• James initially traveled from California to the Salt Lake Valley with the Ebenezer Brown Company in 1848 after serving in the Mormon Battalion.  He was the 3^rd Captain. 

  According to his obituary, on 15 September 1852 he left on a mission to the British Isles and was away from home a little over five years.  He returned home in the fall of 1857, traveling with the Christian Christiansen Company as a Captain.  

Ebenezer Brown Company (1848)

• Age at Departure: 26

Christian Christiansen Company (1857)

• Age at Departure: 35

Sources

• 1850 Utah Census.
• "Another Veteran Gone," Deseret Evening News, 4 Feb. 1890, 3.
• C. C. A. Christensen, "By Handcart to Utah: The Account of C. C. A. Christensen," translated by Richard L. Jensen, Nebraska History 66 (1985): 332-48.
• Dorius, C. C. N., Autobiography of Carl Christian Nicoli Dorius, 19-21. Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.
• "Excerpts from the Journal of John F. F. Dorius," Church emigration, 1857.
• Frederick Hansen, "The Great Handcart Train from Iowa City to Salt Lake City," Journal of History 9 (October 1916): 408-16.
• John Borrowman diaries, 1846-1860, Diary, 1848 July-1860 June.
• John Frantzen reminiscence and journal, 1889-1892, 29-39.
• Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 222-23.
• Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.
• Richards, S. W. and Briant Stringam, 18 Aug. 1857, in Brigham Young, Office Files 1832-1878, reel 35, box 25, fd. 23.
• Soren Jacobsen journal, 1855 September-1860 January, 8-23.