Leonard S. Conger Mail Party (1855)
- Direction
- Eastbound
- Departure
- About February 1855
- Departed From
- San Bernardino, California
- Arrival
- March 1855
- Captain
- Leonard Smith Conger
- Number In Company
- 4
This was a mail train led by Leonard Conger, who made several trips back and forth from California to Utah, carrying the mail. Sometimes emigrants or returning missionaries would travel with the mail train for protection from the Indians.
Conger, Leonard Smith | 31 | 23 February 1823 | 23 September 1885 |
Johnson, Benjamin Franklin | 36 | 28 July 1818 | 18 November 1905 |
Karren, Thomas | 44 | 1 May 1810 | 4 April 1876 |
Lawson, James | 34 | 20 July 1820 | 14 September 1912 |