37 Facts About Jacob Hamblin

Jacob Hamblin was a Western pioneer, a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and a diplomat to various Native American tribes of the Southwest and Great Basin.

Jacob Hamblin aided European-American settlement of large areas of southern Utah and northern Arizona, where he was seen as an honest broker between Latter-day Saint settlers and the Natives.

Jacob Hamblin is sometimes referred to as the "Buckskin Apostle", or the "Apostle to the Lamanites".

Jacob Hamblin was baptized a member of Church of Christ on March 3,1842, at the age of 22.

When Jacob Hamblin proposed moving west with the Latter-day Saints to the Salt Lake Valley, Lucinda refused to go.

Jacob Hamblin was injured and thought he would die of his wound.

Jacob Hamblin prayed that if he survived, he would serve God the rest of his life.

Jacob Hamblin's voice did not sound like the voice of the true shepherd.

Jacob Hamblin was a Mormon pioneer and in 1850 settled in Tooele, near Salt Lake City.

Jacob Hamblin became well known for creating good relations between the white settlers and Indians.

In 1854, Jacob Hamblin was called by Young to serve a mission to the southern Paiute Indians and settled at Santa Clara in the vicinity of the modern city of St George, Utah.

Jacob Hamblin had built two rocking chairs, one for each daughter.

The young girl found the red chair her father Jacob Hamblin had given her, took it outside, sat in the snow with it, and died of exposure in that little rocking chair.

Jacob Hamblin suggested to them that they stop further south in Mountain Meadows, where he maintained a homestead at a traditional stopping point on the Old Spanish Trail from New Mexico to California.

In both his autobiography and his testimony at the second trial of Lee for the massacre, Jacob Hamblin claimed that, to his great distress, Lee admitted to him his role in the killings along with other Mormons, although he placed the blame for the attack on the Paiutes.

Jacob Hamblin was later able to return that stock to the Duke party after conferring with those Indians involved.

Sarah wrote in her diary that both she and Jacob Hamblin felt his knowledge of what really happened at the massacre resulted in his murder.

Jacob Hamblin spent the rest of 1857 and early 1858 shepherding non-Mormons through Utah on the trail to California and Mormons returning to Utah from outlying settlements in order to participate in its defense should the army attack.

Jacob Hamblin did testify at Lee's second trial for the massacre in 1876.

In 1858, while he was in Salt Lake City, Jacob Hamblin was made a sub-Indian agent.

Jacob Hamblin traveled southeast through Pipe Springs, crossed the Buckskin Mountain, and forded the Colorado River at the Crossing of the Fathers which is under Lake Powell at Padre Bay.

At the time, there were no plans for Mormon settlements to the south of the Hopi, although Jacob Hamblin helped found Mormon settlements on the Little Colorado River years later.

Jacob Hamblin went home, but returned on several occasions to keep up good relations with the Hopi and the Navajo.

Earl Spendlove's article, "Let Me Die in Peace", states that Jacob Hamblin originally purchased Eliza, a Paiute from Utah of the Shivwit or Cedar Band, to free her from slavery.

Jacob Hamblin adopted Eliza, when she was a teen.

Later, after Priscilla Hamblin left Nutrioso ranch in Arizona, Priscilla Hamblin and Jacob moved to Eagar, then Alpine, Arizona.

Louisa Hamblin later wrote to her daughter that she had knit a pair of "pink stockings" for "Eliza's baby", illustrating that Jacob continued to help the Paiute woman he freed from slavery.

Jacob Hamblin was an invaluable diplomat between the Latter-day Saints and the Native Americans, surviving numerous dangerous encounters between the two.

Jacob Hamblin acted as a negotiator to ensure safety for Powell's expedition from local Native tribes.

Jacob Hamblin is a silent, reserved man, and when he speaks it is in a slow, quiet way that inspires great awe.

Jacob Hamblin had previously promised the Navajos they could safely trade with the Mormons in that area, and Mormons were falsely blamed for the killing.

Jacob Hamblin was asked by Brigham Young to talk with the angry Navajos and avert war, but Jacob Hamblin's local bishop made two desperate attempts to keep him from walking into a "certain death-trap".

Jacob Hamblin offered his rules for dealing with the Indians as follows:.

Jacob Hamblin started a ranch in the House Rock Valley in the Arizona Strip at the base of the Vermillion Cliffs.

Jacob Hamblin dug the first well outside of Las Vegas, and helped build the first Mormon mission there.

Jacob Hamblin's brother had traveled ahead, Jacob Hamblin's native guide was unfamiliar with that area and they could not locate water.

Jacob Hamblin had a vision, which his brother said he'd had since childhood, that vision showed a movie that led Jacob Hamblin to where that spring was, and where he'd later dig the first well.