• He sailed to America in 1856 on the ship Caravan with his brothers William and John.  William continued on to Utah with the 1856 John A. Hunt Company.

William B. Hodgetts Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 17

Sources

• 1900 California Census
• California Death Index, 1905-1939.
• "Immigration to Utah," Deseret News, 15 October 1856, 254.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 15 December 1856, 4.
• W. B. Hodgetts Company report, 1856.