Edward Martin Emigrating Company
Organization
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Ship passenger lists
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232489572]
Identifier: MSS 568
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of handwritten lists. One item is dated 30 June and presents the names of the passengers of the 'Horizon' that left from Liverpool, England, in 1856. The 856 entries include the names, occupations, and ages of the passangers and where they were born. Many of the passangers on the 'Horizon' were Mormon immigrants who migrated to Utah in the ill-fated Martin handcart company later that year. Also included are partial lists of passengers on the ships the 'James Wesmoth' and the...
Dates:
1856
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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Ship passenger lists
Sketch of the life of Thomas Durham
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329960]
Identifier: MSS SC 3077
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm reproduction of a typed manuscript. The item is a biography of Thomas Durham. He lived in England, joined the Mormon Church in 1850, married Mary Morton in 1852, and migrated to Utah in 1856 with the Martin handcart company. He soon went to Parowan, Utah, where he led the local choir for 62 years. He married a second wife, Mary Mitchell, in 1860 and took a third wife, Carole Mortensen, in 1867. Durham made a living as a furniture maker. Alfred M. Durham...
Dates:
1936