• He came from Scotland on the ship, Enoch Train in 1856 with his mother, Agnes and brothers, John and Archibald, Jr. His father Archibald came a year earlier. 

Daniel D. McArthur Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 13

Sources

• 1860 Utah Census.
• 1870 Utah Census.
• 1880 Utah Census.
• 1900 Utah Census.
• 1910 Utah Census.
• 1920 Utah Census.
• Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 6. 
• Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 7. 
• History of Sanpete and Emery Counties, Utah: With Sketches of Cities, Towns, and Villages; Chronology of Important Events; Records of Indian Wars; Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens (Ogden: W. H. Lever, 1898), 358.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 26 September 1856, 33.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 156.
• United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926.
• Utah, Veterans with Federal Service Buried in Utah, Territorial to 1966.
• Utah Death Certificate Index, 1905-1967.