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This journal was donated to the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University in May 1990 by Harry C. Candland of Pleasant Grove, Utah.
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David Candland was born on October 15, 1819 in Highgate, Middlesex Co., England the third son of Samuel and Sarah Betts Candland. He was baptized in May of 1841 at the age of twenty-two and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by Lorenzo Snow. He spent his first year as a member preaching the restored gospel in England.
In 1842, young David sailed for the United States with the Orson Hyde Company, arriving in Nauvoo, Illinois in May. On November 16, 1842 he was ordained a member of the Sixth Quorum of the Seventy. He married Mary Ann Barton on March 28, 1844. In Nauvoo he worked as a school teacher and store clerk and eventually became a secretary of President Brigham Young.
Candland was assigned to the British Mission on January 4, 1846. Ten days later he was sealed to his wife in the Nauvoo Temple and on January 30, 1846 left for England.
In August of 1847, David returned to Winter Quarters, Iowa and soon after moved to Kanesville, Iowa where he worked as a store clerk until 1851 when he was sent by President Orson Hyde to preach the gospel through the Eastern States and British Provinces. David returned to Kanesville in March of 1852 and soon after left for Utah with the Ezra T. Benson Company.
David Candland married Mary Jane Webb on October 29, 1852. She died three months later. He then married Lucy Jones on April 9, 1853 and Bertha Mary King on December 25, 1854. He divorced both women on April 9, 1855 stating that "my wives Lucy and Bertha became so possessed of evil as to demand a bill of divorcement." He married Anne Woodhouse on November 1, 1855.
In August of 1856, under the direction of Brigham Young, he opened the Globe Restaurant and Bakery. The Globe closed two years later much to David's dismay. He married Hannah Ann Wright on March 5, 1857 and Katherine Ann Jost on April 25, 1858. In Salt Lake City he taught school, clerked, and enjoyed very much his position as stage manager for the Deseret Dramatic Association and his calling as doorkeeper at the Salt Lake Tabernacle.
In 1859, Candland was appointed to represent Salt Lake County in the Utah Territorial Legislature. In 1861, he moved his family to Mount Pleasant, Utah where, among other things, he served as justice of the peace, assessor and collector, and prosecuting general attorney for San Pete County. Candland died on March 12, 1902 at the age of 82. He was the father of thirty-six children.
Candland is perhaps least known for his authorship of the first
published series of Latter- Day Saint pamphlets. Written in 1846 and known
collectively as
This collection contains David Candland's personal diary, both the original and typewritten copy of the original. The typescript also includes an extensive page-by-page table of contents.
The journal itself contains Candland's life from his conversion in England in 1841 to five months before his death in 1902. It seems to have been written sequentially, but obviously skips large periods of his life. The journal includes mission and military experiences, family affairs, employment ventures and ecclesiastical offices.
The journal also includes extensive lists of family, wives, children, birth, marriage and death dates, church callings, civil, legislative and personal offices held, and even includes some memoranda of his brother's families.
The collection also includes photocopies of the three