James G. Willie Emigrating Company
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
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