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John E. Forsgren Company (1853)

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Company Departed from Keokuk, Iowa

John Erik Forsgren Called as Captain

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Started On 1853 May 21

Ended On 1853 September 29

Company Arrived at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States

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Ancestry and descendants of Mads Christian Jensen, 1600-1960, eleven generations

Anderson, William O., Autobiographical sketch, circa 1900, [3-4]

Annie Catherine Christensen, reminiscence

Christian I. Munk autobiographical writings and journal

Christian I. Munk journal, circa 1852-1888

Christian Nielsen diary

Daughters of Utah Pioneers collection, 1828-1963

Histories written by members of Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Camp Sunflower, Center Utah County, Provo, Utah

Kofford, Paul Ernest, Biographical sketch

Lambert, Elena Hansena Larsen, Reminiscence in Arthur Smith Larsen, Biographical sketh of Hans and Dorthea Larsen and family 1950

Madsen, Peter, Autobiography [ca. 1908], 5

Madsen, Peter, Autobiography, 1898-1909, 21-22

Manuscript history of the John E. Forsgren Emigrating Company, circa 1930

Olsen, James, Autobiographical sketch 1921, 2

Utah Pioneer Biographies