Bushman, John

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Identifier: I

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Diaries of John Bushman, Part II, 1890-1923.

January 28, 1890: Visited the academy in Snowflake. Pleased with the way it was conducted.
February 13, 1890: Appointed watermaster for the year.
June 1, 1891: Worked on dam. From ten to twenty-five men and boys working. Some from Snowflake.
June 8, 1891: Raised water in the dam so it would flow into the ditches.
September 1, 1891: Bushman's eyes very weak and sore.
July 1, 1892: Four stakes gathered at Pinetop--Snowflake, St. Johns, St. Joseph, and Mesa stakes. Built a large pavilion, tables, and benches. Bishop Hunt appointed martial of the camps. President George Q. Cannon officiated. Joseph F. Smith spoke. Two men appointed from each stake to "get up" a program to celebrate the Fourth of July. A planed floor was laid, lighted by forty-eight candles, where "22 cotillion could dance."
July 5, 1892: Conference convened. At 1:00 p.m. the First Presidency gave a reception. Each stake by families passed through the pavilion and shook hands with Presidents Cannon, Smith, and Reynolds.
December 31, 1892: "Our circumstances are some better than last year having raised a moderate crop. We have donated some for the completion of the S. L. temple. We are thankful for a name and standing in the Church of Christ."
March 31, 1893: Left Holbrook for Salt Lake City.
April 6, 1893: "2200 leading priesthood were admitted to the temple. We were conducted through all the principal rooms and explained the uses of the different departments, representations . . . all very grand and magnificent."
April 27, 1893: Started return trip to Arizona. Most of the entries for 1893 deal with his work on the farm, on the ditch, on the dam, and his church meetings.
March 24, 1896: Celebrated the arrival of Mormon pioneers in Arizona, March 24, 1876.
April 8, 1896: Made a contract to carry the mail once a week from Holbrook to Young P. O. in Pleasant Valley for 825 dollars per year; or semi-weekly for 1,550 dollars.
September 22, 1896: "Making molasses. Very early in the morning the angel of peace visited me and administered peace to my soul."
September 29, 1896: Finished making molasses--three hundred gallons.
February 11, 1897: Bushman's son Wickliff, twenty-three years of age died.
August 15, 1897: Karl G. Maeser gave instructions on Sunday School work.
August 27, 1897: Attended Board of Education meeting. Will make an effort to start a stake church school in Woodruff.
October 6, 1898: In Salt Lake for church conference. Apostle J. H. Smith gave notice that the stakes should pay their proportion on the Hyrum Smith monument.
November 7, 1898: Attended a Republican rally where Rulon S. Wells spoke in support of Republican principles.
November 21, 1898: Left Lehi to return to Arizona.
June 7, 1899: John Bushman is fifty-six years old.
July 2, 1899: President Snow spoke in Salt Lake City on the Law of Consecration.
July 5, 1899: Visited Saltair and had a bath in Great Salt Lake.
December 31, 1900: "This has been a busy and prosperous year for us--beter crops than usual .... This is the close of the most remarkable century the world ever saw."
1901: Few entries concerned with the usual topics--work, church, ditches, planting, etc.
July 6, 1902: Went on a short mission to "the states" to visit relatives and look up genealogy.
July 10, 1902: Independence, Missouri. Visited Bishop May of the Josephite church. May censured Brigham Young "for introducing plural marriage and leading the people astray." Hederickites have a church built on the temple lot.
July 11, 1902: Visited Swift Packing Company.
July 17, 1902: Described his visit to Nauvoo and Carthage Jail.
August 3, 1902: Heard a phonograph for the first time.
August 12, 1902: Arrived home.
November 1902: Diptheria very bad. No meetings or school for two months. Many deaths.
December 31, 1902: "The year 1902 closes with all well and our circumstances are some better than ever before, and our family paying a better tithing than ever before."
March 19, 1903: Staked off the new schoolhouse.
April 16, 1903: Henry M. Tanner charged John McLaws with taking his land.
April 26, 1903: Charge sustained and McLaws ordered by Bishops Court to removed the fence.
May 30, 1903: Bushman to attend to brick making for the new school.
June 7, 1903: Bushman sixty years old.
August 15, 1903: Counsel on dances requested from Apostle Clawson, Joseph McMurrin, and Sister Campbell.
December 31, 1903: Settled tithing. Holbrook paid 1,907.00 dollars. Very prosperous year.
October 24, 1904: Visited St. Louis fair with wife. Described some of the exhibits.
December 8, 1904: Arrived home after seven weeks in St. Louis, Chicago, Texas, and New Mexico. Tithing paid in ward for 1904, 1,795.65 dollars.
October 6, 1905: Arrived in Salt Lake City for conference. Speakers were George A. Smith, H. M. Smith, and Apostle Smoot.
October 16, 1905: Visited the sugar factory.
August 4, 1909: Prepared for trip by train to Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, where they attended the fair.
August 23, 1909: Arrived back in Ogden and Salt Lake City.
August 27, 1909: Bushman, Brown, and went to Salt Lake to apply for pension for Black Hawk War. Discussed polygamy and Mountain Meadows with people traveling on the train.
February 6, 1911: Left for Los Angeles to have cancerous growth removed from his face.
February 10, 1912: Mormons encouraged to acquire all the land they could.
April 22, 1912: Back to Los Angeles for more treatments for cancer on face.
April 23, 1912: Went to Pasadena. Saw the Busch gardens and others.
April 26, 1912: Returned home.
November 6, 1913: Visited Phoenix. Engaged an automobile to take him to the Roosevelt Dam.
February 7, 1914: George Albert Smith spoke in conference.
June 7-August 1, 1914: Visited in Salt Lake City and other towns in Utah; attended to temple work; traveled through southern Idaho, Yellowstone Park, and back to Los Angeles for more treatments on his face for cancer.
January 1, 1916: St. Joseph paid 3,452.62 dollars in tithing for 1915.
January-June 1916: Spent time visiting and completing temple work. Bushman is seventy-three years old.
June 23, 1917: Bought a small home in Lehi.
June 27, 1917: Worked in genealogical library.
June-December 1917: Continued to work in the temple
June 27, 1918: Dedication of the Hyrum Smith monument in the cemetery. Remarks by Heber J. Grant, Junius Wells, Charles W. Penrose, Joseph F. Smith, and Seymour B. Young. Spent his time doing temple work, recording his genealogy, and writing in his diaries.
February 5, 1919: Black Hawk War pension granted.
May 21, 1919: Lehi celebrated the homecoming of most of the 214 boys who fought in World War I. Governor Bamberger and General R. W. Young attended.
September 20, 1921: Lois Smith Bushman died. Body taken to St. Joseph, Arizona, for burial.
1922: Visited daughter June in Lethbridge, Canada. Went through the Cardston temple.
August 10, 1923: Last entry.

Dates

1857-1986

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