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Abner Lowry Company

Date Formed

1866 August 13

Date Ended

1866 October 7

Location Formed

Wyoming, Otoe, Nebraska, United States

Location Ended

Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Organization Type

Migration

Organization Participants in Database

300 individuals were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Wyoming, Nebraska (the west bank of the Missouri River about 40 miles south of Omaha). According to Andrew Jenson's autobiography, this company was known as the "Sanpete train" because most of the teamsters and teams in this out-and-back company came from the Sanpete Valley.

Members of the company arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on 7, 22 October 1866.

Vehicle Type

Wagon

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Formed in Wyoming, Otoe, Nebraska, United States

1866 August 13

Date Details

Occurred On 1866 August 13

Formed

Abner Lowry Appointed as Company Captain

1866 August 13 – October 7

Start Date Details

Appointed

End Date Details

Ended On 1866 October 7

Organization was Ended

Ended in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

1866 October 7

Date Details

Occurred On 1866 October 7

Ended

Media

Wagon Company

Wagon Company

Sources

"'A. Hinckley,' Accounts, 1866", Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts, 1861-1868.
"Account book, 1866, 1868", Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts, 1861-1868, Page 72-76.
"Anna Matilda Jensen Smith, Our Living Pioneer", Daughters of Utah Pioneers collection, 1828-1963, Page 1.
"Arrived", The Semi-weekly telegraph, 3, October 25, 1866, 6. Page 2.
"Capt. Lowry's Train", The Semi-weekly telegraph, 3, October 25, 1866, 6. Page 2.
"Captain Abner Lowery, accounts, 1866.", Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts, 1861-1868.
"Captain Arza E. Hinckley (relief train), accounts, 1866", Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts, 1861-1868.
"Coming Along", The Semi-weekly telegraph, 3, October 15, 1866, 3. Page 2.
"Got In", The Semi-weekly telegraph, 3, October 11, 1866, 2. Page 2.
"Home Affairs: The Emigration", The Semi-weekly telegraph, 2, August 23, 1866, 92. Page 3.
"Home Items: Coming Trains", Deseret News, October 17, 1866, Page 365.
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"Rasmussen, Niels", Latter-day Saints Biographical Encyclopedia (1901), 1, Page 596-598.
"Returned", Deseret News, September 19, 1866, Page 333.
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Autobiography of Andrew Jenson: Assistant Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1938. Page 20-26.
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Smith, Anna Matilda Jensen, [Reminiscences], in Treasures of Pioneer History, 6 vols. [1952-57], 3:125-26.
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Warnick, John August, "The Story of John August and Mari Christensen Bengtson" by Ethel F. Allen and Leone F. Carson, in Merrill N. Warnick, Warnick Family History, Vol. 1.

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