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James G. Willie Emigrating Company

 Organization

Found in 2 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

Biographical sketch of George Cunningham

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230327816]
Identifier: MSS SC 3288
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Loveless writes about the live of George Cunningham. Cunningham was born in 1840 in England an later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with his parents. He migrated to Utah in 1856 with the James Willie handcart company. Most of the biography is Cunningham's account of the miseries of the trek in the handcart company, written when he was 30 years old. Cunningham settled in American Fork, Utah, and was a...
Dates: 1870-1930