Item Detail
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17995
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English
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Diary
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Trails of Hope (Internet Database)
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Provo, UT
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Academic Library Consortium
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6 April 1852 to 23 August 1855 and 7 April 1879 to 18 November 1880. The Diary begins with an autobiography recounting Ferguson's conversion to the LDS church in Scotland and his subsequent proselytizing around Glasgow. He is made the President of the Dundee conference and his duties take him across Northern Scotland. Members of the Church, including Ferguson's wife, have difficulty accepting polygamy when it is officially announced by the Church and opposition to the Church increases. Some of Ferguson's meetings are broken up by mobs. He and his family prepare to emigrate to Utah, and Ferguson comments on the Crimean War. As he leaves Great Britain, he visits the Saints in Glasgow, Preston, and Liverpool before sailing to Philadelphia on the Tiddons. Ferguson and his family travel on steamboat to St. Lewis and join a wagon train of 30 wagons under Moses Thurston. Ferguson's entries become sporadic and end when he reaches Salt Lake City. While living in Spanish Fork, Utah he is called on a mission to Europe. Ferguson travels by railroad to New York, where he boards the SS Wyoming to Liverpool. He preaches in Glasgow, Aberdeen, and other places in Scotland. Ferguson preaches on a variety of gospel topics and occasionally encounters clergy hostile to his work. He writes his genealogy, returns to Utah and ends his diary with several of his doctrinal works.