Wagon Company

William West Lane Company

Date Formed
1852 June 24
Date Ended
1852 September 24
Location Formed
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
Location Ended
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Organization Type
Migration
Organization Participants in Database
34

Approximately fifteen families who had lived since spring 1851 at a welfare "poor farm" forty miles north of Kanesville, Iowa, called Lanesborough, were organized into this company under the leadership of their bishop, William West Lane.

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Formed in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States

1852 June 24

William West Lane Appointed as Company Captain

1852 June 24 – July 8

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

1852 September 24

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