Svend or Swen Hogenson was from Asker, Norway and was rebaptized as Svend Hogenson at West Jordan Utah on 11 October 1863. He married a Swedish nurse named Johanna Charlotta Watterstrom Ringquvist at Salt Lake City in 1867. He is Swen Hoganson in the Utah Territorial Militia records of 1869 and in the Utah Cemeteries and Burial database. According to an obituary of his wife Swen died about 1897.