author
Oliver Boardman Huntington
1823–1907
A vivid first-person voice from the Mormon pioneer era, he left diaries and autobiographical writings that follow his travels, missions, and daily life across the American West. His work is especially valued for the on-the-ground detail it preserves from the 1840s through the early 1900s.
1 Audiobook
Eventful Narratives The Thirteenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
by Robert Aveson, Oliver Boardman Huntington
About the author
Born in Watertown, New York, on October 14, 1823, he became part of the early Latter-day Saint movement as a teenager after his family joined the church in the 1830s. Later sources from Brigham Young University and the Church History Biographical Database describe him as a pioneer, missionary, explorer, and diarist whose life touched Kirtland, Nauvoo, overland migration, and settlement in Utah.
His enduring importance comes from what he wrote. Libraries and archives connected with BYU preserve extensive diaries, journals, and autobiographical material spanning much of his life, and those records make him a valuable witness to nineteenth-century Mormon history. Readers interested in everyday experience—not just major events—often find his writing especially compelling because it captures travel, religion, hardship, and routine in a direct, personal way.
He died on February 7, 1907, in Springville, Utah. A suitable portrait image could not be confirmed from the pages reviewed, so no profile image is included here.