- Veteran of Zion's Camp (1834)
- Leader of Kirtland Camp (1838)
- Longest serving general authority of the LDS Church (56 years)
- For fifty three years served as one of the first Seven Presidents of the Seventies
- Namesake for Fort Harriman, Utah
- St. George Pioneers of 1861-62 (Dixie Mission)
Biography
Henry Harriman was born 9 June 1804 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States to Enoch Harriman (1775-1844) and Sarah Brocklebank (1774-1860) and died 17 May 1891 Huntington, Emery County, Utah, United States of unspecified causes. He married Clarissa Boynton (1807-1885) 26 April 1827 in Bradford, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. He married Eliza Elizabeth Jones (1830-1909) 16 January 1846 in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois. He married Sarah Loring (1824-1865) 21 April 1857 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah.
Zions Camp Participant
One of the most interesting episodes in the early history of LDS Church was the march of Zion's Camp (1834). The members of the Church in Missouri were being persecuted, and the Prophet Joseph made it a matter of prayer and received a revelation on February 24, 1834. The Lord instructed the Prophet to assemble at least one hundred young and middle-aged men and to go to the land of Zion, or Missouri. (See D&C 130:19–34.)
Zion’s Camp, a group of approximately one hundred and fifty men, gathered at Kirtland, Ohio, in the spring of 1834 and marched to Jackson County, Missouri. By the time they reached Missouri, the camp had increased to approximately two hundred men.
Kirtland Camp 1838
He returned to Kirtland in the fall of 1834, and in 1835 he was ordained a Seventy under the hands of Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon. On Feb. 6, 1838, he was ordained and set apart as one of the First Seven Presidents of Seventies, to fill a vacancy caused by the removal of John Gaylord. This high and responsible position he occupied until the time of his death—a period of more than fifty-three years, and after the death of Levi W. Hancock in 1882 until his own demise he was the Seventh (senior) president of all the Seventies. By comparison it will be seen that Elder Harriman occupied the same position in the Church longer than any other man among the general authorities since the organization of the Church.
In 1838 he acted as one of the leaders of the Kirtland Camp, which traveled about a thousand miles from Ohio to Adam-Ondi-Ahman, in Daviess county, Mo. At the latter place Elder Harriman spent a few months, and was then forced to leave his possessions in Daviess county and remove to Far West, where he remained until early in the spring of 1839, when he, together with the rest of the Saints, was expelled from Missouri under the exterminating order of Gov. Lilburn W. Boggs.
Henry Harriman was one of the Elders who were present at Adam-Ondi-Ahman, in 1838, when the Prophet Joseph declared that the remnants of an altar found on the top of the hill, near Grand river, were what was left of the identical altar upon which Father Adam offered sacrifice.
Fort Harriman Settlement
After this he took an active part in the upbuilding of Nauvoo, until he again was made an exile in 1846, and came west during the general exodus of the Saints, after receiving his endowments in the Nauvoo Temple.
He finally arrived in Great Salt Lake valley in 1848, crossing the plains in Heber C. Kimball's company. In the spring of 1849, he became one of the four brethren who first settled Fort Harriman, in Salt Lake county. The new settlement was named in honor of Elder Harriman, who was also the first presiding Elder there.
Church Missions
In the spring of 1857 he was called on a mission to Great Britain. In crossing the plains from Salt Lake City to the Missouri river he acted as president of the only company of missionaries, who ever crossed the plains with handcarts. Though fifty-two years of age, he pulled his handcart as faithfully and ably as his younger missionary companions. Together with nineteen other Elders from the Valley he arrived in Liverpool, England, Aug. 4, 1857; but they all returned in 1858 owing to the so-called Utah war, which gave occasion for nearly all the American Elders abroad to be called home.
Elder Harriman embarked from Liverpool in the ship "Underwriter" Jan. 21, 1858, to return home. About four years later, he was called on the Dixie mission, where he remained about twenty-five years, and finally removed to Huntington, Emery county, in December, 1887, where he resided until the time of his death, which occurred May 17, 1891. During the last few years of his life his health was poor.
Marriage and Family
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Clarissa Jane Harriman (1847-1847) | |||
| Henry Harrison Harriman (1849-1908) | |||
| Benjamin Jones Harriman (1851-1932) | |||
| Emily Elizabeth Harriman (1853-1928) | |||
| Mary E Harriman (1855-1940) | |||
| Olive Alice Hale Harriman (1859-1919) | |||
| Lydia Ellen Harriman (1862-1864) | |||
| Eliza Ann Harriman (1865-1946) | |||
| Hyrum Smith Harriman (1869-1923) | |||
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| John Harriman (1795-1879) | |||
| Sarah Harriman (1796-1860) | |||
| Phebe Harriman (1798-1874) | |||
| Lavina Harriman (1800-1885) | |||
| Lucinda Harriman (1800-1884) | |||
| Enoch Harriman (1802-1878) | |||
| Henry Harriman (1804-1891) | 9 June 1804 Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States | 17 May 1891 Huntington, Emery County, Utah, United States | Clarissa Boynton (1807-1885) Eliza Elizabeth Jones (1830-1909) Sarah Loring (1824-1865) |
| Hiram Harriman (1804-1876) | |||
| George Harriman (1806-1887) | |||
| Mary Harriman (1809-1891) | |||
| Jonathan Kimball Harriman (1811-1885) | |||
| William Harrison Harriman (1814-1884) | |||
| Eliza Pallacier Harriman (1817-1885) | |||
Residences
Vital Records
- Location : Huntington City Cemetery, Emery County, Utah
- Henry Harriman at Find A Grave
See Also
- Henry Harriman
- Harriman in Essex County, Massachusetts
- Harriman in Hancock County, Illinois
- Harriman in Emery County, Utah
- Henry Harriman - Grandpa Bill's GA Pages.
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