Alexander Patrick Kinghorn

The roster for the Harmon company is an every-name roster. Alexander, Jane, George, and David's names are listed on the roster which was published in the 24 September 1862 issue of the Deseret News. Their surname was misspelled "Kingborn." There is no extant hand-written roster for the Harmon company which might date when the roster was compiled. There was no established procedure for compiling rosters. Some were compiled a day or two prior to leaving an outfitting place while others were compiled weeks after departing or only days before reaching Salt Lake City. The list of members in the Harmon company was taken by express and printed in the Deseret News about two weeks before the company actually reached Salt Lake City. A biography of Alexander's wife, Jane, written by her great-granddaughter, Lola Taylor Wells, in 1932, states that Alexander didn't travel in the Harmon company, but instead traveled in a following company. Although documented seventy years after their overland journey, family memory records that "Church leaders asked Alexander to help prepare another company, so he came eleven days later."