Brigham H. Young Freight Train (1860)

Date Unknown
- Type
- Wagon
- Category
- Freight Train
- Direction
- Westbound
- Departure
- 1860
- Departed From
- Eagle Island, Nebraska
- Arrival
- 14 September 1860
- Captain
- Brigham Hamilton Young
- Number In Company
- 12
Very little is known about this company. Though it primarily transported freight, it included a few English Mormon families. Captain Young, son of Phineas Howe and Clarissa Hamilton Young, was a nephew of Brigham Young. On July 15, the company was at Eagle Island, west of the Mormon settlement Genoa in Nebraska Territory. On July 26, they were 40 miles east of Ash Hollow. Richard F. Burton, the celebrated British traveler, reported visiting with Young's company near the Upper Crossing of the Platte River on August 16. He noted that there were 24 wagons. Captain Young "wore a bowie knife on his left hip and a six-shooter on his right." To Burton, the emigrants looked healthy and reasonably well fed. When they arrived in Salt Lake City on September 14, the company consisted of 16 wagons.
View SummaryAndrews, Ann | 38 | 15 October 1821 | 9 May 1897 |
Andrews, Elizabeth | 17 | 21 November 1842 | 25 January 1920 |
Andrews, Sarah | 14 | 12 January 1845 | 22 January 1928 |
Andrews, Thomas Wright | 9 | 16 October 1850 | 10 April 1919 |
Andrews, William | 42 | 12 May 1818 | 23 January 1902 |
Andrews, William | 7 | 20 October 1852 | 18 May 1923 |
England, Daniel | 59 | 26 November 1800 | 17 March 1888 |
England, John | 19 | 25 October 1840 | 16 October 1924 |
England, Mary Ann | 52 | 10 September 1807 | 26 May 1883 |
England, Moroni | 10 | 13 May 1850 | 18 June 1935 |
Wright, Thomas | 35 | 1 July 1824 | 17 May 1900 |
Young, Brigham Hamilton | 35 | 3 January 1824 | 5 June 1898 |
Very little is known about this company. Though it primarily transported freight, it included a few English Mormon families. Captain Young, son of Phineas Howe and Clarissa Hamilton Young, was a nephew of Brigham Young. On July 15, the company was at Eagle Island, west of the Mormon settlement Genoa in Nebraska Territory. On July 26, they were 40 miles east of Ash Hollow. Richard F. Burton, the celebrated British traveler, reported visiting with Young's company near the Upper Crossing of the Platte River on August 16. He noted that there were 24 wagons. Captain Young "wore a bowie knife on his left hip and a six-shooter on his right." To Burton, the emigrants looked healthy and reasonably well fed. When they arrived in Salt Lake City on September 14, the company consisted of 16 wagons.