Jenson began
compiling the Journal History of the Church as assistant Church Historian in
1906. Since becoming involved with the Historian’s Office, Jenson laboriously searched
out and gathered historical records for biographies and ward, stake, and
mission histories. He drew extensively from these sources for the Journal History,
arranging the information chronologically in scrapbook form from 1830 until the
end of the nineteenth century. By 1918, Jenson had compiled the Journal History
through 1872. When he died in 1941, the Journal History spanned the years 1830
to 1910 and comprised approximately eight hundred volumes . . . (Reid L.
Neilson and Scott D. Marianno, A Voice in the Wilderness: The 1888-1930
General Conference Sermons of Mormon Historian Andrew Jenson [Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2018], 138 n. 2)
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