• Daniel served as captain of fifty in Young's 1848 company. Several years later, he captained his own company, assisting emigrationts make the journey across the plains.

  Sometime after 1860 he began using the surname of "Garn" rather than "Carn."  Another variation of his surname is "Cairn."

Brigham Young Company (1848)

• Age at Departure: 45
• Head of Household

Daniel Garn Company (1854)

• Age at Departure: 51
• Company Captain

Sources

• 1850 Utah Census, Salt Lake County.
• A Mormon chronicle: the Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876 edited and annotated by Robert Glass Cleland and Juanita Brooks (1955), 1:30-79.
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