Jacob Hamblin Home Santa Clara, Utah, USA Jacob Hamblin was born on April 6, 1819 tle to the Lamanites” in St. George by President in Salem, Ashtabula County, Ohio to Isaiah and Brigham Young.2 Jacob Hamblin died in 1886 in Daphne Haynes Hamblin. He joined the LDS faith New Mexico after having left Santa Clara to serve on March 3, 1842 and traveled with the Saints west additional missions to the Native Americans. after the completion of the Nauvoo Temple in Il- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day linois. Saints acquired the property in 1974 and mission- After arriving in Utah, Jacob had a remark- aries give presentations at the home about Jacob able experience that profoundly affected the rest Hamblin and the home. of his life and the relationship of the Church with the Native Americans. He explains that he SOURCES

secreted myself behind a rock in a narrow pass.… 1 Marlene Bateman Sullivan, “’Friend and Brother’: I had not been there long before an Indian came Jacob Hamblin, Man of Peace,” Ensign, October within a few paces of me. I leveled my rifl e on him, 1984, 53. and it missed fi re. He sent an arrow at me, and it struck my gun.…He sent the second, and it passed 2 Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Ency- through my hat; the third barely missed my head; clopedia. 4 vols. 1901-1936. (Reprint, Salt Lake City: the fourth passed through my coat and vest. Western Epics, 1971), 3:100-101.

As I could not discharge my gun, I defended my- Visitor Information self as well as I could with stones.…I afterwards learned…that not one [of our company] was able to discharge his gun when within range of an In- dian.…It appeared evident to me that a special Address: providence had been over us…to prevent us from Santa Clara Blvd. and Hamblin Drive shedding the blood of the Indians. The Holy Spirit Santa Clara, Utah 84765 forcibly impressed me that it was not my calling to shed the blood of the scattered remnant of Israel, GPS Coordinates: but to be a messenger of peace to them. It was also N37° 08.023’ W113° 39.675’ made manifest to me that if I would not thirst for their blood, I should never fall by their hands.1 Phone Number: (435) 673-5181 In 1854, Jacob was called by President Brigham Young to be a missionary to the Paiutes Hours of Operation: in Southern Utah. A fl ash fl ood damaged the fort Winter in Santa Clara, an event that led Jacob to build this 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. home in 1862-63. It served as the home for the Summer Hamblin family for several years. 9:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Jacob Hamblin would serve several mis- sions to the Native Americans and became known Admission: as a friend and brother to his Lamanite associates. Free On December 15, 1876, he was ordained an “apos- 2 Jacob Hamblin Home, Santa Clara, Utah, USA

Additional Reading Resources

Juanita Brooks, “Jacob Hamblin: ‘Apostle To the Indians’,” Improvement Era, April 1944, Vol. 47, 210-11, 249, 251-55. Juanita Brooks, Jacob Hamblin: Mormon Apostle to the Indians, (Salt Lake City: Westwater Press, 1980). Pearson H. Corbett, Jacob Hamblin, the Peacemaker, (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1952). Charles S. Peterson, “Jacob Hamblin, Apostle to the Lamanites, and the Indian Mission,” Journal of Mormon History, 1975, Vol. 2, 21-34. Marlene Bateman Sullivan, “‘Friend and Brother’: Jacob Hamblin, Man of Peace,” Ensign, Oct. 1984, 53. Louise Lee Udall, “Jacob Hamblin: Story of his Later Years...Death and Burial,” Improvement Era, October 1951, Vol. 54, 720-21, 741-45. Hart Wixom, Hamblin: A Modern Look at the Fron- tier Life and Legend of Jacob Hamblin, (Springville, UT: Cedar Fort, 1996)