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James G. Willie Emigrating Company

 Organization

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Biography of Margaret Cunningham Binnall

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337880]
Identifier: MSS 2761
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. This copy is very dark and difficult to read. Margaret Cunningham Binnall was born in 1845 in Scotland. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1856 with the ill-fated Willie handcart company. She settled in American Fork, Utah, and died in 1921.

Dates: 1958

Biography : Joseph Smith Clements Kirkwood

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341676]
Identifier: MSS 2561
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Joseph Smith Clements Kirkwood was born in 1851 in Scotland. His family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in the Willie handcart company. The biography is chiefly an account of Joseph's sufferings on the trek. He settled in American Fork, Utah, and died in 1933.

Dates: approximately 1940

Biography : Robert Kirkman

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339761]
Identifier: MSS 2542
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Kirkman was born in 1845 in England. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and he migrated to Utah in 1856 with the ill-fated Willie handcart company. Robert Kirkman lost part of his toes to the cold. He settled in American Fork, Utah, where he died in 1902.

Dates: 1940