• The Poulson family sailed to America in 1862 on the ship Humboldt.  The ship manifest shows their surname as "Akasson,"

   

Joseph Horne Company (1862)

• Age at Departure: 29

Sources

• 1880 Utah Census.
• European Mission emigration records, Scandinavian Mission, 1852-1920.
• "Names of Immigrants," Deseret News, 24 September 1862, 98.
• Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America