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1847–1868

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Birth Date
16 July 1821
Death Date
19 June 1880
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Hans Peter Lund

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  • Hans initially traveled to the valley in 1858. He was the company cook. Evidence that he came in 1858 is confirmed in information found in Church financial records which reported he arrived in the valley on 1 August 1858.

    As indicate by his journals (p. 81-84), he traveled again to Utah with the John R. Young company as a returning missionary.

Horace S. Eldredge Company (1858)

  • Age at Departure: 36

John R. Young Company (1863)

  • Age at Departure: 41
  • Returning Missionary

Sources

  • "Died." Ogden Standard Examiner, 23 June 1880, p. 2.
  • Hans P. Lund journals, 1854-1880, 81-84. 
  • Hans P. Lund journals, 1854-1880, 81-84. [written in Danish]
  • Knud Svendsen reminiscence and journal, 1856 December-1860 April.
  • Lund, Hans Peter, [Journal], in "Church Emigration Book."
  • Lund, Hans Peter, Journals, 1854-1880, 29.
  • Missionary Department Missionary Registers, 1860-1959, Volume 1.
  • "Obituary," Woman's Exponent, 1 July 1880, 21.
  • Regetta Maria Nielsen Thurston, Autobiographical sketch.