• Husband of Karen Jorgensen. Traveled with his wife and daughter. Martha Sorensen also traveled with the Jorgensen family, according to the company report. Birth and death dates come from church ordinance records. He died on the plains.

  The family sailed to America in 1856 on the Thornton.

William B. Hodgetts Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 41
• Head of Household
• Died en Route

Sources

• "Immigration to Utah," Deseret News, 15 October 1856, 254.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 15 December 1856, 6.
• W. B. Hodgetts Company report, 1856.