Processed in April of 2011.
This collection was donated to Utah State University Special Collections and Archives by Elaine Webb in 2009.
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Permission to publish material from the the William Budge missionary journal must be obtained from the
William Budge was born to William Budge and Mary Scott on May 1, 1828 in Lanark, Lanark County, Scotland. While living in Glasgow, Scotland he joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1848. He was called by leaders of his church to serve as a missionary in England. On November 24, 1856, he married Julia Stratford while in England. After serving as an LDS missionary in Europe for more than nine years, he and his family immigrated to Utah in 1860. He lived in Farmington, Utah for three years and took a second wife, Eliza Prichard, on September 9, 1861. In 1864, Brigham Young asked him to go to Providence, Utah to be the local Bishop. On April 5, 1868, Budge took his third and final wife, Ann Hyer. Between his three wives, polygamous William had 36 children over his life span.
In 1870, Brigham Young asked Budge to move to Bear Lake Valley, Idaho. In August of 1877, he became the president of the Bear Lake Stake of the LDS Church. He later served as the president of the European Mission of the LDS Church from 1878 – 1880. While living in Idaho, he served as a member of Territorial Council, voicing complaints both in the territory and to President Grover Cleveland in Washington about the poor treatment of Mormons by members of the territorial government. He was also the editor of the
This collection contains the original bound diary of William Budge, written while serving an LDS mission in Europe, and covers April 1851 to 1855. It also includes three compact discs which contain a digital copy of the diary and a color printout of the digital files. The front part of the journal contains a genealogy record of Budge's father and mother while the remainder of the journal contains a brief synopsis of his conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Scotland, his missionary activities in Europe, and intermittent transcriptions of letters to and from various government officials and members of the LDS Church.
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Budge, Jesse R.S. The Life of William Budge. Salt Lake City, UT: The Deseret News, 1915. Utah State Special Collections, 920 B85-BU.
William Budge, written by his daughter Alta Kidman. Utah State Special Collections, MSS 18, Box 1, Folder 39.