• He emigrated from Denmark, and sailed to America in 1856 on the ship Thornton.  No family members accompanied him.

William B. Hodgetts Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 22

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,  5.
• W. B. Hodgetts Company report, 1856.