John Topham, Jr.

John crossed the Atlantic with his family on the ship Swanton in 1843.  He married at Salt Lake City in December 1850. His name first appears in the records of the Utah Territorial Militia at Parowan in Iron County in November 1851.  In the 1852 Bishop's Report he was living in the town of Paragonah and he was still there at the time of the 1856 Utah Territorial Census.