David O. McKay (apostle), accompanied by Hugh J. Cannon (editor of the Improvement Era), made a world tour visiting missions in 1920-21. They toured throughout the Pacific, visited China and Japan, stopped in Palestine (meeting Joseph Wilford Booth who had just arrived to reopen the Armenian Mission), and called at the various European Mission. They had hoped to visit the South African Mission – the only mission that to that date still had never been visited by an apostle – but could not make those arrangements.
Before leaving, David O. McKay applied for his U.S. passport:
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A couple of interesting items:
His application states that he never had a passport, which means that he did not require a passport to travel to Great Britain for his mission in 1897-99. It seems surprising to us, given the current requirement that almost all international travelers carry passports–just a few years back even the U.S. and Canada imposed passport requirements on border crossers, with a few exceptions. But requirements were obviously different in the 19th century.
Second, it’s interesting that the birth affidavit is signed by his uncle, and notarized by his brother, especially since the affidavit states that he is Elder McKay’s “nearest living kin.” I presume that he means “nearest living kin [with personal knowledge of the facts attested to]”, since Thomas E obviously could not have had personal knowledge of a birth that occurred two years before his own.
A couple of interesting items:
His application states that he never had a passport, which means that he did not require a passport to travel to Great Britain for his mission in 1897-99. It seems surprising to us, given the current requirement that almost all international travelers carry passports–just a few years back even the U.S. and Canada imposed passport requirements on border crossers, with a few exceptions. But requirements were obviously different in the 19th century.
Second, it’s interesting that the birth affidavit is signed by his uncle, and notarized by his brother, especially since the affidavit states that he is Elder McKay’s “nearest living kin.” I presume that he means “nearest living kin [with personal knowledge of the facts attested to]”, since Thomas E obviously could not have had personal knowledge of a birth that occurred two years before his own.