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1847–1868

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Birth Date
12 December 1816
Death Date
24 July 1887
Gender
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John Harvey

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  • John initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley as Captain of the first Fifty in the Brigham Young Company in 1848. However, he later participated as one of the rescuers sent out in the winter of 1856 to assist the handcart pioneers stranded in Wyoming.

Brigham Young Company (1848)

  • Age at Departure: 31

Rescue Companies (1856)

  • Age at Departure: 39

Sources

  • 1850 Utah Census.
  • A Mormon chronicle: the Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876 edited and annotated by Robert Glass Cleland and Juanita Brooks (1955), 1:30-79.
  • Averett family notebook, circa 1916-1965, 36-38.
  • Crook, John, [Autobiography], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 7:252-56.
  • "Deaths," Deseret Evening News, 12 July 1887.
  • "Deaths," Deseret News, 20 July 1887, 16.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Hosea Stout reminiscences and journals, 1845-1869, Volume 3, 376-79, and, Volume 4, 1-41.
  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1848, 2.
  • Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia [1971], 3:399.
  • Phineas W. Cook reminiscences and journal, 1843-1886, 52-56.
  • Rudger M. McArthur, compiler, Daniel Duncan McArthur: Mormon Pioneer (1990), 60-61.
  • Thomas Bullock journals, 1843-1849, Journal, 1848 May-September.