• He emigrated from Denmark with his family. His travel to Utah is also mentioned in his son's obituary.

  The family sailed to America in 1856 on the ship Thornton.

William B. Hodgetts Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 40
• Head of Household

Sources

• Anthon H. Lund, Scandinavian Jubilee Album (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1900).
• Find a Grave (Website)
• "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.
• Utah, Veterans with Federal Service Buried in Utah, Territorial to 1966.
• "Utah Pioneer Dies at Ephraim Home," Salt Lake Telegram, 3 Nov. 1927, 3.
• W. B. Hodgetts Company report, 1856.