriage it salsallsail lake citybuyscuys modern tvllovllnicromicrocrofilmscro filmsflimsf1fa ims 1964 t1ta echachedcch the jocabflistoricalcaicaJ recordkeojd 9 vols slitsaltsait lake cily andrew jenson 1889Jojocaj

the church 11storlanseijstoriansstorlansoriansstormans officeofficer one hundred years 1830 1930 conteencontennConcencenlennlaltenn lallai celebrationcelobrationcclobratioiiCelo bration ofoj the oraanlzatiotiorganpljllyiii zatioji ojof tthehctlle churchchurchy of jesus ctmisttirbslirtirbjtir bj of batler1atlerla llerbler daxdavday sasalalsalnlMLsbj berimimgbcplnning aaraprPJ 11II 6 jaj9193036 apnp 19 30

and bruun J A joseehjosephdosephjos epjj snismisinithsthsohs levnetslbleanetlevnet clocio31a saltsallsaitsalbsaib lake citescitycitys telcoldelcoldescrel news effiioffiiociccce 1879 jesseejcssec dean Cco rhetheche early accoliaccioliaccountsots of joseph smiths first Visionvisionevision1visiong1 Lliikbahambghamlikjikham joimunyottmx universityiveaivejsujtustudies IX spring 19699 275277275 277 mccoakiemcconkieMcC oakie bruce roR monnonmormon dictzdoctrinedoctz inelne salt 1lakeaketke cicitycilyltyalty bookcraftBookcraitcraft incenc 195819580 roberbertSyrobertsyrobertoyRo Ls B H A comprclcnscomprehensive ivelve ristohistoriscohitocyryr y of the church of jejesusjesjjssus carlstchrlstchrist ofor latterlacter aaday1a saintssainesE titsileslles 6 voivolvolsvois salt lake citescitycitys deseret news 1930 smtthsnithysmithy joseph fieldingfloldinfloddinFl eldinoldin essenllessentials1aisals in murcilchurch iljspry salt lake cithacityscitya deseret1jesere t lookb001cJOOK w4waLO lodotojo