At the sixth meeting of the Brigham Family Association Willard was elected Secretary-Historian of the Association.
He went on to become the author of "The History of the Brigham Family" Vol 1 Published in 1907.
The Brigham Family Association (13) The Brigham Family Association was organized 18 October 1893. It was active well into the late 1950's. One of their main goals was to publish a family history which was realized in 1907 with the publication of "The History of the Brigham Family a Record of Several Thousand Descendants of Thomas Brigham the Emigrant, 1603-1653" and again in 1927 when the second volume was published.