Date Unknown
- Birth Date
- 23 July 1822
- Death Date
- 16 August 1907
- Gender
- Male
Christian August Madsen
His birth and death dates are confirmed by the Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database and by his death certificate.
He came in 1858 on the ship, John Bright with his son Victor A. His wife dies before they get to England.
Christian was a returning missionary from Denmark in 1862. He also was the captain of the company.
Horace S. Eldredge Company (1858)
- Age at Departure: 36
- Head of Household
Traveled with
Christian A. Madsen Company (1862)
- Age at Departure: 39
- Company Captain
Sources
- Anthon H. Lund, Scandinavian Jubilee Album (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1900).
- "Arrival of the Danish Companies," Deseret News, 24 September 1862, 100.
- Biography of Paul Poulsen, circa 1950.
- Church Emigration Book
- Jens C. A. Weibye, reminiscences and journal, circa 1862 in Orson B. West typescript collection, circa 1982-1987, 281-333.
- Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1 May 1858, 2.
- Knud Svendsen reminiscence and journal, 1856 December-1860 April.
- Lever, W. H. History of Sanpete and Emery Counties, Utah: With Sketches of Cities, Towns, and Villages; Chronology of Important Events; Records of Indian Wars; Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens (Salt Lake City: Tribune Job Printing Co, 1898), 462
- Madsen, Christian A., Letter, Gunnison [Utah], 13 Feb. 1869, [3], in Missionary Reports, 1831-1900.
- Madsen, Christian A., Letter, Gunnison [Utah], 13 Feb. 1869, [4], in Missionary Reports, 1831-1900.
- Madsen, Christian to Brother Widerborg, 25 July 1858, in Frederick Hale, ed., Danes in North America , [1984].
- Missionary Department Missionary Registers, 1860-1959, Volume 1.
- Our Pioneer Heritage, vol. 4, p. 567
- "Passing of a Pioneer," Salt Lake Herald , 19 Aug. 1907, 10.
- Scandinavian Mission, Manuscript History and Historical Reports
- Utah Death Certificate Index, 1905-1967.
- Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.
- Weibye, Jens Christian Andersen, Reminiscences, 21-26, in Reminiscences and journals [ca. 1862]-1893, reel 1, box 1, fd. 4.