Brigham Henry Roberts (1857 - 1933) Profile

Eastern States Mission May 1926

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President Roberts in Disguise

Mission Photo, ca. 1926

West Pennsylvania Conference, Dec. 1923

Eastern States Mission Group

Rochester Conference

Rochester Conference, June 1922

Missionaries of the Eastern States Mission

Brooklyn Conference, June 1922

The First Mission School

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Brigham Henry Roberts

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Andrew Jenson, "Roberts, Brigham Henry," Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia

Andrew Jenson, "Roberts, Brigham Henry," Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, Vol. 1.

Andrew Jenson, "Roberts, Brigham Henry," Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia.

Eastern States Mission history, 1830-1977, Church History Library

Eastern States Mission history, 1830-1977, Church History Library.

Eastern States Mission Manuscript History and Historical Reports, 1830-1977

Presidents

"Presidents", Eastern States Mission Manuscript History and Historical Reports, 1830-1977, 2, Part 1, Page 11.

Eastern States Mission Manuscript History and Historical Reports, 1830-1977.

First Presidency missionary calls and recommendations, 1877-1918, Church History Library

First Presidency missionary calls and recommendations, 1877-1918, Church History Library.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, Vol. 1, Page 104, Line 3.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, Vol. 1, Page 64, Line 2740.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, Vol. 1, Page 49, Line 2083.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, Vol. 2, Page 111, Line 3.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, Vol. 2, Page 69, Line 2740.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, Vol. 2, Page 53, Line 2083.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, Vol. 5, Page 68, Line 233.

Southern States Mission history 1832-1964

Southern States Mission history 1832-1964, Vol. 1, Page 326.

Southern States Mission history 1832-1964.

Deseret News

Passenger List: of Cap. W. Chipman's Train

"Passenger List: of Cap. W. Chipman's Train", Deseret News, September 26, 1866, Page 5.

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OF CAP. W. CHIPMAN'S TRAIN.</center>



Mark, Ellen and Henry Jones; Thomas [Richard] Radder [Raddon]; James, Elizabeth and Mary A[nn]. Wyatt; John, Caroline [Hopkins], [William] Roland, Harriet, [Orson] John, jr., Hernest and [Edwin] Francis Clark; Jesse, Jesse, jr., and Mary A[nn]. [Price] Smith; Mary, Brigham, Abram and Ellen Jones; Harriet, Herrietta and Frederick Williams; Ellen Reese; John Patfield; John, Mary A[nn]. [Roswell], Caroline [Roswell], William and Alice Gage; Martha Wiscomb; Arthur, Harriet [Hodges] and Mary E[na]. Colony [Earney]; Elizabeth Scora [Scorey]; Sarah, John and Kate [Katie Matilda] Wickham; John Adams; John Ferguson; John, Margaret [Rayne Wardell] and Frederick Richan; C[harles]. [Benjamin] Harper; Isaiah, [Hannah] Elizabeth and Cordelia Parks; Sarah and W[illiam]. H. Hall; Mary and [Brigham] Henry Roberts; John and Margery Spence; John, John, jr., and David Evans; Sarah James; Jane Davis; John, Ann [Evans], Mary, Thomas and Elizabeth Jones; Elizabeth Evans; Joseph Ellsmore; John, Sarah [Griffiths], John, jr., Margaret [Jane], Evan and Joseph Jones; Robert Burby; John Margaret [Jones], Sarah A[nne]. and Evan Griffiths; Jane, Ellen and Alvin Cherry; James Young; John, Elizabeth, Robert, William, Ann and James [Robertson] Baird; Jabez, Janette, Priscilla and Jabez, jr., Lovett; Philips J. [Phillip Job] Hall; Mary Ewers [Ewer]; Tho[ma]s. and Ann Nixon; William, Jane [Bryant], Josiah, Joseph and George [Henry] Draper; George, Mary C., Elizabeth, [George] Lorenzo, Aber [Heber] C[arter]. Alma, Mary A[nn]., and Amelia [Rachel] Comer; Charles [D.], Rachel [Morgan], Sarah A[ann]. and Gomer Brown; Mary Davis; Jacob Jones; Ellen Reese; Andrew [W.], Eliza [Wheeler], John C[harles]., Eliza H[elen]., Jane [Jarnon] F[rederick]. , Sarah [Christina] and Andrew [William] Harvey; William, Priscilla, Sarah A[nn]., Joseph, Martha J[ane]. and Benjamin Leek; George, Lavinia, Martha and Selina Triplett; Eliza Smith; John, Anna, Elizabeth [Ann], William [James] and Heber C[harles]. Cox; Richard, Ann and Anna [Hannah] Bolden [Bowlden]; Tho[ma]s., Hannah, David, Elizabeth, William, Nephi Louisa, Mary and James Douding, James and John Barnett; Charles, Eliza [Nobes], Julia [Sophia] and George [Charles] Phil[l]ips; Isaac, Leah [Merritt], Sarah and Rosellen Miles; William, Mary A[nn]. [Barber], Eliza [Jane], Sarah [Ann], Emily R[osine]. and Mary E[llen]. Clark; Samuel and Emma Pike; A. Christianson; Mary [Bachelor] and Nathan Pratt; W[illiam]. G[illard]., Jane [Stride], [Samuel] Seth, Joseph [Paul], Edgar [Dewar], Cyrus [Herbert] and Frederick [Gough] Stone; Israel and Sarah Lay; Jane and Eliza Latham; Edwin Delemere; Amelia Irons; Jonathan, Jemima, Benjamin, Nathan, Ephra[i]m, Gwenlian and Rachel Isaac; William and Charlotte Abbott; Mary A[nn]. [Elizabeth] and William George; Jabez, Sarah A[nn]. [Cosgrove] and [Henry] Daniel Auger; Tho[ma]s., Mary A[nn]. [Bowers], Mary J[ane]. and John T[homas]. Williams; Edward [Giles], Elizabeth [Lewis], Jane [Lewis] and Margaret [Elizabetj] Roberts; Kate Vaughan; David, Elizabeth and David Griffiths; Lucy Davis; David Evans; Dorothy Williams; George Caroline, George S., Caroline and Mary S. Bond; Edwin, Dinah A[nn]., Mary and George [Andrew] Showel; Ann [Denley], Elizabeth, Emma, George and Anna Cook; Robert, Allen; William, Jane and Prudence Jones; Isaac, Sophia [Brown], Mary A[melia]. and [William] Isaac, jr., Withers; John H., Margaret, Euphemia, Anna, Andrew and John Orr; Francis, Janett[e], Euphemia, James, William, Mary, Henry, Jane, John, Richard and Janett[e] Chambers; John, Eleanor [Fulcher] and Mary A[nn]. [Matilda] Bunn; Elizabeth Weaver; Naomi Orchard; Mary, George and Mary Squires; Elizabeth and Mary A. Widowson; Dennis Storo [Storer]; Richard[,] Sarah [Stevens] and Job Hensley [Hemsley]; James Hager; Charles Amelia [Hawkins] and George Miller; William Smith; Tho[ma]s., Robert and John Lloyd; Eliza Jones; Harriet Austin; Elizabeth, Thomas, Emma [Augusta], Elizabeth and Adolphus Blackley; Eli [James] and Rhoda [Burris] Playson [Clayson], Mary J. Dickinson; Caroline, Henry [Samuel] and Elizabeth Kemp; Esther Winn; Rachel Seaman; Mary A[nn]. Hill; Robert and Jane Nelson; Richard, Ellen [Hogg], George [Hogg], Robert [Hogg], John [Hogg], Euphemia, Catharine, Janett[e] and Richard [Hogg] Smith; Matthew, Peter, Sophia and Celena Neilson; John [Monson], Mary [Bjork] and John E[dwin]. Cederhof [Cederlof]; Oscar F. Lyons; Joseph, Mary [Rebecca Barto], Harry [W.], Frank [Taylor], Lilly [Althea] and [Sarah] Louisa Boughton [Bouton]; Nathaniel Jackson; Abraham Jenkins; David and Mena Sorrenson [Sorenson]; Jacob and Annie M. Loverson; Mosen [Moses] Neilson; P[eter]. Geemerson; James [Henry] and Henry [Elijah] Raddon; M[argaret]. A[nn]. E[lizabeth]. Combs [Coombe]; John Birch; Robert [Herbert] Manwaring; William Garner; [James] Frederick Bunn; A[nders]. G[ustaf]., C[arl]. F[redrick]., P[her]. A[ugust]. and N[ils. T[heador]. Lundholm; C. F. Helliton; E. Jenson; Benjamin Stade [Slade]; Angelina, Ida [Angelina Ida], Harriet and Ellen Burk; Sarah [Haidon], Edwin [Lorenzo] and Sarah Davis; Martha Bush; Neils [F.] Blanquist [Blomquist]; Albert Merrill; Homer [Arlington] Boughton; W. Cleveland.

Transcript for "Passenger List: of Cap. W. Chipman's Train," Deseret News, 26 September 1866, 5

Deseret News.

Roberts, Brigham Henry, The Autobiography of B. H. Roberts, ed. by Gary James Bergera (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 1990), 21-43

Roberts, Brigham Henry, The Autobiography of B. H. Roberts, ed. by Gary James Bergera (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 1990), 21-43.

Solitary Indians sometimes appeared in the camps…, and part of the instructions of not following behind the train or preceding it were issued as a precaution of safety against Indians and their likelihood of attacking from the front or the rear of the march.  In spite of all instructions, some children and even adults disregarded these injunctions.  Sometimes wild fruit was to be had along the banks of streams flowing into the La Platte.



On one occasion, just how many days out is not remembered, I and a boy about my own age had become interested in some ripening yellow currants along one of the banks of the stream and lingered until the train had passed over a distant hill.  Before we realized it, we were breaking camp regulations, but still we lingered to fill our hats with the luscious currants we had discovered.  The caps at last filled, we started to catch the train and were further behind it than we realized.  Coming to the summit of a swale in which the wagon road passed, we saw to our horror three Indians on horse-back just beginning to come up out of the swale and along the road. Our contact with the Indians about the Wyoming encampment had not been sufficient to do away with the fear in which the red men were held by us, and it could be well imagined that the hair on our heads raised as we saw an inevitable meeting with these savages. Nevertheless, we moved on to the right and the other to the left with the hope that we could go around these Indians, but nothing doing. As soon as we separated to go around, the Indians also separated—the one to the right, the other to the left, and the third straight forward.  There was trembling and fear that we were going to be captured.  Many a time Captain Chipman had warned us of the possibility of such a thing, and indeed it was something that had happened in previous years along this route, that white children were captured from the trains and carried away.  Some returned by ransom and some never returned.  It was, therefore, with magnificent terror that we kept on slowly towards these Indians whose faces remained immobile and solemn with no indication of friendliness given out at all.



I approached my savage knowing not what to do,  but as I reached about the head of the horse, I gave one wild yell, the Scotch cap full of currants was dropped, and I made a wild dash to get by –and did—whereupon there was a peal of laughter from the three Indians.  They say Indians never laugh, but I learned differently.  As the race for the train continued with an occasional glance over the shoulder to see what the Indians were doing, I saw they were bending double over their horses with their screams of laughter.  Finally we saw just over the swale of the prairie the last wagon of our train.  The running continued until each of us had found his proper place beside the wagon to which we he was assigned.  The fright was thought of for several days at least by strict adherence to camp rules about staying with your wagon.

Transcript for Roberts, Brigham Henry, The Autobiography of B. H. Roberts, ed. by Gary James Bergera (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 1990), 21-43

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Warrington, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

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September 24, 1881 appointed President of the Tennessee Conference.

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Centerville, Davis, Utah Territory, United States

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He served as assistant mission president to <a href="/chd/individual/john-hamilton-morgan-1842" target="_blank">John Morgan</a>.

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His wife, Margaret, died on 13 March 1926, during their mission.

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